Past Grants
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Artek New York, NY |
General support $1,000.00 |
http://artekearlymusic.org 2011 Year End Music |
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Arts at St. Ann's Brooklyn, NY |
Commissioning of new music theatre work by Stephin Merritt based on the Children's story, Coraline $3,000.00 |
http://stannswarehouse.org 2004 Spring Music |
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Asian American Resource Workshop Dorchester, MA, USA |
The Activist Training Institute (ATI) is an organizing training and praxis program for Asian Pacific American (APA) young adults to gain skills and experience to become social justice and movement leaders. $7,500.00 |
http://www.aarw.org 2017 Spring Community Organizing |
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Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Trans Community Oakland, California, USA |
Dragon Fruit is an intergenerational oral history project that explores queer Asian Pacific Islanders and their experiences with love and activism from the 60s-90s. These stories are transformed into art and information and shared widely using a process that bridges generations of community members. $10,000.00 |
http://www.apiqwtc.org 2014 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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ASWAT Haifa, Israel |
Grassroots lesbian organizing in Palestine $5,000.00 |
http://aswatgroup.org 2004 Spring Community Organizing |
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Atlanta Music Project, Inc. Atlanta, GA |
start up general support $6,200.00 |
http://atlantamusicproject.org 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Atlas:DIY New York, NY |
Cooperative center for immigrant youth and allies $9,500.00 |
http://findingatlas.wordpress.com/ 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Austin Community Law Center Austin, TX, USA |
The Austin Community Law Center seeks funding to start an organizer training program (our "Leadership Institute"), to train leaders from among our client community at Title I schools, who will advocate for systemic change at the city, county, and school district. $15,000.00 |
http://www.austincommunitylawcenter.org 2019 Spring Community Organizing |
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Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition Austin, TX |
Developing membership base $8,000.00 |
http://austinirc.org 2008 Spring Community Organizing |
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AWAAM (Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media) Brooklyn, NY |
Summer program in community organizing, anti-oppression, art and media skills for young, primarily low-income Arab women $1,200.00 |
http://awaam.org 2004 Spring Community Organizing |
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B'tselem Washington, DC |
General support $2,500.00 |
http://btselem.org/usa 2010 Year End Community Organizing |
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B'Tselem USA Washington, DC, USA |
B’Tselem USA seeks funding to produce and distribute specialized video programming for Americans as a critical way of exposing the Israeli occupation and advocating for change. $10,000.00 |
http://www.btselem.org 2017 Fall Education |
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Backstreet Cultural Museum New Orleans, LA |
oral history project about preserving the New Orleans jazz funeral tradition $5,000.00 |
http://www.backstreetmuseum.org 2010 Fall Music, Community Organizing |
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Barbara Jordan/Bayard Rustin Coalition West Hollywood, CA |
Creation of statewide Black LGBT network $5,000.00 |
http://jrcla.org 2009 Fall Community Organizing |
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Barelas Community Coalition Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA |
Capacity building funds will bolster efforts to supply affordable housing in a low-income neighborhood at risk of gentrification. Barelas has a sizable Hispanic population (86%), large number of renters (50%), many households below the poverty level (31%), and a median household income of $18,657. $10,000.00 |
http://www.barelas.net/ 2014 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Batsya Schechter New York, NY |
CD using biblical texts about women and Jewish/Arab relations $4,000.00 |
2005 Spring Community Organizing, Music |
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BAY-Peace Oakland, CA, United States |
Drop the MIC is a youth-led educational campaign and Theater Production highlighting the ways that Oakland youth are experiencing militarization while still building resilience to heal from and take action against it. $10,000.00 |
http://www.baypeace.org 2018 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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BAY-Peace Oakland, CA |
Training for military counter-recruitment organizers $5,600.00 |
http://baypeace.org 2008 Fall Community Organizing |
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Bedouin Association for Education and Health Development Taibeh, Israel |
Improve educational levels of Bedouins in Taibeh, Israel $10,000.00 |
2008 Spring Education |
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Before It's Gone-Take It Back Brooklyn, NY, USA |
BEFORE IT’S GONE // TAKE IT BACK: Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification (B4G) is the only Brooklyn-wide anti-gentrification neighborhood and online organizing campaign $10,000.00 |
http://equalityforflatbush.tumblr.com/ 2015 Spring Community Organizing |
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Beyondmedia Media Education Chicago, IL |
Media activism by formerly incarcerated young women in Chicago $5,000.00 |
http://beyondmedia.org/ 2008 Spring Community Organizing |
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Billings Symphony Orchestra and Chorale Billings, MT, USA |
Our Tutti Behind Walls project will teach guitar lessons to women who are incarcerated in the Montana State Women's Prison in Billings, MT, giving the residents a chance to gain a basic understanding of guitar techniques, which will provide the groundwork for more advanced playing upon release. $5,000.00 |
http://www.billingssymphony.org 2015 Fall Education, Music |
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Birthright Unplugged Cambridge, MA |
General support $4,000.00 |
http://birthrightunplugged.org 2011 Year End |
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Birthright Unplugged Glenside, PA |
Bringing young Jews who have just completed Israel-discovery trips to the Palestinian territories under occupation to meet Israeli and Palestinian organizers $5,000.00 |
http://birthrightunplugged.org/ 2005 Spring Community Organizing |
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Black and Pink Dorchester, MA, USA |
Organizing, supporting, and building the leadership of LGBTQ people in prisons across the United States $10,000.00 |
http://blackandpink.org 2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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Black Bottom Archives Detroit, Mi, United States |
Black Bottom Archives (BBA) is a community-driven media platform dedicated to centering and amplifying the voices, experiences, and perspectives of Black Detroiters through journalism, art, business, and community organizing with a focus on preserving local Black history & archiving our present. $2,000.00 |
http://www.blackbottomarchives.com 2017 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Black Love Resists in the Rust Buffalo, NY, USA |
Reduce impact of law enforcement on/in communities of color in Buffalo NY. $15,000.00 |
http://blackloveresistsintherust.org 2019 Spring Community Organizing |
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Black Love Resists in the Rust Buffalo, NY, USA |
Abolish "The Strike Force", Buffalo Police Department's most deadly police unit, and invest in the community's safety. $10,000.00 |
https://www.facebook.com/justresistingbflo/ 2017 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Black Mothers Breastfeeding Association Detroit, MI |
Monthly workshops to promote breastfeeding in African American community $5,000.00 |
http://facebook.com/.../Black-Mothers-Breastfeeding-Association/. 2008 Spring Education, Community Organizing |
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Breaking the Silence Jerusalem, Israel |
video testimony of former Israeli soldiers on abuses of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories $10,000.00 |
http://breakingthesilence.org.il 2010 Fall Community Organizing |
| Bronx ATI Committee |
Establish Bronx alternative-to-incarceration committee $4,940.00 |
2009 Fall Community Organizing |
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Bronx Lesbian and Gay Health Resource Consortium Bronx, NY |
General support for Bronx LGBT space $4,000.00 |
http://gaycenter.org 2004 Spring Community Organizing |
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BronxPOWER Bronx, NY, United States |
Work to support a lawsuit against the department of education for unjustly closing schools in black/brown communities, impacting some of the most vulnerable students in NYC. $15,000.00 |
https://bronxpower.org/ 2018 Spring Community Organizing |
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Brooklyn Food Coalition Brooklyn, NY, United States |
School Food Fellows Project will train ten parents/grandparents to become school food advocates in their children's public school, offering them leadership skills, information about race and class-based disparities in the food system, and effective campaigns to create policy changes. $8,300.00 |
http://brooklynfoodcoalition.org 2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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Brooklyn Grassroots Technology Project Brooklyn, NY |
Intensive holistic technology support and education $10,000.00 |
2006 Fall Education |
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Brooklyn Movement Center Brooklyn, NY |
Saving Boys and Girls High School from closure $10,000.00 |
http://brooklynmovementcenter.org 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Brooklyn Movement Center Brooklyn, New York, United States |
The work to be funded is the Police Accountability Working Group (PAW). PAW is a leadership group of BMC members working to resist abusive policing and the criminalization of Central Brooklyn residents, while building an alternative peace-keeping culture on the streets of Central Brooklyn. $10,000.00 |
2016 Spring Community Organizing |
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Brooklyn Queens Bronx Land Trusts Bronx, NY |
Trainings for management and stewardship of community gardeners $4,000.00 |
http://bqlt.org 2008 Spring |
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Build a Better Austin Coalition Austin, TX |
Coalition of workers, responsible employers, unions, faith-based and community organizations to improve conditions for construction workers $10,000.00 |
http://www.workersdefense.org 2009 Fall Community Organizing |
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Building Wings Snohomish, Washington, USA |
Providing support, resources, and community to the loved ones of people in prison; advocating against the prison industry and campaigning for changes; breaking down statistics and stereotypes about the people impacted by the prison industry through personal stories. $10,000.00 |
http://bw.digitalmanatee.com/ 2017 Fall Community Organizing |
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Burmese Refugee Project New York, NY |
Shan minority refugee school in Thailand $3,733.00 |
http://burmeserefugeeproject.org 2006 Spring Education |
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CAAAV-Organizing Asian Communities New York, New York, United States |
CAAAV's New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) organizing project will develop the leadership of Asian tenants in New York City's public housing developments, and build a pan-Asian base to join a larger multi-racial fight for systemic and institutional changes at NYCHA. $10,000.00 |
http://caaav.org/ 2014 Spring Community Organizing |
| Caffé Lena Oral History Project |
Documentation of Caffe Lena's 50-year history and registration as a historical site $1,500.00 |
http://caffelena.org 2004 Fall Music |
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California Coalition for Women Prisoners San Francisco, CA, USA |
Spitfire provides speaking opportunities for formerly incarcerated women and transpeople to share about incarceration and re-entry challenges. As those most impacted by the PIC, their personal stories and perspectives are central in our movement to foster change toward social justice for all people. $10,000.00 |
http://womenprisoners.org 2015 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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California Families Against Solitary Confinement Inglewood, CA, United States |
Developing CFASC from a start-up to a sustainable organization and expanding it to involve family members of all those who are incarcerated in addition to the family members of those in solitary confinement with the launch of the Family Unity Network as a project of CFASC. $10,000.00 |
http://www.abolishsolitary.com/ 2014 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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California Prison Moratorium Project Oakland, CA |
Development of community organizing to target the prison-industrial complex $4,000.00 |
http://alipmp.org/ 2005 Fall Community Organizing |
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Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons Gainesville, FL, USA |
The Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons (FTP) is organizing at the intersections of environmental injustice, climate change, pollution and mass incarceration by challenging the construction and operation of prisons with grassroots organizing, litigation and direct action. $15,000.00 |
http://FIGHTTOXICPRISONS.ORG 2016 Spring Community Organizing |
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Cantanti Project New York, NY, USA |
Tabula Rasa, a jazz opera by Felix Jarrar and Brittany Goodwin, explores the real-life impulse and heartbreak of Kiki de Montparnasse and her escapades with the fictional character of ‘Man’, an artist who represents her dreams and desires, at the expense of her freedom and image as the modern woman. $5,000.00 |
http://www.cantantiproject.org/ 2017 Fall Music |
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Cape Ann Farmers Market Gloucester, MA |
Training and resource guide on sustainable urban farming $6,000.00 |
http://capeannfarmersmarket.org 2009 Fall Community Organizing |
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Cape Fear Biofuels Wilmington, NC |
Create model fuel reactor as pilot $5,000.00 |
http://capefearbioblog.blogspot.com 2006 Spring Education, Community Organizing |