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We are Honored to Present Our 2023 KABF Grant Recipients!
Rural Democracy Initiative
“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.” — Thurgood Marshall
KABF gave a grant to Rural Democracy Initiative (RDI) in 2021. Because of their amazing work, which has been recognized throughout the U.S., we gave another grant in 2023. RDI includes the Heartland Fund and the Rural Victory Fund. They give grants to nonprofits working hard to make rural life fair, just and democratic.
Executive Director and good friend to KABF, Sarah Jaynes, was happy to send us an update summarizing RDI’s 2023 successes.
Click here to see what RDI has been up to in 2023!
Washington Innocence Project (Wash IP)
“If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected — those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most! — and listens to their testimony.” — James Baldwin
The original Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by two criminal defense attorneys, Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. It began as part of a legal clinic at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City to help people who had been convicted of crimes they did not commit. Though still affiliated with the law school, the Innocence Project has been an independent nonprofit since 2003.
Many states are affiliated with the Innocence Project and Kim Cronin, a dear friend to KABF, serves on the board of the Washington Innocence Project (WashIP) located in Seattle.
Click here to read more about WashIP.
5 Gyres
Anna Cummins, Co-Founder and Executive Director of 5 Gyres
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”
— Robert Swan, environmentalist
KABF has supported 5 Gyres since 2021. We are committed to their mission to “empower action against the global health crisis of plastic pollution through science, education, and advocacy.”
We are grateful to 5 Gyres for their efforts to educate about the alarming amount of plastics produced from oil and gas that contribute to climate change and end up in our oceans.
For more information on 5 Gyres, click here.
