Past Grants
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Workers' Center of Central New York Syracuse, NY , USA |
The WCCNY will galvanize the New York Dairy Worker Campaign, a public education effort, by convening three regional meetings of farmworkers, with trainers in organizing and campaign development, to help workers define their goals, hone base building strategies, and engage in leadership development. $15,000.00 |
http://workerscentercny.org/ 2015 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Workers' Dignity Project Nashville, TN, United States |
The Sparkplug Foundation grant will fund a short-term salary to train Nashville-area housekeeping workers in organizing worksite committees, developing demands, and developing strategy to improve wages and conditions through the Construction-to-Cleaning campaign. $10,000.00 |
http://www.workersdignity.org 2016 Spring Community Organizing |
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Write for Your Freedom/Youth Movement Records Oakland, CA |
Youth-led workshops on literacy and building skills for incarcerated and non-incarcerated youth $4,425.00 |
http://youthmovementrecords.org 2006 Spring Education |
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Writer Warriors Chicago, IL |
Veterans Empowerment Communities program $7,420.00 |
http://ivaw.org/warrior-writers-chicago-war 2010 Fall Community Organizing |
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Writers in Baltimore Schools Theatre Club Baltimore, MD |
Playwriting project for middle-school students $3,079.00 |
http://writersinbaltimoreschools.org 2010 Spring Education |
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Young Singers of Orange County Newport Beach, CA |
Institutional needs for choir $3,635.00 |
http://youngsingersoc.org 2010 Spring Music |
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Young Women's Empowerment Project Chicago, IL, United States |
This is for our grassroots organizing campaign Street Youth Rise Up $10,000.00 |
http://www.youarepriceless.org 2012 Spring Community Organizing |
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Youth Council for Positive Development St. Louis, MO |
project on anger management $3,000.00 |
http://positiveyouthdev.com/ 2010 Fall Community Organizing |
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Youth Resistance Project Minneapolis, MN |
Youth-led military counter-recruitment program in Minnesota $9,450.00 |
2008 Fall Community Organizing |
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Youth Rise Texas Austin, TX, USA |
Youth Rise Texas is developing the leadership and organizing capacity of youth directly affected by parental incarceration and deportation. Youth Rise uses popular education, mentorship, organizing, and creative cultural production to challenge mass incarceration and immigrant criminalization. $10,000.00 |
http://www.youthrisetx.org 2015 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Zochrot Tel Aviv, Israel/ Palestine, Israel |
To promote a movement of Israelis supporting the implementation of the return which will support the movement of young Palestinians, who are raising the issue of the right and implementation of return, and change Israeli perception about the conflict. $10,000.00 |
http://www.zochrot.org 2018 Fall Community Organizing |
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Zochrot Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel |
Training Israeli teachers to use Zochrot materials about the Nakba $7,837.00 |
http://zochrot.org/en 2008 Fall Community Organizing |