Help FCWA Fund our Members' Organizing Work

The Food Chain Workers Alliance has disbursed more than $95,000 to 16 member groups since we launched our regranting funds, and we are planning to disburse at least $35,000 more in 2025. Our central mission is to support our 35 member groups' organizing work, and since 2019, one way we do that is by strategically providing small grants from three distinct buckets:

LANGUAGE JUSTICE (since 2021)

Aside from English, the most common language spoken across FCWA membership is Spanish.

Members also work with populations speaking Mixteco, Triqui, French, Haitian Creole, Arabic, Mandarin, Bangla, Wolof, and Thai.

Funds support interpretation equipment, translation of documents, and live simultaneous interpretation for meetings and events.

ORGANIZING & CAPACITY BUILDING (since 2022)

Funds support members' emerging or urgent needs for their worker-led organizing campaigns,

whether that's training for worker leaders, a strike fund, or a new staff hire. 

We are planning to disburse at least $35,000 more in 2025 via the Language Justice and Organizing & Capacity funds. We also aim to replenish our Immigration Rapid Response fund with at least $20,000. In order to keep this funding moving to support workers organizing, we're trying to reach $10k before December 31. Your gift of any amount helps us get there!

Past Grants:

FCWA members are small independent unions like Famliias Unidas por la Justicia in Washington and New Seasons Labor Union in Oregon. They are worker resource centers like Venceremos in Arkansas, The Farmworker Association of Florida, and Pioneer Valley Workers Center in Massachusetts. They are worker-founded groups like Alianza Agrícola in New York and Migrant Justice in Vermont. They are migrant justice groups like Justice for Migrant Workers in Ontario, Canada and Community to Community Development in Washington. They support restaurant workers, like Restaurant Opportunities Center United, warehouse workers, like Warehouse Workers for Justice in Illinois, street vendors, like Street Vendor Project in NYC, and everyone in between. Members must have budgets under $1M and do base-building work with food workers to be eligible for grant programs (which makes the majority of our members eligible).