Where Your Donations Go

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth…and say “This is not just.”

–Martin Luther King, Jr.

Funding Philosophy & Vision

Getting funds directly into the hands of community-based organizations is a major part of Rights Action’s work, so that they may plan and carry out their own community development projects; their own environmental, land and human rights defense struggles; their own emergency relief projects.

Self-Design / Self-Implementation / Self-Evaluation: The organizations we fund and work with have the principal role in implementing projects of their own design. They carry out their own self-evaluation processes, as their projects and struggles advance.

Small Is Beautiful & Dynamic: Rights Action pays particular attention to supporting community-based organizations. Real change to the unjust local-to-global order must always begin where the multiple and over-lapping harms and injustices are being suffered and resisted.

Strengthening Organizational Capacity: To support community organizations addressing the wide range of harms and injustices (poverty and exploitation, repression, discriminations, environmental destruction, etc.), it is necessary to support their efforts to grow in their communities; to coordinate their work and experiences with other local, national and international organizations; to achieve greater financial diversity.