Past Grants
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Community Youth Organizing Committee Philadelphia, PA |
Organizing young immigrant workers in Chinatown garment industry and organizing against gentrification and displacement of affordable housing $5,000.00 |
2005 Spring Community Organizing |
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Composers Collaborative New York, NY |
Workshop collaborations between musicians and poets $3,000.00 |
http://composerscollab.org 2005 Fall Music |
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Concert Arts Association Lake Saint Louis, MO |
Provide music education to lower-income St. Louis area communities $5,000.00 |
http://concertarts.org/ 2008 Fall Music |
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Congregations Building Community Windsor, CO |
Small-business incubator project for low-wage-employed Latino immigrants $3,000.00 |
http://cbcstan.org 2005 Spring |
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Connecticut Bail Fund New Haven, CT, USA |
Building Sanctuary Now is a community organizing model that brings together and educates the individuals who have been released from pretrial and immigration detention by our community bail funds. Participants learn to fight their own cases while identifying and mobilizing around broader injustices. $10,000.00 |
http://www.ctbailfund.org 2017 Fall Community Organizing |
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Connecticut Students for a Dream Bridgeport, CT, United States |
We are seeking funding for our Summer Program, “Youth Organizing in Action,” that seeks to create and foster leadership through raising critical consciousness and engaging youth in community organizing strategies in Harford, CT. $15,000.00 |
https://www.ct4adream.org/ 2019 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Contact Center Cincinnati, OH, USA |
The Food Security Through Jobs Campaign will organize for paid job training and jobs for food stamp recipients funded through the food stamp (SNAP) program at local, state and federal levels. $5,000.00 |
https://www.facebook.com/Contact-Center322600141106655/ 2017 Spring Community Organizing |
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Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City Bronx, NY, USA |
CEANYC believes those most impacted by systemic oppression should lead, thus our focus is to develop the leadership skills and culture of our members. Our primary vehicle for advancing this focus is the Cooperative Leadership Institute.
$13,000.00 |
https://gocoopnyc.org 2016 Fall Community Organizing |
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Corrections Accountability Project New York, NY, United States |
Development of advocacy resources to expose and reduce the harms caused by the commercialization of our criminal legal system $10,000.00 |
http://www.correctionsaccountability.org 2017 Fall Community Organizing |
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Cosecha Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
Our mission is permanent protection, respect and dignity for all immigrants. We are working to build our base by growing a decentralized network of members in Cosecha villages across the country. $15,000.00 |
https://movimientocosecha.com 2016 Fall Community Organizing |
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Courage to Resist Oakland, CA |
Organizing GI resistance to occupation of Iraq $5,000.00 |
http://couragetoresist.org 2008 Spring Community Organizing |
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Creating Freedom Movements Richmond, CA , USA |
Creating Freedom Movements is an intensive year-long program that brings together over 40 Bay Area social and environmental justice leaders to train new organizers, incubate grassroots projects, & build community across multiple lines of difference under a framework that prioritizes justice & joy. $7,500.00 |
http://www.creatingfreedommovements.org/ 2019 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Critical Resistance New Orleans, LA |
Campaign for amnesty for people arrested for foraging food and other survival needs after Hurricane Katrina $5,000.00 |
http://criticalresistance.org/ 2005 Fall Community Organizing |
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Crossing Borders Music Chicago, IL, United States |
Renowned sitarist Gaurav Mazumdar, a student of Ravi Shankar, joins Crossing Borders Music to record "Crossing Cultures: India and the West" for sitar, violin, cello, and tabla. The music depicts different stages and emotions associated with collaborating with people from different backgrounds. $5,000.00 |
http://crossingbordersmusic.org 2018 Spring Music |
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Dalia Association Ramallah, Ramallah, Palestine |
Ensuring sustainability of Dalia Association's communications. $15,000.00 |
http://www.dalia.ps 2018 Fall Community Organizing |
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Dalia Community Foundation East Jerusalem, Israel |
Launch of a community-led Palestinian fund for grassroots work, building democracy, and fostering independent $9,000.00 |
http://dalia.ps 2006 Fall Community Organizing |
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Damayan Migrant Workers Association Inc. New York City, NY, USA |
Our project will establish a team of “anti labor-trafficking champions”, composed of pro-bono labor attorneys and labor trafficking survivors, to ensure newly found labor trafficking victims have increased chances to win their legal cases and the support needed to become leaders against trafficking. $7,000.00 |
http://www.damayanmigrants.org 2016 Spring Community Organizing |
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Dar al Mahabba Wassalam (Love and Peace) Association for Childhood and Motherhood Budrus, West Bank, Palestine |
Community-supported summer camp for rural children in Palestine $5,000.00 |
2006 Spring Education |
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DARI Project Jackson Heights, NY |
Publication of resource book by and for LGBT Korean-Americans $5,000.00 |
http://dariproject.org 2008 Spring Education, Community Organizing |
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DataCenter Oakland, CA, USA |
Increase trainings, toolkits and web based activities in order to strengthen DataCenter’s sustainability and produce new research that supports social justice campaigns. $10,000.00 |
http://www.datacenter.org 2014 Spring Community Organizing |
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Dave Meder New York, NY, USA |
A debut album that seeks to synthesize new American music from classical, jazz and folk traditions. $6,530.00 |
http://www.davemeder.com 2018 Spring Music |
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Day Laborer Organizing Project (DLOP) Jackson Heights, NY |
Advance green cleaning worker cooperative $10,000.00 |
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38241093192 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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DC Consumer Utility Board Washington, DC, US |
Educating, informing, organizing and mobilizing DC’s utility consumers to represent their interests to the utilities and regulatory commission, and that regulators hold utilities accountable to the ratepayers.
$7,500.00 |
http://www.dcconsumerutilityboard.org 2016 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Deep Dish TV New York, NY |
general support $5,000.00 |
http://deepdishtv.org 2010 Year End Community Organizing |
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Desis: Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) New York, NY |
Community organizer for South Asian Communities $3,500.00 |
http://www.desis-network.org/ 2003 Winter Community Organizing |
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Detention Watch Network Washington, DC |
Interactive graphic depiction of immigrant detention system $10,000.00 |
http://detentionwatchnetwork.org 2007 Fall Community Organizing |
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Detroit Summer/Live Arts Media Project Detroit, MI |
Youth-led multi-media project to support community organizing in response to Detroit's education crisis $10,000.00 |
http://detroitsummer.wordpress.com 2006 Fall Education, Community Organizing |
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Diane Edgecomb Jamaica Plain, MA |
For the Kurdish Storytelling Project to preserve the oral tradition of Kurdish communities in Turkey |
http://livingmyth.com 2003 Winter Community Organizing |
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Digital Visions San Francisco, CA |
Digital storytelling workshops for Palestinian youth and Arab Jewish youth to represent their own history $5,000.00 |
2006 Spring Education |
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Direct Action for Rights and Equality Providence, RI, US |
DARE requests funding for a new organizing campaign led by directly affected people to reduce barriers to prisoner re-entry and to challenge mass incarceration, by ending the discriminatory ban of individuals with a criminal record from subsidized housing by the Providence Housing Authority. $12,000.00 |
http://www.daretowin.org 2016 Spring Community Organizing |
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Direct Action for Rights and Equality Providence, Rhode Island, United States |
DARE's Tenant and Homeowners Association is seeking funding for a Rent Stabilization campaign for Providence aimed at preventing arbitrary rent increases and landlord abuses that are causing an eviction epidemic in Providence and Rhode Island. $10,000.00 |
https://www.daretowin.org/ 2018 Fall Community Organizing |
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Disabilities Network of NYC New York, NY |
Development and implementation of Housing Equity Plan to achieve affordable, accessible and integrated housing for people with disabilities $4,000.00 |
http://dnnyc.net 2008 Spring Community Organizing |
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Disarat-the Arab Center for Law and Plicy Nazareth , Israel |
Dirasat will implement a series of training meetings and seminars for leaders of Arab student unions in Israeli universities designed to increase their ability to help their constituents realize their right to equal education. $10,000.00 |
http://www.dirasat-aclp.org/index.asp 2012 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Dissenters Chicago, IL, United States of America |
To launch Dissenters, a new national anti-militarism youth organization. This grant will go to train student members to lead decentralized, nonviolent direct action campaigns to reclaim millions of dollars from the war industry. $12,000.00 |
2019 Fall Community Organizing |
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DIYgirls Los Angeles, CA, USA |
Afterschool programs that inspire young girls to design and make. $10,000.00 |
http://www.diygirls.org 2012 Spring Education |
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Domestic Workers Project of Fairfield County Allston, MA, USA |
To launch the Domestic Workers Project of Fairfield County, to organize Domestic Workers. $10,000.00 |
http://www.braziliancenter.org 2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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Donkey Saddle Projects Chelan, WA |
General support $1,000.00 |
http://donkeysaddle.org 2011 Year End Community Organizing |
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Dr. Ruchama Marton Tel Aviv, Israel |
Production of documentary and ideas and actions of radical Israeli elders $5,000.00 |
2006 Fall Education |
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Driftless Community Radio Viroqua, WI |
citizen journalist training program $6,005.00 |
http://wdrt.org 2010 Spring |
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DRUM-Desis Rising Up and Moving Oakland, CA, USA |
The mission of the Coalition on National Security and Rights in Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) Communities is to create a grassroots led, national policy campaign to change federal policy regarding FBI surveillance and the use of informants. The campaign will be led by affected communities. $10,000.00 |
2013 Spring Community Organizing |
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Duo Odeon Portland, OR, United States |
Violinist Hannah Leland and pianist Aimee Fincher, together Duo Odéon, record their debut album featuring rare, never-before-recorded works by the American composer George Antheil and violinist Werner Gebauer. $4,500.00 |
http://duo-odeon.com 2017 Spring Music |
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E. Harlem-El Barrio Community Land Trust New York, NY, United States |
Funding will be used to support organizing activities of the EHEBCLT throughout distressed buildings in E Harlem to educate residents about the option of forming large scale coops on a Community Land Trust (CLT) and to mobilize to demand the City turn over vacant city owned property to the CLT. $15,000.00 |
http://ehebclt.nyc 2018 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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EarSay New York, NY |
Internship program to train artists/activists in creating cross-cultural dialogue projects through the arts $4,000.00 |
http://earsay.org 2005 Spring Community Organizing |
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Eco-Garden Bellingham, WA |
Capacity-building in local Kenya communities for sustainable food-farming and natural resource management $5,000.00 |
2006 Fall Community Organizing |
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Empowerment Congress of Dona Ana County Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States |
Empowerment Congress of Doña Ana County will expand its popular education informed, leadership development program and community organizing workshops with low-income, marginalized rural (colonia) and urban communities. $10,000.00 |
http://www.empowernm.org 2019 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Energy Democracy Project Oakland, CA, US |
A consortium of several groups, The Energy Democracy Project is a mutual aid structure that serves as a collaborative resource and strategy center for creating programs and initiatives that advance the work of organizations struggling to democratize energy in the United States. $50,000.00 |
2019 Fall Community Organizing |
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Environmental Justice Coalition for Water Sacramento, California, United States of America |
Grassroots community organizing, capacity- and coalition-building toward the realization of the human right to water and sanitation in California. $10,000.00 |
http://www.ejcw.org 2014 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Esperanza del Barrio New York, NY |
Neighborhood-based membership organization promoting the self-empowerment of Latino immigrants of El Barrio $2,500.00 |
http://www.harlemonestop.com/organization.php?id=660 2004 Spring Community Organizing |
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Everyone Is Gay Brooklyn, NY, USA |
We are seeking funding to design and distribute a curriculum that will augment Everyone Is Gay’s in-person presentations at middle and high schools. $6,000.00 |
http://everyoneisgay.com 2012 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA) Worcester, MA |
Ban the Box campaign (compliance by landlords and employers with new state law) $4,000.00 |
http://exprisoners.org 2011 Spring Community Organizing |