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All of Poor Magazine's programs are focused on providing community based media, art, and education. The goal is to create access for silenced voices of people of color, elderly and disabled living in poverty elderly and disabled living in poverty

Our mission is to educate and empower citizens, through the practice of investigative journalism, promoting the capacity of monitoring public and private institutions in the best public interests. The CPI recognizes that the fundamental requirement for true democracy is that citizens are well informed and that there are independent entities with the capacity to control the powers that act in society, whether public or private.

DYV teaches youth ages 3-18 to play violin and viola using the world-class Suzuki method through weekly private and group lessons on Woodward Ave in downtown Detroit's arts district. The Suzuki approach nurtures students' ability to persevere, be creative, embrace hope, and to collaborate and empathize with others.

We train incarcerated writers to be journalists and publish their stories

THE POWER TO EDUCATE WHILE ENTERTAINING

Support seniors and caregivers by virtue of group reminiscing.

The mission of our organization is to advocate for our aging out foster youth and retired elderly by developing their television and field production skills to create jobs. We want to nourish our community and students with a platform to showcase their talent and creativity one opportunity at a time.

Black Farmer Stories is a 501c3 nonprofit that aims to preserve the history, legacy and agricultural knowledge of Black farmers across the U.S. by telling their stories and documenting the vital role they have held, and continue to hold, in the origin of our country’s food. Not just about agricultural heritage - this ongoing multimedia project shares the individual stories of Black producers, unpacking the realities of each of their experiences.

A team of volunteers, trained specialists, and professionals each with essential expertise (history, aviation, diving, navigation), who are dedicated to locating and assisting with identifying American prisoners of war and missing in action from World War Two and other conflicts around the globe. This effort is done through detailed research and exploration while consistently coordinating with appropriate national authorities.  

To manifest film and media projects that explore our shared humanity and foster an appreciation of the natural world. Our media education program works with filmmakers from under-served communities and balances intensive film production with important skills training while enabling young filmmakers to share their stories and ideas with the world.

Our mission is to enhance doctor/patient communication, specifically in end-of-life conversations; strengthen patient-centered healthcare; and to reduce health and healthcare disparities with a focus on chronically and terminally ill homeless individuals. In 2015, HCRI, Inc. began a new journey – to create a hospice house for the terminally ill homeless in Sacramento, CA – Joshua’s House – in memory of a young man, Joshua Lee (1980-2014), who had a vision of preventing those homeless men and women who were seriously and terminally ill from dying alone, scared and in pain on the streets or along the rivers of our community. We are using a community-based approach with an Advisory Board comprised of representatives from local hospitals; hospice programs; California State University, Sacramento; University of California, Davis, School of Medicine and School of Nursing; organizations that focus on housing for the homeless; medical clinics; as well as the homeless community.

They serve the intersectional communities that have been historically oppressed. The marginalized, the outcasts, and the disenfranchised are our people. They inspire, equip and amplify these change agents. They dismantle oppression from the ground up and from the inside out.