Grants in Education & Teaching:

Arab Women in the Center (Neve Shalom, Israel) ...Outreach material for Arab women organizing against domestic violence in mixed Israeli cities ...Fall 2009 / $7000

Arizona Literacy & Learning (Phoenix, AZ) ...Summer reading camp for pre-kindergartners and kindergartners ...Fall 2009 / $6100

People Organized to Win Employment Rights (San Francisco, CA) ...Research and organizing against "zero tolerance" policies affecting low-income students of color ...Fall 2009 / $5230

Thelma Clarke Org. for Youth Advancement (Detroit, MI) ...Development of an education resource center ...Fall 2009 / $4600

ONE DC Organizing Neighborhood Equity (Washington, DC ) ...Weekly workshops in digital storytellng to facilitate multiethnic organizing ...Spring 2009 / $3000

We Teach Science Foundation (Burlingame, CA) After school free interactive onling math tutoring/mentoring ...Spring 2009 / $7452

Africa Project (Chapel Hill, NC) ...Resource materials and tutoring at new ESL center for NC African immigrants ...Spring 2009 / $5000

Preserving Our Southern Appalachian Music (Pickens, SC) ...Extended teaching young children to play bluegrass ...Spring 2009 / $2500

CASOE Group (Detroit, MI) ...Music education workshop for at-risk Detroit youth ...Spring 2009 / $5000

Palestine Solidarity Project (New York, NY) ...Training and material on non-violent methods for dealing with the Israeli occupation and for building civil society in the West Bank of Palestine ...Fall 2008 / $7,000

Zochrot (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel) ...Train Israeli teachers to use Zochrot materials about the Nakba ...Fall 2008 / $7,837

War Resisters League (New York, NY) ...Create a manual for GI war resisters, their families and civilian allies ...Fall 2008 / $3,000

Arctic Angels Youth Poetry Workshop (Anchorage, AK) ...Poetry workshops for at risk youth in Alaska ...Fall 2008 / $5,000

Iridescent (Los Angeles, CA) ...Parent child science education workshops for underserved children in Los Angeles ...Fall 2008 / $4,500

Research Journalism Initiative - Nablus Open Media Ctr (Denver, CO) ...Create Open Media Center in Nablus, producing documentaries for US and Swedish schools ...Fall 2008 / $7,000

Rush Initiative (Birmingham, AL) ...Teaching parents to tutor their preK children ...Fall 2008 / $7,000

Will Work 4 Kids (Ringgold, GA) ...Youth created jazz curriculum and monthly radio program ...Fall 2008 / $5,710

Syracuse Alliance for a New Economy (Syracuse, NY) ...Civic leadership institute ...Spring 2008 / $6616

Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture (Flagstaff, AZ) ...Course to build skills in permaculture design ...Spring 2008 / $3,000

Al-Taj for Health and Heritage (Arraba, ISRAEL) ...Printing first palliative care manual in Arabic for Palestinian citizens of Israel ...Spring 2008 / $10,000

DARI Project (Jackson Heights, NY) ...Publication of resource book by and for LGBT Korean-Americans ...Spring 2008 / $5000

Black Mothers' Breastfeeding Association (Detroit, MI) ...Monthly workshops to promote breastfeeding in African American community ...Spring 2008 / $5000

Bedouin Association for Education and Health Development (Tabieh, ISRAEL) ...Improve educational levels of Bedouins in Taibeh, Israel ...Spring 2008 / $10,000

Al-Taj for Health and Heritage (Arraba, ISRAEL) ...Printing first palliative care manual in Arabic for Palestinian citizens of Israel ...Spring 2008 / $10,000

Hudson Valley Community Radio, Inc. (Dobbs Ferry, NY) ... Signal enhancement project ..Spring 2008 / $10,000

Wise Fool... for a youth-based permaculture community garden project in New Mexico... Spring 2007/$6,131

Troubled Waters... for a community-produced adult and senior literacy program in Dallas, TX... Spring 2007/$5000

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... Spring 2007/$6,200

Philadelphia Teachers’ Learning Cooperative... to develop an progessive urban teacher resource/networking center... Spring 2007/$7,360

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... Spring 2007/$5000

Education for Liberation Network... to develop a searchable, interactive online database of social studies/social justice curricula... Spring 2007/$5000

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... Fall 2006/$5,000

Alicia Dara... for a book to teach teachers how to teach children how to write songs from their own experience in Seattle, WA... Spring 2006/$2500

The Resident Council Coalition... for a summer literacy project for at-risk indigenous children in North Las Vegas, NV... Spring 2006/$4000

Teachers Unite... for "Sunday Teacher Motivator Meetings," a new series of meetings building a community of progressive teachers and resources for social justice... Spring 2006/$5000

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... Spring 2006/$4425

Burmese Refugee Project... for a school for Shan minority refugees in Thailand... Spring 2006/$3733

College Works ... to promote equal access to higher education through a college/SAT prep program in Oakland, CA... Fall 2005/$6000

Community Outreach & Advocacy for Refugees... to offer college prep for refugee communities in Arizona... Fall 2005/$4000

Reel Grrls ... for their youth media training and production project in the Puget Sound area... Spring 2005/$4000

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... Spring 2005/$5000

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 ... Summer 2004/$5000

Reality Art Class at Projectile Arts, Inc. ... Winter 2003/$4000

Digital Documentaries in Bronx Public Schools at Teaching Matters, Inc. ... $4000

Grants in Community Organizing:

Alliance for GLBTQ Youth (North Miami, FL) ...Creation of countywide youth council for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth ...Fall 2009 / $8740

Arab Women in the Center (Neve Shalom, Israel) ...Outreach material for Arab women organizing against domestic violence in mixed Israeli cities ...Fall 2009 / $7000

Barbara Jordan/Bayard Rustin Coalition (West Hollywood, CA) ...Create statewide Black LGBT network ...Fall 2009 / $5000

Bronx ATI Committee (Bronx, NY) ...Establish Bronx Alternative-to-Incarceration Committee ...Fall 2009 / $4940

Build a Better Austin Coalition (Austin, TX) ...Coaltion of workers, responsible employers, unions, faith-based and community organizations to improve conditions for construction workers ...Fall 2009 / $10,000

Cape Ann Farmers Market (Gloucester, MA) ...Training and resource guide on sustainable urban farming ...Fall 2009 / $6000

Center for Immigrant Families (New York, NY) ...Organizing low-income parents of color against high-stakes testing ...Fall 2009 / $10,000

Combatants for Peace (Beit Yehoshua, Israel) ...Documenting personal testimonies of Palestinian and Israeli former combatants ...Fall 2009 / $9850

Family Arts Bridge Camp (FAB Camp) (Berkeley, CA) ...Leadership and training for counselors in camp for GLBTQ families ...Fall 2009 / $4600

Habitat Map (New York, NY) ...Technical suport and outreach for community mapping workshops ...Fall 2009 / $6000

Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy (El Paso, TX) ...Low-income worker center ...Fall 2009 / $7000

Mondoweiss (Jackson Heights, NY) ...Capacity-building for educational and news analysis website on the Middle East ...Fall 2009 / $10,000

People Organized to Win Employment Rights (San Francisco, CA) ...Research and organizing against "zero tolerance" policies affecting low-income students of color ...Fall 2009 / $5230

Sophia's Circle (Las Cruces, NM) ...Conference to link women's coops along the US-Mexican border ...Fall 2009 / $2000

SOUL (Oakland, CA) ...Multi-lingual multi-racial training program for organizers in low-income communities of color ...Fall 2009 / $8000

Survivors Inc (Chestnut Hill, MA) ...Outreach and capacity-building project for welfare-rights organization ...Fall 2009 / $5000

The Grapevine Families Community Resource Ctr. (Antrim, NH) ...Capacity-building for grassroots community organization ...Fall 2009 / $5000

Thelma Clarke Org. for Youth Advancement (Detroit, MI) ...Development of an education resource center ...Fall 2009 / $4600

United Workers Association (Baltimore, MD) ...Low-wage worker-led radio project ...Fall 2009 / $3000

Visible Community (Lewiston, ME) ...Housing rights organizing in Lewiston, ME ...Spring 2009 / $5000

Rebuilding Alliance (Palo Alto, CA) ...Repair damaged Gaza homes w/materials from Other Voices in Sderot ...Spring 2009 / $10,000

Queer Youth of Color -- Freedom Inc (Madison, WI) ...Education, leadership & organizing development for QYOC ...Spring 2009 / $6000

Next Step Community Organizing Project (Edison, NJ) ...Coalition-building and organizing "people with disabilities and other devalued folks" ...Spring 2009 / $2985

Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities (Lexington, MA) ...First annual statewide conference--organizer & outreach--on sustainable food and renewable energy systems ...Spring 2009 / $4500

Missouri Assoc. for Social Welfare (Jefferson City, MO) ...Human rights task force for immigrants and LGBT ...Spring 2009 / $5400

Missouri Immigrant & Refugee Advocates (St. Louis, MO) ...Know Your Rights presentations & raid response teams ...Spring 2009 / $6000

Louisiana Bucket Brigade (New Orleans, LA) ...Organize refinery neighbors around environmental justice goals ...Spring 2009 / $8000

Coffee Strong (Olympia, WA) ...Launch and conduct an organizing/resistance campaign for Stop-Lossed soldiers ...Spring 2009 / $10000

Comet-me (Tel Aviv, Israel) ...Development of NGO in South Hebron Hills for energy self-sufficiency ...Spring 2009 / $6750

Coleman Center for the Arts (York, AL) ...One-mile community garden and teaching project on small-scale organic food production ...Spring 2009 / $3000

Iraqi Student Project (South Bend, IN) ...Grant writing expertise, fundraising training for local coordinators ...Spring 2009 / $10,000

ONE DC Organizing Neighborhood Equity (Washington, DC ) ...Weekly workshops in digital storytellng to facilitate multiethnic organizing ...Spring 2009 / $3000

Africa Project (Chapel Hill, NC) ...Resource materials and tutoring at new ESL center for NC African immigrants ...Spring 2009 / $5000

National Mobilization Against Sweat Shops (New York, NY) ...Organize against Bloomberg Lower East Side redevelopment plan ...Fall 2008 / $7,500

BAY-Peace (Oakland, CA) ...Summer training program for military counter recruitment organizers ...Fall 2008 / $5,600

Comite en Defensa del Pueblo (Columbus, NM) ...Create community organization in a New Mexico border town, beginning with access to water ...Fall 2008 / $5,475

Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign (Minneapolis, MN) ...Build on a nascent coalition of low income groups in Minnesota ...Fall 2008 / $10,000

Community Radio Collective WFTE - FM (Scranton, PA) ...Start up progressive community radio station in Scranton, PA ...Fall 2008 / $10,000

Youth Resistance Project (Minneapolis, MN) ...Youth led military counter recruitment program in Minnesota ...Fall 2008 / $9,450

Volunteers for Hancock Jail Residents (Blue Hill, ME) ...Initial survey to develop a post release center in Hancock County, Maine ...Fall 2008 / $5,000

Centro Campesino (Owatonna, MN) ...Create a Latino Youth Action Network for Southern Minnesota ...Fall 2008 / $5,000

Zochrot (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel) ...Train Israeli teachers to use Zochrot materials about the Nakba ...Fall 2008 / $7,837

War Resisters League (New York, NY) ...Create a manual for GI war resisters, their families and civilian allies ...Fall 2008 / $3,000

Tenants and Neighbors (New York, NY) ...Immigrant tenant empowerment project ...Spring 2008 / $5000

Picture the Homeless (Bronx, NY) ...Broadening capacity of homeless people to contribute to social justice ...Spring 2008 / $9000

Friends of Justice (Arlington, TX) ...Interfaith outreach to build "Common Peace Agenda" ...Spring 2008 / $6500

Courage to Resist (Oakland, CA) ...Organizing GI resistance to occupation of Iraq ...Spring 2008 / $5000

Reconstruction, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA) ...Youth project to prevent incarceration ...Spring 2008 / $7000

Beyondmedia Media Education (Chicago, IL) ...Media activism by formerly incarcerated young women in Chicago...Spring 2008 / $5000

Disabilities Network of NYC (New York, NY) ...Development and implementation of Housing Equity Plan to achieve affordable, accessible and integrated housing for people with disabilities ...Spring 2008 / $4000

Nashville Homeless Power Project (Nashville, TN) ...Freedom School and community organizer training ...Spring 2008 / $10,000

Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx Land Trusts (Bronx, NY) ...Trainings for management and stewardship of community gardeners ...Spring 2008 / $4000

Citizens' Accord Forum (Jerusalem, ISRAEL) ...Capacity-building program for Palestinian and Jewish Israeli businesswomen ...Spring 2008 / $10,000

Austin Immigrant Rights Coalitiion (Austin, TX) ...Developing membership base ...Spring 2008 / $8000

South Carolina Progressive Network Education Fund (Columbia, SC) ..."Missing Voter" project ...Spring 2008 / $5000

Operation Welcome Home (Madison, WI) ...Leadership and training for homeless activists ...Spring 2008 / $5000

Interfaith Worker Rights Center (Chicago, IL) ...Project to expand and develop membership ...Spring 2008 / $3000

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (New York, NY) ...Grace Paley internships for emerging progressive Jewish leaders ...Spring 2008 / $10,000

Syracuse Alliance for a New Economy (Syracuse, NY) ...Civic leadership institute ...Spring 2008 / $6616

Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture (Flagstaff, AZ) ...Course to build skills in permaculture design ...Spring 2008 / $3,000

Al-Taj for Health and Heritage (Arraba, ISRAEL) ...Printing first palliative care manual in Arabic for Palestinian citizens of Israel ...Spring 2008 / $10,000

DARI Project (Jackson Heights, NY) ...Publication of resource book by and for LGBT Korean-Americans ...Spring 2008 / $5000

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