Past Grants
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From the Ground Up Farms Inc. Chico, CA, United States |
Gardening and Nutrition Education Programs $5,000.00 |
http://fromthegroundupfarms.org 2016 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Fuerza del Valle San Juan, TX |
Jumpstarting grassroots participation of fledgling workers' center $10,000.00 |
http://lupergv.wordpress.com/category/economic-stability-and-jobs/fuerza-del-val... 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Fuerza Laboral Central Falls, RI |
Immigrant community organizing for justice in the workplace $5,000.00 |
http://fuerza-laboral.org 2006 Fall Community Organizing |
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Fuerza Latina Fort Collins, CO |
Training of organizers for all-volunteer immigrant justice organization $3,000.00 |
http://cjpe.org/Fuerza_Latina.html 2004 Spring Community Organizing |
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FUREE New York, NY |
For FUREE Institute for Resistance and Equality (FIRE), training community members in political analysis and organizing skills $2,000.00 |
http://furee.org 2004 Spring Community Organizing |
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G-8 Inc. San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States |
Líderes Jóvenes en Acción (LIJAC) is one of the twelve community-based organizations within the G-8, Inc. aiming to develop leadership skills in youth from ages 11 to 21 and ensure continuity and sustainability of G-8, Inc through educational activities. $10,000.00 |
https://g8incpr.wordpress.com/%C2%BFquienes-somos/ 2017 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Gary Freedom School Gary, IN |
training for community organizers $6,815.00 |
http://garyfreedomschool.org 2010 Spring |
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Georgia Avenue Community Development Task Force Washington, DC |
Organizing for equitable development in Washington DC $6,000.00 |
http://georgiaave.org 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Gideon's Army, Grassroots Army for Children Nashville, TN |
Organizing project to dismantle the prison pipeline $6,000.00 |
2010 Fall Community Organizing |
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Global Exchange San Francisco, CA |
Corporate involvement in Israeli occupation $10,000.00 |
http://globalexchange.org 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Grassroots Leadership/The Women's Campaign Charlotte, NC |
research on incarcerated women $4,000.00 |
http://grassrootsleadership.org 2010 Spring Education, Community Organizing |
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Grassroots Organizing Works Amherst, MA |
Leadership capacity-building for low-income and people of color communities moving toward social justice $10,000.00 |
2006 Fall Community Organizing |
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Great Small Works New York, NY |
Create the Palestinian National Theater at the 2005 International Toy Theater Festival $3,000.00 |
http://greatsmallworks.org 2004 Fall Community Organizing |
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Great Small Works New York, NY |
Development of "The Rapture Project" theater work on religious fundamentalism and outreach to groups working on anti-fundamentalist activities $5,000.00 |
http://greatsmallworks.org 2006 Fall Community Organizing |
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Green Action: Wadi Fukin Fair Trade Project Tel Aviv, Israel |
Israelis and Palestinians developing the Wadi Fukin Women's Association Fair Trade pickle collective $7,700.00 |
http://peacoil.blogspot.com 2007 Fall Community Organizing |
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Green Mountain Crossroads Brattleboro, Vermont, USA |
Community assessment, organizing and training for rural LGBTQ community in Windham County, Vermont, and contiguous towns in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. $8,000.00 |
http://www.greenmountaincrossroads.org 2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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GreenRoots Chelsea, MA, United States |
Empowering the Environmental Chelsea Organizers (ECO) youth crew to develop and teach an environmental justice curriculum to their peers which will culminate with a youth assembly to garner the youths’ visions for a revitalized Chelsea Creek waterfront. $15,000.00 |
http://www.GreenRootsChelsea.org 2016 Fall Community Organizing |
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H.O.P.E. Homeless Organizing for Power and Equality Memphis, Tennessee, United States |
Development of a co-operative screenprinting business to empower and employ individuals experiencing homelessness $10,000.00 |
http://www.midsouthpeace.org 2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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Habitat Map New York, NY |
Technical support and outreach for community mapping workshops $6,000.00 |
http://habitatmap.org 2009 Fall |
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Hagar's House New Orleans, LA |
social justice advocacy $4,000.00 |
http://www.hagarshousenola.org 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Hand in Hand-The Domestic Employers Association Oakland, California, United States |
The Domestic Work Innovation project seeks to improve worker and employer relationships in the domestic work industry through organizing domestic employers and working to create spaces for dialogue between domestic workers and their employers. $7,000.00 |
http://www.domesticemployers.org 2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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Hannah Mermelstein Glenside, PA |
"Flowers Against the Occupation, collaboration between Palestinian girls and professional musicians $1,000.00 |
2005 Fall Music |
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Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action Kapaa, HI, U.S. |
The Hawai`i People’s Congress is building intersectional solidarity to forward social, environmental, and economic justice in Hawai`i. We enhance the power of resistance through a collaborative, multi-directional approach. $10,000.00 |
http://www.hapahi.org/ 2017 Spring Community Organizing |
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Hawaii Island Sustainability Organization Pahoa, HI |
seed money to enable fund-raising $9,900.00 |
http://islandinnovation.org/concepts/thehawaii-island-sustainability-organizatio... 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Healing to Action Chicago, IL, United States |
Pilot a sustainable worker leadership development model with three grassroots organizations in Chicagoland, building their capacity to give low-wage workers a collective healing space, resources and organizing support to ignite solutions to fight gender violence in their communities. $10,000.00 |
2016 Fall Community Organizing |
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Health Gap Providence, RI |
Support for international AIDS conference march mobilization |
http://healthgap.org Community Organizing |
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Health Gap Coalition New York, NY |
Student Global AIDS Campaign and 2012 campaign organizing $3,000.00 |
http://healthgap.org 2010 Year End Community Organizing |
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Health Gap Coalition New York, NY |
Support for Queerocracy Project $8,000.00 |
http://www.healthgap.org 2011 Year End Community Organizing |
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Hearing Youth Voices New London, CT, United States |
My Black is Beautiful is a space for New London to engage in critical analysis and celebration of Blackness, and eventually develop a platform and organizing strategies to work towards Black safety in our city. $7,500.00 |
http://facebook.com/hearingyouthvoices 2015 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Holy Apostles Community Chorus New York, NY |
Newly-commissioned music of the Jewish and African Diasporas $500.00 |
2003 Winter Music |
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Homocom Corporation New York, NY |
Launch of Out in the World, a print-media supplement to The Gully magazine on world queer issues $3,000.00 |
http://homocom.org/about/projects.html 2004 Spring Community Organizing |
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Hoosier Action Bloomington, Indiana, United States |
Grassroots community organizing in small town Indiana to work toward economic and racial justice. $12,000.00 |
http://www.hoosieraction.org 2017 Spring Community Organizing |
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Hope Street Youth Development Wichita, KS |
"Increase the Peace" student-led anti-racist organization for middle school youth $5,000.00 |
http://hopestreet.com 2006 Spring Community Organizing |
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Hope United Providence, Rhode Island, United States |
Direct action youth organizing program to push for student voice in Providence public schools $8,000.00 |
http://facebook.com/HopeUnitedPVD 2012 Spring Community Organizing |
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Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Flagstaff, AZ |
Course to build skills in permaculture design $3,000.00 |
http://kleiwerks.org/kleiwerks_west.php 2008 Spring Education, Community Organizing |
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Hudson Link Ossining, NY |
Two summer courses at Sing Sing Correctional Facility $5,000.00 |
http://hudsonlink.org 2004 Spring Education |
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Hudson Link Ossining, NY |
general support $1,000.00 |
http://hudsonlink.org 2010 Year End Community Organizing |
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Hudson Valley Community Radio, Inc. Dobbs Ferry, NY |
Signal enhancement project $5,000.00 |
http://wdfh.org 2008 Spring Community Organizing |
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Human Rights Defenders Fund, Ltd Tel Aviv, Israel |
Supporting non-violent democratic movements in Israel and West Bank $9,340.00 |
http://hrd.org.il 2011 Spring |
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Hurricane Season: The Hidden Images in Water Ridgewood, NY |
Touring multi-media program about Katrina aftermath $6,000.00 |
http://hurricaneseasontour.com 2008 Spring Community Organizing |
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I-Witness New York, NY |
Video documentation of random mass arrests at 2004 Republican National Convention protests to use at trial $5,000.00 |
2004 Fall Community Organizing |
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Idaho Community Action Network Boise, ID, US |
Funding from Sparkplug Foundation will enable ICAN to begin a three-year Rural Strategy Outreach Project in North Idaho communities, establish a North Idaho Community Center and organize in new unserved communities developing 100 new members and a leadership team that can sustain the project.
$10,000.00 |
http://www.idahocan.org 2014 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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IJAN Oakland, CA, USA |
IJAN would use Sparkplug funding to print and tour our just released and highly acclaimed 120 page report, The Business of Backlash: The Attack on the Palestinian and Other Movements for Justice, and to complete and print an accessible primer on the politics and history of Jewish anti-Zionism. $4,000.00 |
http://www.ijan.org 2015 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Immigrant Youth Leadership Team Boston, MA, United States |
Immigrant teen leadership research and curriculum development $5,000.00 |
http://www.csioboston.org 2017 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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IMPRUVE Chicago, IL, USA |
Organizing disabled paratransit riders and paratransit drivers, to form a Rider-Driver Alliance to improve the quality and accountability of transportation for people with disabilities in Illinois. $10,000.00 |
http://www.IMPRUVE.org 2016 Fall Community Organizing |
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INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence/Women's Initiative for Health and Justice New Orleans, LA |
Establishment of women's health clinic, safe space and organizing space in post-Katrina New Orleans $10,000.00 |
http://incite-national.org 2006 Spring Community Organizing |
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Interfaith Alliance for Worker Justice Tempe, AZ |
organizing against city-wide wage theft $5,225.00 |
http://azworkerjustice.com 2010 Fall Community Organizing |
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Interfaith Worker Rights Center Chicago, IL |
Project to expand and develop membership $3,000.00 |
http://iwj.org 2008 Spring Community Organizing |
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International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network Oakland, CA |
campus study groups $6,000.00 |
http://ijsn.net 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Iqrit Community Association Kofor Yasif, Israel |
Media, website and PR materials for Iqrit's 'Access to Justice' Campaign $10,000.00 |
http://www.iqrit.org 2013 Spring Community Organizing |