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The Fund for Southern Communities (FSC) has awarded 19 grants totaling $49,000 to community based organizations in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

"The Fund for Southern Communities is especially excited about this round of grants, that include community responses to new realities since September 11. The Fund is supporting groups across the South that are determined to make their communities better places for everyone to live in safely, and that honor the diversity that makes our country so great" stated Minnie White, FSC Grantmaking Committee Chair, from Louisburg, NC.

FSC is a network of individual contributors supporting economic and social justice and community improvement efforts across the Carolinas and Georgia. With offices in Atlanta, FSC has supported environmental justice, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender rights, low-income and minority community organizing, disability rights, anti-racism projects, workers rights, women's rights, minority youth leadership development and non-traditional community arts since 1981.

FSC Grants awarded:

North Carolina

Asheville Global Report--Asheville, NC www.agrnews.org $1,000
General support to this free weekly community newspaper delivering underreported international and local news across Western North Carolina.

Concerned Citizens of Tillery--Tillery, NC $5,000
For support of environmental protection efforts in minority communities in rural Eastern North Carolina.

Greensboro Justice Fund--Greensboro, NC www.gjf.org $1,000
To support the "Greensboro Massacre Re-Investigation and Reconciliation Project" promoting awareness of the true story of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, and ultimate reconciliation of lingering fear and antagonism within the community.

Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods--Winston-Salem, NC $1,500
To provide leadership training to community leaders in low-income neighborhoods.

North Carolina Public Allies--Durham, NC $3,000
To provide minority youth with training and job experience through internships with non-profit community organizations.

Pender Environmental Group--Burgaw, NC $5,000
To support efforts to ensure a healthy, clean environment in low-income African-American communities.

Piedmont Peace Project--Kannapolis, NC $1,500
To provide leadership development and training to encourage community involvement by youth and Latino leaders in Cabbarrus County.

St. Jude's Community Center--Wilmington, NC $3,000
To support programming to provide personal support as well as political rights for members of the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender community.

Southern Anti-Racism Network--Durham, NC <www.projectsarn.org> $1,000
To collaborate with the Durham Housing Authority on "Strong Parental Involvement in Community Education."

Georgia

Action for a Clean Environment--Alto, GA $3,000
To protect people's health and the environment in the North Georgia mountains.

Chattahoochee Valley Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays, Columbus, GA $1,000
To support the 2nd Annual "Love Walk" to advocate for community acceptance of differences.

Georgia Employee Federation--Stone Mtn, GA $3,000
To ensure more adequate Workers Compensation programs in the State of Georgia.

Georgians Against Nuclear Energy--Decatur, GA $6,000
To support efforts to oppose the use of weapons grade plutonium in the production of mixed oxide fuels (MOX) at the Savannah River Site, for use in civilian nuclear power plants.

Southern Organizing Committee for Economic & Social Justice--Atlanta, GA $3,000
To coordinate the African-American Environmental Justice network, consisting of local community groups facing a range of environmental threats to their communities.

Revelation SEED Workshop--Atlanta, GA $3,000
To support services, counseling, and safe housing to formerly incarcerated women working their way back into productive lives within their families and communities.

Women's Employment Opportunity Project--East Point, GA $2,500
To support a new project providing leadership skills as well as high-tech job training to low income women, while also encouraging involvement in community affairs.

Youth Task Force--Atlanta, GA $3,000
To work with African-American youth on environmental justice awareness across the South, educating and responding to threats to the safety and health of working class and minority communities.

South Carolina

Carolina Rainbow Family Coalition--Columbia, SC <www.scglpm.org> $1,000
To promote increased statewide activities for lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender rights in South Carolina.

Network for Serious Teens & Adults Acting Responsibly--Orangeburg, SC <www.Seriousnet.org> $1,500
Will provide a peace education process to involve youth in community organizing, while promoting appreciation of diversity, and working to establish peaceful relations within communities prone to violence and disharmony.

For additional information about these grants, or the Fund for Southern Communities, contact:

Alice Eason Jenkins, Director
Fund for Southern Communities
315 West Ponce De Leon Ave  Suite 1061
Decatur, GA 30030
404-371-8404
e-mail: fsc@fundforsouth.org

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