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 Fund for Empowerment

Mission

To build community resources for oppressed and marginalized people, via direct services, capacity-building training, and project support.

Fund for Empowerment has received a Community Organizing Grant from the Peace Development Fund and all of the money raised from this fundraiser will be added to that grant to help support their organizing in 2020.  Please consider making a contribution today to support them and read more about their work below.

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The Fund for Empowerment’s Houseless Leadership Project seeks to elevate the voices of the members of the Houseless Leadership Project to civic discourse and political protests and actions, as well as legal action. This funding would not be used for litigation, but rather community organizing. 

In our community organizing, we have formerly and currently houseless people compensated for outreach, advocacy and public speaking. We organize media events and events with the houseless community of Phoenix. 

The issues addressed are reflective of the extreme forces of mortality and criminalization of houseless people in Phoenix. We have been featured in over 20 news articles since our inception in 2018. These articles cover the following theses: deaths on County Shelter lots, criminalization of sleeping and property ownership, and access to systemic resources. We believe that unless the voices of houseless people contribute to the political discourse they will be absented from the de facto policy. 

How is Fund for Empowerment helping their community work toward justice through the COVID-19 pandemic?

"Our work in the pandemic has focused on the policies which shape houseless lives under COVID-19. Along with distributing 10,000 masks, we create opportunities for protest and social discourse. We focus on criminalization, deaths on the street and in County-run facilities, and COVID-19."

Website: https://fundforempowerment.org/

Fund for Empowerment is a participant in Grassroots Funding Week, a week-long crowdfunding campaign that supports several social justice organizations from across the country. 

Click on the links below to read about other organizations participating in Grassroots Funding Week. 

Monday: We Want Justice, Not More Jails! 

Change Comes Now - Lake Park, Florida 

Decarcerate, Inc - Little Rock, Arkansas

Human Rights Coalition - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Tuesday: Housing is a Human Right 

Springfield No One Leaves - Springfield, Massachusetts 

Fund for Empowerment - Phoenix, Arizona 

Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending - Worcester, Massachusetts 

Wednesday: Healing Our Communities and Our Land  

Communities for Clean Water - Taos, New Mexico 

Whiteswan Environmental - Bellingham, Washington 

Coal River Mountain Watch - Naoma, West Virginia 

Thursday: Intersectionality is Our Power 

NNLB United - New York, New York 

Who Speaks for Me - Washington, D.C.

Detroit Area Youth Uniting Michigan - Detroit, Michigan 

Friday: Economic Justice For All  

Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights - Olympia, Washington

Haymarket Pole Collective - Portland, Oregon 

For more information, visit: www.peacedevelopmentfund.org 

The Peace Development Fund works to build the capacity of community-based organizations through grants, training and other resources as partners in human rights and social justice movements.