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Mobilizing Young People Working Against Overpolicing in Schools
North Star Fund made a $2,000 Rapid Response grant to Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC) for a youth-centered town hall in May, 2018. Who is Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC)? A coalition of youth organizing groups who work in some of NYC’s most marginalized neighborhoods...
Rapid Response: Supporting Community Voices Heard to Mobilize NYCHA Tenants
In May, 2018, North Star Fund made a $5,000 Rapid Response grant to Community Voices Heard for a mass mobilization to press Mayor de Blasio to commit an additional $1 billion per year in city funds to NYCHA repairs and needed improvements to NYCHA buildings. Who is...
Our Spring/Summer 2018 Grants for New York City
North Star Fund is proud to announce our latest New York City grants. We’re granting a total of $270,000 to 27 organizations for their work to build power for New York City communities that are taking on injustice. Get to know these groups here, and through the three...
Rapid Response: Helping Green Light NY Campaign Hit Albany
North Star Fund made a $5,000 Rapid Response grant to Green Light NY - Driving Together! for a lobby day in Albany on May 14. Green Light NY - Driving Together! A group of New Yorkers working to expand access to driver’s licenses to all residents of New York State...
Thanks for Such a Successful 2018 Community Gala!
This year's gala was all about power—the power of our community to come together to fight for what we believe in, and to celebrate each other and our victories. We had a great time—close to 600 people were part of an evening of celebration and recognition of the hard...
Our Fall 2017/Winter 2018 Grassroots Grants for New York City
Twice a year, we award grants to dozens of organizations led by New Yorkers who are directly impacted by injustice and are determined to change the rules of the game. Our Grassroots Action grants are our largest category in number. They sustain existing organizations...
2018 Giving Project Grants
At North Star Fund, we believe in our collective power to transform New York by supporting grassroots organizing led by impacted communities. Our inaugural 2017-2018 Resilient Communities Giving Project brought together New Yorkers from a wide range of backgrounds to...
North Star Fund Awards Fall 2017 Catalyst Grants
North Star Fund’s Catalyst grants support new and emerging organizations built by New Yorkers who are organizing for new solutions to challenges created in our city by inequity and injustice. Like all our grantees, these organizations must be led by New Yorkers who...
Announcing our Movement Leadership Program Grants for 2018
The North Star Fund Movement Leadership Program (MLP) builds the power of New York-based community organizing through a two-year investment in individual leaders and organizations. MLP participants receive $50,000 grants over two years as they participate in...
Hudson Valley Leader Recognized for Building Community Response to Deportations
Last November, Diana Sanchez sat in a packed conference room at the Hudson Valley Community Coalition to join her neighbors in planning how they could resist deportations and keep local families together. Diana, who came to the U.S. as a four-year-old with her family...
Fall 2017 Grantee Victories
In spite of the drumbeat of attacks on local communities coming out of Washington DC, there is cause for hope when we look at what’s happening locally. Organizing continues to make a difference, it enables people to shift power and redefine the narrative so that they...
North Star Fund Rapid Response Grants 2016-17
In addition to our regular grants to facilitate change over the long haul, North Star Fund awards short-term Rapid Response grants to help organizations respond to unexpected events quickly and effectively. The precipitating events can include public acts of...
Building Momentum for Hudson Valley Activists
North Star Fund’s unique activist-led grantmaking allows us to move resources where and when they are most needed in the struggle for justice. In 2017, we piloted our responsive, partnership-based model in New York’s Hudson Valley. We learned from grassroots leaders...
North Star Fund Mourns the Passing of Martha Baker
With heavy hearts, North Star Fund mourns the loss of Martha Baker. She served on the North Star Fund Board from 1993-1996, served on our Community Funding Committee and was honored by us in 1994. Martha accomplished a great deal as part of a long life of community...
Supporting New Yorkers Who Have DACA
Yesterday, the Trump Administration officially rescinded DACA, once again promoting a white supremacist agenda to create fear and attack our nation’s most vulnerable communities. In response, the North Star Fund community will be taking to the streets, filling the...