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The New World Foundation believes global and national social change begins at the local level. We seek to help progressive community activists in the United States and around the world build stronger alliances for social justice, civil rights, economic and electoral issues since 1954.
 
The New Majority Fund
Building electoral majorities that can reverse the rightward trend across America
The Phoenix Fund for Workers & Communities
Supporting activists working strategically to create lasting environmental change
The Global Environmental Health & Justice Fund
Supporting workers in their struggle for economic justice and safe working conditions
Arts for Justice Project
Promoting national and local discourse about social justice through the arts

Our Grantees

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Latest News:

New Report: Ideas for Local Fundraising

By New World on February 02, 2009

Funding the work of community-based organizations is a constant challenge. The New World Foundation Resource Lab has just published a new report with the Ford Foundation that offers ideas for how groups can develop financial resources of their own.

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Memo: Assessing Social Justice Paths to Power

By New World on February 01, 2009

Over the past two decades, The New World Foundation has supported the renewal of progressive civic activism in the US that can both engage and exercise political power. We have used our own resources, our work with donors, and our role in philanthropy to help social justice organizations engage their communities, expand the electorate, and re-assert the democratic mission of government.

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