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Fiscal Year 2006-2007 Grant-making Initiatives

 

FALL 2006 GENERAL GRANTS CYCLE

 

Carolina Arts Network, NC $2,500

To promote economic development through cultural tourism for southeastern North Carolina ; to assist small businesses and stimulate employment through cultural preservation and appreciation programs, infrastructure development and entrepreneurial and educational training.

 

Carolina Peace Resource, SC $2,500

To advance the cause of peace and justice in the world by facilitating and encouraging research and education.

 

La Coordinadora de Lideres Latinoamericanos, GA $3,000

To educate and organize Latinos in their own communities regarding laws and customs with the purpose of obtaining community participation in making decisions to take action in defense of their civil rights and empower low-income Latinos no matter of immigration status.

 

Latin American Caribbean Community Center , GA $3,500

To address and represent issues (globalization, racist and discriminatory legislations, free trade agreements, migration, etc) for communities that the mainstream Latino organizations were excluding from their programs targeting Latin American, Caribbean and Indigenous groups.

 

Latinos for Education and Justice Organization, GA $2,000

To empower the Latino population in northwest Georgia to create social harmony, diversity, equality and collaboration; to acquire community acceptance and changing the white community to a community of color that treats all people with dignity and respect; to create social justice and civil rights improvement; to focus on English Language Learner programs, affordable prenatal care, language access in the medical facilities, health education, fairness and safety at the work place and health services without the fear of arrest.

 

Low County Alliance , SC $2,500

To promote the establishment of a community environment that will enhance creative, critical and innovative thinking with the residents; and to promote a master plan that will foster positive social, economic and housing improvements and create partnerships with residents, governing agency, faith-based organizations, businesses and others with vested interest to improve the quality of life for its residents.

 

McIntosh SEED, GA $2,500

To support the Food Sovereignty Project which will introduce and develop organic and locally grown agriculture to McIntosh County in such a way that it may become an integral and sustainable part of the community and offer a healthier alternative to the county food system.

 

 

 

 

Metro Durham Sponsors, NC $3,000

To empower low, moderate and upper-income people through systematic leadership training so that they can create their own agenda for institutional, political, economic and social change in Durham City and County.

 

NC Committee to Defend Health Care, NC $3,000

To educate about and advocate for the “Right to Health Care” so that access to appropriate health care on a regular basis is assured for all North Carolinians regardless of age, sex, race/ethnicity, marital or employment status, pre-existing medical condition or geography.

 

NC Latino Coalition, NC $5,000

To build the capacity of low-income Latinos and their institutions to jointly resolve community problems while strengthening their collective power and visibility in NC; provide coaltion member organizations with technical assistance and leadership development trainings aimed to building their organizing capacity.

 

NC Occupational and Safety Health, NC $2,000

To provide all North Carolina workers with technical assistance, training and advice about worker-related safety and health hazards; to mobilizes supporters in building coalitions to enforce existing laws and to pass new laws to make NC work places safer and healthier.

 

South Carolina Equality Coalition, SC $3,500

To secure human and civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens of South Carolina .

 

West End Revitalization, NC $5,000

To improve the quality of life of low-income minority homeowners and residents who are denied basic amenities by providing these basic amenities through grassroots leadership training; economic, legislative and legal action; and empowering residents to address institutional discrimination and racism that foster inequity.

 

Western NC Workers Center , NC $2,500

To improve wages, benefits and working conditions of low-wage workers in Western NC by developing leadership among low-wage workers and partnering with faith communities and progressive labor leaders to serve as allies of low-wage workers.

 

SPECIAL INITIATIVE/ MEDIA JUSTICE

 

Common Sense Foundation, NC $ 7,000

To support Message Madness, a one-day grassroots media training for small non-profits and community advocates in North Carolina .

 

Empowerment Resource Center of A/B County, NC $ 5,000

To operate a 24/7 low-power radio station and website which will empower people to create change in their lives and in the community; to work with the community to target the critical issues facing people of low-wealth and communities of color and organize to create change.

Latin American Caribbean Community Center , GA $ 7,000

To support Radio Diaspora, a radio program on Atlanta's WRFG, which will impulse a participatory democracy, solidarity and the integration of Latin America, Caribbean and North America from the starting point that communication has to be in tune with new political, economical and social models grounded in equality; to empower the marginalized communities and people of Latin America and the Caribbean who reside in the US so that they may assert their economic, political, environmental, cultural and social rights.

 

Rainbow Radio, SC $ 8,000

To produce a grassroots-driven show that provides diverse and accurate – and often unprecedented – representations of SC's gay and lesbian communities to get LGBT voices into mainstream media and to tell the truth about their lives and their families; to expand their outreach and capacity for community organizing and collaboration.

 

SPECIAL INITIATIVE/ HURRICANE RELIEF FUND

 

Back Bay Mission , MS $ 5,000

To advocate for people in need, fighting for fair and equitable recovery in the form of rental and utility help, transportation, clothing, food, resource referral, tents and more.

 

Coalition for Citizens with Disabilities, MS $ 5,000

To establish a toll free number which will provide critical information, temporary support and placements with organizations that assist survivors with disabilities.

 

Critical Resistance, LA $10,000

To expand their efforts to address and reverse the use of the prison industrial complex (PIC) as a response to Hurricane Katrina and specifically to ensure the success of the Justice for Prisoners of Katrina Weekend.

 

Gulf Coast Latin American Association, MS $ 5,000

To support the Housing Injustice Project which will assist tenants having problems with there landlords; help tenants answer eviction paperwork; help tenants write letters to their landlords; provide referrals and resource information; conduct community workshops; distribute flyers and brochures; provide numbers and mailing addresses to agencies that render assistance; and offer translating and interpretation services to the Gulf Coast's growing Latin American community.

 

Interfaith Workers Justice, IL $ 5,000

To support the New Orleans Summer Workers' Rights Internship Program, which sent six African American and bi-lingual students to New Orleans to assist with worker outreach, to meet with workers and learn about their problems in the workplace, help them file wage and discrimination claims with government agencies and refer them to social services in the area that can help with their needs.

 

Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance , MS $10,000

To support immigrants in Mississippi exercise their rights through organizing, advocacy and public education.

 

Mississippi River Basin Alliance , MS $ 5,000

For community organizing in the neighborhoods affected by the collapse of the Industrial Canal Levee.

 

Moving Forward Gulf Coast , LA $10,000

To create a series of media learning tools, The Recover and Restore Series, that will empower Gulf Coast residents with information relating to several key issues in rebuilding the Gulf Coast by documenting locally-identified issues and their solutions.

 

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, V A $ 1,000

To established a missing persons hotline to assist effected families in Alabama , Louisiana and Mississippi and helped reunite over 5,000 children with their families.

 

New Orleans Women's Health and Justice Initiative, LA $10,000

To increase health care access for low income women and girls of color who were most affected by the hurricane and who are returning home to a city severely and dangerously lacking in healthcare options.

 

Peoples Organizing Committee, LA $10,000

To initiate a Job Training Program that will enable survivors themselves to rebuild their homes, neighborhoods, and community for the residents from the 9 th Ward and to ensure that survivors play a central role in the rebuilding of their neighborhoods.

 

REJOICE, Inc., LA $10,000

To provide disaster assistance – house gutting, debris removal and cleaning supplies – for community members of Jefferson , Orleans and the River Parishes of Louisiana.

 

Saving Our Selves, GA $10,000

To support the Gulf Coast Organizing Project, an initiative that brings Katrina survivors and community organizers together to address critical needs facing their communities due to storms by finding alternative solutions for people to save themselves.

 

Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services, TX $ 4,580

To implement the collaborative project, Healing Chalmette, a media advocacy campaign and conduct community-wide interviews, a video documentary and radio programming of human interest features for use in environmental advocacy campaign.

 

Tri-Coastal Community Outreach in South Alabama , AL $10,000

To connect at least 300 families to immediate needs assistance and long-term case management services, pay for gas and truck services to pick up and deliver supplies, set up a computerized system to track everything, purchase office supplies and pay for office space and janitorial services as well as postage, publication and volunteer training and development.

 

 


SPECIAL INITIATIVE/ RECLAIM OUR VOTE INITIATIVE

 

Atlanta Working Women 9to5 $10,000

To support the Election Connection, a campaign targeting Metropolitan Atlanta: a 14-county region including Fulton, Dekalb, Cobb, Clayton and Gwinnett counties; to conduct non-partisan voter registration, education and mobilization projects aiming to increase participation among working women, to hold elected officials accountable to their issues, to make their voices heard in the election debate and to effect corporate and public policy change.

 

Coalition for the People's Agenda $20,000

To support the 2006 Citizen Participation Campaign, created to focus on unregistered voters in order to with empowerment initiatives such as voter registration, voter education and voter mobilization/participation, targeting voters in the following counties: Baldwin, Bulloch, Chatham, Glynn, Hall, Houston, Laurens, Liberty, Muscogee, Troup, Sumter, Peach, Colquitt, Butts, Camden, Cobb, Bibb, Screven, Spalding, Bartow, Gwinnett, Rockdale and Whitfield.

 

Economic Justice Coalition of Athens $17,000

To support the Coalition of Civic Engagement (CCE), to register, educate and fully engage disenfranchised Georgians in the political process; to hold traditional voter registration and Get Out The Vote (GOTV) activities; and to targets disenfranchised populations including people of color, senior citizens, youth, rural and working poor, the disabled, ex-felons, Katrina evacuees and the Latino community

 

National Coalition on Black Civic Participation/Black Youth Vote $25,000

To support Black Youth Vote! (BYV!) Georgia as a statewide grassroots coalition of organizations and individuals committed to increasing political and civic involvement among Black men and women aged 18-35; to empower Black youth by educating them about the political process, training them to identify community issues and preparing them to influence public policy through participation.

 

 

DONOR ADVISED AND GRANTS ASSISTED

Alternative Roots, Atlanta , GA $5,000

Atlanta Jobs With Justice, Atlanta , GA $3,000

Atlanta Lesbian Health Initiative, Atlanta GA $2,500

Beloved Community Center $2,000

Betmar La Villa Neighborhood Association, Atlanta GA $2,500

Blue Ribbon Mentor-Advocate Program, Chapel Hill , NC $4,400

CAMP , Inc, Atlanta , GA $2,000

CAMP , Inc., Atlanta , GA $1,500

Carolina Center for Public Service, Chapel Hill , NC $1,500

CEDEPCA, Atlanta GA $400

Center for Community Action, Lumberton , NC $2,000

Charis Circle , Atlanta , GA $610

Damascus Ministries and Training Initiative, Atlanta , GA $2,500

Destiny The Rock of Escape, Atlanta , GA $1,200

Dispute Settlement Center of Orange County , Chapel Hill , NC $5,000

Fun For A Day, Atlanta , GA $2,500

Fund for Southern Communities, Decatur , GA (Hurricane Relief) $6,000

Fund for Southern Communities, Atlanta , GA $3,000

Georgia Citizens Coalition on Hunger, Atlanta , GA $1,000

Grassroots Empowerment Alliance of Rome , Rome , GA $610

Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Greensboro , NC $6,000

High Tech Institute — Scholarship, Marietta , GA $1,000

Historical Preservation Society – Southside, Atlanta , GA $1,200

John Birdline Community Service Award, Atlanta , GA $4,000

Joyland-Highpoint — Carver Homes, Atlanta , GA $1,500

Latinos for Education and Justice Organization, Calhoun , GA $634

Maryknoll Mission Association for the Faithful, Maryknoll , NY $1,000

Neighborhood Coalition for Youth, Athens , GA $1,000

NC A&T University — Scholarship, Greensboro , NC $1,000

NC Anti Racist Organizers Network, Greensboro , NC $5,000

NC Central University — Scholarship, Durham , NC $1,000

Partnership Housing Affordable to Society Everywhere, Bainbridge , GA $1,000

Polar Rock Association, Atlanta , GA ` $1,000

Project South – United States Social Forum, Atlanta , GA $9,000

Queens University of Charlotte — Scholarship , Charlotte , NC $1,000

South Atlanta Redevelopment Inc, Atlanta GA $1,000

Southern Neighborhood Network, DBA IDEAS Decatur , GA $10,000

Southside Industrial Park Job Project, Atlanta , GA $3,000

STEP Program, Durham , NC $5,000

The Crescent Hills Apartment Complex, Atlanta , GA $1,000

The Sullivan Center , Atlanta , GA $1,200

WRFG Radio, Atlanta , GA $1,000

ZAMI, Atlanta , GA $2,500

 

 

 

 

 

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