Since 2013, TransitCenter has spent over $50 million to support transit advocacy – both our own and that of allied organizations.
Our 2025 grants list is available to review below:
Clean Air Council
This general operating grant provides resources to Clean Air Council for their local and state work on transit. TransitCenter support of the Clean Air Council is rooted in growing the base of advocates for transit, within our local powerbuilding strategy. This grant enables Clean Air Council to particpate in the Transit For All PA! Coalition and the Transit Forward Philadelphia coalition, advocating for and supporting transit in the Philadelphia region and across the state. Clean Air Council also connects transit to environmental and public health campaigns and constituencies. Within this work of this grant, they will build out support for transit across the state, particularly in areas outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, including environmental justice communities where they have long-standing relationships built on years of advocacy around environmental issues. They will also leverage their position in the environmental movement to amplify transit as an issue area that more of peer organizations should prioritize.
Transport for NOLA
This general operating grant provides resources to Ride New Orleans for their leadership of the Coalition for Quality Transit, their youth leadership cultivation, and their state-level advocacy. Building on our funding report, we continue to advocate for robust, equitable transit investment through strategic partnerships, policy research, and detailed budget analyses at the city and state levels. In addition, our funding call to action includes RIDE’s Growth Network Scenario, which calls for increasing bus and streetcar service from 8.3 million vehicle revenue miles in 2022 to 14.8 million VRM by 2033, our access-to-jobs metric, a deep dive into local city and state budgets, as well as robust policy work that provides tangible and attainable funding recommendatio
Disability Culture Lab
This project grant support grant provides resources to the Disability Culture Lab to play an active role in the narrative change steering committee, which TransitCenter has established to guide the narrative change work, ensuring that the narrative work is rooted in TransitCenter’s narrative change strategy.
Labor Network for Sustainability
This project grant support grant provides resources to the Labor Network for Sustainability, to play an active role in the narrative change steering committee, which TransitCenter has established to guide the narrative change work, ensuring that the narrative work is rooted in TransitCenter’s narrative change strategy.
Pittsburgers For Public Transit
This project grant support grant provided resources to Pittsburghers for Public Transit (PPT), to develop, test, and deploy new messaging to challenge these assumptions and shift public beliefs over time, in close coordination with TransitCenter’s narrative change strategy. Working with Transit Center and the Transit for All PA! Coalition, PPT aims to identify transit narratives that resonate with Pennsylvanians and can be spread throughout communities to influence politicians and policy. The organization will educate the Transit for All PA! team on effective narrative-building approaches through group trainings, expert collaboration, and hands-on experience with social media and website projects. PPT is also building a comprehensive communications program that will provide a foundation for the campaign’s communications strategy, determining appropriate messages for specific audiences and platforms through both paid and organic content approaches.
Catskill Mountainkeeper
This project grant support grant provided resources to Catskill Mountainkeeper (CMK), to develop, test, and deploy new messaging to challenge these assumptions and shift public beliefs over time, in close coordination with TransitCenter’s narrative change strategy. Working with the New Yorkers for Transportation Equity (NYFTE) coalition, CMK pushes NYS DOT to develop statewide regulations implementing the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase multi-modal transportation, especially in disadvantaged communities. Through TransitCenter support, CMK will develop a strategic communications plan centered on narrative change to increase the value of transportation accessibility and choices while decreasing car-centric planning, sharing statewide stories and amplifying marginalized voices to build broad political and public support.
Active Transportation Alliance
This project grant support grant provided resources to Active Transportation Alliance (ATA) to develop, test, and deploy new messaging to challenge these assumptions and shift public beliefs over time, in close coordination with TransitCenter’s narrative change strategy. Working with partners on urgent Chicago region transit reform, ATA confronts entrenched narratives that portray transit as unsafe or inferior, active transportation as niche, and continued car infrastructure investment as acceptable. Through TransitCenter support, they will test relevant messages, create new and innovative content, develop a 2026 strategic communications plan, and create a report on networks influencing non-car transportation conversations in Illinois — all benefiting the statewide Clean & Equitable Transportation campaign while strengthening ATA’s own communications program.
ISAIAH
This general operating support grant provides critical resources to ISAIAH, as they continue to grow their volunteer membership base for transit and mobility choices in MN. Recognizing public transit as essential for economic security, racial equity, and climate action, ISAIAH builds grassroots power to demand bold transit investments and accountability from leaders. TransitCenter support of ISAIAH is rooted in growing the base of advocates for transit, within our local powerbuilding strategy. This grant enables ISAIAH to focus on defending and expanding the state transit funding won in 2023, organizing riders through listening sessions and Transit Teams model, training over 1,000 leaders in transit advocacy, and advancing their Race-Class-Gender Narrative strategy to reframe transit as essential infrastructure for all Minnesotans.
St Paul Transportation Management Organization dba Move Minnesota
This general operating support grant provides resources to Move Minnesota, as a critical voice in the Minneapolis region and state-wide for walking, biking and public transit. MoveMN led the Transform Minnesota coalition, and has been a leader in defending against efforts to roll back recent victories for transit in the state. TransitCenter support of Move MN is rooted in the following elements of our local powerbuilding strategy to build a base of advocates for transit – Mobilizing grassroots advocates in the Twin Cities and building power through coalition leadership.
National Campaign for Transit Justice
This project grant support grant provides resources to the National Campaign for Transit Justice, as it fosters movement building and choesion for transportation justice and policy organizations across the United States. The campaign works specifically with TransitCenter-supported coalitions in PA, NY, MI, IL, MN, CA, and MD as they develop and implement state strategies for transformative transit, biking, and walking investments. This grant supports NCTJ to foster community-building efforts, such as through the Thursday network calls, run a labor relationship building cohort, and to work 1:1 with states to ensure they are informed and connected to relevant research, policy priorities, and winning strategies from other states and issue areas.