Past Grants
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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 |
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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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Nashville Sunrise Movement Nashville, TN, US |
The Nashville Sunrise Movement will organize a state-wide conference and training to strengthen existing and emerging Sunrise Movement hubs across the state of Tennessee and build necessary skills in youth activists to effectively combat climate change and fight for social justice. $10,000.00 |
https://sunrisenashtn.carrd.co/ 2020 Fall 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 |