Advancing Disability Justice Grants is sponsored by Northwest Health Foundation. Empowers disabled BIPOC leaders and organizations in Oregon and parts of Washington to enhance community building, civic engagement, and leadership development.

Advancing Disability Justice — Northwest Health Foundation Advancing Disability Justice Photo Courtesy of Disabled and Here . What is Disability Justice?

Disability Justice has ten principles: intersectionality, leadership of those most impacted, anti-capitalist politic, cross-movement solidarity, recognizing wholeness, sustainability, commitment to cross-disability solidarity, interdependence, collective access and collective liberation.

Learn more about Disability Justice: Disability Justice, A Working Draft Recommendations for Advancing Disability Justice in Oregon and SW Washington Advancing Disability Justice Program Advancing Disability Justice is a partnership between Northwest Health Foundation and The Collins Foundation . Advancing Disability Justice Goals Support organizations serving disabled Black and brown communities.

Build disability justice understanding and support in racial justice organizations. Advance Northwest Health Foundation’s long-term goal to build civic engagement capacity and leadership toward a reflective democracy.

Growing Disabled Leadership In 2019, disability justice experts Stacey Milbern and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha mentored and coached disability justice activists from Oregon and Southwest Washington to build their facilitation, curriculum development, access planning, base building, popular education, somatics/wellness/self care, movement sustainability, fundraising and other skills.

The end goal was to create a network of disability justice organizers who felt comfortable taking on deeper levels of organizing in our region. Coaching continues through Advancing Disability Justice Grants. We need to grow the number of organizations who understand and want to apply the disability justice framework to their work.

In 2018-2020, Northwest Health Foundation hosted disability justice workshops for culturally-specific and racial justice organizations. In 2022, we published an audit tool for organizations to self-assess their work through a disability justice lens.

We’ve also offered technical assistance to culturally-specific and racial justice organizations so they can operationalize disability justice in their work, and we funded the creation of a disability justice audit tool for organizations to self-assess how they’re doing at practicing disability justice.

Disability Justice: An Audit Tool Advancing Disability Justice Grants We award grants of up to $5,000 each or up to $10,000 each to disabled community leaders, community groups, organizations or coalitions for community building, civic engagement, community organizing, cultural work, leadership development, movement building or policy advocacy.

We also offer Advancing Disability Justice Grant recipients specialized coaching from disability justice experts. 2025 Advancing Disability Justice Grant Recipients 2022 Advancing Disability Justice Grant Recipients 2021 Advancing Disability Justice Grant Recipients 2020 Advancing Disability Justice Grant Recipients Striving for Disability Equity Series