In May of 2024, Arch Community Fund made 11 multi-year commitments to support transformative organizing work. These grantees were selected from Arch’s previous cohorts of one-year grants. Each grant was approved at $25,000 – $30,000 per year for three years. 2024 grantees include:
- United Workers (Baltimore, MD) United Workers strives to follow core principles of fair development: universality, equity, participation, transparency, and accountability.
- SMASH (Struggle for Miami’s Affordable and Sustainable Housing) (Miami, FL) SMASH is a community land trust building power for housing and climate justice in Miami.
- New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG) (New York, NY) NYTAG is a transgender-led organization advocating for more inclusive gender-based policies that benefit transgender and gender non-conforming/non-binary individuals through building community leaders, educating practitioners, and influencing policy-makers.
- Justice Cream (Chicago, IL) Justice Cream is developing a solidarity economy through non-dairy ice cream, while creating new norms rooted in care and equity. They donate 100% of profits to grassroots community organizations dedicated to collective liberation.
- Coop New Orleans (New Orleans, LA) Cooperation New Orleans Loan Fund is a community-based loan fund that provides technical assistance, business development, and non-extractive capital to worker-owned cooperatives.
- About Face (Denver, CO) About Face Veterans Against The War are post-9/11 service members and veterans organizing to end a foreign policy for permanent war and the use of military weapons, tactics, and values in communities across the country.
- We Are Family (Charleston, SC) We Are Family provides life-affirming and life-saving programs for LGBTQ+ young people that have lasting and measurable impact, with a focus on those who are BIPOC or low-income.
- Beloved Community Incubator (Washington, D.C.) Beloved Community Incubator is a solidarity economy movement organization, incubator, lender, and worker self-directed non-profit that focuses on building a regional solidarity economy that centers people, especially poor and working-class workers and people of color, over profit.
- Common Roots PA (Meadville, PA) Common Roots’ mission is to develop and steward sustainable, permanently affordable homes that build wealth and security for poor and working people. It is also a community land trust, promising to use its resources for affordable housing purposes in perpetuity.
- Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane (PJALS) (Spokane, WA) PJALS builds a cross-racial, intergenerational, all-gender, rural-urban, bottom-up movement centered on the leadership of impacted people.