The Kansha Foundation
2021 FAMILY INITIATIVES
Racial Justice
Continuing the initiative we established in 2020, The Kansha Foundation will renew and refine our efforts to support and enable organizations working to acknowledge, remediate and move forward against the racial inequities entrenched in American institutions. We are eager to work with organizations that offer solutions through legal action, community organizing, advocacy, education and democratic empowerment as well as those that provide direct relief in our efforts to become an ally to those fighting against or suffering from racial injustice.
Women's Reproductive Rights
From the Center for Reproductive Rights: "In 2021, states across the U.S. passed laws restricting and banning abortion at a rate higher than in any previous year since the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the constitutional right to abortion in 1973.
Bans on abortion disproportionately impact people who already face discriminatory obstacles when accessing health care—particularly Black, Indigenous, and people of color and those living on low incomes. Yet, state legislatures chose to push restrictive abortion measures that increase barriers to care despite the urgent need to respond to the continuing global coronavirus pandemic and ongoing health disparities experienced by Black communities and other communities of color. "
We have selected the following organizations to receive grants in 2021.
Policy / Education / Rehabilitation
GRIP Training Institute
Guiding Rage into Power is an in-prison program designed to create the personal and systemic change that transforms violence and suffering into opportunities for learning and healing. GRIP seeks to rapidly address the ongoing COVID-19 situation in prisons by achieving expedited and compassionate releases, and will also be working toward long-term transformation of the system itself.
Policy / Education / Rehabilitation
Project Avery
Project Avary provides a community of support, healing, and empowerment for children with incarcerated parents to break free from the generational cycles of incarceration.
Poverty / Homelessness
Denver Basic Income Project
The Denver Basic Income Project serves individuals who are unhoused by examining the impact of direct cash distributions in an effort to encourage a healthier society centered around human thriving.
Indigenous Rights / Environmental Justice
Pueblo Action Alliance
Pueblo Action Alliance is an organization for Pueblo people, by Pueblo people. Their goal is to promote cultural sustainability and community defense through addressing both environmental and social impacts in indigenous communities.
Indigenous Rights / Environmental Justice
Miry’s List
Miry's List is a community-based organization supporting families who resettle in the United States as refugees. We fill gaps in the governmental system of support for refugees by providing a mechanism for our community of supporters to directly help new arrival families with the things, people and programming they need to start their new lives in the U.S.
Women's Reproductive Rights
Women's Whole Health
Whole Woman’s Health believes that everyone must be at the center of their own healthcare decisions. We are committed to destigmatizing abortion and creating safe spaces for all people.
Women's Reproductive Rights
Afiya Center
Transforming the lives, health, and overall wellbeing of Black womxn and girls by providing refuge, education, and resources; we act to ignite the communal voices of Black womxn resulting in our full achievement of reproductive freedom.