Rapid Response Grants
$170,000 in Rapid Response grants.
35 grants awarded.
At times, effective grassroots organizing requires swift action to address sudden crises, changes in legislation or policy, or crucial moments in a campaign—whether to take advantage of breaking opportunities, defend against threats or meet emergent needs. North Star Fund provided dozens of Rapid Response grants to current and emerging grantees—and we continue to make these grants available year-round.
This year we awarded dozens of grants to support:
- Advancing immigrant rights and direct engagement with asylum seekers
- Mutual aid in response to health crises for LGBTQ communities
- Eviction prevention projects throughout New York City and the Hudson Valley
- The Elder Parole campaign resisting death by incarceration
- Public protests following the killing of Jordan Neely
- The fight by Ramapough Mountain Indians for their Rights Of Nature campaign to stop the dumping of Indian Point radioactive waste into the Hudson River
Rapid Response Grants 2022-23
Action Corps
Adelante Student Voices
Black Feminist Project
Claim Our Space Now
Columbia County Sanctuary Movement
Community Resource Center
Community Rising Project
Divine Sisterhood Circle
Equality New York
Faith in New York
Families and Friends of the Wrongfully Convicted
Families for Freedom
Flatbush Development Corporation
For the Many
Grupo Juego y Lectura
Hudson Catskill Housing Coalition
Imani’s Safehouse
Justice Committee
La Colmena
La Morada NYC
Laundry Workers Center
Mothers on the Move
Movement for Justice in El Barrio
New York State Youth Leadership Council
New York Transgender Advocacy Group
NY Immigration Coalition
NYC Justice Peer Initiative
Project Hajra
Redhawk Indigenous Council
Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP)
Saratoga Black Lives Matter
The People’s Plan
UHAB for the HOPE (Housing Organizers for People Empowerment) program
VOCAL-NY
Worker Justice Center of New York
Damayan Migrant Workers Association
Frederick Douglass Award 2023 Honorees
La Colmena
Sweet Freedom Farm
UndocuBlack Network
Special Initiatives
For the Many
New York Foundation
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