Past Grants
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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 |
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Next Step Community Organizing Project Edison, NJ |
Coalition-building and organizing people with disabilities $2,985.00 |
2009 Spring Community Organizing |
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Nicu's Spoon Theater New York, NY |
Support productions of socially-relevant theatrical works $3,000.00 |
http://spoontheater.org 2004 Fall Community Organizing |
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Nistha Raj Trio Washington, DC |
Recording of cross-cultural collaboration between Hindustani Classical Violin, Progressive Hip Hop (Human Beatbox), and Post-Classical Cello. $7,000.00 |
http://www.nistharaj.com 2012 Spring Music |
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Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson Poughkeepsie, NY, United States |
Purchase of materials (printer, ink, paper, shirts, yard signs, gas, etc.) to facilitate internal education and a recruitment push designed to cultivate particular member-leaders, double our membership, and increase our geographic range in order to make the organization self-sustaining. $3,000.00 |
http://nobodyleavesmidhudson.org/ 2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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NorCal Resist SACRAMENTO, CA, US |
The building of a community and impacted-person oriented and led solidarity network, to ensure that trans and queer asylum seekers have culturally competent homes, and access to legal, medical, educational, and emotional support and assistance. $10,000.00 |
https://www.norcalresist.weebly.com 2019 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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North End Woodward Community Coalition Detroit, MI, USA |
Our grant would fund the purchase of software and salaries of both a project manager to organize resident members to operate the station and a grassroots fundraising advisor to build capacity of resident members to create awareness and engage community in participating in and creating programming. $7,000.00 |
http://northendwoodward.org 2014 Fall Community Organizing |
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NY Solidarity Coalition for Katrina/Rita Survivors New York, NY |
To hold a regional Survivors Assembly $5,700.00 |
2007 Fall Community Organizing |
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NYC AIDS Housing Network New York, NY |
"Making AIDS Coffee Table Talk Again" project $1,000.00 |
http://ocal-ny.org 2003 Winter Community Organizing |
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Ohio Community Rights Network Broadview Heights, Ohio, USA |
Our Organizing Workshops are part of our Growing Roots & Rights for Just Communities Project to advance democratic and environmental rights across the state. The Workshops will empower residents, providing them with organizing skills and tools to create the just communities they envision. $7,000.00 |
http://ohcommunityrights.org 2018 Spring Community Organizing |
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Ohlone Profiles Project san francisco, California, United States |
Native Plants _and_ Native Culture: Ohlone tribal song groups will learn to restore native plants and bring their planting songs and dances to Candlestick Park, near 16 village sites, and take a step towards inclusion in Park and Rec. jobs with a tribal economic development plan for San Francisco. $10,000.00 |
http://www.ohloneprofiles.org 2016 Spring Community Organizing, Education, Music |
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Olive on a Seder Plate New York, NY |
Theater and community dialogue directed to mainstream Jewish communities on Israel/Palestine and Lebanon $5,000.00 |
2006 Fall Education, Community Organizing |
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ONE DC Organizing Neighborhood Equity Washington, DC |
Weekly workshops in digital storytelling to facilitate multi-ethnic organizing $3,000.00 |
http://onedconline.org 2009 Spring Education, Community Organizing |
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Operation Welcome Home Madison, WI |
Leadership and training for homeless activists $5,000.00 |
http://operationwelcomehome.wordpress.com 2008 Spring Community Organizing |
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Organized and United for Respect at Vanderbilt Nashville, TN, United States |
Organizing a worker-led movement for economic justice at Vanderbilt University $9,000.00 |
http://ourvandy.org 2013 Fall Community Organizing |
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Organizing Apprenticeship Project Minneapolis, Minnesota , USA |
This will support support work with community partners in organizing youth and parents of color to engage in equity assessment and planning process with a set of schools in up to five districts in Minnesota, as part of a larger effort to create new equity standard for schools in our state. $4,500.00 |
http://oaproject.org 2013 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Organizing People, Activating Leaders Portland, OR |
Grassroots organizing on environmental justice issues $5,000.00 |
http://opalpdx.org 2005 Fall Community Organizing |
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Palestine Action Committee of Texas-PACT Dallas, TX, United States |
To build a sustainable pro-Palestinian agenda in Texas, leveraging national resources to provide a series of comprehensive education workshops. $15,000.00 |
2019 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Palestine Solidarity Project New York, NY |
Training and material on non-violent methods for dealing with Israeli Occupation and for building civil society in West Bank of Palestine $7,000.00 |
http://palestinesolidarityproject.org 2008 Fall Community Organizing |