Introducing our 2022 Advancing Disability Justice Grant Recipients
Advancing Disability Justice Grants recognize and support disabled BIPOC leaders and disability-led programs in Oregon and Southwest Washington. We are pleased to announce five 2022 Advancing Disability Justice Grantees selected by our community advisors and staff.
Jonathan Soren Davidson for Disabled And Here
This year, the Advancing Disability Justice grantees represent some of the incredible and deep work of building disability justice politics into integrated practice across Oregon and Southwest Washington. The breadth of these projects showcases the many ways that justice and liberatory work can and must include disability justice principles and disabled BIPOC leadership and brilliance. We're thrilled to resource and support the powerful work of these five 2022 grantees!
Portland Metro Area
This project aims to increase accessibility to community members who have disabilities and incorporate a disability justice lens throughout the organization. El Program Hispano Católico will use the funds to create a train the trainer series on disability justice through a culturally specific lens with a focus on the intersections of disabilities within immigrant communities.
Portland Metro Area, Oregon, and nationally
This grant will support the Disabled and Here project to increase their disability-led stock images and interview series celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous and people of color. This project is a reclaiming of disabled community depiction, starring disabled BIPOC with different diagnoses (or lack thereof), body sizes/types, sexual orientations and gender identities.
Oregon and Southwest Washington
This grant will support the creation of emergency preparation education content by and for disabled communities, as well as the creation of wildfire preparedness kits to distribute to disabled community members. Creating BIPOC disabled community-led emergency preparation educational content will foster leadership development for disabled BIPOC community members, as well as a chance for disabled communities to see themselves represented in community-generated solutions.
Southwest Washington
This grant will support Pacific County Voices Uniting’s goal of creating a culture of healthy civic engagement by centering the priorities of disabled BIPOC community members in their work. This project will increase the actionable awareness within this organization and their communities by learning directly with and from the leadership of disabled BIPOC community members. This project will use public outreach and community engagement to identify opportunities for PCVU and grow solidarity between various movements across the county.
Oregon and Southwest Washington
This grant will support staff, board members, educators and mentors with education to create culturally specific Queer and Trans Pacific Islander’s disability justice related programming. This project will include hosting and recording Talanoas, the Oceanic tradition of sharing stories, knowledge and resources with the community.
The Advancing Disability Justice program is a partnership between Northwest Health Foundation and The Collins Foundation to support disability justice leadership in our region. This is the third of a three-year grant program. Advancing Disability Justice Grants are available for groups led by disabled Black, Indigenous or other people of color (BIPOC), or BIPOC-led groups that have disabled BIPOC leadership for the project. Projects are led by and focus on disabled BIPOC in Oregon and Southwest Washington.