Vision
The Worker Justice & Dignity Fund creates the conditions for all people to live and work in dignity.
We center the voices and vision of those most impacted by injustice to reimagine and build an economy that works for everyone. Here’s how our grantees describe the future we’re creating today.
We have learned and shared lessons in risk prevention. Our programs can document a history of uprooting abuses. We know that forced labor and sexual assault are not happening on Fair Food farms. We are attacking injustice and pulling it up at the roots.”
Fewer than 5% of H2 visa recipients are women. We are proud to support migrant worker women in their fight against systemic sex discrimination and abuse in guestworker programs. Together we are working to ensure that the US government lives up to its obligations to promote gender equity and protect workers.”
Poverty is the greatest risk factor. We see prevention as key to ending trafficking. We are focused on worker rights in the global supply chain in order to combat worker exploitation. We support systems that allow for workers to have increased access to justice, and remedies for workers whose rights have been violated.”
Approach
Lasting social change often requires sustained action over time. We trust our grantees to know what is needed and make long term investments to support their visionary leadership.
Community support
Cohort-wide convenings to support healthy, sustainable leaders and organizations
Long-term investment
Multi-year general operating support
Trust-based practices
Grantee-centered practices, such as phone calls instead of written reports, to build strong relationships.
Strategy
We address the root causes that lead to worker exploitation. By resourcing sectors historically excluded from worker protections, we seek to build worker power and transform the system.
Advance Effective and Comprehensive Policy Solutions
Hold Corporations Accountable for Safe and Dignified Working Conditions Across the Supply Chain
Expand the Agency of Workers to Live and Work Freely
Justice for Those Whose Rights Have Been Violated
Showcase and Elevate Models of a Just and Fair Economy
About
Key Staff
Holly Bartling
Our Partners
Oak Foundation (oakfnd.org) addresses issues of global, social, and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged. Through its grant-making, Oak supports others to make the world a safer, fairer, and more sustainable place to live.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (rockpa.org) accelerates philanthropy in pursuit of a just world by providing deep global expertise to make philanthropy more thoughtful, equitable and effective.
Connect
The Worker Justice and Dignity Fund prioritize multi-year, general operating support to a core group of organizations. We are not currently accepting unsolicited proposals, but we’d love to connect with you on LinkedIn.
