Grants in Community Organizing:

Center for Intercultural Organizing (Portland, OR) …cross-cultural immigrant and refugee project …Fall 2007/$7500

Communities in Support of KGIA (Brooklyn, NY) ...build support in NY to oppose anti-Arab anti-Muslim racism ...Fall 2007/$5000

Detention Watch Network (Washington, DC) ...interactive graphic depiction of immigrant detention system ...Fall 2007/$10,000

Foglight Collective (Portland, ME) ...fostering critical thinking on social justice issues among youth ...Fall 2007/$7500

Green Action: Wadi Fukin Fair Trade Project (Israel) ...Israelis and Palestinians developing the Wadi Fukin Women's Association Fair Trade pickle collective ...Fall 2007/$7700

Jocelyn Arem (Chapel Hill, NC) ...completion of oral history of Caffe Lena, a folk music institution in Saratoga Springs, NY ...Fall 2007/$3390

The Justice Committee (NYC) ...grassroots organizing against police violence and systemic racism in NYC ...Fall 2007/$6000

Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation (NYC) ...for archival software to manage photo collection ...Fall 2007/$10,000

Neighborhood Bike Works (Philadelphia, PA) ...children's science and engineering project using modern materials to build bicycles using antique bicycle designs ...Fall 2007/$5545

Nowe Miasto (New Orleans, LA) ...To restore and reorganize a housing, arts and activist collective ...Fall 2007/$10,000

NY Solidarity Coalition for Katrina/Rita Survivors (NYC) ...to hold a regional Survivors Assembly ... Fall 2007/$5700

Radio Free Nashville (Nashville, TN) ...creation of a bilingual news division ...Fall 2007/$6000

Stonewall Youth (Olympia, WA) ...speakers bureau for LGBT youth ...Fall 2007/$10,000

Tennessee Alliance for Progress (Nashville, TN) ...mobilizing faith communities on social justice issues ...Fall 2007/$10,000

The Jenin Freedom Theatre (Jenin, West Bank) ...music and voice training for children ...Fall 2007/$10,000

The Nazareth Project (Lancaster, PA) ...production of Arabic language book and DVD on early childhood issues to be used in Nazareth, Israel ...Fall 2007/$5000

Urban Tree Connection (Philadelphia, PA) ...start-up of a community farm in North Philadelphia ...Fall 2007/$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 ...Fall 2007/$7500

VAMOS Unidos (NYC) ...organizing street vendors around issues of economic justice, immigrant rights and police accountability ...Fall 2007/$10,000

West Philly Tool Library (Philadelphia, PA) ...organizing tool lending library in low-income neighborhood ...Fall 2007/$5000

The Food Project-North Shore... for a pilot program to create local, sustainable food access for elders in Lynn, Massachusetts... Spring 2007/$8000

San Francisco Community Land Trust... to train tenant association members to self-manage housing as the final step of an anti-displacement campaign... Spring 2007/$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... Spring 2007/$10,000

Queers for Economic Justice... to create a participatory research project on issues facing low-income LGBT people in NYC... Spring 2007/$5000

Picture the Homeless...for an Organizer Apprenticeship Program for homeless & formerly homeless community leaders in NYC... Spring 2007/$6000

People for Community Recovery, Inc. ... to organize and train low-income residents on housing policies of the Chicago Housing Authority... Spring 2007/$10,000

Nodutdol for Korean Community Development... for an organization-wide planning process to develop Korean community grassroots organizing strategy... Spring 2007/$6000

Nashville Peace & Justice Center... for a program of monthly film screenings to aid in developing of ongoing progressive dialogue/community education... Spring 2007/$6000

Nancy du Plessis... for an interactive-video website project about Israeli peace activists... Spring 2007/$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

Hawaii’s Volcano Circus... to launch a music training program, alongside its circus arts program, that engages youth, families & communities for local empowerment... Spring 2007/$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... Spring 2007/$6000

Families Against Injustice... to educate, support and empower families of incarcerated individuals in Maryland... Spring 2007/$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... Spring 2007/$10,000

Asian Youth Services... music program for youth drop-in center... Spring 2007/$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... Spring 2007/$12,000

Anti-Displacement Support Committee... to support community organizing by documenting and publicizing the stories of Philadelphia residents displaced by gentrification... Spring 2007/$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... Spring 2007/$5,250

African Women’s Coalition... to build a strong membership base to mobilize and empower African immigrant women in Portland, OR... Spring 2007/$10,000

Hispanic Community Group of Tennesee... to establish a grassroots Hispanic organization and provide infrastructure for collective action against discrimination... Fall 2006/$6000 + additional matching grant

Eco-Garden... capacity building in local Kenya communities for sustainable food-farming and natural resource management... Fall 2006/$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... Fall 2006/$10,000

Brooklyn Grassroots Technology Project ... intensive, holistic technology support and education to grassroots organizations in Brooklyn... Fall 2006/$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... Fall 2006/$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... Fall 2006/$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... Fall 2006/$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... Fall 2006/$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... Fall 2006/$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... Fall 2006/$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... Fall 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... Fall 2006/$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... Fall 2006/$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... Fall 2006/$5,000 + additional matching grant

Fuerza Laboral ... for a new community organizing project of immigrant workers for justice in the workplace, in Rhode Island... Fall 2006/$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... Fall 2006/$10,000

New Family Organization ... for research, strategizing and support for mized Israeli-Palestinian families... Fall 2006/$6,370

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.... Spring 2006/$5000

Allied Media Projects... for a national strategy conference bringing together independent journalists reporting on Hurricane Katrina... Spring 2006/$3500

Cape Fear Biofuels... for a project to pilot a biodiesel fuel reactor in Wilmington, NC... Spring 2006/$5000

The Chinese Staff & Workers' Association... for "Break the Chains," an initiative to organize the NYC Chinese community, documented & undocumented, around immigrant rights... Spring 2006/$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... Spring 2006/$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... Spring 2006/$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... Spring 2006/$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... Spring 2006/$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... Spring 2006/$5000

Mirabal Sisters Cultural & Community Center... for a citywide strategy conference bringing together tenants' associations in Harlem, New York City... Spring 2006/$5000

Organize Ohio... to support statewide progressive linkages in Ohio... Spring 2006/$5000

People's Production House... for community news production building journalism skills among immigrant workers in New York City... Spring 2006/$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... Spring 2006/$6000

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"... Spring 2006/$9000

Sustainable Nations Development... for Native American community training workshops on sustainable energy technology, based in Trinidad, CA... Spring 2006/$5000

Tenants & Workers United... to provide support infrastructure for organic youth organizing spurred by the national immigration rights movement in Northern Virginia... Spring 2006/$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... Spring 2006/$10,000

The Jack Pine Community Center... to launch an alternative media & information "infoshop," including free community space fostering radical activism, in Minneapolis, MN... Fall 2005/$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... Fall 2005/$5000

Alwan for the Arts ... for professional-led community workshops on Middle Eastern music... Fall 2005/$4500

California Prison Moratorium Project... for the development of community organizing targeting the prison-industrial complex... Fall 2005/$5000

Coalition of Immokalee Workers ... for Radio Conciencia, an immigrant worker radio station... Fall 2005/$5000

Jews for Racial & Economic Justice ... organizing Jewish immigrant workers in NYC... Fall 2005/$4500

Lod Storefront Advocacy Project... organizing Israeli and Palestinian Lod residents for access to resources and democratic participation... Fall 2005/$5000

Musicians Against Sweatshops... to campaign against sweatshop-produced concert gear... Fall 2005/$2500

New Leaf New Life ... to create the first re-entry planning service organization for prisoners in Indiana... Fall 2005/$5000

New Hampshire Citizens Alliance... organizing immigrant communities in New Hampshire... Fall 2005/$4910

OPAL (Organizing People, Activating Leaders)... for grassroots organizing on environmental justice issues in SE Portland, OR... Fall 2005/$5000

San Lucas Workers Center ... for a Chicago, IL day-labor organizing project... Fall 2005/$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... Fall 2005/$1000

Congregations Building Community ... for a small-business incubator project for low-wage-employed Latino immigrants in Windsor, CO... Spring 2005/$3000

International Development Exchange (IDEX) ... to expand their support infrastructure for grassroots-driven local development to Nepal... Spring 2005/$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... Spring 2005/$4000

EarSay ... for a new internship program to train artist/activists in creating cross-cultural dialogue projects through the arts... Spring 2005/$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... Spring 2005/$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... Spring 2005/$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... Spring 2005/$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... Spring 2005/$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... Spring 2005/$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... Spring 2005/$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... Spring 2005/$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... Spring 2005/$5000

Massachusetts Global Action ... to organize US support for local efforts worldwide to prevent the privatization and corporatization of public water resources... Spring 2005/$5000

Lysander Puccio ... for video equipment distributed to Palestinian Christian populations to produce a community-led documentary film... Spring 2005/$5000

Andolan - South Asian Workers Organizing ... for a community organizer uniting low-income South Asian workers in New York City... Fall 2004/$5000

Student Farmworker Alliance of Immokalee, FL ... for the "No Logo/Think Outside the Brand" campaign on college campuses... Fall 2004/$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... Fall 2004/$5000

WESPAC Foundation ... to revitalize their Middle East action group, and organize the progressive Jewish community of Westchester, NY ... Fall 2004/$5000

I-Witness ... for preparation of video documentation of random mass arrests at 2004 Republican National Convention protests, for use at trial ... Fall 2004/$5000

Maryland Justice Coalition ... for state-wide organizing and advocacy training of formerly incarcerated people and families of incarcerated people ... Fall 2004/$5000

Community Voices Heard ... for a field organizer to conduct year-round voter outreach and education in East Harlem and the South Bronx, NY ...Fall 2004/ $5000

Great Small Works ... to create the Palestinian National Theater at the 2005 International Toy Theater Festival ... Fall 2004/$4000

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 ... Fall 2004/$1500

ASWAT ... Grassroots lesbian organizing in Palestine ... Summer 2004/$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 ... Summer 2004/$3000

Homocom Corporation, for the launch of Out in the World, a print-media supplement to The Gully magazine on world queer issues ... Summer 2004/$3000

Radio Rootz, an urban youth media training center, for Community Radio Empowering Public School Youth, in conjunction with WBAI FM/Pacifica Radio ... Summer 2004/$4000

General operating support for the Bronx Lesbian & Gay Health Resource Consortium as it expands to offer the Bronx's only LGBT community space ... Summer 2004/$4000

Fuerza Latina, an all-volunteer immigrant justice organization, for the training of grassroots organizers from the Fort Collins, Colorado immigrant community ... Summer 2004/$3000

Colonias Unidas, to hire a community organizer for residents of unincorporated settlements on the Texas-Mexico border ... Summer 2004/$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 ... Summer 2004/$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 ... Summer 2004/$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 ... Summer 2004/$2500

The FUREE Institute for Resistance and Equality (FIRE), training community members in political analysis and organizing skills ... Summer 2004/$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 ... Summer 2004/$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 ... Summer 2004/$1200

The Childcare Organizing Project at Families United for Racial & Economic Equality ... Winter 2003/$5000

Community organizer for South Asian communities in NYC: Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) ... Winter 2003/$3500

Circus Amok's Summer Parks Tour 2004 ... Winter 2003/$3000

"Making AIDS Coffee Table Talk Again" project at the NYC AIDS Housing Network ... Winter 2003/$1000