News Archives: April, 2018
Today in Grassroots Funding Week – Reclaiming Our Human Rights
Today PDF presents groups challenging the fundamental structure of systems that have deprived their communities of dignity and equity. They are also finding new and innovative ways of establishing their […]
Published on April 28, 2018Today in Grassroots Funding Week – Protecting our Environment
In the face of an administration actively weakening environmental protection efforts, PDF recognizes the increasingly important role of grassroots organizing in the climate justice movement. We must halt the destructive […]
Published on April 27, 2018Today in Grassroots Funding Week – How to End Poverty
As the country’s highest earners look towards new tax breaks in 2018, poverty disempowers a vast population in the U.S. Economic security and advancement – from employment opportunities to housing, […]
Published on April 26, 2018Today in Grassroots Funding Week – More than #MeToo
When Anita Hill testified against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, citing sexual harassment, she faced an all-male, all-white Congressional panel. It was 1991, and the #MeToo movement would be decades […]
Published on April 25, 2018Today in Grassroots Funding Week – Youth Are Organizing
After the horrors in Parkland, Florida, students catalyzed youth and adult supporters with the #NeverAgain movement, and they haven’t gone away. Like the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins that spawned the […]
Published on April 24, 2018