Gamechanger Labs — Student Organizing Initiative

Organization:
Gamechanger Labs
Award Date:
09/2017
Amount:
$100,000
Purpose:
To support a student organizing initiative related to reducing incarceration.

The Open Philanthropy Project awarded a grant of $100,000 to Gamechanger Labs via the Movement Voter Fund at the Tides Foundation to support awareness-raising and organizing of college students. This grant falls within Open Philanthropy's work on criminal justice reform.

Gamechanger Labs acts as an incubator for ideas and projects that help to build mass movements for social change. The particular movement this grant will support includes building a network and several campaigns against mass incarceration as the issue relates to students and campuses. The funding will go towards project planning, initial campaign staffing, travel, and potentially small sub-grants to partner organizations.

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