Grants Awarded in 2005
Civil Rights
Renewed support for organizing work in the Delta, and for
statewide work around education equity and reform
Border
Action Network - $20,000.00
Renewed support of efforts to expose civil and human rights violations on the
U.S.-Mexico border and to change policies that criminalize immigrants
Renewed support for efforts to reform criminal justice policies and stop prison expansion in Colorado
Communities
United for Action, Power & Justice/Fairness for Prisoners’ Families -
$20,000
Atlanta,
Georgia
Support for building a statewide movement for parole
and sentencing reform in Georgia
Community
Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE) - $20,000
Renewed support for efforts to organize parents and
caregivers of children attending schools in South Los Angeles
JusticeWorks Community - $20,000.00
Renewal support for the State Public Policy
Initiative Program
Ohio
Fair Schools Campaign - $20,000.00
Renewed support for work on public school funding in
Ohio
Padres
Unidos - $20,000.00
Renewed support of parent and youth organizing for
school reform
People Acting for Community Together -
$20,000.00
Renewed support for parent organizing and school
reform efforts in
Renewed
support of youth organizing for education reform in Philadelphia
The Maryland Justice Coalition -
$20,000
Support
for the Campaign for Treatment not Incarceration
The
Sentencing Project - $20,000.00
Support for the Southwest Georgia Center for Equal
Justice
Western Prison Project - $20,000.00
Portland, OR
Renewed support for regional work on criminal justice
reform
Youth
Education Alliance -
$20,000.00
Washington, DC
Support for organizing around school reform
Economic
Justice
Center
for Economic Justice - $15,000.00
Albuquerque,
NM
Renewed
support for educational and organizing efforts focused on the impact of
international financial institutions
Chinese
Staff & Workers' Association - $20,000.00
New
York, NY
Renewed
support of joint worker health and safety initiative with the National
Mobilization Against Sweatshops
Colorado
Progressive Coalition - $20,000.00
Denver,
CO
Support
for the Colorado Tax Fairness project
Community
Environmental Legal Defense Fund - $20,000.00
Chambersburg,
PA
Renewed
support for the Corporations and Democracy program
Enlace
- $20,000.00
Portland,
OR
Support
for technical assistance program for cross-border organizing of low-wage
workers
Farm
Labor Research Project - $20,000.00
Toledo,
OH
Renewal
support of ongoing immigrant workers rights program in North Carolina
Grassroots
Global Justice - $20,000.00
San
Pedro, CA
Support
for linking grassroots base building organizations in the U.S. with the global
justice movement
Merrimack
Valley Project - $20,000.00
Lawrence,
MA
Renewal
support for the Immigrant Worker Organizing campaign
Mississippi
Workers’ Center for Human Rights - $20,000.00
Greenville,
MS
Renewed
support of organizing, legal support and educational programs for low-wage
workers in Mississippi
New
York Jobs with Justice - $20,000.00
New
York, NY
Renewal
support for efforts around accountable economic development in New York City
Northwest
Arkansas Workers’ Center - $15,000.00
Bentonville,
AR
Renewed
support for workers’ rights education and leadership initiative
Southeast
Regional Economic Justice Network - $20,000.00
Durham,
NC
Renewed
support for cross-cultural work and community organizing
Tennesseans
for Fair Taxation - $20,000.00
Knoxville,
TN
Renewal
support for educational work on tax reform
Virginia
Organizing Project - $20,000.00
Charlottesville,
VA
Support
for statewide work on tax reform
Young
Workers United - $20,000.00
San
Francisco, CA
Renewed
support for efforts to address the needs of young, low wage workers in the Bay
Area
Environmental Justice
Citizens Coal Council - $15,000.00
Washington, DC
Renewed support for work on environmental
problems in coal field communities
Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger -
$15,000.00
Merrimac, WI
Renewed support for efforts to ensure the
clean up of the Badger Army Ammunition Plant
Clean Water for North Carolina -
$15,000.00
Asheville, NC
Renewed support of work with local
communities in North Carolina
Colonias
Development Council - $20,000.00
Las
Cruces, NM
Renewed
support for work with New Mexico colonias’ residents around environmental
justice issues
Environmental Community Action, Inc. -
$20,000.00
Atlanta, GA
Renewed support for organizing and training
programs on environmental health threats in Georgia
Glynn Environmental Coalition -
$15,000.00
Brunswick, GA
Renewed support for community efforts to
clean up toxic pollution in the Brunswick area
Labor/Community Strategy Center -
$20,000.00
Los Angeles, CA
Renewed support of the “Clean Air,
Clean Lungs, Clean Buses” campaign
Louisiana
Bucket Brigade - $20,000.00
New Orleans, LA
Renewed
support for community-based work on air pollution in neighborhoods adjacent to
oil refineries and chemical plants
Newtown
Florist Club, Inc. - $20,000.00
Gainesville,
GA
Support
for the Youth Bucket Brigade
Oil
and Gas Accountability Project - $20,000.00
Durango,
CO
Power
U Center for Social Change - $20,000.00
Miami,
FL
Renewed
support for work around environmental justice issues in low-income
communities of color in Miami-Dade County
South
Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance - $20,000.00
Camden,
NJ
Support
for environmental justice work in South Jersey and the City of Camden
Southwest
Organizing Project - $20,000.00
Albuquerque,
NM
Renewed
support for organizing around environmental and economic justice issues in New
Mexico
Southwest
Workers’ Union – 20,000.00
San
Antonio, TX
Renewed
support for environmental justice work in South Texas
Western Colorado Congress - $20,000.00
Montrose, CO
Renewed support for the gas field
environmental justice campaign