The voter turnout gap between white and BIPOC voters is exacerbated during state and local elections compared with presidential and midterm elections. Beth Huang, program officer of civic engagement and democracy at Tides Foundation, shares how the Healthy Democracy Fund is making it possible for community groups to mobilize voters before high-stakes local and state elections like the upcoming Wisconsin judicial election, which will determine the outcome of abortion rights and gerrymandered legislative maps.  

Driven by her experience growing up in segregated Mississippi and surviving Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill, Katherine Egland has been on the frontlines of social change for decades. In this moving interview, she discusses how the organization she co-founded is repealing racist zoning laws and practices with support from the Tides Foundation Frontline Justice Fund. 

The Healthy Democracy Fund raised and awarded more than $10 million in 2022 to community groups across the country to protect the voting rights of communities of color, young people, and other under-represented groups. In this video, we spotlight the critical work that grantees are doing in their local communities to build a more just and representative democracy.