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WHO WE ARE For 40 years, Thousand Currents has learned from and invested in grassroots groups and movements in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia and the Pacific. These movement formations working for solutions in food, climate, and the economy have shaped our path and demonstrated what transformation truly looks like. We support our movement partners with core, flexible, long-term grants and value-added services, and we’ve invested over $60 million in more than 650 grassroots groups and movements across 85 countries.   OUR VALUES At Thousand Currents, we envision a world in which self-determined and connected peoples share and uphold the abundance of life. To realize this vision, we embrace and practice a clear set of values:    Courage - We confront injustice and inequality with love, strength, conviction, and integrity. Humility - We are part of a greater whole. We are one among many currents. We recognize our place among many...

About the Legal Aid Justice Center:   The Legal Aid Justice Center is a nationally recognized, non-profit organization that partners with low-income clients and communities of color in Virginia to fight for racial, social, and economic justice. We understand that the harms our clients endure are inextricably linked to overarching systems of injustice. Together we are dismantling those systems through a combination of community organizing, litigation, policy advocacy, public relations, and individual legal services.   Founded in 1967, LAJC has offices in Charlottesville, Richmond, Petersburg, and Falls Church and provides services under six key program areas: Civil Rights & Racial Justice (focuses on the criminal legal system), Housing & Consumer Justice, Youth Justice, Health Justice & Public Benefits, Immigrant Justice, and Worker Justice. As examples of LAJC’s recent work, our lawsuit and organizing against the state forced reform of Virginia’s...