| Grants in: Music Education & Teaching Grassroots Organizing |
Grants to: Individuals |
Center for Intercultural Organizing (Portland, OR) ccross-cultural immigrant and refugee project c$7500
Communities in Support of KGIA (Brooklyn, NY) ...build support in NY to oppose anti-Arab anti-Muslim racism ...$5000
Detention Watch Network (Washington, DC) ...interactive graphic depiction of immigrant detention system ...$10,000
Foglight Collective (Portland, ME) ...fostering critical thinking on social justice issues among youth ...$7500
Green Action: Wadi Fukin Fair Trade Project (Israel) ...Israelis and Palestinians developing the Wadi Fukin Women's Association Fair Trade pickle collective ...$7700
Jocelyn Arem (Chapel Hill, NC) ...completion of oral history of Caffe Lena, a folk music institution in Saratoga Springs, NY ...$3390
The Justice Committee (NYC) ...grassroots organizing against police violence and systemic racism in NYC ...$6000
Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation (NYC) ...for archival software to manage photo collection ...$10,000
Music Box Series at Climate Theater (San Francisco, CA) ...outreach and marketing for Music Box Series ...$2500
Neighborhood Bike Works (Philadelphia, PA) ...children's science and engineering project using modern materials to build bicycles using antique bicycle designs ...$5545
Nowe Miasto (New Orleans, LA) ...To restore and reorganize a housing, arts and activist collective ...$10,000
NY Solidarity Coalition for Katrina/Rita Survivors (NYC) ...to hold a regional Survivors Assembly ...$5700
Radio Free Nashville (Nashville, TN) ...creation of a bilingual news division ...$6000
Stonewall Youth (Olympia, WA) ...speakers bureau for LGBT youth ...$10,000
Tennessee Alliance for Progress (Nashville, TN) ...mobilizing faith communities on social justice issues ...$10,000
The Jenin Freedom Theatre (Jenin, West Bank) ...music and voice training for children ...$10,000
The Nazareth Project (Lancaster, PA) ...production of Arabic language book and DVD on early childhood issues to be used in Nazareth, Israel ...$5000
Urban Tree Connection (Philadelphia, PA) ...start-up of a community farm in North Philadelphia ...$9880
U.S.-Palestine Youth Solidarity Network/Middle East Children's Alliance (San Francisco, CA) ...cultural and political exchange between indigenous youth in the U.S. and Palestine ...$7500
VAMOS Unidos (NYC) ...organizing street vendors around issues of economic justice, immigrant rights and police accountability ...$10,000
West Philly Tool Library (Philadelphia, PA) ...organizing tool lending library in low-income neighborhood ...$5000
2007 Spring Grants ($177,054):
Wise Fool... for a youth-based permaculture community garden project in New Mexico... $6,131
Voices in Wartime Education Project... for a program of art, education & film using the voices of those involved on all sides of war; to engage high school and college students in thinking about war... $6,200
Troubled Waters... for a community-produced adult and senior literacy program in Dallas, TX... $5000
The Food Project-North Shore... for a pilot program to create local, sustainable food access for elders in Lynn, Massachusetts... $8000
San Francisco Community Land Trust... to train tenant association members to self-manage housing as the final step of an anti-displacement campaign... $3,150
Rural Renewable Energy Alliance... to broaden the impact of a community-based program to make alternative power accessible to low-income families, by self-producing solar energy equipment... $10,000
Queers for Economic Justice... to create a participatory research project on issues facing low-income LGBT people in NYC... $5000
Picture the Homeless...for an Organizer Apprenticeship Program for homeless & formerly homeless community leaders in NYC... $6000
Philadelphia Teachers’ Learning Cooperative... to develop an progessive urban teacher resource/networking center... $7,360
People for Community Recovery, Inc. ... to organize and train low-income residents on housing policies of the Chicago Housing Authority... $10,000
Nodutdol for Korean Community Development... for an organization-wide planning process to develop Korean community grassroots organizing strategy... $6000
Nashville Peace & Justice Center... for a program of monthly film screenings to aid in developing of ongoing progressive dialogue/community education... $6000
Nancy du Plessis... for an interactive-video website project about Israeli peace activists... $9,563
Korean Americans Against War and Neoliberalism... to organize for the US Social Forum, andto convene US Asian activists to strategize and evaluate ongoing work... $6000
Homemade Genius, Inc.... to start up a musical development program for low-income youth, in conjunction with community arts development in Greenwood, SC... $10,000
Hawaii’s Volcano Circus... to launch a music training program, alongside its circus arts program, that engages youth, families & communities for local empowerment... $5000
Hall Family Resource Youth Services Center... for a literacy program based on monthly thematic family reading nights for families of at-risk children, and for GED exam fees for adults connected with the program. In Gray's Knob, KY... $5000
FIERCE... campaign against new, high-end neighborhood development proposals that would further displace low-income and homeless LGBT youth of color in NYC's Greenwich Village... $6000
Families Against Injustice... to educate, support and empower families of incarcerated individuals in Maryland... $5000
Encounter... bringing Jewish Diaspora leaders into contact with Palestinian life and ideas, to support new thinking about power, players and alternatives in Middle East conflict... $10,000
Education for Liberation Network... to develop a searchable, interactive online database of social studies/social justice curricula... $5000
Asian Youth Services... music program for youth drop-in center... $1,400
Army of None Project... to organize counter-recruitment and social change skills workshops in 40 communities, in conjunction with veterans and community members... $12,000
Anti-Displacement Support Committee... to support community organizing by documenting and publicizing the stories of Philadelphia residents displaced by gentrification... $10,000
Ann Arbor Teen Center (The Neutral Zone)... for the Riot Youth program, a youth-led assessment of the climate for LGBT students in their high school environments... $5,250
African Women's Coalition... to build a strong membership base to mobilize and empower African immigrant women in Portland, OR... $10,000
Hispanic Community Group of Tennesee... to establish a grassroots Hispanic organization and provide infrastructure for collective action against discrimination... $6000 + additional matching grant
Eco-Garden... capacity building in local Kenya communities for sustainable food-farming and natural resource management... $5000
Arab American Action Network ... training and empowerment for Arab American youth to fight oppression and racism in their communities, particularly the profiling and criminalization of Arab youth and Arab immigrants... $10,000
Brooklyn Grassroots Technology Project ... intensive, holistic technology support and education to grassroots organizations in Brooklyn... $10,000
Locked Up: Keys to Prison Change... for production of a printed resource guide to prison organizing and support in New Jersey, Pennsylvania & Delaware... $5,000
Great Small Works ... for development of "The Rapture Project" theater work on religious fundamentalism and U.S. political culture, and outreach to groups working on anti-fundamentalist activities... $5,000
Grassroots Organizing Works ... for people of color-led leadership capacity- and power-building for low-income and people of color communities moving toward social justice... $10,000
Dr. Ruchama Marton... for production of a documentary on the ideas and actions of radical Israeli elders who have historically agitated for peace, justice and human rights... $5,000
Al Zahraa Arab Women ... supporting and organizing Arab women in 25 rural ares of Israel, and linking participants to courses, activist groups and other resources... $5,552
Dalia Community Foundation for Palestinians... to launch a community-led Palestinian fund for grassroots work, to build democracy by fostering independence from outside donors... $9,000
National Immigrant Solidarity Network ... for a 2007 National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference building off the work and growth of immigrant organizing groups in 2006... $10,000
Women's Voice in Jaffa... for a project of the Arab-Jewish Community Center in Jaffa, initiated by young Arab women, to explore the interlink of gender and nationality oppression... $5,000
Redemption, Inc. ... for production of a pocket-size "College Readiness Blueprint" to support educational advancement and self-empowerment of underserved and marginalized youth in Brooklyn, NY... $5,000
Detroit Summer/Live Arts Media Project ... for a youth-led multi-media project, using music, interviews and poetry to support community organizing in response to Detroit's education crisis... $10,000
Olive on a Seder Plate ... for educational theater and community dialogue, focused on mainstream Jewish communities, on security and occupation in Israel/Palestine and Lebanon... $5,000 + additional matching grant
Fuerza Laboral ... for a new community organizing project of immigrant workers for justice in the workplace, in Rhode Island... $5,000
Juntos... for community organizing in Mexican towns around using remittances from workers in the US to support sustainable rural communties and build community power... $10,000
American Radio Choir ... for Music of the New World, a concert and recording recruiting singers of diverse ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds to work with a professional core... $5,000
New Family Organization ... for research, strategizing and support for mized Israeli-Palestinian families... $6,370
2006 Spring Grants ($125,208):
Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice... for a new women-led community group conducting demographic and needs assessment, and organizing, in the Nepali community in the U.S.... $5000
Alicia Dara... for a book to teach teachers how to teach children how to write songs from their own experience in Seattle, WA... $2500
Allied Media Projects... for a national strategy conference bringing together independent journalists reporting on Hurricane Katrina... $3500
Cape Fear Biofuels... for a project to pilot a biodiesel fuel reactor in Wilmington, NC... $5000
The Chinese Staff & Workers' Association... for "Break the Chains," an initiative to organize the NYC Chinese community, documented & undocumented, around immigrant rights... $5000
The Community Art Center... for a "Voices of Katrina" youth film project, put together by youth in Cambridge, MA working in the Gulf Coast... $6000
Dar al Mahabba Wassalam (Love and Peace) Association for Childhood & Motherhood... for a community support-oriented Budrus summer camp for children from rural areas of Palestine... $5000
Deirdre... for operating expenses for the production of an artist-initiated, multi-displinary, cross-cultural chamber music production of the Celtic Deirdre myth in High Falls, NY ... $5000
Digital Visions... for digital storytelling workshops for Palestinian youth in the West Bank and Israel, and Arab Jewish youth in Israel, teaching and providing equipment for youth to represent their own history to the world... $5000
Hope Street Youth Development... for "Increase the Peace," a student-led organization in which middle school youth train each other in alternatives to violence, ant-racism and community empowerment... $5000
Men's Resources International... an organization in Springfield, MA in which men inspired by feminism are organizing and training each other on ending gender violence; conducting workshops in Zambia and Nigeria... $5000
Mirabal Sisters Cultural & Community Center... for a citywide strategy conference bringing together tenants' associations in Harlem, New York City... $5000
Nessinger Golan Duo... for the development of Cycles and Sequels, a musical venture to add to the art song repertoire, choosing texts and writing songs inspired by or in response to individual songs from a known song cycle, resulting in a new cycle to be paired with the established work.... $6050
Organize Ohio... to support statewide progressive linkages in Ohio... $5000
People's Production House... for community news production building journalism skills among immigrant workers in New York City... $5000
Prison Moratorium Project... for the development of a high school curriculum in Brooklyn, NY on the prison-industrial complex and the policing of low-income youth and youth of color... $6000
The Resident Council Coalition... for a summer literacy project for at-risk indigenous children in North Las Vegas, NV... $4000
The Palestine Israel Education Project... for the development of school curriculum on Palestine based on filmmaker/activist Jackie Salloum's "Slingshot HipHop: Palestinian Lyrical Front"... $9000
Sustainable Nations Development... for Native American community training workshops on sustainable energy technology, based in Trinidad, CA... $5000
Teachers Unite... for "Sunday Teacher Motivator Meetings," a new series of meetings building a community of progressive teachers and resources for social justice... $5000
Tenants & Workers United... to provide support infrastructure for organic youth organizing spurred by the national immigration rights movement in Northern Virginia... $5000
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence/Women's Initiative for Health & Justice... for the establishment of a women's health clinic, safe space and organizing space in post-Katrina New Orleans... $10,000
Write For Your Freedom/Youth Movement Records... for a series of youth-led juvenile detention workshops, building skills, literacy and community ties, connecting incarcerated and non-incarcerated youth in Oakland, CA... $4425
Burmese Refugee Project... for a school for Shan minority refugees in Thailand... $3733
The Jack Pine Community Center... to launch an alternative media & information "infoshop," including free community space fostering radical activism, in Minneapolis, MN... $5000
Critical Resistance... to support a campaign for amnesty for people arrested for foraging food and other survival needs in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina... $5000
Alwan for the Arts ... for professional-led community workshops on Middle Eastern music... $4500
California Prison Moratorium Project... for the development of community organizing targeting the prison-industrial complex... $5000
Coalition of Immokalee Workers ... for Radio Conciencia, an immigrant worker radio station... $5000
College Works ... to promote equal access to higher education through a college/SAT prep program in Oakland, CA... $6000
Community Outreach & Advocacy for Refugees... to offer college prep for refugee communities in Arizona... $4000
Composers Collaborative ... for workshop collaborations between musicians and poets... $3000
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice ... organizing Jewish immigrant workers in NYC... $4500
Lod Storefront Advocacy Project... organizing Israeli and Palestinian Lod residents for access to resources and democratic participation... $5000
Musicians Against Sweatshops... to campaign against sweatshop-produced concert gear... $2500
New Leaf New Life ... to create the first re-entry planning service organization for prisoners in Indiana... $5000
New Hampshire Citizens Alliance... organizing immigrant communities in New Hampshire... $4910
OPAL (Organizing People, Activating Leaders)... for grassroots organizing on environmental justice issues in SE Portland, OR... $5000
San Lucas Workers Center ... for a Chicago, IL day-labor organizing project... $5000
Shaheed Mohammed ... individual support for documenting the history and struggle of South African Volkswagen plant workers... $5000
Needle in the Groove ... toward the production of "Flowers Against the Occupation," a collaboration between Palestinian girls and professional musicians... $1000
Pharoah's Daughter ... for the production of their CD using biblical texts about women and Jewish/Arab relations... $4000
Congregations Building Community ... for a small-business incubator project for low-wage-employed Latino immigrants in Windsor, CO... $3000
International Development Exchange (IDEX) ... to expand their support infrastructure for grassroots-driven local development to Nepal... $4000
Reel Grrls ... for their youth media training and production project in the Puget Sound area... $4000
Fifth Avenue Committee ... for the Union de la Comunidad Latina project to build leadership, resources and labor victories among immigrant and low-income supermarket workers, supported by Sunset Park, NY neighborhood residents across class lines... $4000
EarSay ... for a new internship program to train artist/activists in creating cross-cultural dialogue projects through the arts... $4000
Pa'Lante Public Affairs Radio Program ... a new youth-created and youth-produced bilingual radio program in Orange County, NC, focused on integrating local immigrant and established communties... $3000
Rogers Park Jobs & Economic Justice Campaign ... to staff a new project to organize unemployed area residents and build the local network of organizations around economic justice issues... $5000
The Jewish Dialogue Group:National Dialogue and Deliberation Project ... to pilot a manual for dialogue and learning within Jewish communities on the divisive issue of Israel and Palestine... $4000
Ken MacDonald, Ethnographer ... for the lauch of a grassroots organization to provide unity, safety and collective power to Pakistani porters serving the tourist mountain-climbing industry... $3,600
Free Mind Media ... to operate their new Sonoma County, CA alternative media and community center while building community-based funding strategies that will sustain the project... $4000
Community Youth Organizing Committee ... for a project to support and organize young immigrant workers in Philadelphia, PA's Chinatown garment industry, in the face of discrimination, sweatshop abuses and the offshoring of garment jobs; as well as gentrification and the displacement of affordable housing... $5000
Juan Haro/St. Cecelia's Church ... to launch Movimiento por Justicia en el Barrio, a community organization to address the intensive, high-speed gentrification of East Harlem, NY, and the problems created by gentrification for tenants, low-income people, people of color, women, immigrants and others... $5000
Birthright Unplugged ... to bring young Jewish people who have just completed Israel-discovery trips to the Palestinian territories under occupation, to meet Israeli and Palestinian community organizers, and to bridge gaps in many Jewish communities' experiences of Palestine... $5000
Center for Immigrant Families ... to staff the Project to Challenge Segregation in Our Public Schools; identifying, analyzing and combating de facto racial segregation in the New York City system... $5000
Massachusetts Global Action ... to organize US support for local efforts worldwide to prevent the privatization and corporatization of public water resources... $5000
Lysander Puccio ... for video equipment distributed to Palestinian Christian populations to produce a community-led documentary film... $5000
Andolan - South Asian Workers Organizing ... for a community organizer uniting low-income South Asian workers in New York City... $5000
Isle of Klezbos ... for Klezmer recordings including new works and blacklisted artists' work, and new approaches to placing Yiddish film in modern Jewish experience... $5000
Student Farmworker Alliance of Immokalee, FL ... for the "No Logo/Think Outside the Brand" campaign on college campuses... $5000
Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) ... for a "Safer People" initiative involving homeless and housed area residents in community planning, and challenging LA's "Safer Cities" initiative... $5000
WESPAC Foundation ... to revitalize their Middle East action group, and organize the progressive Jewish community of Westchester, NY ... $5000
I-Witness ... for preparation of video documentation of random mass arrests at 2004 Republican National Convention protests, for use at trial ... $5000
Maryland Justice Coalition ... for state-wide organizing and advocacy training of formerly incarcerated people and families of incarcerated people ... $5000
Community Voices Heard ... for a field organizer to conduct year-round voter outreach and education in East Harlem and the South Bronx, NY ... $5000
Great Small Works ... to create the Palestinian National Theater at the 2005 International Toy Theater Festival ... $4000
Nicu's Spoon Theater ... for the commissioning of a public domain score for The Little Prince ... $3000
Caffe Lena Oral History Project ... for the collection of oral histories from former patrons of Caffe Lena, a historic center of the 1960s folk music scene ... $1500
ASWAT ... Grassroots lesbian organizing in Palestine ... $5000
Anne Lewis of Voting in America/Texas Majority Minority, for the production of a video for voting registration campaigns in Latino and African American communities ... $3000
Arts at St. Ann's, for the commissioning of a new music theater work by Stephin Merritt based on the children's story Coraline ... $3000
Homocom Corporation, for the launch of Out in the World, a print-media supplement to The Gully magazine on world queer issues ... $3000
Radio Rootz, an urban youth media training center, for Community Radio Empowering Public School Youth, in conjunction with WBAI FM/Pacifica Radio ... $4000
General operating support for the Bronx Lesbian & Gay Health Resource Consortium as it expands to offer the Bronx's only LGBT community space ... $4000
For the development of Tania Leon's Son Sonora Ensemble, through 651 Arts ... $3000
Fuerza Latina, an all-volunteer immigrant justice organization, for the training of grassroots organizers from the Fort Collins, Colorado immigrant community ... $3000
Colonias Unidas, to hire a community organizer for residents of unincorporated settlements on the Texas-Mexico border ... $2000
Diane Edgecomb, storyteller, for the DBA Kurdish Storytelling Project ... to preserve the oral tradition of Kurdish communities in Turkey against erosion through loss of language, "modernization" and war ... $3000
For the production by Palestinian and Jewish grassroots activists of One Step Ahead of the Wall, a series for Palestinian TV, documenting Palestinian grassroots non-violent organizing against Israeli occupation ... $3800
Esperanza del Barrio street vendor organizing project in East Harlem, NY ... $2500 The Street Vendor Organizing project street vendor organizing project of the Urban Justice Center, NYC ... $2500
Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, to offer remedial math and English courses to men incarcerated at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, in order to qualify them for college-degree studies ... $5000
The FUREE Institute for Resistance and Equality (FIRE), training community members in political analysis and organizing skills ... $2000
Grassroots Empowerment Alliance of Rome, Georgia (GEAR) ... seed money for The Hub, a resident-led community organizing consortium, and for mapping community assets and resources ... $4000
AWAAM: Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media ... for a summer program in community organizing, anti-oppression, art and media skills for young, primarily low-income, Arab women in Brooklyn, NY ... $1200
2003 Winter Grants: ($28,000):
The Childcare Organizing Project at Families United for Racial & Economic Equality ... $5000
Community organizer for South Asian communities in NYC: Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) ... $3500
First solo recording by Melissa Fogarty, Soprano ... $5000
Reality Art Class at Projectile Arts, Inc. ... $4000
Digital Documentaries in Bronx Public Schools at Teaching Matters, Inc. ... $4000 Circus Amok's Summer Parks Tour 2004 ... $3000
Concert of newly-composed and seldom-heard music by Collegium Westchester ... $1000
"Making AIDS Coffee Table Talk Again" project at the NYC AIDS Housing Network ... $1000
New community-based youth chorus on Staten Island, at the Richmond Choral Society ... $500
Newly-commissioned Music of the Jewish & African Diasporas at the Holy Apostles Community Chorus ... $500