2003  Fall Grantees

Funds for these grants come from general contributions by individuals, as well as targeted contributions to the Southern Outlook Fund, Grassroots Fund, and the Modjeska Simkins Fund. Several private foundations also support FSC grantmaking, including the Fonda Family Foundation, the Gill Foundation, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, the Turner Foundation, and the Vanguard Public Foundation.

Fall  2003 Grantees

GEORGIA

Charis Circle 

Grassroots Empowerment Alliance of Rome,

Rome, GA   

$5000

Project support for programs the promote community organizing in the working class community Lindale in Rome Georgia.

Latinos United of Carroll County,

Carrolton, GA                           

$2500

General support to help organize the growing Latino population of Carroll County, help them fight against, police profiling, discrimination, worker’s rights and empowerment.

Sagal Radio

Decatur, GA                                                                 $2500

General support to continue their efforts to empower, educate and organize the ever-growing Somalian population in the Atlanta metro area.

 NORTH CAROLINA

Agricultural Resource and Pesticide Center Raleigh, NC 

$2000

Project Support for the Drift Water Project that locates, educates and organizes communities affected by pesticide drift using our toll-free hotline.

El Eco De Las Montanas

Asheville, NC                                                     $2500

To help support the expenses associated with printing and distributing El Eco De Las Montanas, the only Spanish language newspaper open to Latino participation and solely controlled by Latino decision-makers.

Mekye Center

Durham, NC                                                                 $3000

General support to help programs that dispel preconceived prejudices of children, more specifically African American children, with learning disabilities.

Public Service Workers Union

Pikeville, NC                                             

$5000

To combine organizing with a legal strategy to appeal that prohibition and to replace it with affirmative protections for workers’ rights.

Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network

Durham, NC                  

$5000

Project support for an emergency organizing campaign in Cabarrus County that aims to reduce racial tension and rivalry by involving African Americans and Latinos in joint organizing for dislocated worker benefits, jobs and justice. 

SOUTH CAROLINA

Carolina Peace Resource Center

Columbia, SC                                        

$2500

General support to continue work for peace and social justice.  This work includes but is not limited to fighting against nuclear energy, Latin American Peace and Protection Projects, and addressing issues of the Middle East.

Donor Advised Grants

Asheville Team Medics

Asheville, NC

$500

First aid and safety training and emergency medical care to activists before, during and after public protests and demonstrations.

Asheville Community Resource Center

Asheville, NC

$700

A space for social justice groups and folk dedicated to community building and economic empowerment.

Asheville Free School

Asheville, NC

$500

Working to provide a healthy educational experience for individuals wanting to learn without intervention from the state and federal departments of education.

 Bread for the World

Washington, DC

$200

Nationwide Christian movement that seeks justice for the world’s hungry people by lobbying our nation’s decision makers.

Center for Action and Social Assistance

Morganton, NC           

$500

General support their efforts to promote tolerance and unity of the immigrant community with the exiting community of Morganton, NC.

 El Porvenir

Sacramento, CA

$2000

Fighting for sustainable development in Nicaragua.

Highlander Research and Education Center

New Market, TN

$2000

Organizing workers, grassroots leaders, educators and researchers to address the most pressing social environmental an economic issues facing the people of the South.

Mary Knoll Mission of the Faithful

Maryknoll, NY

$2000

Programs that Help to support small farmers and rural folk in Latin America.

National Farm Workers Ministry

St Louis, MO

$1000

Fighting for worker’s rights, and justice for farm workers.

Open Door Community

Atlanta, GA

$3000

General support for their efforts to assist and minister to the homeless, fight for fair housing and a living wage for all Atlantans.

Presbyterian Church of the USA

Louisville, KY

$2000

General support for the Women’s Empowerment Program in Guatemala.

Southern Empowerment Project

Maryville, TN

$5000

Training of new community organizers, activists and community leaders in the South.

Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network

Nashville, TN

$3000

Organizing Tennesseans to make them aware of government policies, worker’s rights and campaign for better government programs.

Empowers women to act politically to reduce violence and militarism, and to redirect military resources to unmet human and environmental needs.