$4500 for educational support and recreational activities for three children, ages 12 to 17, whose mother advocates for individuals wronged in the criminal justice system, and, due to targeting, can’t find work within a 100-mile radius of her home.

$3000 for recreational activities for two siblings, ages 16 and 18, whose family faced harassment after their mother held school personnel accountable for their wildly inappropriate behavior towards her daughter and other female students.

$3800 for three children, ages three to 17, from two families. Both families have spent years organizing against environmental racism in their communities and have faced targeting by employers and police.

$1500 for childcare for the two-year-old daughter of a town’s first Black mayor, a longtime community activist, who has been systematically barred from assuming office. He has been locked out of city hall, prevented from performing mayoral duties and suspended from his EMT position by a corrupt group of town officials who do not want to see him in power.

$3000 for the two children, ages nine and 15, whose mother, a teacher, fought for the well-being of all students after her young autistic child was physically assaulted by an aide at school. As a result of her efforts, the school fired her and reported her as an unfit parent. Her activism is slowly resulting in a better environment for students with disabilities.

$6000 for four children, ages six to 18, whose mother is a vocal critic of environmental racism, fighting to halt construction of a corporate landfill adjacent to her family’s property. As a result of her activism, she was denied employment multiple times and pro-landfill teachers even started issuing failing grades to her children in school.

$4200 for recreational activities and two Carry it Forward1 (CIF) awards for four siblings, ages 16 to 22, whose family faced harassment after their mother filed a complaint to hold school personnel accountable for their outrageously inappropriate behavior towards female students.

$3000 for a computer and sports equipment for two brothers, ages 13 and 16, whose grandmother and father organized against environmental racism, specifically against the creation of a landfill in their town. As a result, they were targeted by local police and other officials.

$1500 for childcare for the three-year-old son whose mother advocated against coal ash being dumped in town. Due to her activism, she was denied employment and forced to relocate to find work

$5750 for educational materials, childcare and recreation activities for the four sons, ages two to 16, whose mother participated in a news segment opposing her state’s abortion restrictions. As a result, her nonprofit lost funding and her children were harassed in the local school.