Grants Awarded in 2007
Civil
Rights
Arkansas Public Policy Panel -
$20,000.00
Renewed support for
organizing work in the Delta and for statewide work around education equity and
reform
Citizens for a Better Greenville -
$20,000.00
Renewed support for
organizing efforts to improve the quality of public education in Greenville
Coalition for Educational Justice -
$15,000.00
Renewed support for their
Educational Equity and Democracy campaign
Community
Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE) - $20,000.00
Renewed support for
parent-led organizing campaign for school reform in
Concerned Citizen’s for a Better
Tunica County - $20,000.00
Tunica, MS
Support of inter-generational
organizing for education reform in NW Mississippi
Direct Action for Rights and Equality -
$20,000.00 (for 2008)
Support of campaigns
organizing youth and parents for education justice
Education not Incarceration - $15,000.00
Support for a nationwide
campaign of students, parents and educators to stop students from being pushed
out of school into prisons
Frederick Douglass Community Coalition -
$20,000.00
Renewed support for
education organizing among students and parents in New Orleans
Nollie’s
Citizen’s for Quality Education - $20,000.00
Support of community
organizing for public school reform in Mississippi
Ohio Fair Schools Campaign - $20,000.00
Renewed support for work to
ensure equitable school funding in Ohio
Omaha Together One Community -
$20,000.00
Support for work on school
integration and equity issues
Padres Unidos
- $25,000.00
Renewed support of parent
and youth organizing for school reform
Philadelphia Student Union - $20,000.00
Renewed support for student
organizing to reform Philadelphia high schools
WeCount! -
$20,000.00
Renewed support for work with
Homestead area parents, students and community members on public education
issues
Youth Education Alliance - $20,000.00
Renewed support for youth
organizing around school reform
Youth United for Change - $20,000.00
Support for efforts to
increase educational opportunities for young people
Economic Justice
Renewed support for the Campaign for Economic
Justice’s work on tax policy reform
Community
Environmental Legal Defense Fund - $20,000.00
Renewed support for the Corporations and Democracy
program
Enlace
- $20,000.00
Renewed support for cross-border network of
immigrant and low-wage worker organizations
Grassroots
Global Justice - $20,000.00
Renewed support for efforts to link
Latinos
en Acción de CCI - $15,000.00
Renewed support for immigrant worker rights campaign
Renewed support for leadership training and
organizing among immigrant workers
National
Family Farm Coalition - $20,000.00
Support of efforts to link family farmers in the
New
Orleans Worker Justice Coalition - $20,000.00
Support of efforts to foster economic and racial
justice for all workers in post-Katrina New Orleans
Renewed support for efforts to improve working
conditions for low wage workers
Tennesseans
for Fair Taxation - $20,000.00
Renewed support for work on tax policy reform
Transnational
Institute for Grassroots Research and Action - $20,000.00
Renewed support for the Campaign for Remittance
Fairness and Community Reinvestment
United
Vision for
Support for organizing around tax and budget issues
in Idaho
Young
Workers United - $20,000.00
Renewed support for work
with young, low-wage workers in the Bay Area
Environmental Justice
Citizens’ Environmental Coalition
- $20,000.00
Renewed support for the
Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger - $15,000.00
Renewed support for efforts to ensure the
clean up of the Badger Army
Ammunition Plant
Support for efforts to stop mountaintop removal
mining and build sustainable communities in the Coal River Valley
Colonias Development Council - $20,000.00
Las
Cruces, NM
Renewed
support for work with colonia residents around
environmental justice issues
Community In-Power and Development
Association - $20,000.00
Renewed
support for community organizing efforts in
Dakota Resource Council - $20,000.00
Support
for the
Glynn Environmental Coalition -
$15,000.00
Renewed support for community efforts to
clean up toxic pollution in the
Louisiana
Bucket Brigade - $20,000.00
New Orleans, LA
Renewed
support for community organizing on health and environmental justice issues in
New Orleans
Native Movement Collective -
$15,000.00
Renewed
support for youth leadership development in projects related to environmental
justice and economic sustainability
Newtown
Florist Club, Inc. - $20,000.00
Renewed
support for the Youth Bucket Brigade
Oil
and Gas Accountability Project - $20,000.00
Durango,
CO
Renewed
support for efforts to protect rural communities and public lands impacted
by
oil and gas development
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
Renewed
support for environmental justice work in South Jersey and the City of Camden
Southwest
Workers’
San
Antonio, TX
Renewed
support for environmental justice work in