The Avant-garde Books Team commends you for the outstanding work you've done to empower and educate the next generation of SEMinists! Thank you for your commitment and dedication. Continue to shine!

Happy Birthday and congratulations on 20 years of making an impact in the lives of our youth

I ❤️ Democracy and I want Maryland to be a leader when is comes to making our elections better for all voters!

Congratulations on 20 years of impact, and thank you for investing in the STEM futures of our youth! 

ግቢ ጉባኤ ቤተክርስቲያኔን ማንነት ያሳውቀኝ፤  በኃይማኖቴ ጸንቼ እንድኖር ያደረገኝ ፤ ለአሁን ማንነቴ ምክንያት የሆነኝ ስለሆነ የኔ እድል ለሌሎች እንዲደርሳቸው ቤተክርስቲያንን የሚታደጉ ትውልድ ለማፍራት  እግዚአብሔር ቢረዳኝ እድሜ እና ጤና እስከ ሰጠኝ የበኩሌን አስተዋጾ ለማድረግ ቃል እገባለሁ

Supporting the right to Free Speech! Victory to the Uhuru 3 in September! 

I gave because Peer Power gave me the foundation I needed for a successful life.

EJI is doing extraordinary work in criminal justice reform to make the US more equal and just, and creating museums/memorials to confront/recognize the nation's history and ongoing problem with racism. #blacklivesmatter

Support efforts in Rochester for Racial/Social justice

Organization, founded in 2005 that promotes student achievement and career exploration in math and science for K-12 students by connecting them with individuals with STEM Backgrounds

SEM Link’s mission is to strengthen the self-efficacy of K-12 students to pursue STEM careers by exposing them to positive adult role models from the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) community that increase students' awareness of STEM careers and encourage their participation in STEM Research through digital learning and hands-on activities.

Science, Engineering and Mathematics Link Inc

Ranked Choice Voting Maryland is a non-partisan coalition seeking to build a more effective, representative democracy.

**Why is Ranked Choice Voting Great for Maryland?**

In ranked choice voting elections, the candidate who reflects the views of the widest number of voters wins. Even in crowded fields, similar candidates can compete without splitting votes. Whether Republican, Democrat, independent or third-party, voters never have to worry about the “spoiler effect.”

We rank things all the time and express our preferences when we are shopping, going out to eat, etc. **Elections do not reflect how we make choices everyday.** 

**Maryland is Ready!**

Maryland is poised to expand better elections at the local, county, and state level. Our voting system is ready for ranked choice voting. Marylanders across the state are eager for more choice and a stronger voice in electing leaders.

**RCV is a WIN-WIN for voters and candidates!**

- **Eliminate Spoiler Effect** - Candidates do not need to worry that their campaign will help another candidate win by splitting the vote or being asked to “wait their turn."
- **Fully Express Your Vote** - When you have multiple candidates that you support, you can better express your intentions and preferences.
- **End Non-Majority Winners** - Ranked choice voting respects the will of the people and helps to elect the candidate preferred by a winning margin of voters.
- **More Civil Campaigning** - Candidates run competitive, yet civil campaigns to appeal to a broader base of voters.

Ranked Choice Voting Maryland

The Colbert Project ignites healing, power, and purpose in youth—fueling community transformation from the inside out. 

Welcome to The Colbert Project - where healing starts with the youth and grows into lasting community change. 

Founded by Gabriella & Adrian Colbert, The Colbert Project is a mindful, purpose-driven movement rooted in love, presence, and holistic healing. While our work begins with empowering young people, our vision is to transform entire commmuntiies from the inside out. We are creating spaces where underserved youth and community members can feel seen, supported, and inspired - spaces where healing becomes, habit, and growth becomes generational.

Together we are restoring pride, power, and purpose - one act of love at a time. Help us spread the light!

The Colbert Project

Mahibere Kidusan in the USA is a nonprofit religious or spiritual organization. It is based in Silver Spring, MD. It received its nonprofit status in 2004.

Mahibere Kidusan Coordinating Center in North America

Hands Off Uhuru defends the right of African and oppressed peoples to advocate and organize for liberation. 

Fundraising for "Hands Off Uhuru" campaign, in support of the right of African people to organize for liberation. Building support for legal defense and organizing work.

Hands Off Uhuru

Our mission is to inspire and empower youth to take control of their academic success through peer tutoring and mentoring.

Peer Power Foundation is a youth development organization that seeks to close equity gaps that exist within the public education system. Since 2004, we have created opportunities for Memphis students to grow into productive adults who contribute to the city and nation in accordance with their passion. 

Peer Power recruits, hires, trains and deploys college-aged students into high school classrooms to decrease the student to teacher ratio and meet the individualized needs of students. We also hire and train 11th and 12th grade students to tutor students in lower grades, helping to close literacy gaps during crucial academic development stages. In addition, Peer Power partners with external organizations to train tutors within for their programming needs. 

In 2015, Peer Power Foundation created the “Memphis Model” in partnership with Memphis- Shelby County Schools (MSCS) and University of Memphis. The program employs more than 150 University of Memphis tutors called “Success Coaches” who are trained and placed within high school classrooms. This unique configuration reduces the student-to-adult ratio from about 30-to-1 down to roughly 10-to-1. Success Coaches are paid, earn college credit, gain professional experience and help MSCS students, while classroom teachers experience higher job satisfaction and retention.

TUTOR + MENTOR = SUCCESS COACH
Success Coaches are trained in subject content knowledge as well as social emotional learning. They are equipped to hone in on the holistic needs of scholars. 

Students with a Success Coach in their class are 3X more likely to show up for school.

Students who participate in ACT Prep University are 1.9X more likely to improve their score.

Students who participate in ACT Prep University are 1.5X more likely to obtain an academic scholarship. 

Students who participate in Peer Power’s ACT Prep University see their composite scores increase by 3.4 points on average and have earned and qualified for more than $3 Million in TN Hope Lottery Scholarships.

We also hire and train 11th and 12th grade students to tutor students in lower grades, helping to close literacy gaps during crucial academic development stages.

More than tutoring. Peer Power specializes in developing creative programs that link school aged students with college students who serve as mentors, tutors and role models for them. Our flexible peer-to-peer model allows us to meet needs and serve students in unorthodox but proven ways. 


The Peer Power Foundation Inc

EJI is committed to ending mass incarceration in the US and challenging racial and economic injustice.

Founded in 1989 by Bryan Stevenson, a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer and bestselling author of Just Mercy, EJI is a private, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides legal representation to people who have been illegally convicted, unfairly sentenced, or abused in state jails and prisons. We challenge the death penalty and excessive punishment and we provide re-entry assistance to formerly incarcerated people.

EJI works with communities that have been marginalized by poverty and discouraged by unequal treatment. We are committed to changing the narrative about race in America. EJI produces groundbreaking reports, an award-winning wall calendar, and short films that explore our nation’s history of racial injustice, and we recently launched an ambitious national effort to create new spaces, markers, and memorials that address the legacy of slavery, lynching, and racial segregation, which shapes many issues today.

EJI provides research and recommendations to assist advocates and policymakers in the critically important work of criminal justice reform. We publish reports, discussion guides, and other educational materials, and our staff conduct educational tours and presentations for thousands of students, teachers, faith leaders, professional associations, community groups, and international visitors every year.

Equal Justice Initiative

Our foundation is committed to a world where every young person has access to therapeutic tools and emotional support. 

We aim to educate and empower youth and their families to navigate the unique pressures and challenges they face. We believe that maintaining mental wellness is crucial for long-term well-being. *Young 9* is dedicated to providing underrepresented youth with essential resources and education to foster optimal mental wellness. We also strive to break down the stigma surrounding mental health, particularly in sports. Through our efforts, we will empower youth and young athletes from underrepresented communities to reach their full potential.



Young 9 Foundation

Empowering underrepresented youth with tech education to bridge the digital divide and inspire the next generation of innovators.

**We Create Tech** empowers underrepresented youth by providing free and low-cost tech education in coding, animation, and digital media. Our programs bridge the digital divide, preparing students for careers in STEAM fields and ensuring diversity in the tech industry. 

Your donation will fund hands-on workshops, expert instructors, and essential tech resources, helping underserved communities gain critical skills for success. Together, we can build the next generation of innovative leaders.

We Create Tech Inc

A strategic initiative to advance U.S. global leadership for human rights and development

The Alliance for Diplomacy and Justice (“the Alliance”) is a critical, time-sensitive project designed to combat the damaging effects of foreign assistance cuts and the hollowing out of the diplomatic corps by communicating with lawmakers and the American public on why global engagement matters.

The Alliance for Diplomacy and Justice

MG Foundation empowers under represented youth through fitness apprenticeships, with guaranteed high income generating futures.

The Mallory Gaston Foundation is dedicated to empowering at-risk youth from Marin, San Francisco, and Alameda Counties through career exploration and internships in the health and fitness sector. Our mission is to create viable work opportunities and foster the development of responsible and engaged citizens through this transformative program. By providing education and purpose, we aim to bridge the gap between marginalized communities and the broader masses, instilling understanding, empathy, and empowerment.

Our Commitments:

1. Empowering At-Risk Youth: We are committed to providing underserved youth with the tools, resources, and opportunities necessary to explore and pursue careers in the health and fitness sector. Through mentorship programs, internships, and hands-on experiences, we aim to instill confidence, passion, and a sense of purpose in each participant.

2. Creating Viable Work Opportunities: We believe that every individual, regardless of their background, deserves access to meaningful and sustainable employment. By partnering with local businesses, organizations, and professionals in the health and fitness industry, we strive to create pathways to viable work opportunities for our program participants, ensuring a brighter future for them and their communities.

3. Fostering Responsible and Engaged Citizens: Our program goes beyond career exploration; we are dedicated to nurturing well-rounded individuals who are actively involved in their communities. Through our comprehensive curriculum, we emphasize the importance of personal growth, leadership, and social responsibility, equipping our participants with the skills and mindset necessary to become compassionate and engaged citizens.

4. Bridging Communities and Instilling Understanding: We envision a society where everyone is valued and understood, regardless of their background or circumstances. By connecting youths from marginalized communities with the broader masses through our program, we aim to break down barriers, develop empathy, and create a sense of unity. We believe that education and purpose serve as the foundation for building bridges of understanding within our community.

Through our unwavering commitment to at-risk youths, viable work opportunities, responsible citizenship, and community bridge-building, The Mallory Gaston Foundation strives to make a lasting impact on the lives of our young people and the communities we serve. Together, we can create a brighter future for all.


The MG Foundation

Love + Ethos is a nonprofit organization serving women in greater Los Angeles. 

Love + Ethos is dedicated to creating supportive spaces and opportunities for women journeying through motherhood while facing systemic, economic, and social challenges. We envision a world where every woman — and her family — defines their individual and collective futures on their own terms.

Upcoming events:

May 10, 2024, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm: Guided Pottery and Silent Auction in Culver City, CA - all proceeds are in support of L+E's inaugural Postpartum Retreat.

August 2024: Inaugural Postpartum Retreat in Los Angeles County - assisting women post-birth with healing, self-identification, connection, and wellness education during a 4-day, 3-night retreat.

Visit our website to learn more and to stay up-to-date.

Get in touch with Love + Ethos by emailing info@loveandethos.com

Love + Ethos

Empowering children to LEARN artistic skills, HEAL from trauma, EARN through their creativity to THRIVE at school & in life.

What if vulnerable children’s art could pay their school fees, help heal their trauma and communities? 

Faces Up Uganda empowers marginalised youth (ages 6–25) through arts education, psychosocial support, and school sponsorships. Children’s own artwork is turned into merchandise, with proceeds funding their education and wellbeing. By partnering with organisations for custom gifts, we make every purchase a step toward equity, healing, and creativity. 

Donate to our cause and help us extend life-transforming arts education to children who would otherwise not have the opportunity. 

Faces Up Uganda

Helps you put your money where your morals are. Together, we can close the funding gap for Black-founded nonprofits.

Giving Gap

Black Butterfly Women Services provides support for justice involved young women seeking the opportunity to transform their life.

Our Vision is for each woman to live in a world where a mistake could lead to an unbelievable success story. Our Mission is to serve as a beacon of hope by providing transitional services and helping women achieve self-sufficiency. Black Butterfly offers an opportunity for women to turn their lives around, accomplish goals, and succeed in whatever they want to do.  

We know these young women are full of talent, power, and gifts. We focus on changing the created systems, interrupt debilitating cycles of suffering, and provide a way out. These young women transform into valuable contributors for their family and our community through love, meaningful relationships, and healing support.

The values of this community are informed by love and respect for one another; trusting relationships, mutual accountability; and healing core hurts. 

This core supports fuel a sister’s transformation:
A safe, affordable home with community meals along with healing circles, career development, mentoring, and life coaching sessions

Connections to culturally appropriate behavioral health counseling and treatment programs

Volunteers who provide support in the home and the community, including assisting with job search and retention

Black Butterfly’s holistic approach leads to a change in thinking and healthy habits. With a new perspective on themselves and their life, sisters have hope, and they are inspired to pursue a new journey toward real success.

Core Values
We welcome each woman with open arms and believe that every person deserves a second, third, and even fourth chance. We strive to help all women reach their highest potential by bridging the gap between resources and marginalized communities. 
We will bring a unique value to the community by providing individualized services through specialized staff to help guide them to becoming contributing members of society. 
    


Black Butterfly Women Services

The Afiya Center works to Transform the lives, health, and overall wellbeing of Black womxn and girls.

The Afiya Center is a woman-centered organization that addresses the unique needs of Black womxn and transgender/gender non-conforming people (TGNC) through public health education, policy advocacy, and leadership development. We unapologetically advocate in the areas of HIV, maternal morality, abortion access and the decriminalization of Black bodies. Using a reproductive justice framework, we work to dismantle harmful policies and systems that directly impact the lives of Black womxn and girls.

The Afiya Center

GirlTREK is one million Black women walking to heal our bodies, inspire our daughters and reclaim our neighborhoods. 


GirlTREK began with a simple but life-saving promise between two friends: to walk their way to better health and inspire others to do the same; and it is now a grassroots movement powered by everyday women. We are the women we serve. Now, GirlTrek is mobilizing this constituency for its boldest mission yet: a Care Crusade to extend Black women’s life expectancy by 10 years in a decade. These bold campaigns—scaling to 5 million members, establishing community wellness hubs “Care Villages”, training a Blue Brigade of health responders, and advancing policies to dismantle systemic barriers—will build lasting systems of care and inspire future generations.

GirlTrek

We develop public safety solutions for the District of Columbia that are evidence-driven, community-rooted, and racially just.

DC Justice Lab is a team of law and policy experts researching, organizing, and advocating for large-scale changes to the District’s criminal legal system. 

DC Justice Lab envisions a District that:
- Treats every person as an essential part of our community and no longer subjugates, dehumanizes, or jettisons people who have broken the law.
- Recognizes that it has historically underserved and overpoliced poor people and Black people, creating and subjugating an undercaste that is system-involved.
- Takes dramatic measures to rectify and reverse the harm it inflicted.
- Constantly reexamines its rules and practices to ensure they are calibrated to make us collectively safer, freer, and equal. 
- Ends its reliance on police, prosecutors, and prisons, in favor of solutions that maximize safety and freedom for all.
- Ensures its criminal legal system cannot be weaponized by the powerful against the poor.
- Eradicates the root causes of economic and violent crime.

We promote decarceration, compassion, and giving people the tools and resources they need to thrive. We work with and transfer power to DC residents most impacted by criminal laws and policies.

DC Justice Lab

Soul Fire Farm is committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system.


Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. We raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid. With deep reverence for the land and wisdom of our ancestors, we work to reclaim our collective right to belong to the earth and to have agency in the food system. We bring diverse communities together on this healing land to share skills on sustainable agriculture, natural building, spiritual activism, health, and environmental justice. We are training the next generation of activist-farmers and strengthening the movements for food sovereignty and community self-determination.

Our food sovereignty programs reach over 10,000 people each year, including farmer training for Black and Brown growers, reparations and land return initiatives for northeast farmers, food justice workshops for urban youth, home gardens for city-dwellers living under food apartheid, doorstep harvest delivery for food insecure households, and systems and policy education for public decision-makers.

Soul Fire Farm

A virtual non-profit organization & antiracist education brand that promotes justice for all.  

540 provides an online hub for accessible education that promotes justice for all. We create a cultural shift in perspectives and practice through learning rooted in social justice and anti-racism.

540WMain

America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice through litigation, advocacy, and public education.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is America's premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans. LDF also defends the gains and protections won over the past 70 years of civil rights struggle and works to improve the quality and diversity of judicial and executive appointments.

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

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Join the movement for #Reparations -USM- under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party. uhurusolidarity.org 

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