Grants to Individuals:

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

Nancy du Plessis... for an interactive-video website project about Israeli peace activists... Spring 2007/$9,563

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

First solo recording by Melissa Fogarty, Soprano ... Winter 2003/$5000

Shaheed Mohammed ... individual support for documenting the history and struggle of South African Volkswagen plant workers... $5000

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

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

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

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

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