Past Grants
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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 |
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CASOE Group Detroit, MI |
Music education workshop for at-risk Detroit youth $5,000.00 |
2009 Spring Music |
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Center for Immigrant Families New York, NY |
Staff the Project to Challenge Segregation in Our Public Schools $5,000.00 |
http://grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com 2005 Spring Education, Community Organizing |
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Center for Immigrant Families New York, NY |
Organizing low-income parents of color against high-stakes testing $10,000.00 |
http://grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com 2009 Fall Education, Community Organizing |
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Center for Intercultural Organizing Portland, OR |
Cross-cultural immigrant and refugee project $7,500.00 |
http://interculturalorganizing.org 2007 Fall Community Organizing |
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Center for Nonviolent Solutions Worcester, MA |
community mediation program $4,000.00 |
http://nonviolentsolution.org 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Centro Campesino Owatonna, MN |
Creation of a Latino Youth Action Network in Southern Minnesota $5,000.00 |
http://centrocampesino.net 2008 Fall Community Organizing |
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Centro de Trabajadores Unidos (Immigrant Workers Project) Chicago, Il |
organizing of employers'code of conduct to protect low-wage workers $5,000.00 |
http://iwpohio.org 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Centro de Trabajadores Unidos - Immigrant Workers Project Chicago, Illinois, United States |
CTU will develop a worker-owned cooperative incubator serving Chicago’s southeast side, with a focus on supporting immigrant women. This will be incorporated into CTU’s broader labor organizing strategy as an alternative for those who are systemically excluded from formal, dignified employment. $10,000.00 |
http://centrodetrabajadoresunidos.org/ 2017 Fall Community Organizing |
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Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha Minneapolis, MN, United States |
Funding will support the CTUL Leadership School, developing the leadership of five retail cleaning workers to be organizers in the Campaign for Justice in Retail Cleaning. $5,000.00 |
http://www.ctul.net 2012 Spring Community Organizing |
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Chainbreaker Collective Santa Fe, NM, United States |
Funding would be used to support our Organizer Boot Camp pilot program, which will deep dive into the theory, skills and tactics of community organizing to prepare Chainbreaker members to be leaders for our Development Without Displacement civil rights and housing justice campaign. $10,000.00 |
https://chainbreaker.org/ 2017 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign Chicago, IL, USA |
By targeting vacant, bank-owned buildings, this project trains unemployed and underemployed youth in the process of fixing up blighted properties so that these homes can provide low-income housing for homeless families. $10,000.00 |
http://www.chicagoantieviction.org 2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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Chinese Staff and Workers' Association New York, NY |
"Break the Chains Immigration Initiative" $5,000.00 |
http://cswa.org 2006 Spring Community Organizing |
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Choose Yourself Portland, ME, United States |
Open a safe space for young immigrants to collectively find themselves in their new city $8,000.00 |
http://chooseyourself.website/ 2018 Fall Community Organizing |
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Choral Chameleon New York, NY |
Creation of program to promote choir $2,850.00 |
http://choralchameleon.com 2009 Spring Music |
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Cidadao Global SUNNYSIDE, NY, United States |
We will focus on organizing know-your-rights workshops, political empowerment and leadership building workshops, and trainings on how to organize the community and why it is important to organize. We will focus on the Brazilian immigrant community, especially low-income women and youth. $5,000.00 |
http://www.cidadaoglobal.org/ 2017 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Circus Amok Brooklyn, NY |
Summer parks tour 2004 $3,000.00 |
http://circusamok.org 2003 Winter Community Organizing |
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Citizens Accord Forum Jerusalem, Israel |
Capacity-building program for Palestinian and Jewish Israeli businesswomen $10,000.00 |
http://caf.org.il 2008 Spring Community Organizing |
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Citizens Coal Council Bridgeville, PA |
Workshop to learn laws affecting coalfield citizens $6,000.00 |
http://citizenscoalcouncil.org 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Citizens for Local Power Rosendale, NY, USA |
CLP engages grassroots groups, city leaders, and the land bank to ensure that renovation of foreclosed homes in Kingston NY maximizes green energy tech while training & employing residents, and to avoid gentrification & foster democratic knowledge and skills for a locally based clean energy economy. $5,000.00 |
https://citizensforlocalpower.org/ 2018 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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City Roots Community Land Trust Rochester, New York, USA |
City Roots Community Land Trust (CRCLT) stewards the permanent affordability of property and facilitates its best use as determined by community residents. A primary focus of our organization is securing permanently affordable homeownership and rental opportunities within our city. $10,000.00 |
https://www.cityrootsclt.org 2018 Spring Community Organizing |
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Civilian/Soldier Alliance Baltimore, MD |
summer organizing campaign $5,320.00 |
http://civsol.org 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Clean Air-Organizing for Health and Justice Buffalo, NY, USA |
Funds will be used to organize residents who live next to an abandoned American Axel plant that is leaking PCBs to win a clean up the site and force the current company operating on the site to develop and emergency management plan. $10,000.00 |
http://www.cacwny.org 2015 Spring Community Organizing |
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Coalition of Immokalee Workers Immokalee, FL |
Radio Consciencia, an immigrant workerradio station $5,000.00 |
http://ciw-online.org 2005 Fall Community Organizing |
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Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled New York, NY |
training for residents' rights $2,242.00 |
http://ciadny.org 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Coffee Strong Olympia, WA |
Organizing campaign for Stop-Lossed soliders $10,000.00 |
http://coffeestrong.or 2009 Spring |
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Coleman Center for the Arts York, AL |
Teaching project on small-scale organic food production $3,000.00 |
http://colemanarts.org 2009 Spring |
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Colibrí Center for Human Rights Tucson, AZ, United States |
Providing training in organizing, leadership, and media to family members of migrants who have died or disappeared attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. $12,305.00 |
http://www.colibricenter.org 2015 Fall Community Organizing |
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College Works Oakland, CA |
College/SAT prep program to promote equal access to higher education $6,000.00 |
2005 Fall Education |
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Collegium Westchester Ossining, NY |
Concert of newly-composed and seldom-heard music $1,000.00 |
http://collegiumwestchester.org 2003 Winter Music |
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Colorado Jobs with Justice Englewood, CO, United States |
Popular Education Program on Labor History & Identity $5,000.00 |
http://coloradojobswithjustice.blogspot.com 2013 Spring Community Organizing |
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Columbia County Sanctuary Movement Hudson, New York, United States |
CCSM will launch a Family Preparedness Plan (FPP) and Know Your Rights Campaign which includes the printing, distribution, and completion of FPPs, expanding our network of legal services, and organizing Know Your Rights Trainings to empower immigrant families in Columbia County, NY.
$10,000.00 |
http://ccsm.me 2017 Spring Community Organizing |
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Combatants for Peace Beit Yehoshua, Israel |
Documenting personal testimonies of Palestinian and Israeli former combatants $9,850.00 |
http://cfpeace.org 2009 Fall Community Organizing |
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Comet-me Tel Aviv, Israel |
Development of NGO in South Hebron Hills for energy self-sufficiency $6,750.00 |
http://comet-me.org 2009 Spring Community Organizing |
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Comite en Defensa del Pueblo Columbus, NM |
Create community organization in New Mexico border area, beginning with access to water $5,475.00 |
http://comiteendefensadelpueblo.blogspot.com 2008 Fall Community Organizing |
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Commn Ground of Eastern North Carolina Inc. Kinston, North Carolina, USA |
Common Ground ENC will hire professional landscape design assistance, and purchase recycling equipment needed to expand revenue-generating activity. $2,000.00 |
http://www.facebook.com/commongroundenc 2012 Spring Community Organizing |
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Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment/CHANGE Winston-Salem, NC |
Interfaith Youth Project $5,000.00 |
http://changeiaf.org 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Communities in Support of KGIA Brooklyn, NY |
Build support in NY to oppose anti-Arab anti-Muslim racism $5,000.00 |
http://kgia.wordpress.com 2007 Fall Community Organizing |
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Communities United for Police Reform-CPR New York , New York, United States |
A grant would be used towards start-up costs of CPR’s new Alternatives & Budget area, to deepen and expand programmatic approaches to reduce public reliance on policing and challenge increasing public financing and legitimacy of expanding criminalization infrastructure. $10,000.00 |
http://www.changethenypd.org 2019 Spring Community Organizing |
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Community Alliance of Lane County Eugene, OR, United States |
The BIPOC Capacity-Building Initiative creates affinity spaces for healing, connection, and community-building by and for People of Color, to build toward a vision of collective power, strength and leadership locally within Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities of Lane County.
$15,000.00 |
http://www.calclane.org 2019 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Community Art Center Cambridge, MA |
"Voices of Katrina" youth film project by students in Cambridge, MA working in the Gulf Coast $6,000.00 |
http://communityartcenter.org/ 2006 Spring Education |
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Community Governance and Development Council Yonkers, New York, USA |
To develop a juvenile justice infrastructure that will provide alternatives to incarceration for court-involved youth in Yonkers.
$10,000.00 |
http://www.cgdcny.org 2014 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement Irvine, CA, USA |
Teaching members of four communities how to be organizers and visitor volunteers in immigration detention plus funding for a one-time expense to create a national monitoring system for people in U.S. immigration detention $10,000.00 |
http://www.endisolation.org 2013 Spring Community Organizing |
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Community Outreach & Advocacy for Refugees Tempe, AZ |
College prep program for refugee communities | http://local.yahoo.com/info-34608392-community-outreach-advocacy-for-refugees-te… |