Primary Focus Area: Historic Preservation

Project Ideas: Research & advocacy

Contact: Jasmine Lee jlee@descendantsofolivewood.org

Demand Disruption is an anti-human Trafficking Organization that is leading the fight against modern-day slavery by focusing on those who drive the model, this expires. But beyond that, our approach is one of proactive intervention at different stages of the timeline from first exposure to illicit materials at 9 years old to middle school high school and adulthood focused programs. Our efforts have changed state laws, reached over 600 buyers in the Houston area alone, I created programs that previously did not exist to address the demand that feels human trafficking. We are a human rights organization Above All Else as all people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect and we believe that the most direct way to fight human trafficking is to stop the demand that requires a supply.

Primary Focus Areas: Human Rights and Community Safety. 

Project Ideas: Capacity building, online content/ app development, service, curriculum design

Contact: Joseph Madison Director@demanddisruption.org

Primary Focus Area: Criminal Justice Reform; Juvenile Justice Reform

Project Ideas: We have several areas of need: 1.) Data and Policy Research around the juvenile justice system and reform; Youth Advocacy in schools and community; Literacy development among youth and families; Technology advancement in OST and tutoring, etc.

Contact: Jonathan Zeigler 

jonathan@the-ypia.org

Contact: Dayana Iza 

dayanai@mifamiliavota.org

Primary Focus Areas: Policy Advocacy

Contact: Dr. Nusrat Ameen  nusrat@dayahouston.org

Project Ideas: Capacity Building - improving our curriculum for college students OR building out our database of summer opportunities.

Contact: Raj Salhotra

raj@momentumedu.org

Project Ideas: A land bank is a public entity with unique powers to put vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties back to productive use according to community goals. A land bank’s primary purpose is to acquire properties that some call “blighted” and temporarily hold and take care of them until they can be transferred to new, responsible owners. State laws give land banks their unique powers

Contact: Christa Stoneham cstoneham@houstonlandbank.org

Primary Focus Area: Crime Victims

Project Ideas: Comprehensive Resource Guide for Immigrant Survivors; Involvement in Ongoing Social Sciences Research Study on Immigrant Survivors' Experiences with Abuse

Contact: Sarah Bryan sbryan@advocatesforsurvivors.org

Primary Focus Area: Abortion Education & Advocacy

Project Ideas: Event organizing, direct actions, education around abortion rights, advocacy around abortion on the county and city level, and capacity building

Contact: Nneka Iheanacho      nneka@avowtexas.org

Primary Focus Area: Education, Youth, and STEM Education

Project Ideas: We would like students to support our work with providing Title 1 schools/districts student STEM education through participation on a Lego League competitive team

Contact: Carie-Anne Simmons      csimmons1@bakerripley.org

Primary Focus Area: Arts/ Culture, Capacity Building, Civil Rights, Community Development, Education, Environment, Government, Health, Religious, Youth

Project Ideas: Development of local Houston communities.

Contact: Cleo johnson

cleo@buftx.org