Past Grants
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Melissa Fogarty New York, NY |
First solo recording for soprano $5,000.00 |
http://melissafogarty.com 2003 Winter Music |
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Men's Resources International Springfield, MA |
Feminist men providing training on ending gender violence in Zambia and Nigeria $5,000.00 |
http://mensresourcesinternational.org 2006 Spring Education, Community Organizing |
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Metrowest Worker Center-Casa del Trabajador Framingham , MA, USA |
To develop a membership structure, worker-owned co-ops and an ally support network $10,000.00 |
2012 Spring Community Organizing |
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Mighty Writers Philadelphia, PA, United States of America |
Philadelphia teens create an Internet radio station to report on their communities, broadcast their writing and express their thoughts. $8,334.00 |
http://www.mightywriters.org 2012 Fall Education |
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Migrant Justice Burlington, Vermont, USA |
The Human RIghts Promoters (Promotores) program will provide farmworker-to-farmworker educational sessions to workers in Vermont’s dairy industry. Migrant Justice will train promotores to travel to dairy farms and educate workers on their labor and housing rights in the Milk with Dignity program.
$10,000.00 |
http://www.migrantjustice.net 2014 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Migrant Justice Burlington, Vermont |
The Human Rights Promoters program will travel to dairy farms providing farmworker-to-farmworker education to workers in Vermont’s dairy industry on their labor and housing rights in the Milk with Dignity program. $15,000.00 |
2016 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Mijente Phoenix, AZ, USA |
Start-up support for Mijente to serve as a hybrid digital and grassroots organizing hub with the goal of driving immigrant and U.S. born Latinx and Chicanx people to take action for racial, economic, climate and gender justice.
$10,000.00 |
http://mijente.net 2016 Spring Community Organizing |
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Milwaukee Area Time Exchange Milwaukee, WI |
training and stipend for organizers $10,000.00 |
http://mketimeexchange.org 2010 Fall Community Organizing |
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Milwaukee Water Commons Milwaukee, WI , USA |
This grant will support the Milwaukee Community Water Assembly, a community engagement program being incubated by MWC to bring community stakeholders together to build community participation and commitment on water issues affecting Milwaukee’s low-income communities and communities of color. $12,000.00 |
http://www.milwaukeewatercommons.org 2018 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Min Ajliki (Awareness for You) Kuffr Qara, Israel |
Research on status of Arab women citizens of Israel $1,900.00 |
2010 Spring Education, Community Organizing |
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Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center New York, NY |
Citywide strategy conference for tenants' associations $5,000.00 |
http://mensresourcesinternational.org 2006 Spring Community Organizing |
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Missouri Association for Social Welfare Jefferson City, MO |
Human rights task force for immigrants and LGBT people $5,400.00 |
http://masw.org 2009 Spring Community Organizing |
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Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates St. Louis, MO |
Know Your Rights presentations and raid response teams $6,000.00 |
http://mira-mo.or 2009 Spring Community Organizing |
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Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Kansas City, MO, USA |
We seek to educate Missourians about the ramifications of serving on a capital jury, by strategically targeting regions in which potential jurors are disproportionately likely to face death penalty cases, and to empower all communities to access their constitutional right to serve on a jury. $5,000.00 |
http://www.madpmo.org 2018 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Workshops for Mizrahi Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel, POB 11518, Tel Aviv 6115, Israel |
New Israel Fund, 330 Seventh Avenue, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10001-5010 $5,667.00 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wikik/Miazrahi_Democratic_Rainbow_Coalition 2010 Spring |
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Momenta Quartet Bronx, NY, United States |
The Momenta Quartet will commission Elizabeth Brown to compose “Babel” for string quartet, electronic sound, and video/sculpture installation, and Frances White to compose “The book of evening” for string quartet and shakuhachi. $10,000.00 |
http://www.momentaquartet.com 2018 Fall Music |
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Mondoweiss Jackson Heights, NY |
Capacity-buiding for educational and news analysis website on the Middle East $10,000.00 |
http://mondoweiss.net 2009 Fall Education, Community Organizing |
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Mosaic Makers Inc. Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
Collaborating with impoverished W. Baltimore neighborhoods to create murals as a strategy to control their community and redirect the drug trade by creating mosaic murals $5,000.00 |
http://mosaicmakers.org 2013 Spring Community Organizing |
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Movement for Justice in El Barrio New York, NY, USA |
To initiate the first community organizing institute with a fully bilingual/bicultural curriculum and practicum. |
2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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Movement for Justice in El Barrio New York, NY, USA |
A new organizing project to defend immigrants’ rights in the wake of the xenophobic, racist, sexist, homophobic campaign/election of Trump & increased hate crimes against immigrants in E Harlem, bringing together targeted communities including immigrant women, women of color & LGBTQI folks citywide. $15,000.00 |
2017 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Movement of Immigrant Leaders in Pennsylvania-MILPA Yeadon, Pennsylvania, United States |
Our principle focus is changing the law to allow drivers licenses for undocumented Pennsylvanians, and building the community network infrastructure (local committees, statewide coordination, community sustainership and education program) that is the foundation of our collective power. $15,000.00 |
https://milpa.nationbuilder.com/ 2016 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Movimiento Cosecha Boston, MA, United States |
Cosecha’s “Drive Without Fear” campaigns are developing immigrant leaders through local legislative battles that are mobilizing the undocumented community nationwide. Cosecha circles in 5 states are fighting to win both licenses and no arrests for driving sans license on the state and county levels. $16,000.00 |
http://manejandosinmiedo.com/home 2019 Spring Community Organizing |
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Movimiento por Justicia en el Barrio New York, NY |
Community organizing to address the high-speed gentrification of East Harlem $5,000.00 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_Justice_in_el_Barrio 2005 Spring Community Organizing |
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Music 4 More Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
Music 4 My Classroom website and database development. $5,000.00 |
http://www.music4more.org 2012 Spring Community Organizing, Music |
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Music Box Series at Climate Theatre San Francisco, CA |
Outreach and marketing for Music Box Series $2,500.00 |
http://climatetheater.org 2007 Fall Music |
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Music Team San Francisco San Francisco, California, United States |
Hiring a development consultant. $4,800.00 |
https://sparkplugfoundation.org/www.musicteamsf.org. 2012 Spring Education |
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Musicians Against Sweatshops Washington, DC |
Campaign against sweatshop-produced concert gear $2,500.00 |
http://myspace.com/musiciansagainstsweatshop 2005 Fall Community Organizing |
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Muslim Justice League Boston, MA, United States |
Cultivation of action committees -- focusing on health justice, education justice and other sectors -- to advocate against so-called "Countering Violent Extremism" (CVE) campaigns which target Muslim and other marginalized groups and police dissent. $13,338.00 |
http://www.muslimjusticeleague.org 2016 Spring Community Organizing |
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Mycelium Youth Network Oakland, CA, United States |
Mycelium Youth Network educates young people on building sustainable communities using holistic, sustainable, and ancestrally grounded hands-on training in order to maintain personal and environmental health in the face of climate change. We empower future ecological leaders, today. $6,000.00 |
https://www.myceliumyouthnetwork.org/ 2018 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Nancy du Plessis New York, NY |
Interactive video website project with Israeli peace activists $9,563.00 |
2003 Winter Community Organizing |
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Nashville Homeless Power Project Nashville, NY |
Freedom school and community organizer training $10,000.00 |
http://homelesspower.org 2008 Spring Education, Community Organizing |
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National Immigrant Solidarity Network South Pasadena, CA |
For national strategy conference $10,000.00 |
http://immigrantsolidarity.org/ 2006 Fall Community Organizing |
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National Mobilization Against Sweatshops New York, NY |
Organize against Bloomberg Lower East Side redevelopment plan $7,500.00 |
http://nmass.org 2008 Fall Community Organizing |
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National Students for Justice in Palestine Brooklyn, NY, United States |
This project entails the production of a broad investigative report on normalization and Palestine activism on campus, and development of normalization resources for students and student groups. $7,600.00 |
http://sjpnational.org/ 2014 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Nawa for Culture and Arts Association Deir el -Balah, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Palestine |
To purchase children library materials for the children library in Deir el Balah, mid of the Gaza Strip in Al-Khidr Monastery (1700 years) which is expected to be restored by the Riwaq Center in May 2015. Nawa for Culture and Arts already guaranteed the financial resources for the furniture. $10,000.00 |
https://www.facebook.com/Nawa.association 2015 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Neel Murgai Ensemble Saugerties, NY |
Recording for cross-cultural composition for sitar, tabla and string quartet $5,000.00 |
http://neelmurgai.com Music |
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Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality Omer, Israel |
The development of an online resource center designed to confront the many myths and misconceptions about the Arab Bedouin community in the southern desert region of Israel, the Negev. $9,444.00 |
http://www.dukium.org 2012 Spring Community Organizing |
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Neighborhood Bike Works Philadelphia, PA |
Children's science and engineering project using modern materials to build bicycles using antique bicycle designs $5,545.00 |
http://neighborhoodbikeworks.org 2007 Fall Education |
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Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation Syracuse, NY, United States |
The Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign is an educational and advocacy project to develop a broad alliance between the Haudenosaunee and New York State residents with the goals of honoring native treaties and protecting the Earth. $10,000.00 |
http://www.honorthetworow.org 2012 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Nessinger Golan Duo New York, NY |
"Cycles and Sequels," musical cycle paired with existing work $6,050.00 |
http://golan.knottyknotty.com/cycles-sequels.html 2006 Spring Music |
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New Energy Economy Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States |
A new organizing and advocacy campaign to develop a unique model of energy choice in NM that will transform and enable communities to exercise their rights to pursue renewable energy alternatives through a combination of municipal energy policy and statewide community choice aggregation legislation $15,000.00 |
http://newenergyeconomy.org 2015 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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New Family Tel Aviv, Israel |
Research, strategizing ad support for mixed Israeli-Palestinian families $6,370.00 |
http://newfamily.org.il/en 2006 Fall Community Organizing |
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New Hampshire Citizens Alliance Concord, NH |
Organizing immigrant communities in New Hampshire $4,910.00 |
http://nhcitizensalliance.org/ 2005 Fall Community Organizing |
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New Labor Education and Training Institute New Brunswick, NJ, USA |
The Temp Tows for Justice Campaign will fight to improve conditions for temp workers in NJ by developing leaders to police the local temp/warehouse market through worker councils, creating worker health and safety committees with temp workers, and passing statewide legislation of temp agencies. $15,000.00 |
http://www.newlabor.org 2017 Spring Community Organizing |
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New Leaf New Life Bloomington, IN |
Creation of first re-entry planning service organization for prisoners in Indiana $5,000.00 |
http://newleaf-newlife.org 2005 Fall Community Organizing |
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New Settlement Parent Action Committee Bronx, New York , USA |
The District 9 New Teacher Mentoring Initiative is an innovative initiative coordinated by the New Settlement Parent Action Committee (PAC) that will train teacher mentors and pilot community-led professional development for educators on family engagement in a struggling Bronx District. $10,000.00 |
https://www.facebook.com/#!/ParentAction 2014 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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New Start Project Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States of America |
Mentor and move re-entry residents and allies to action using their first hand experience to organize for increased access to housing and employment resources and advocate for the creation of just re-entry policies. $10,000.00 |
http://www.newstartproject.org 2015 Fall Community Organizing |
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New Vision Taxi Drivers Association Miami, FL, USA |
Participatory Action Research with Miami-Dade County Taxi Drivers $5,000.00 |
2013 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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New York Street Opera New York, NY |
Series of one-hour narrated versions of Mozart operas $3,000.00 |
http://nystreetopera.com 2009 Spring Community Organizing |
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New Yorkers Against the Cornell-Technion Partnership New York, NY, USA |
bi-weekly Google protests + Roosevelt Island expansion $4,000.00 |
http://nyact.net 2013 Spring Community Organizing |