SAALT first launched We Build Community in 2012 and selected six organizations to be a part of this capacity-building and skills-building program. The 2012 program focused on supporting NCSO members who engage or seek to engage in racial justice, and/or national security and immigrant rights through policy reform, local community mobilization, media advocacy, and documentation. These six NCSO members were provided sub-grants of $15,000 each, in addition to trainings aimed at strengthening their ability to engage more deeply in programs, partnerships, organizing, advocacy, and mobilization related to racial justice; immigration; and/or national security issues.
In total, SAALT has provided almost $300,000 grants to local South Asian centered non-profits across the U.S. Meet our past WBC participants!
We Build Community Cohort 2012
- Desis Rising Up and Moving (New York, NY)
- Raksha (Atlanta, GA)
- South Asian American Policy and Research Institute (Chicago, IL)
- Sakhi for South Asian Women (New York, NY)
- Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (Washington, DC)
- South Asian Network (Los Angeles, CA)
We Build Community Cohort 2013
- Chhaya CDC (New York, NY)
- Desis Rising Up and Moving (New York, NY)
- The Sikh Coalition
- South Asian American Policy and Research Institute (Chicago, IL)
- Sapna NYC (New York, NY)
We Build Community Cohort 2015
- South Asian Network (Los Angeles, CA)
- Chhaya CDC (New York, NY)
- Desis Rising Up and Moving (New York, NY)
- South Asian American Policy and Research Institute (Chicago, IL)
We Build Community Cohort 2017
- Sapna NYC (New York, NY)
- India Home (New York, NY)
- Jakara Movement (California)
- AshaKiran (Huntsville, AL)
We Build Community 2018
- Adhikaar (New York, NY)
- Indo-American Center (Chicago, IL)
- Indo-Caribbean Alliance (New York, NY)
- South Asian Network (Los Angeles, CA)