SouthWest Organizing Project

This fund is to raise money for small grass roots organizations who are creating mask sewing networks in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Many of the organizations building these programs work with employing homeless, migrant or refugee status workers in the community. With your generous support, this fund can provide supplies and/or pay laborers. SWOP is responding to community need by offering financial support, so these organizations can jumpstart programs for sewing protective masks for frontline workers and communities in need. Together we can keep each other healthy and safe. Thank you for your support!

Esta campaña tiene el propósito de recaudar fondos para pequeñas organizaciones comunitarias dedicadas a crear mascarillas (cubrebocas) en respuesta a la pandemia de COVID-19. Muchas de estas organizaciones a cargo de estos programas están dando empleo a personas sin hogar, a migrantes o a refugiados en nuestra comunidad. Con su generoso apoyo, esta campaña podrá proveer materiales y/o remunerar a los trabajadores. SWOP (SouthWest Organization Project / Proyecto de Organización del Suroeste) está respondiendo a la necesidad comunitaria al ofrecer apoyo económico para que estas organizaciones puedan efectuar la costura de mascarillas de protección para personal médico y para aquellos que hacen trabajo social con comunidades vulnerables. Juntos podemos mantenernos sanos y salvos. ¡Muchas gracias por su apoyo! 


More information about SouthWest Organizing Project: The SouthWest Organizing Project was founded in 1980 by young activists of color to empower our communities in the SouthWest to realize racial and gender equality and social and economic justice. We seek to redefine power relationships by bringing together the collective action, talents, and resources of the people within our communities. We work primarily in low-income communities of color to gain community control of our land and resources.

Más información acerca de SWOP (Proyecto de Organización del Suroeste): SWOP fue fundado en 1980 por activistas jóvenes de color con el fin de empoderar a nuestras comunidades del suroeste a alcanzar igualdad de raza y género, así como justicia económica y social. Buscamos redefinir relaciones de poder al reunir las acciones colectivas, los talentos y los recursos de la gente de nuestras comunidades. Trabajamos primeramente con comunidades de color de bajos ingresos para obtener el control comunitario de nuestra tierra y sus recursos.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, SWOP has networked with many amazing non-profit organizations in New Mexico to create masks and distribute them to at risk communities. SWOP is creating a special census design mask to remind these communities that they count for resources. The masks serve a dual purpose of protecting people from the virus and reminding them that they count! SWOP will also be collaborating with pueblos across the state to come up with their very own census designs and create masks that carry a message of pride throughout the SouthWest. Please help us support our printers and youth interns in making this project a reality!



More information about SouthWest Organizing Project: The SouthWest Organizing Project was founded in 1980 by young activists of color to empower our communities in the SouthWest to realize racial and gender equality and social and economic justice. We seek to redefine power relationships by bringing together the collective action, talents, and resources of the people within our communities. We work primarily in low-income communities of color to gain community control of our land and resources.