Past Grants
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Ken MacDonald Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Launch of grassroots organization of Pakistani porters serving the tourist mountain-climbing industry $3,600.00 |
2005 Spring Community Organizing |
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Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools New Orleans, LA, United States |
The Restorative Justice Project $10,000.00 |
http://www.therethinkers.com 2012 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Kidz Notes Durham, NC |
Classical orchestral music training for low-income children $4,528.49 |
http://kidznotes.org 2009 Fall Music |
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KnowDrones.org Hastings on Hudson, New York, United States |
Creation of two eight-foot-long fiberglass replicas of the MQ-9 Reaper drone. $6,200.00 |
http://knowdrones.org 2013 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Koko and Friends Foundation, Inc. Huntsville, AL |
grass roots community outreach program to address bullying $7,000.00 |
http://kokoandfriendsfoundation.org 2010 Fall Education, Community Organizing |
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Korean Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA) Los Angeles, CA |
organizing Women's Justice Committee $10,000.00 |
http://kiwa.org 2010 Fall Community Organizing |
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Kristin Slipp New York, NY |
individual grant for CD of jazz standards $2,760.00 |
http://ryanblotnick.com/kristinslipp.html 2010 Spring Music |
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Kulaniakea Honolulu, HI, United States |
The funding will support professional development and internal capacity/traditional knowledge building for a Native Hawaiian-led and serving organization. $15,000.00 |
http://www.kulaniakea.org 2018 Fall Education |
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KyotoUSA Berkeley, CA, USA |
Provide comprehensive technical support to public school districts and other community activists who are considering energy efficiency improvements and the installation of renewable energy systems in their schools. $10,000.00 |
http://www.heliosproject.org 2013 Spring Community Organizing |
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La Casita Center Louisville, KY, USA |
Development of an outreach program and resource network to empower immigrants, asylum seekers, and TPS holders enrolled in Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP). Vulnerable individuals are regularly exploited due to their lack of resources and knowledge about the system and their rights. $15,000.00 |
http://www.lacasitacenter.org 2019 Spring Community Organizing |
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La Mujer Obrera/Mercado Mayapan El Paso, TX |
Support for social-purpose business of women displaced from El Paso's garment industry $2,500.00 |
http://mujerobrera.org 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Lakota Language Consortium Inc. Bloomington, Indiana, United States |
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be transitioning our annual Lakota Summer Institute to an online format. We will need to purchase and set up workstations for our language instructors, and train them in distance learning pedagogy. $10,000.00 |
https://lakhota.org/ 2020 Spring Education |
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Lakota Solidarity Project Fairview, NC, USA (Turtle Island) |
Sparkplug funding will support the Lakota Elder’s Truth Tour part of the Lakota Solidarity Project (LSP) – a unique and historic social justice collaboration between traditional, grassroots Lakota elders/activists and a selected group of solidarity activists to comprehensively document the ongoing genocide of the Lakota people, and then use this evidence to leverage pressure on International and United States government officials to end these human rights violations. $4,500.00 |
http://cantetenza.wordpress.com/ 2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy El Paso, TX |
Low-income worker center $7,000.00 |
http://las-americas.org 2009 Fall Community Organizing |
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Latino Union of Chicago's Café Chicago Chicago, IL |
community organizing project $10,000.00 |
http://www.latinounion.org 2010 Fall Community Organizing |
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Laura Falzon New York, NY |
CD of music for soprano, flute and piano $5,000.00 |
http://laurafalzon.com 2010 Spring Music |
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Lawrence Dream Network-LDN Lawrence, MA, United States of America |
LDN will expand a series of workshops to young, underemployed, underutilized,or underachieving adults and groups to address unpacking the cumulative effect of social and environmental injustices, and its impact on the current functioning of individuals, groups, and the broader community. $10,000.00 |
http://www.lawrencedreamnetwork.org 2015 Fall Community Organizing |
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Legal Defense for Palestine Tel Aviv, israel, Israel |
Retainer to a legal office to act as movement lawyers for a collection of Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank struggling against the Israeli occupation. $5,000.00 |
http://legaldefenseforpalestine.org 2018 Spring Community Organizing |
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Lents Strong Housing Team Portland, OR, United States |
Housing Stabilization: During a housing and gentrification crisis, educating and organizing poor, working poor and working class renters and homeowners on how to advocate for local anti-displacement policies and practices, including a compassionate response to homelessness. $10,000.00 |
https://www.greenlents.org/housingteam.html 2019 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation New York, NY |
archival software to manage photo collection $10,000.00 |
http://lesbianherstoryarchives.org 2007 Fall Community Organizing |
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LGBT Resource Center for the Seven Rivers La Crosse, WI |
leadership training program $4,000.00 |
http://7riverslgbt.org 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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LGBTQ Black Immigrant Justice Oakland, California, United States |
A 2017 Soros Justice Fellowship fiscally sponsored by Transgender Law Center, Black LGBTQ Migrant Project uses leadership development and organizing to address the targeting of our community by the criminal law and immigration system, and our marginalization within broader social justice movements. $10,000.00 |
http://www.transgenderlawcenter.org 2017 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Liberation in Truth Social Justice Center Newark, NJ |
project to organize against hate crimes $4,360.00 |
http://litsjc.org 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Lifelines-Voices Against the Other Death Penalty Philadelphia, PA, United States |
LifeLines: Voices Against the Other Death Penalty is a media/cultural project working to end Life Without Parole in Pennsylvania by highlighting the voices and analysis of people serving LWOP sentences. $9,000.00 |
http://lifelines-project.org/ 2016 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Linking the Children of the Motherland New York, NY, USA |
Provide an opportunity for high school Filipino youth have a paid internship and training in community organizing. $10,000.00 |
http://www.ugnayanyouth.org 2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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Local Clean Energy Alliance Oakland, California, USA |
Building a strong stakeholder association of organizations in communities that are most impacted by climate change to advocate for and help shape a Community Choice energy program that provides economic, environmental, and social justice benefits to East Bay communities. $12,500.00 |
http://www.localcleanenergy.org/ 2016 Fall Community Organizing |
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Locked Up: Keys to Prison Change Philadelphia, PA |
Production of printed resource guide to prison organizing and support in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware $5,000.00 |
http://justicemonth.org/registrationform.doc 2006 Fall Education |
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Lod Storefront Advocacy Project Jerusalem, Israel |
Organizing Israeli and Palestinian Lod residents for access to resources and democratic participation $5,000.00 |
http://advocacy.org.il 2005 Fall Community Organizing |
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Long Island Jobs with Justice Hauppauge, NY, U.S.A. |
We are launching a project to organize Long Island disaster recovery workers from Superstorm Sandy, and to ensure that workers’ rights are respected on Sandy-related job sites. $10,000.00 |
http://longislandjwj.org 2013 Spring Community Organizing |
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Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) Los Angeles, CA |
"Safer People" initiative for homeless and housed area residents in community planning $5,000.00 |
http://cangress.org 2004 Fall Community Organizing |
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Louisiana Bucket Brigade New Orleans, LA |
Organize refinery neighbors around environmental justice $8,000.00 |
http://labucketbrigade.org 2009 Spring Community Organizing |
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Lower 9th Ward Homeownership Association New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America |
The L9WHA will support homeownership creation by and for neighborhood residents, using broad-based community advocacy to obtain equal and adequate services for the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. $10,000.00 |
http://www.L9WHA.org 2019 Fall Community Organizing |
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Lower Brule Research Lower Brule, SD, United States |
This pilot project supports kids, parents, and community members on a rural Native American reservation in South Dakota as they use their skills and abilities to rethink, reclaim, and rebuild their educational system. $10,000.00 |
http://lowerbruleresearch.org 2018 Spring Education |
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Lysander Puccio New York, NY |
Video equipment distributed to Palestinian Christian populations to produce a community-led documentary film $5,000.00 |
2005 Spring Community Organizing |
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Madera Vox Beacon, NY |
Recording original music-telling performance piece $4,650.00 |
http://maderavox.org 2009 Spring Music |
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Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition Blue Hill, ME, United States |
We would like support for our campaign to reinstate parole in Maine. $10,000.00 |
http://www.maineprisoneradvocacy.org/ 2018 Fall Community Organizing |
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Mariposa and the Saint Brooklyn, NY, USA |
We are seeking funding for the national tour of our play: “Mariposa & the Saint; From Solitary Confinement, A Play Through Letters,” which connects audiences to one woman’s story through her own words, then inspires them to take collective action to end solitary confinement in their state. $10,000.00 |
http://juliasteeleallen.com/mariposa 2015 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center Oakland, CA |
Teach-ins on popular economics and education $7,500.00 |
http://www.mlkfreedomcenter.org 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Maryland Justice Coalition Baltimore, MD |
State-wide organizing and advocacy training of formerly incarcerated people and their families $5,000.00 |
http://resources.childhealthcare.org 2004 Fall Community Organizing |
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Mashjar Juthour Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine |
Mashjar Juthour seeks to engage and empower Palestinian communities to learn clean, green environmental practices, therefore integrating learned methods into the domestic sphere and becoming exemplary models for a sustainable Palestine. $9,960.00 |
http://juthour.org 2014 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Massachusetts Coalition for Domestic Workers Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
Grassroots organizing and mobilization of domestic workers in Massachusetts be selected worker leaders $10,000.00 |
http://www.massdomesticworkers.org 2015 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities Lexington, MA |
First annual statewide conference, organizer and outreach, on sustainable food and renewable energy systems $4,500.00 |
http://masschc.org 2009 Spring Community Organizing |
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MataHari-Eye of the Day Boston, MA, US |
Women's Cooperative Academy & Startup Incubator $10,000.00 |
http://eyeoftheday.org 2013 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Maura Ellyn High Falls, NY |
Artist-initiated, multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural chamber music production of the Celtic Deidre myth $5,000.00 |
2006 Spring Music |
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Mayday Community Space Brooklyn, NY, USA |
Although Mayday is still in its startup phase, we’ve been working to provide movements and grassroots groups with a supportive space to organize, create, build community and maximize their impact.
$10,000.00 |
https://maydayspace.org/ 2016 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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ME2orchestra Inc Burlington, Vermont, U.S. |
Funding will be used to create and distribute a professionally-designed brochure and website for ME2/orchestra, the world's only classical music organization that uses exhilarating performances to erase the stigma surrounding mental illnesses. $7,700.00 |
http://www.ME2orchestra.org 2013 Spring Music |
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Media Island International Olympia, WA, USA |
Forming the "Cascade Radio Network" and strengthening the backbone of northwest low power community radio collaboration with a much needed strategic infrastructure project to raise the power of the KOWA antennae giving it new importance in the capitol city of Olympia. $10,000.00 |
http://www.mediaisland.org 2015 Spring Community Organizing, Education, Music |
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Media Mobilizing Project Philadelphia, PA |
Spanish-language education and media program $10,000.00 |
http://mediamobilizing.org/ 2010 Fall Community Organizing |
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Media Mobilizing Project Philadelphia, PA |
Radio Unidad, Spanish-language education and media program $10,000.00 |
http://mediamobilizing.org 2010 Fall Education, Community Organizing |
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Melissa Fogarty New York, NY |
First solo recording for soprano $5,000.00 |
http://melissafogarty.com 2003 Winter Music |