$5000 for sports programs for four children, ages seven to 15, whose mother was harassed and fired for forming a group within her workplace for employees to share stories of workplace discrimination and stand up for one another.

$3000 for sports and supplies to build a computer for two children, ages 13 and 15, whose activist parents authored a children’s book about gender-nonconforming youth that is being banned widely by right-wing politicians. The entire family has received hate mail and threats of doxxing as a result.

$3000 for music and arts programs for two 18 year-olds whose mom, an OB-GYN and pro-choice activist, is serving an excessive sentence of prison time and probation for spray painting the outside of a “crisis pregnancy center” (fake abortion clinic).

$3000 for dance, soccer and gymnastics for the five and 10 year-old children whose mother was arrested and then doxxed for peacefully occupying the property of a major weapons manufacturer to protest the genocide in Gaza.

$2800 for soccer, arts and crafts, and tutoring for three children ages 12 to 15 whose father was a prominent anti-torture activist in his home country until he himself was detained and tortured. The family was forced to flee and seek asylum in the US.

$1500 for chess club, sports and tutoring for the 11 year-old son of an antifascist organizer and independent journalist who was physically assaulted and threatened by armed Proud Boys while covering a recruitment event. After being forced to defend herself with pepper spray, she was arrested and jailed.

A $600 Carry it Forward (CIF) award for the 18 year-old whose father is a prominent former political prisoner and member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Movement. He has since become a leader in the fight for prison abolition.

A $600 CIF award for a 24 year-old whose father is a known racial justice leader in his city. He is being targeted with a spurious lawsuit and hate mail, and the family has had to move far from their community.

A $600 CIF award for the 22 year-old daughter whose father was murdered by police. Her mother’s tireless fight for justice has led to years of intimidation and threats from police and police sympathizers.

$9000 for homeschooling expenses for six children, ages 10 to 18, from two families. Their fathers spoke out against the Iraq war and were falsely accused of terrorist activity and hunted by the FBI as a result.