Grantees
Organizations currently supported by Pepita
BSRCC works to build a sense of community and common purpose throughout the Southern Berkshires, and to enhance the recreational, educational, cultural, health and social well-being of area residents. Pepita is supporting the development of their existing community meal program into an employment initiative for immigrant women.
The Chapter House is an Indigenous women-led community and arts organization for Indigenous Peoples and allies to appreciate art, convene and collaborate, celebrate individual and shared Indigenous cultures, and explore the complexities of the 21st Century Indigenous experience. All who share a desire for universal empowerment are welcome at The Chapter House. The Chapter House is currently a roving space with programming and exhibitions on Tongvaland/Los Angeles, the Navajo Nation, and online.
Eleanor Health Foundation recognizes that recovery is a social matter requiring new perspectives and innovations, and critical forms of social support. In 2022, EHF provided Care Navigation and Recovery Coaching to roughly 300 individuals and distributed over $200,000 in aid, primarily through their Social Determinants of Health programs. Pepita has been a founding funder of their programming.
HEARD is a collective of deaf and disabled people who support deaf/disabled currently and formerly incarcerated people. HEARD believes that jails and prisons should be abolished, even as they fight for the freedom and dignity of their community members who are impacted by policing and carceral systems. Click here to learn more about their mission, vision, and values.
BRIDGE is a grassroots organization dedicated to catalyzing change and integration through promoting mutual respect and understanding through a gender and race equity lens that is trauma-informed and rooted in positive psychology and power analysis practices. Through a 360 degree perspective on community and civic participation, BRIDGE has designed a holistic approach to community and public health. Services include cultural literacy and cultural competence training; consulting, facilitation; youth leadership; multicultural education; parent engagement and education; civil rights and social justice forums and advocacy with diverse groups, as well as mutual aid and food sovereignty initiatives. Pepita has been a major funder of a kitchen and pantry and community room space in support of this aspect of their programming.
Off-The-Grid Missions recognizes that individuals with significant hearing loss are most vulnerable in the aftermath of a natural disaster or war event. OTG conducts emergency preparedness and disaster relief worldwide, providing life-saving and sustainable resources to deaf people in regions most cut off from basic resources or struck by disaster. Pepita has supported their organizational development as well as their responses in Ukraine, Haiti and Turkey.
Sins Invalid is a disability justice-based performance project and movement building project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ+ artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. Led by disabled people of color, Sins Invalid’s work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body, developing provocative work where paradigms of “normal” and “sexy” are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all bodies and communities.
Past Support
Omprakash funding to support families affected by Covid-19 and the Period Pack program of Prayasam operating in Kolkata, India.
