Center for Community Change Action

About Center for Community Change Action

Center for Community Change Action uses fellowship-style programs, fiscal sponsorship, and special project grants to build organizing capacity around low-income people, people of color, and multiracial democracy. One of its clearest signals is a year-long communications fellowship that places participants at ChangeWire while they complete a storytelling curriculum, showing that narrative change is part of its strategy, not an afterthought. The foundation also backs movement infrastructure. Its program list includes support for emerging organizations, national coalitions, and movement leaders through fiscal sponsorship, incubation, and training. That internal capacity-building orientation appears alongside issue work on economic justice, child care and health equity, democracy and voter engagement, guaranteed income, and leadership development. Recent grants show a mix of civic, policy, and organizing support. Community Change Voters received two grants tied to voting work, while Working Families Organization Inc was funded for real recovery and child care-related projects. Across the portfolio, the foundation favors multi-purpose support for organizations that combine advocacy, organizing, and leadership development rather than single-issue service grants.

What Center for Community Change Action Funds

Child care and family support is one visible strand of the portfolio. The foundation gave $125,000 to Stand Up for Ohio- Ohio Organizing Collaborative for Childcare Justice and $100,000 to Faith in Minnesota for Childcare, pairing both with organizing-oriented groups. Economic justice appears through work that links policy advocacy to community organizing. It awarded $250,000 to Organizers in the Land of Enchantment (ole) for Economic Justice and $75,000 to New Georgia Project Action Fund Inc for Economic Justice. The democracy portfolio centers voter participation and campaign infrastructure. Community Change Voters received $250,000 for Voting Program and $150,000 for Voter Program, while Our Voice Our Vote Arizona received $100,000 for Voter Program. It also supports strategy and advocacy capacity. Tides Advocacy received $154,000 for Strategic Campaign Dev, and Michigan People's Campaign received $104,000 and $97,000 for Strategic Campaign Dev in separate years.

How Center for Community Change Action Gives