Bread & Roses Community Fund

Bread & Roses Community Fund is hosting Inside the Movement, a new webinar series where you get to meet the organizers building power with support from Bread & Roses.

Over the next month, we’ll be featuring grassroots groups supported by our Racial & Economic Justice Fund and Future Fund. It’s a chance to hear from organizers about the campaigns they’re leading, the communities they’re organizing, and what they’re fighting to change.

Our first Inside the Movement webinar will feature Future Fund grantees on Wednesday, September 9, from 12:00 p.m to 1:30 p.m. Join us to hear from:

• At the Center
• Gapura Philadelphia
• Homies Helping Homies
• Kiths Integrated
• Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac
• Philly Justice Innovators
• Prayers for Peace Alliance

Register here to attend: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=JboEYVTouECKNMf3eM63sib2ySnr0TxOjWx-aCnVnjlUMkQ0WEhJMlVDS1lSUUVOQ0ZZSFNXS1VWUS4u&route=shorturl

To learn more, click here: https://breadrosesfund.org/2026/08/26/inside-the-movement/

Save the date: the following Inside the Movement webinars are on Thursday, September 24, and Thursday, October 8, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m! More info to come.

We're hiring!

Bread & Roses Community Fund is excited to hire our first Senior Director of Development & Communications.

This is a unique opportunity for a collaborative leader who is passionate about grassroots organizing. You'll lead a talented and growing team, strengthen our fundraising and communications strategies, join our Senior Council to help guide the organization's future, and partner with our Executive Director, Casey Cook.

With significant investments in new fundraising and communications systems already underway, this role offers an experienced development leader the chance to build, innovate, and make a lasting impact.

Learn more and apply today. Please help us spread the word by sharing this opportunity with your networks. Priority application deadline is August 28th.

Posting Link: https://app.loxo.co/job/MjcwNTgtYXk0Z3VxcjlmNjBhZzc4NQ==

Salary Range: $131,000 - $150,000

In-person role, based in Center City

Thank you to everyone who came to Bread & Roses Community Fund's 2026 Tribute to Change: Resist, Rise Up, and Reimagine!

Our honorees—David Acosta, Cheri Honkala, Blanca Pacheco, Cierra Freeman, Juntos, Lift Every Voice Philly, and Artists for Immigrant Rights (AIR)—filled the room of more than 300 with the joy and energy from people in their communities. It was a demonstration of the strength of our connections and the power of us all.

We want to thank everyone who made Tribute to Change unforgettable: our incredible event coordinator, Catherine Sontag, and her team; Rashid Zakat for the powerful short film that brought our honorees' stories to life; Soonduk Krebs for the beautifully designed program books; Ellen Tiberino for the stunning original mosaic awards; Cescaphe and their gorgeous space at Vie; our planning committee (Erika Aaron, Christie Balka, Kevin Barfield, Bob Brand, Kris Henderson, Jean Hunt, Anna Levinger, Nora Lichtash, Yvonne Lung, Eric César Morales, Germán L. Parodi, Pedro Rodriguez, Hannah Sassaman, Julia Stone, and Tiffany Thompson); our emcees for the night, Patrice Green and Sandra Thompson; Rita Jo Scarcella for once again donating her ASL interpretation services, and Rudy Téllez for his Spanish interpretation; our tireless volunteers; every sponsor who backed this work; and so many more who made it happen.

We’ve carried this sense of joy and community from Tribute all summer; we’re excited to share with you Rashid Zakat’s beautiful short film that tells the story of our 2026 Tribute honorees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCJ00JU5E_c

Together, we turned collective vision into collective power—and raised more than $160,000 for grassroots movements organizing for social justice across the Philadelphia region. The fight isn't over. Let's keep building.

Get your tickets to Thursday’s Tribute to Change: Resist, Rise Up, and Reimagine by 11:59 p.m. tonight!

Tribute to Change only happens once a year—don’t miss out on this special gathering of community organizers, activists, donors, and allies. Secure your tickets by 11:59 p.m. tonight to take your place within our community of movements for change.

We will not be selling tickets at the door—today’s extended deadline is your last chance to reserve your spot.

Click the link to buy a ticket, sponsor, and learn more: https://breadrosesfund.org/2026tribute/

As attacks on immigrant communities intensified over the past year, local organizers stepped up. Inspired by these urgent resistance movements, a group of artists and photographers came together to form Artists for Immigrant Rights (AIR).

Last year, AIR embarked on a community fundraising partnership with Bread & Roses Community Fund. Thanks to the dedication, creativity, and leadership of AIR members and donors, Bread & Roses has made $100,000 in rapid response grants to local groups who are fighting attacks on immigrants and building community power, with more grants to come.

Celebrate AIR's generosity at the 2026 Tribute to Change: Resist, Rise Up, and Reimagine this Thursday, June 11 at Vie. Ticket sales close Monday, June 8!

Click the link to buy a ticket, sponsor, make a gift to Tribute to Change, and learn more: https://breadrosesfund.org/2026tribute/

For more than four decades, Cheri Honkala has transformed survival into a movement for human rights, collective action, and social justice.

As co-founder of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union and Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, Cheri’s vision casts poverty not as a personal or policy failure but a human rights issue.

"There’s multi-million budgets, there’s nonprofits all over the place, and there’s nothing for people,” she says. “Every night in this city, homeless people have to do the homeless shuffle.”

Through organizing, bold public actions, and political education, Cheri’s lifelong dedication to the belief that everyone has a chance to live with dignity and hope has built power and sustained movements.

Cheri says: “We're educated, we're organized, and our goal is to recruit, multiply, and create another kind of world, because it's possible."

Click the link to sponsor, buy a ticket, make a gift, or learn more about the 2026 Tribute to Change: Resist, Rise Up, and Reimagine taking place on June 11 at Vie. Your support of Cheri's tenacity and leadership allows Bread & Roses to fund grassroots organizations working toward social justice all year long: https://breadrosesfund.org/2026tribute/

David Acosta is a community organizer and poet who has spent five decades connecting LGBTQIA+ rights, HIV/AIDS advocacy, and Latine and broader immigrant social justice movements.

In 1989, David founded GALAEI to confront the pain, hurt, and fear resulting from the loss of LGBTQIA+ Latine lives to the HIV/AIDS crisis, and later helped found Prevention Point Philadelphia, pioneering harm reduction and health services in the community.

“I had a lot of doors closed, but I was persistent, and eventually those doors either opened, or I kicked them open,” David says. “People realized this is important work, it's in our communities, it's happening, we're being affected, we're being impacted, we need to do something.”

“You do the work because you want to change both your own conditions, because in changing our own conditions, we change the conditions of other people,” David reflects.

As the current artistic director of Casa de Duende, David is dedicating himself to platforming, uplifting, and guiding artists to spark change. “We know that art does have the power to heal,” he says.

Sponsor the 2026 Tribute to Change and honor David’s courage and creativity demanding community self-determination and promoting healing. Sponsoring and buying a ticket allow Bread & Roses to fund grassroots organizations working toward social justice all year long.

Click the link to sponsor, buy a ticket, make a gift to Tribute to Change, and learn more: https://breadrosesfund.org/2026tribute/

Blanca Pacheco has spent more than 20 years organizing immigrant communities in Philadelphia. Currently she serves as co-director of New Sanctuary Movement, an interfaith grassroots group that organizes for immigrant justice. “We bring people together with the same goal,” she says. “We all believe immigrants deserve to live a life with dignity.”

Through her organizing with New Sanctuary Movement, she has helped secure victories such as the City of Philadelphia recently ending its cooperation with ICE, as well as helping immigrant families successfully fight their deportation orders and leading a campaign in the state to win Driver’s Licenses for All. Throughout, Blanca's work creates a path to a future that welcomes people and enables them to flourish.

Celebrate Blanca’s trailblazing work by sponsoring or buying a ticket to the 2026 Tribute to Change: Resist, Rise Up, and Reimagine on June 11 at Vie. Sponsoring helps Bread & Roses move money into the hands of community organizing groups working towards social justice all year round.

Click the link to sponsor, buy a ticket, make a gift to Tribute to Change, and learn more: https://breadrosesfund.org/2026tribute/

Lift Every Voice Philly is a Black-led, multiracial organizing home for parents and caregivers dedicated to making systemic changes in public education. Their years-long Campaign for Joy in Schools put pressure on the School District and other decisionmakers, leading to a recent landmark victory: 113,000 schoolchildren are now guaranteed daily recess, bathroom breaks, and access to drinking water.

Celebrate Lift Every Voice Philly as a sponsor of the 2026 Tribute to Change: Resist, Rise Up, and Reimagine on June 11 at Vie! Help move money into the hands of community organizing groups all year round. The deadline to be listed as a sponsor in the printed program book is Monday, May 25.

You can also support community organizing by buying a ticket! Click the link to sponsor, buy a ticket, and learn more: https://breadrosesfund.org/2026tribute/