Activists with Purpose Plus provides parents and students most impacted by discriminatory disciplinary rulings and hearings with the tools they need to combat racism and sexism in Mississippi schools. Noyes funding supported work on the 2020 Census, build culturally responsive schools, dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline and build an after-school freedom school program.

Akweku Osh^be Yukwayotee consists of nine young On^yote?a·ká women, motivated to move beyond trauma, politics, and physical displacement to rebuild the matrilineal design, and rekindling the fire among women who traditionally made decisions regarding land, children, and direction of the Nation. Noyes funding supported knowledge gathering of shared language, medicines, foods, ceremonies, and cultural arts to revive the spirit and health of the Oneida nation at a critical moment in history.

American Indian Law Alliance assists traditional and grassroots Native leaders in the US to communicate their perspectives and issues in international fora, including the annual sessions of the United Nations (UN) Commission on the Status of Women, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and the Organization of American States in Washington, DC.

The Amplify Fund is a funder collaborative that believes community power is the key driver of just and equitable development. Amplify Fund supports people of color and low-income communities to build power and influence decisions about the places where they live. Amplify centers racial justice and believes in following the wisdom and guidance of local leaders in eight places: Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennesse, and California.

The Black Farmer Fund establishes low interest rates in historically inaccessible markets and creates pension plans for black farmers as a community wealth building strategy. Noyes grantmaking dollars were used to hire a full-time staff member to convene communities around New York State on alternative, community-driven investment vehicles for the black food system in rural and urban spaces.

Black Love Resist in the Rust utilizes embodied leadership and healing justice to dismantle white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy. The city of Buffalo illegally searched and seized property through racialized vehicular checkpoints in 2011 – 2018. Noyes funding supported increased organizing, canvassing, and base building with other organizations focused on similar police brutality and democratized budgetary work.

Bogue Chitto Lincoln County Community Development Center is a community-based organization committed to enhancing quality of life and organizing efforts of youth and senior citizens in rural communities through sustainable practices. Noyes funding supported the development of a Mentorship Program for community elders to transfer knowledge and skills and create a youth leadership engagement program that encourages workforce development and social activism.

BYP100 is a national, member-based advocacy organization of 18-35 year-old organizers dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people through a queer feminist lens. Noyes funding supported the expansion Black Mama Bailouts, town hall meetings, the defense of black women and gender non-confirming women, and engagement in the City of Jackson’s participatory budgeting processes.

Chester Agricultural Center provides affordable long-term access to 180 acres of organic farm land, with racial equity and labor rights embedded in hiring practices and farm ownership. Noyes funding expanded their racial justice and organizing programming.

Chief Seattle Club reduces homelessness through the provision of hot meals, showers and laundry services for Seattle’s Alaskan Indian and Alaska Native population and through End Urban Indigenous Homelessness in King County coalition leadership. Noyes funding supported the development of an 80 unit facility that provides social services for Alaskan Indians /Alaska Natives in Seattle.

Choctaw Fresh Produce’s mission is to grow as much fresh produce for the community as possible. Over the past seven years, CFP has built resilient farming infrastructure with the capacity to supply a significant percentage of the Tribe’s demand for fresh produce, which was previously entirely outsourced. Noyes funding supported employment opportunities with Choctaw Fresh Produce on tribal lands.

Citizen Action is a powerful education affiliate with offices in eight regions, expanding their upstate presence. Citizen Action provides meaningful opportunities for low and moderate income New Yorkers to partake in collective action and policy victories that enhance their lives. Noyes funding expanded their leadership development programming for organizers in upstate New York.

Clean Air Coalition is a grassroots, membership-based environmental health and justice organization, whose members and leaders live and work in overburdened communities in Western New York. Noyes funding supported Just Transition campaigns and activities around the redevelopment of two recently retired coal based facilities in Tonawanda. Resources also went toward exploring the establishment of a land trust and bio-remediation of a former industrial site.

Clean Slate Behavioral Health Solutions works with individuals, families and communities to address issues that hinder healthy growth and development, and assist those trapped in systems and institutional structures built on racism and oppression. Noyes funding supported programming addressing issues of generational poverty, sexual abuse, and other forms of violence by providing: trauma-informed care and conflict resolution workshops for health care, law enforcement, HBCU, public school and service professionals and research about violence prone zip codes for the City of Jackson.

The Coahoma County Diaper Bank participates in women’s rights, birth justice, and childhood poverty awareness raising efforts, ultimately hoping to increase educational and employment opportunities for caregivers and level the playing field for women and working mothers. Noyes funding launched an internship program focused on job readiness skills, leadership development, and advocacy and purchase 1,000 more diapers for families in need.

Columbia County Sanctuary Movement organizes with immigrants to support and defend their community. Working as an extension and on behalf of of Green Light NY, Columbia County Sanctuary Movement enables undocumented members to access much-needed services, employment, and independence. Noyes resources also expanded their DOJ recognition program, which fills a gap need of regional legal representation of undocumented people.

Common Future is an intermediary that unites wealth-holders and wealth-builders across the United States to advance equitable economy models. Noyes funding supported the launch of social entrepreneur and capital syndication programming for a network of local leaders to aggregate community capital and strategically influence national policy players.

Community Food Funders is a NY-NJ-CT philanthropic project that supports transition to an equitable, ecologically sound, and economically robust regional food system. Community Food Funders builds communal wealth through local growing, processing, regional distribution and fair trade practices. Noyes funding supported the second cohort of the Seeding Power Fellowship in Fall 2020.

Concerned Citizens for Justice is a community organizing group and advocacy agency that encourages political, social, and economic empowerment in Northeast, MS. Noyes funding old bi-monthly meetings, sustain a community platform to discuss public allocation of resources throughout Lee county, mobilize against gentrification, build radical systems change leaders; and perform outreach activities.

The Crossroads Cultural Arts Center is a non-profit cultural center that utilizes the power of art to transform community. Primary programs include Thinking Outside the Trap, Clarksdale Rites of Passage, and the Unrecorded History of Blues. Noyes funding supported additional arts programming aligned with contemporary movements for social and economic justice for African American people.

The Cultural Conservancy’s programs aim to revitalize Indigenous lands and cultures, supporting the healing of historical trauma by returning physical, mental and spiritual health and well-being to displaced Indigenous communities who have restricted access to their lands, territories and natural resources on Ohlone Territory. Noyes funding supported a five year strategic planning process following the acquisition of a 7.6 acre farm and historical site.

Defending the Dream Fund was created in partnership with other mission aligned foundations to defend targeted communities against severe and destructive policies and work towards a just, equitable and caring society. Defending the Dream Fund supports multi-issue, immediate, long term, and intersectional power building and civic engagement at local and state levels.

The Akwesasne Freedom School is a full day language immersion program that is seen as the model for many Indigenous communities. The Akwesasne Freedom School led the Native Language revitalization movement in 1985. Noyes funding supported the instruction of Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) language and cultural preparation for Longhouse participation and other traditional practices.

The Healing Hand Foundation connects Alaska Native people with medical assistance and/or durable medical equipment during times of hardship, with increasing rates of suicide and substance abuse; specifically in Southeast Alaska and the rural villages in our communities. Noyes Funding increased Healing Hand Foundation staff’s capacity to participate in the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium beneficiaries which serve Alaska Natives and U.S. Veterans in Alaska.

Higher Purpose Co is anchored in solutions-based organizing focused on building community wealth across Mississippi with Black residents supporting their ownership of financial, cultural, and political power. Noyes funding helped implement a three-year economic justice strategy that includes a Community Wealth Institute focused on community education, narrative change, and economic justice advocacy in the Mississippi Delta.

The Indigenous 20 Something Project is an inter-tribal movement focused on healing a generation by promoting, creating, and sustaining healthy lasting collaborations among Indigenous 20-somethings. Noyes funding supported the completion of the film, Tekona, a cultural narrative health tool focusing on the mental health of a young Indigenous man experiencing emotional vulnerability and his relationship to his matriarchal lineage. The film will be accompanied with a story telling guide and utilized as an advocacy platform in various Indigenous communities.

IEN is an alliance of indigenous peoples whose shared mission is to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from contamination and exploitation by respecting and adhering to indigenous knowledge and natural law

The Institute for the Advancement of Minority health is dedicated to improving the health outcomes of minority communities. In Mississippi, this means infant mortality and poverty reduction with a focus on building a power base of health workers that aid Black community members in navigating racist medical systems. Noyes funding supported the construction of community-based coalitions to address the social determinants of health and eliminate racialized health outcomes. Continue social service distribution, education, and community health worker organizing programming.

It Takes Roots is a multiracial, multicultural, and multigenerational network of+J7 alliances led by women, gender non-conforming people, people of color, and Indigenous Peoples working to address the intersecting crises of democracy, economy, and ecology. Noyes funding supported partnerships with other cross-sectoral forces to fight a federal Green New deal with strong local and state implementation.

Local Progress is a network of elected officials across the United States unified in their commitment to shared prosperity, equal justice, livable and sustainable communities, and good government that serves the public interest. Noyes funding allowed Local Progress to continue working with the Upstate/Downstate Housing Alliance to expand the participation of municipalities to enact rent stabilization across New York State, research and recommend innovative public safety budgets in Mississippi, and launch a pilot program developing the leadership and governance skills of state and local elected officials.

The Long Island Community Foundation invests in organizational ability and sustainable social justice resources. Noyes funds were used to establish a match fund to build power, trust, and collectivity amongst the immigrant and Black communities of Long Island. This racial justice fund will build the local ecosystem and eventually connect to State power-building efforts.

Love Me Unlimited 4 Life’s mission is to instill hope, resilience and self-esteem in the LGBTQ community while ending gender and sexual oppression throughout Mississippi, connecting trans women with resources that promote independence, including housing, career counseling, HIV/STD screening, transgender care, and civic empowerment. Noyes funding increased access to economic and health services for the survival of Black transgender women through a series of advocacy/leadership workshops, organized actions such as a TransWatch Advocacy Day, and civic engagement trainings.

Mississippi Association of Cooperatives sustains cooperative businesses efforts of socially disadvantaged, veteran farmers and ranchers, and rural farm families through business plan development, feasibility studies, strategic planning, organizational and structural development, will and estate planning, marketing, financial planning and crop and livestock production. Noyes funding supported the infrastructure of grassroots cooperative development, land retention, and rural advocacy through enterprise and leadership cultivation.

The Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable is an inter-generational civic engagement statewide network and the women and girl’s empowerment arm of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation championing equitable public policy on behalf of Black women and girls in Mississippi and across the South. Noyes funding built mayoral and city council co-power through education sessions on Equal Pay, pregnancy accommodation policies in the workplace, and census and redistricting initiatives.

Mississippi Votes is a youth civic engagement organizing and advocacy organization cultivating a transformative culture of civic engagement throughout the state of Mississippi. Noyes funding supported the growth of liberation leadership programming tailored to the civic needs of North, South, and Central Mississippi with a focus on restoration regeneration of sacred civic work.

The Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights utilizes direct action and public awareness campaigns to ensure better workplace conditions for all workers in Mississippi. Noyes funding supports the Fannie Lou Hammer Summer Internship program, which is the leadership arm of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights. Interns will mobilize 5,000 local residents and organize injured workers in time for legislative hearings in summer 2020.

National Black Food and Justice Alliance is a network of Black-led organizations working towards advancing Black leadership, building Black self-determination, institution building and organizing for food sovereignty, land justice, and Black liberation. Noyes funding provided operational support to convene, train, and coordinate Black food system leaders around exploitation, theft, sustainable earth stewardship and cooperative food system institutions.

Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance is a national network of indigenous leaders dedicated to restoring food systems that support tribal self-determination, community wellness, and rebuilding relationships with the land, water, plants and animals that sustain human life. Noyes funding contributed to food sovereignty systems, connecting Native food growers with local chefs.

The Native Wellness Institute is a leading training and technical assistance organization rooted in Native culture with trauma, healing, and historical informed practices that provide the opportunity for intergeneration and communal healing. Noyes funding supported the development of curriculum, videos, and discussion guides on the conditions contributing to missing and murdered Indigenous women.

New Economy Coalition builds the collective power of participatory economic development and community governance through 210 member organizations that represent a diverse cross-section of movement, grassroots community organizing, worker cooperatives, community land trusts, impact investors, and think tanks. Noyes funding helped scale investments in working class communities and communities of color, increasing their control over land and labor through local policy convenings and trainings.

The New Economy Project builds community wealth and ends systemic and discriminatory wealth extraction from New York communities through broad coalition partnership across all eight New York State regions. New Economy Project is rooted in cooperation, racial, economic, and gender justice, and ecological sustainability. Noyes fundng expanded NEP’s statewide New York Community Equity Agenda through regional gatherings and community-led cooperative development.

North Star Fund is New York’s community foundation that is upending traditional views of how philanthropy can support grassroots movements for justice.

The Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust secures land tenure for POC farmers and advances the vision of sacred land stewardship that honors ancestral dreams of sustainable farming, human habitat, ceremony, native ecosystem restoration, and cultural preservation. Noyes grant dollars funded the establishment of an Indigenous Land Access Consultation Policy, the acquisition and maintenance of additional land for farmers of color, and supplemented the salaries of two co-directors that cover large multi-state regions.

Ohero:kon was founded by the parents of families that attended the Akwesasne Freedom School in 1979, it is now a community institution of cultural reclamation and ceremony. Noyes funding supported the development of a cultural intervention strategy for youth to nurture their transition into adulthood, guided by a caring community of peers and elders through ceremony, ritual and teachings.

Onkwe’s mission is to spread awareness of nutritional eating, Mohawk food growing practices and recipes, and the maintaining health in the home. Noyes provided operational support to sustain Mohawk cultural and food traditions.

People’s Advocacy Institute seeks to engage communities in policy and systems change efforts through people’s assemblies, alternatives to incarceration trainings and technical assistance inspiring self-determination and community-driven solutions to crime and punitive legal systems. Noyes funding supported the co-leadership of a community evaluation of police and police accountability board, activating community members directly impacted by police violence, mass incarceration and failed community safety efforts that criminalize rather than cultivate and restore community.

Project South’s work is rooted in the legacy of the Southern Freedom Movement, and four primary work areas achieve our mission of cultivating strong social movements in the South powerful enough to contend with some of the most pressing and complicated social, economic, and political problems we face today.

The Reproductive Health Investors Alliance’s (RHIA) mission is to bring new capital and enterprise into under-valued areas of reproductive health. With Noyes Fund RHIA engaged in public equity and shareholder activism around the financial return and social impact of emerging reproductive health technologies.

Rise Up Kingston is a grassroots organization led by people experiencing racism, classism, and gender oppression daily; organizing to win collective power and build an economy that meets the social and environmental needs of all. Noyes provided operational support to hire a community organizer leading the creation of a police oversight commission with the long-term of direct-action organizing on criminal justice reform with an abolitionist lens and focus on community investment.

The City Wide Tenant Union of Rochester is a grassroots housing justice movement that elevates housing as a human right and secures community and tenant power. Noyes funding supported the local implementation of recent state legislation housing victories and increase leadership capacity of those most impacted by the housing crisis. This includes expanding training and workshops on political education, basic organizing skills, conflict resolution, and relational culture.

SEPA Mujer is a community-based grassroots organization that brings together Latina immigrant community members to speak out against injustice, provide social services, leadership development, stand united against domestic and intimate partner violence, and push for greater social equity. Noyes funds supported the opening of a fifth chapter in eastern Suffolk, where few resources are available to Latinas, most vulnerable to exploitation, abuse and wage theft because of the rural farmland setting.

Working in the rural Black Belt of Alabama, Georgia, and the Mississippi Delta, Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative engages women in advocacy and policy initiatives that redirect local, state, and federal resources to help ensure women’s full participation and access to economic and social justice. Noyes funding leveraged organizing strategies through six human rights commissions across the Mississippi Delta fighting for secured K-12 education for girls and quality and accessible women’s reproductive healthcare.

Sunflower County Parents and Students United is broad based, rural, multi-issue grassroots community-based organization that utilizes an inter-generational model to co-power the citizens of Sunflower County to hold their public and elected officials accountable to the needs and interests of poor, low wealth, African-Americans. Noyes funding expanded civic participation and outreach work to incarcerated populations and disseminate toolkits on 2020 Census Redistricting efforts.

The Sunrise Movement Education Fund provides training and mobilization for a mass movement of young people demanding just, wide-sweeping federal climate action that exposes the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on American politics. Noyes funding supporting the scaling up civic engagement trainings and non-partisan voter registration in 6 key states prior to the 2020 election and the development Green New Deal training for Historically Black College and Universisty students in Mississippi.

The Peacemaking Project is a Syracuse based restorative justice program working with the justice system to divert cases from court and into the community for healing. Noyes funding supported public education trainings, communal safety protocols, and narrative campaigns to transform lacking cohesion, segregation, and unsafe housing conditions.

The Tutwiler Community Education Center services children and teens ages 7-18 with the goal of strengthening families through programs that address the needs of the community. Noyes funding supported travel and educational programming for youth in Northwest rural Mississippi to connect with their resilience and political history.