The Center for Community Change strengthens, connects and mobilizes grassroots groups to enhance their leadership, voice and power. We believe that vibrant community-based organizations, led by the people most affected by social and economic injustice, are key to putting an end to the failed "on your own" mentality of the right and building a new politics based on community values.

CHIRLA advances the human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees in Los Angeles; promoting harmonious multi-ethnic and multi-racial human relations; and through coalition-building, advocacy, community education and organizing, empowering immigrants and their allies to build a more just society.

Consumers Union works for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers and to empower consumers to protect themselves.

Democracia U.S.A. (D-USA) is a leading, national nonpartisan Hispanic civic engagement, voter empowerment, community organizing, and leadership development organization based in five states.

ForestEthics protects Endangered Forests and wild places, wildlife, and human wellbeing – including focusing on climate change.

By advocating for local, state and federal commitment to job creation, job training, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging green economy - especially for people from disadvantaged communities - Green For All fights both poverty and pollution at the same time.

Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South. We work with people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their own destiny.

The League of Young Voters empowers young people nationwide to participate in the democratic process and create progressive political change on the local, state and national level.

The Media and Democracy Coalition works to open the media system to all perspectives and competing voices by promoting diversity of ownership and content, while stopping media consolidation and monopoly control of the public airwaves and to bridge the digital divide by guaranteeing that Internet access is fast, affordable, and accessible too.

National Gay and Lesbian Task builds the grassroots power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community by training activists, equipping state and local organizations with the skills needed to organize broad-based campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro-LGBT legislation, and building the organizational capacity of our movement.

Our Mission The New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) seeks to energize and nurture long term civic engagement in local initiatives that create and maintain healthy, just, safe and environmentally sustainable communities. The Fund uses grantmaking, networking, and skills-building to fuel local activism and social change.