Join over 500 New Yorkers to celebrate movements for justice at the social justice party of the year! Dinner, dancing and building our strength for the struggles ahead. Tuesday, April 17 6 to 10 PM Pier 60, Chelsea Piers All the details you need are available on the Community Gala website.
What sorts of organizations are we supporting in the Hudson Valley, and how can we work together to build powerful grassroots networks there? Join your fellow New Yorkers who care about justice for a "friendraiser" at a private home in Kingston. Friday, April 27 7 to 9:30 PM Hope to see you there! For the […]
Take an evening to meet with other New Yorkers who care about justice for a North Star Fund Happy Hour at Lady M in Manhattan. We'll enjoy their unique cakes and you'll have a chance to hear about North Star Fund's latest projects. Thursday, May 3rd 7 to 9 PM All the details can be […]
Food, community and justice are central to our work at North Star Fund, and we love to bring people together who are passionate about all three. On Monday, May 21st, we’re hosting North Star Supper: an intimate dinner with open conversations about how we can build an equitable food system in New York. We’ll be […]
Learn more about our 2018-2019 Giving Project, where you can learn more about local movements for justice while supporting them, and deepening your fundraising skills. You must RSVP by filling out the interest form in order to attend.
The Black LGBTQ+ Migrant Project (BLMP) is having a gathering in New York City on September 15-16. We will be helping to facilitate space for Black LGBTQ+ migrants to be fully present and share community. If you are interested, please fill out this form. If you have any questions or concerns, email queerblackimmigrantgathering@gmail.com.
We are thrilled to announce that the tenants of 85 Bowery are able to return home on time! Since the unprecedented agreement were reached between the tenants and the landlord, which stressed the return deadline to be 8/31, the repair work of the building has been going well. Now the vacate order is lifted and […]
Not ready to let summer end? Each year, Brandworkers members and allies come together to celebrate the summer season together on a much needed day of rest. Join us for a beach trip and cookout! Bus seats are limited so please reserve your spot today! Donations will be accepted to cover costs. Bring picnic food […]
The Workers Justice Project is celebrating the opening of their new center in Bensonhurst.
Reserve your ticket to attend the second in the series of CRE discussion panels focused on learning more about the current issues affecting the communities and people the nonprofit sector serves. Our second panel focuses on immigration: both the ongoing issues surrounding this topic and the current crisis we are facing. The panel will be […]
Take on Hate NY invites you to our Back to School Townhall for students, parents, teachers, and community members to discuss what we can do to make schools safer and more inclusive in our neighborhood. Join us at the Arab American Association of NY where we hear accounts of community members experiences of religious and […]
We are excited to return to Governors Island on September 22, 2018 to celebrate the 14th Annual Vendy Awards, a fundraiser for the Street Vendor Project. 25 of NYC's best street and market vendors, nominated by the public, go head to head and compete across 5 different categories - best dessert, best rookie, best market, […]
Join this webinar for an interactive discussion amongst your peers on the Integrated Rural Strategies Group and scan, what challenges are communities facing in rural work in New York State, and share thoughts on how philanthropy can enter the space of rural organizing and put their resources to use. Who is this webinar for? If […]
Come meet with other white people who are committed to racial justice to dive deeper into how we are impacted by and perpetuate racism and how we can challenge it. If you already have some self-awareness and understanding of race and racism and are seeking honest conversations in a supportive environment, join us.
Come celebrate AFJ's two year anniversary with a night to remember at the Alhambra Ballroom, emceed by Danny Glover! There will be live music, salsa lessons, dinner, dancing, and an open bar!
Lift Us Up! features voices from the frontlines of a new movement for educational justice that is growing across the United States. Each author tells the story of how black and brown parents, students, educators, and their allies are fighting back against profound and systemic inequities and mistreatment of children of color in low-income communities. These […]
Our annual screening will feature and premiere works from our youth programs: Community Media In Action, Youth Breaking Borders, and SupaFriends. Performances from community partners and allies TBA. Featuring delicious food and drink, remarkable conversation, an interactive photo booth and media stations and our famous audience participation exercise: reverse Q and A! Oh what a […]
Laundry Workers Center is pleased to invite you to our 2018 Community Gala Fundraiser to celebrate together a year of resilience and worker justice. This year, our theme "500 Years of Resistance" honors our member-workers, many of whom are part of indigenous communities, and pays respect to the long legacy of resistance to colonialism and […]
CARA is hosting a special screening of PERSONAL STATEMENT, a documentary film about three remarkable high school students working to support their peers through the college process, with training and support from CARA, Urban Youth Collaborative, Cypress Hills LDC, Make the Road NY, and Generation Schools. The film illustrates the challenges facing first-generation to college students […]
Join fellow North Star Fund grantees at a "Lunch and Learn" to sit down with Jennifer Parker, a staff editor from the New York Times's Op-Ed/Sunday Review Section.
The Rikers Public Memory Project uses our collective stories about the impact of Rikers to envision a more just NYC. If you are someone who has experienced the harm of Rikers Island - personally, in your family, in your community - we invite you to add your voice and your stories to this collection. Interviews […]
Join tenants and homeless New Yorkers in Central Brooklyn for a town hall about how we can win BIG in 2019 by strengthening the rent laws, expanding rent stabilization to cover more tenants, and committing funding to end homelessness. We are holding our elected officials accountable to the movement for housing justice! Hosted by UHAB, the […]
We have so much to be proud of, in 2018. We started the year with a victory party on the Housing Not Warehousing Act, the bill we spent ten years fighting for, and we're closing it out by launching a brand new campaign fighting to make it #FreeToPee for all New Yorkers, housed and homeless alike. But […]
The fight to end NYC's homelessness crisis has gotten a huge boost in the last few weeks. On October 5th, one of our fearless leaders—Ms. Flowers—confronted Mayor de Blasio at the Park Slope YMCA to demand more housing for homeless New Yorkers. The videos we filmed went viral and media from across the country reported […]
Celebrate the power of parents in child welfare reform with Rise! Rise’s mission is to train parents to write and speak about their experiences in order to support parents and parent advocates and and to guide child welfare professionals in becoming more responsive to the families and communities they serve. Their goal is to reduce unnecessary family […]
Please join the members, staff, and Board of African Communities Together at a celebration of 5 years of African immigrants making change! Featuring African food (heavy appetizers), African music, and African people! At the historic National Black Theatre in Harlem. Honorees to be announced. Purchasing a sponsorship and prefer to pay by check, or need […]
Learn about what we are fighting for in 2019 and help us prepare for the upcoming campaign. Childcare and Spanish interpretation available upon request. Meeting space is fully accessible with accessible bathrooms. Please bring a snack to share.
Dashain is one of Nepal's largest festivals celebrated in commemoration of the triumph of good over evil, light over darkness. Observed over 10 days, it's a time of meeting family, good friends, eating and sharing food, music, and well-wishes for a "Bijaya Dashami ko Subhakamana," or "Happy Dashain". Join the Adhikaar family to celebrate our […]
Join The BLK Projek for a seasonal workday on Saturday, November 3rd 2018 from 12-5PM. There will be hot chocolate, coffee, apple cider and donuts available to all volunteers. We look forward to seeing you! The Blk Projek is a Black-led food justice project based in the Bronx that engages residents in active conversations about […]
Learn more about how to apply for a People Power grant on this Zoom webinar. Click here to register. Zoom webinar information will be provided upon registration. People Power grants are limited to current grantees (recipients of a Catalyst, Grassroots Action, or Let Us Breathe grant since Fall 2016).
At the Arab American Association of New York, we have managed to build momentum, find collective strength, and hold onto hope during a tumultuous and traumatic time for Arab and Muslim communities locally and across the world. Under the current federal administration and in an ongoing era of violence and war in the Middle East […]
The annual Communal Dinner is an end-of-season market celebration where we honor and thank the hardworking volunteers and participants that contribute to our community. We celebrate at Hattie Carthan Market and at the Herban Farm each year. Enjoy a delicious four-course meal on the farm, complete with freshly baked bread, local wines and foods grown in our local geography. Spend the evening with […]
You’re invited to join us on November 13th from 6pm to 9pm for the Faith in New York Leadership Assembly. Learn about the newly emerging mission, vision and direction of Faith in New York for 2019. Register here.
Join over 300 labor, food and community leaders to celebrate Brandworkers’ Champions of Economic Justice! We welcome you for dinner, dancing and growing worker power to transform the food manufacturing industry.
Join us for our second People Power Lab, where you’ll get to hear from our director Jennifer Ching and from local organizers talking about grassroots coalitions building a new kind of power in New York. We’re holding this year’s event after the mid-term elections so we can come together and hear about strategies for change […]
We are excited to celebrate this year's progress together--with your help, we've won Fair Fares for low-income transit riders, hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding for public transit, and the MTA's most powerful new plan for buses in a generation. Join us to help celebrate our 2018 honorees, including City Council Speaker Corey […]
Join Families for Freedom for a participatory dialogue around immigration enforcement, detention and deportation with Jane Guskin and David Wilson, authors of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers. We will discuss the state of immigration—with a focus on enforcement, detention, and the relationship between the immigration and criminal legal systems—in our current political environment. […]
Please join us on Fri., Nov. 30, at 11 a.m. at Baruch College’s Mason Hall, for World AIDS Day 2018, to remember those we’ve lost, to raise our voices and tell our stories to break through stigma of all kinds, and to gather in solidarity in the fight for an end to New York's AIDS […]
We’ll gather at the Senate Garage in Kingston for an evening of conversation with Edgar Villanueva, author of the new book “Decolonizing Wealth.” He’ll sit down with indigenous rights activist Sachem HawkStorm.
Cooperation Jackson will be in NYC and you are invited to hang! The trailblazing organizers of Cooperation Jackson are coming to New York City to share with us two exciting initiatives they are undertaking in 2019. 1) The EcoVillage demonstration project of our Community Production Cooperative (our Fab Lab) on the Ewing Street portion of […]
We’re turning 40 in 2019—and we can’t wait! Wrap up 2018 with your North Star Fund community as we kick off our 40th year of building movements for justice in New York. Come for the food, drinks, music and great company—stay to hear about some of the amazing things we have up our sleeves for […]
This holiday season, join us to celebrate Chhaya's achievements and to support our efforts to build New York City's first multi-service Pan-South Asian Community Center. Featuring: Dinner from Darbar Grill DJ Rekha as host Musical performances by Brooklyn Raga Massive & DJ Shilpa And more!
Jam4Justice will be at BierWax, NYC’s premier vinyl record craft beer bar. Local Brooklyn DJ, DJ Alias will be spinning on the 1s and 2s. Suggested donation is $20 and all proceeds will go towards CJI’s Strategic Opportunities for Support (SOS) Fund. The SOS Fund provides flexible and immediate funding to organizations building strength at critical junctures, including: […]
The Alliance for Quality Education is proud to announce our sixth annual Champions of Education celebration. On Thursday, December 6, join us in celebrating individuals that have gone above and beyond in their dedication to ensuring that all students have access to a quality education. The celebration takes place on Thursday, December 6, at the DCTV Firehouse, 87 […]
The new book Lift Us Up, Don't Push Us Out! features voices from the frontlines of a growing movement for educational justice across the United States. Organizers and activists recount their journeys to movement building, lift up victories and successes, and offer practical organizing strategies and community-based alternatives to traditional education reform and privatization schemes. […]
Join Queens residents and community members from across the city to say NO to Amazon and NO to giving billions of dollars in subsidies to the richest man in the world. On Wednesday, City Council is holding a hearing to look into how this bad deal for New York was made behind closed doors. At […]
After a tricky and tumultuous 2018, what we need is togetherness. In the spirit of meeting off the clock with love, join us for a Faith in New York Happy Hour! Next Friday, December 14th from 4-7pm at Black Forest Brooklyn. Click here to RSVP.
Join fellow North Star Fund grantees and Neha Gautam, whose photography has been featured on the cover of the North Star Fund Action Report three separate times, for a hands-on workshop on photography.
December 21st is the Winter Solstice, and the longest night of the year. It's on this night, when the cold and the darkness seem most overwhelming, that communities across the United States come together to honor the lives of homeless men and women who passed away this year, and to draw attention to the fact […]
TYS has met the workers' demands by paying the minimum wage and providing safety equipment. But now TYS is refusing to negotiate with its employees. They have cut their business hours and taken an additional day of work away from their employees, cutting workers' schedules by 13 hours a week. This is unacceptable. It is a […]
Register to attend the 2019 Hep C Elimination Legislative Awareness Day to deman New York State implement the policies that are necessary to eliminate the virus. Rally and meet with legislators to demand funding for testing, prevention, linkage-to-care, and cure! We are going to convene in Albany on Wednesday, February 5th at the Empire State […]
We’re not just pieces of paper to be processed; we’re not two-dimensional characters in a crime drama. Our lives are complex and our motivations are rich — and yet we become collateral damage in a system built to dehumanize us and continue to punish us even after we have served our allotted time. A husband […]
Girls for Gender Equity invites you to join us for an evening of intergenerational community building, networking, food and fellowship. We're bringing together likeminded artists and advocates, activists and allies to celebrate the work of our organization and reflect on what women across the country are 'marching’ for, as well as what is required of […]
Get on the bus to Albany and join people living with HIV/AIDS and those that serve and love them for the 2019 New York State End AIDS Legislative Awareness Day! We are bringing New Yorks from all across this great state to the halls of our state capitol building to advocate for the end of AIDS and to improve […]
Do you make donations to organizations, but think that maybe you could be giving more, or giving more strategically? Do you sometimes wonder if your giving really reflects your values and matches the urgency of the times? A giving plan is a concrete tool to focus your giving and make sure it reflects what you […]
Join RAPP, Parole Preparation Project, and others from around NY State to meet with NYS elected officials, march and rally to demand: 1. A fully staffed Parole Board with Parole Commissioners who have professional backgrounds in rehabilitation; 2. Elder parole, which allows all incarcerated older people, aged 55 plus an opportunity for parole release after […]
New York State is facing the worst homeless crisis since the Great Depression. More than 89,000 homeless people living in shelters across the state—the highest number ever recorded. Thousands more are living on the streets, in three-quarter houses, or doubled- and tripled-up in apartments. While most attention has been focused on New York City, communities […]
Deadline to RSVP: Monday, January 28th From Brooklyn to Buffalo, New Yorkers are calling for real and meaningful changes to the way policing is done. Join dozens of community members, advocates, and organizations from across New York State for a day of action in Albany to uplift a comprehensive policy agenda for police transparency & accountability […]
Laundromat workers across the city are taking the power back. It began at TYS Laundromat in Harlem. Now, laundromat workers in Brooklyn are taking a stand. For many years, these immigrant women workers have faced wage theft and abuse at the hands of their employer. Join us as we take to the streets in Bay […]
Are you on Twitter but you're not sure if your time there is well-spent? Are you thinking that you're doing all the basics right on the platform, but you want to get more out of it? We’ll cover the Good, the Bad and the Unexpected of using Twitter to support your online and offline organizing. […]
Our next installment of Sweet Justice is coming to Brooklyn! Join us at Sweet Justice BK where we will announce the honorees of our 40th Anniversary Community Gala. Come celebrate our 40th Anniversary with longtime North Star friends, and make a few new ones! With complimentary wine and beer, light hors d'oeuvres and signature desserts, […]
On February 26th, 2019, join advocates and formerly incarcerated/justice-system impacted folks from all across New York State to demand an end to mass incarceration. We are committed to reducing the number of New Yorkers in prison today, and making sure that all of the state's policies and practices are fair and equitable! Register here. We […]
In keeping with our annual tradition of celebrating International Women’s Day, Movement for Justice in El Barrio invites you to join us, as we honor the tremendous leadership and indispensable contributions of women who fight for dignity and justice everywhere. At this gathering, we will commemorate and honor our compañeras, the “indignadas,” and all dignified […]
Join us for an evening of conversation with Boston Impact Initiative Fund Co-Founder Deborah Frieze and New York City community organizers from CAAAV and the New Economy Project.
CAAAV's invites you to our #NOAMAZON victory party! On February 14, we learned that Amazon is no longer come to Queens and our organizing has finally come into fruition. CAAAV members, community organizations, and Queens residents spent the past three months relentlessly fighting against the world's largest corporation and we managed to kick Amazon out of Queens. […]
Please join us on March 19th for a celebration of the People Power GivingProject! Our 2018-2019 Giving Project is truly about People Power! Over the course of six months, 21 New Yorkers from different backgrounds volunteered with North Star Fund and participated in trainings on political education, grassroots fundraising and social justice grantmaking. Then they put their learnings into […]
The film tells the story of the South Bronx in the 1970's that you've never heard before. Learn how about how this neighborhood became the battleground of housing justice, and how we can use these lessons as a road map to build the communities we want and truly deserve today. Learn more about the film […]
Parts of this training will be conducted in Mandarin, with interpretation into English. Chinatown tenants have been organizing with CAAAV since the early 2000s to fight greedy and negligent landlords, protect the neighborhood from gentrification, and create a more just future where safe, stable, and affordable housing will be secure for working-class immigrant communities. This […]
The NYS Parole Board is understaffed and annually denies parole release to thousands who should be free. Join us Thursday, April 4 at 10 am at Governor Cuomo's office in NYC to demand he fill the seven vacancies on the Parole Board with people who believe in transformation. #FreeOurElders
Does your organization have a website but you're not sure if it's doing a good job? Are you sometimes embarrassed to tell people you have a website because the content is out of date? Not sure where to start improving your website? These are common struggles for grassroots organizations with important things to say but […]
Mekong's board is hosting an event April 6, 2019, to raise funds and awareness on Southeast Asian deportation. The money raised will go toward the fight against deportation. Please come, and help us build our rapid response fund, get the latest update on our anti-deportation work and learn about our victories. Purchase a ticket here.
On April 8th, 2019, join New Yorkers all across the state in Albany for the 2019 End the Drug War to End Overdose Legislative Awareness Day. We are providing transportation from NYC and Western New York. Please register to reserve your seat and learn more information. New York State Is in Crisis Overdose now takes […]
The North Star Fund Community Gala is our biggest celebration of the year—featuring a fantastic cross-section of hundreds of New Yorkers who care deeply about grassroots organizing and who are committed to making justice real. And this April 16th, we are celebrating #40YearsBold! For our 40th anniversary, we are honoring two of our many powerful grantees and three New […]
What does an equitable economy look like and how soon can we have it? How can we push back against corporate-driven models that hand Amazon tax breaks? What about wealth-generating alternatives that center communities? Join us for an evening of conversation with Boston Impact Initiative Fund Co-Founder Deborah Frieze and New York City community organizers […]
CAAAV invites you to the long-awaited and fabulous Karaoke Battle on Friday, May 10th! Our annual Karaoke Battle is a fundraiser party to support CAAAV, a grassroots organization that relies on community support. You have an opportunity to fundraise for CAAAV and/or compete in a team or solo during the night of the event! CAAAV supporters create teams on Crowdrise that fundraise leading […]
Meet the student leaders of IntegrateNYC and other New Yorkers who are demanding an end to school segregation on the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. It's time to #RetireSegregation.
Please join us for Sweet Justice III, an intimate dessert and wine celebration honoring North Star Fund's 40 for 40. Bring a friend, and join us in toasting this luminous group of leaders who embody the values on which North Star Fund was founded. It's part of our ongoing celebration of #40YearsBold. We'll enjoy magnificent cakes […]
Philanthropy New York is hosting a discussion on LGBTQ history focused on lessons learned, the current state of the field, and how various projects and initiatives are making the history of LGBTQ+ activism and history visible as we enter the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. Panelists include: Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Assistant Professor, Head of Reference, The […]
Although all of us are natural born storytellers, telling stories to advance social justice is a little different. To do “justice storytelling,” we are often telling stories that have to counter powerful misinformation about our community and the issues we work on. Our opponents have the advantage that their story is widely accepted as "the […]
Do you have questions about how to keep track of your organization's members, donors or volunteers? Have you outgrown your current database, and you're not sure about where to start on looking for a new one? Are you wondering if you should build your own database or use an existing service? There are hundreds of […]
Join us for an informational webinar to learn about North Star Fund’s current grant opportunities, how to strengthen your grant application, what to expect during the application process, and more.
With the Democratic takeover of the New York State Senate, 2019 brought a new set of political dynamics to Albany. Join the New York State Poor People’s Campaign on September 11 at 7pm for a webinar to reflect on what happened (and didn’t happen) and what lessons we can draw for our work of building […]
Do you need to step up your design game, but you're not sure how? Do you look at other organization's Instagram feeds with envy? Are you worried that your organization doesn't have a budget for design tools like Adobe Creative Suite? Good design can give your organization's communications a much-needed boost, especially on social media […]
~*EN ESPANOL ABAJO*~ Laundry Workers Center and Iglesia Sion present "Sin Fronteras: Celebrating the Victories of Women Laundry Workers!" We are honoring the immigrant women workers and leaders whose labor is the backbone of Laundry Workers Center and also to bring their invisible labor into the light. We will be honoring Maria and Ricarda, leaders […]
Join the Adhikaar family for our annual Dashain celebration! Save the date: Sunday, October 13 Time: noon - 4pm Where: Adhikaar, 71-07 Woodside Ave, Woodside NY 11377 Dashain is one of Nepal's largest Hindu festivals celebrated in commemoration of the triumph of good over evil. Observed over 10 days, it's a time of meeting family, […]
Join us to celebrate tenant power, Bronx pride, and our amazing victories! We have a lot to celebrate! Friday, October 18, 6-10pm Hostos Community College, 475 Grand Concourse, Bronx Hors d’oeurvs and cocktails will be served at 6pm and the program will begin at 7pm. CASA Honorees to be announced soon! 100% of your donation […]
We're bringing together our Giving Project participants and Giving Project alums for a fun evening to build community. Consider joining us for food, fantastic company and interesting conversation. Be sure to RSVP so we know to expect you. We'll announce the location later this fall.
Join your North Star friends for an evening of groundbreaking theater. Anna Deavere Smith's "Fires in the Mirror" is running at the Signature Theatre, performed by Michael Benjamin Washington and directed by Saheem Ali. Set in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood in 1991, the New York Times says, "Fires in the Mirror is quite simply, the […]
Communities United for Police Reform’s (CPR) October 29th Community Gala will be CPR’s first-ever fundraising event. Join 200 New Yorkers to celebrate our collective achievements since our 2012 launch -- and to honor leaders who have been our inspiration and our co-conspirators.
Whole Foods, our neighborhood grocery store, is a storefront of Amazon, which provide the core technology used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) to track, detain, and separate immigrant families. On Nov 1st! Join Your Neighbors to Tell Whole Foods/Amazon to STOP tearing families apart! At 4pm, gather at J.J. Byrne- Washington Playground in Brooklyn, […]
Ro(u)ted by Our Stories is an intergenerational oral history archive dedicated to centering the stories of womxn and gender-expansive Indo-Caribbeans at various intersections of identity. The project documents the stories of our people, who are so often missing from history books -- leaving us unseen and feeling invisible. At the event, the team behind the […]
Join us for an informational webinar to learn about North Star Fund’s People Power grants for current grantees, how to strengthen your grant application, what to expect during the application process, and more.
Workers who stand up against wage theft and sweatshop conditions are increasingly left with nothing to show for it. This is because our laws are weak and unscrupulous employers can easily close up shop (only to reopen under a new name), transfer their assets and empty their bank accounts. By the time workers win a judgment […]
Join us for our third People Power Lab, where you’ll get to hear from from local organizers talking about grassroots organizations building a new kind of power in New York. The event is free, interactive, and will be held at the incredible People’s Forum space on W 37th St in Manhattan. The reception is at […]
Please join us for our 2019 NYC Transgender Day of Remembrance. The program will include: inspirational speakers, spiritual moments of reflection, calling of the names, altar for candle dedication and the voices of community. The event is open to everyone. Metrocards, food and gift bags (with community resources) will be provided. For more information or […]
Come celebrate the homecoming of the many Project applicants who were recently released from prison after serving decades inside. There will be food, drinks, music, and great company! Tickets are sliding scale, starting at $25. Corporate sponsorships are available for $5,000 and include 10 tickets and a thank you note in our printed program. Nonprofit sponsorships are also available […]
On Wednesday December 4th at 11am on the Steps of Tweed, CEJ will be releasing a new report examining representation from 3-K through 8th grade curriculum and book lists. Last winter we released a report showing the lack of representation of students of color in elementary school curriculum, and this report examines early childhood and middle school […]