| Grants in: Music Education & Teaching Grassroots Organizing |
Grants to: Individuals |
Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. . .rescue of 1911 song, “Die Fire Korbunes”… Fall 2010/$5,000
The Factory (Haifa, Israel). . .establish a Palestinian orchestra in Israel. . . Fall 2010/$10,000
Alwan for the Arts (New York, NY). . . Sacred Music Festival concert recordings and album production. . . Fall 2010/$10,000
Backstreet Cultural Museum (New Orleans, LA). . . oral history project about preserving the New Orleans jazz funeral tradition. . . Fall 2010/$5,000
The Treehouse Musicians (Jamesville, NY) . . . interactive chamber music program. . . Fall 2010/$6,000
Laura Falzon (New York, NY)…CD of music for soprano, flute and piano…Spring 2010 / $5,000
Kristin Slipp (Brooklyn, NY)…CD of jazz standards…Spring 2010 / $2, 760
The Atlanta Music Project (Lawrenceville, GA)…Start-up general support…Spring 2010 / $6,200
Youth Singers of Orange County (Newport Beach, CA)…Institutional needs for choir…Spring 2010 / $3,635
Kidz Notes (Durham, NC) ...Classical orchestral music training for low-income children ...Fall 2009 / $4528.49
Toomai String Quintet (Brooklyn, NY) ...Educational materials for interactive school performances ...Spring 2009 / $2000
Riad Abdel-Gawad (Thousand Oaks, CA) ...Rehearsal and recording of original composition for ensemble ...Spring 2009 / $5000
New York Street Opera (New York, NY) ...Series of one-hour narrated versions of Mozart operas ...Spring 2009 / $3000
Madera Vox (Beacon, NY) ...Recording original music-telling performance piece ...Spring 2009 / $4650
J. Edgar Klezmer: Songs from My Grandmother's FBI Files (New York, NY) ...Development, production, promotion of musical documentary ...Spring 2009 / $4250
Choral Chameleon (New York, NY) ...Create marketing pkg to promote choir ...Spring 2009 / $2850
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
Concert Arts Assoc (Lake Saint Louis, MO) ...Provide music education to lower income St. Louis area communities ...Fall 2008 / $5,000
Women Drummers International (San Leandro, CA) ...Oral histories of women master drummers ...Spring 2008 / $5000
Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water (Ridgewood, NY) ...Touring multi-media program about Katrina aftermath ...Spring 2008 / $6000
The Factory (Haifa, ISRAEL) ...Start-up for conservatory for Arab traditional music ...Spring 2008 / $10,000
Music Box Series at Climate Theater (San Francisco, CA) ...outreach and marketing for Music Box Series ...Fall 2007/$2500
Homemade Genius, Inc.... to start up a musical development program for low-income youth, in conjunction with community arts development in Greenwood, SC... Spring 2007/$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... 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
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 ... Spring 2006/$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.... Spring 2006/$6050
Alwan for the Arts ... for professional-led community workshops on Middle Eastern music... Fall 2005/$4500
Composers Collaborative ... for workshop collaborations between musicians and poets... Fall 2005/$3000
Pharoah's Daughter ... for the production of their CD using biblical texts about women and Jewish/Arab relations... Spring 2005/$4000
Isle of Klezbos ... for Klezmer recordings including new works and blacklisted artists' work, and new approaches to placing Yiddish film in modern Jewish experience... Fall 2004/$5000
Nicu's Spoon Theater ... for the commissioning of a public domain score for The Little Prince ... Fall 2004/$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 ... Summer 2004/$3000
For the development of Tania Leon's Son Sonora Ensemble, through 651 Arts ... Summer 2004/$3000
First solo recording by Melissa Fogarty, Soprano ... Winter 2003/$5000
Concert of newly-composed and seldom-heard music by Collegium Westchester ... Winter 2003/$1000
Newly-commissioned Music of the Jewish & African Diasporas at the Holy Apostles Community Chorus ... Winter 2003/$500
New community-based youth chorus on Staten Island, at the Richmond Choral Society ... Winter 2003/$500
Grants in Education & Teaching:
Peer-to-Peer Education Project (Baltimore, MD). . .youth-led effort to improve schools. . . Fall 2010/$10,000
Stories of Our City (Eagle, ID). . .educational radio show, Radio Unidad. . . Fall 2010/$2,000
Driftless Community Radio (Viroqua, WI)…Citizen journalist training program…Spring 2010 / $6,005
Striving Together Equals Progress/S.T.E.P. (Newark, NJ)…Financial literacy project…Spring 2010 / $10,340
Thomaston Education and Leadership Academy (Thomaston, AL)…Oral history project of African American community in Marengo County…Spring 2010 / $6,000
Writers in Baltimore Schools Theater Club (Baltimore, MD)…Playwriting project for middle-school students…Spring 2010 / $3,079
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:
Breaking the Silence (Jerusalem, Israel). . .video testimony of former Israeli soldiers on abuses of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. . . Fall 2010/$10,000
Urban Peace Movement (Oakland, CA). . .grassroots youth organizing. . . Fall 2010/$5,000
Project Hayei Sarah. . . supporting emerging Jewish leaders who have visited Hebron to raise awareness about life under occupation. . . Fall 2010/$5,000
Youth Council for Positive Development (St. Louis, MO). . .Project Anger Management. . Fall 2010/$3,000
Milwaukee Area Time Exchange (Milwaukee, WI). . . training and stipend for organizers. . . Fall 2010/$10,000
South Florida Interfaith Worker Justice (Miami, FL). . . participation in national survey of domestic workers to build capacity for a women’s worker cooperative. . . Fall 2010/$10,000
Voice of the Earth, Inc. (Windsor Mill, MD). . .eco-oriented worker-owned cooperative. . . Fall 2010/$5,500
Veterans for Peace (St. Louis, MO). . .educational outreach program. . . Fall 2010/$4,000
Koko and Friends Foundation, Inc. (Huntsville, AL). . . grass roots community outreach program to address bullying. . . Fall 2010/$7,000
Iraq Veterans Against the War (New York, NY). . . Warrior Writers’ Veterans Empowerment Communities program. . . Fall 2010/$7,420
Arizona Interfaith Alliance for Worker Justice (Phoenix, AZ). . . organize against city-wide wage theft. . . Fall 2010/$5,225
Latino Union of Chicago (Chicago, IL). . .organizing project, Café Chicago. . . Fall 2010/$10,000
free103point 9/WGXC (Acra, NY). . . Hands-On Radio Youth Programming Initiative. . . Fall 2010/$5,000
Korean Immigrant Workers Alliance (Los Angeles, CA). . .organizing Women’s Justice Committee. . . Fall 2010/$10,000
Media Mobilizing Project (Philadelphia, PA). . .Spanish-language education and media program. . . Fall 2010/$10,000
AIDS Policy Project (Philadelphia, PA)…AIDS cure conference…Spring 2010 / $5,000
Center for Nonviolent Solutions (Worcester, MA)…Community mediation program…Spring 2010 / $4,000
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos/Immigrant Workers’ Project (Chicago, IL)...Organizing of employers code of conduct to protect low-wage workers…Spring 2010 / $5,000
Civilian-Soldier Alliance (Baltimore, MD)…Summer organizing campaign…Spring 2010 / $5,320
Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled (New York, NY)…Training for resident rights…Spring 2010 / $2,424
Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment/CHANGE (Winston-Salem, NC)…Youth-led project to reduce discrimination in schools…Spring 2010 / $5,000
Gary Freedom School (Gary, IN)…Training for community organizers..Spring 2010 / $6,815
Gideon’s Army (Nashville, TN)…Organizing project to dismantle the prison pipeline…Spring 2010 / $6,000
Grassroots Leadership/The Women’s Campaign (Charlotte, NC)…Research on incarcerated women…Spring 2010 / $4,000
Hagar’s House (New Orleans, LA)…Social justice advocacy project…Spring 2010 / $4,000
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (Oakland, CA)…Campus study groups…Spring 2010 / $6,000
LGBT Resource Center (LaCrosse, WI)…Leadership training program…Spring 2010 / $4,000
Liberation in Truth Social Justice Center (Newark, NJ)…Project to organize against hate crimes…Spring 2010 / $4,360
Min Ajliki (Kuffr Qara, Israel)…Research on status of Arab women citizens of Israel…Spring 2010 / $1,900
Mizrahi Democratic New Rainbow (Tel Aviv, Israel)…Workshops for Mizrahi Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel…Spring 2010 / $5,667
Sawmill Advisory Council (Albuquerque, NM)…Create up Youth Council…Spring 2010 / $5,000
Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network (Durham, NC)…Research on guest worker programs and black labor exclusion in the South…Spring 2010 / $10,000
The Working World (New York, NY)…Develop worker-run cooperatives…Spring 2010 / $8,800
WNC Workers Center/Latinas al Centro (Morganton, NC)…Woman-centered organizing and leadership network…Spring 2010 / $10,000
Woodstock International (Woodstock, NY)…Social justice newspaper…Spring 2010 / $5,250
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
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
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