Announcing this year’s four incredible Lilla Jewel Award winners!
The Lilla Jewel Award – named in honor of artist, feminist, and suffragist Lilla Jewel – was created nearly 25 years ago to support and amplify Oregon-based artists of marginalized genders who use their art as a tool for activism and advance social justice messages. The Lilla Jewel Award Committee and Seeding Justice is excited […]
Seeding Justice funds 29 organizations for Spring 2023 General Fund cycle
We’re excited to announce that our Grantmaking Committee has selected 29 organizations working towards justice to receive General Fund grants this summer! After reading, scoring, and discussing 99 applications, our Grantmaking Committee has awarded $331,600 to 29 amazing organizations addressing a range of issues, including providing indigenous communities of the Klamath River basin access to […]
$5 million awarded to address urgent reproductive healthcare access barriers faced by marginalized Oregon communities
Reproductive Health Equity Fund dollars are moving to communities and healthcare providers The Reproductive Health Equity Fund announced today that $5 million has been awarded to strengthen Oregon’s abortion care infrastructure and provide support to underserved communities, including rural, tribal and undocumented communities, communities of color, unhoused populations, and sex workers, among others. Abortion care […]
Our 2022 Fall Grantees are here!
We’re excited to announce that our Grantmaking Committee has selected 19 organizations working towards justice to receive General Fund grants this fall! After reading, scoring, and discussing over 70 applications, our Grantmaking Committee has awarded $250,000 to 19 amazing organizations addressing a range of issues, including developing youth leadership who are a part of the […]
Announcing our Spring 2022 General Fund Grantees!
This spring, our 10 grantmakers read through more than 100 applications to pick this cycle’s grantees. In a typical cycle, we grant out roughly $200,000 to 17-20 organizations across the state. This spring, thanks to our newly launched Donor-in-Movement Fund program, which moves 50% of an annual investment to our grantmaking program, we were able […]
Meet our 2022 Lilla Jewel Award Winners: Emilly Prado and May Maylisa Cat!
The Lilla Jewel Award—named in honor of artist, radical feminist, and suffragist Lilla Jewel— was created to address the inequities that women and artists of marginalized genders experience by resourcing and amplifying Oregon-based artists who advance a social change message through their work. Created nearly 25 years ago, the Lilla Jewel Awards have funded dozens […]
Oregon Investment in Reproductive Equity Will Mitigate Harm of a Post-Roe Reality
$15 Million Fund is a Groundbreaking, Practical Model for Progressive State Leaders to Follow SALEM, OR – During the final days of the 2022 Oregon legislative session, Speaker Dan Rayfield led the passage of House Bill 5202, which established the Oregon Reproductive Equity Fund with a $15 million allocation. This first-of-its-kind investment will be administered […]
Meet our new Fall grantees!
I recently ran across a social media post from a civic engagement organization inviting folks to a forum on houslessness solutions. What struck me the most? The complete absence of actual houseless folks in the panel. Sure, politicians, policy wonks, and academics may all have interesting things to say about houselessness—they’ll likely talk about numbers […]
Congratulations to Seeding Justice’s Spring 2021 Grantees!
For 45 years, we have known that those most impacted by injustice—those closest to the pain of oppression—are the best equipped to come up with solutions to the problems that affect them. Since our founding in 1976, Seeding Justice has had an activist-led grantmaking committee; it is not only foundational to who we are and […]
*Drum Roll* Presenting our 2021 Lilla Jewel Awardees!
The Lilla Jewel Award—named in honor of artist, radical feminist, and suffragist Lilla Jewel— was created to address the inequities that women and artists of marginalized genders experience by resourcing and amplifying Oregon-based artists who advance a social change message through their work. Created nearly 25 years ago, the Lilla Jewel Awards have funded dozens […]
