2004 Fall Grants Cycle Grantees
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Bike Athens $500
Athens , GA Project support to serve low income African American and Latinos in Athens whose transportation needs are not well served by the municipal transit or planning infrastructure, by providing them bikes as transportation. This will not only contribute to a healthier lifestyle and environment, but it will make the ability to make a living more accessible as it relates to commuting.
Boggs Rural Life Center, Inc. $3000
Wayensboro , GA
General support for its work to regain financial stability by mounting a campaign that will help reduce organizational debt, recruit new leaders and development youth programs.
Charis Circle $2500
Atlanta , GA General support for their programs and functions that unite women; gay, straight, African American, White, Latino, and from varied socioeconomic backgrounds to discuss and organize around issues such as women's rights, lesbian rights, anti-racism, etc.
Southside United Health Center $1500
Winston-Salem , NC Start up support for strategic planning and development of a comprehensive community based healthcare model and business plan that will serve primarily elderly, African American and Latino in our underserved community.
CONSTITUENCY ORGANIZING
Latinos for Education and Justice United (LEJO) $2500
Calhoun , GA General support to continue to organize the quickly growing Latino community of Calhoun , GA. LEJO was established to make the Latino community better aware of their human rights as it relates to their rights as workers, equality in the education system, fighting against police profiling, harassment and discrimination.
GLBTQ
Safe Schools $2000
Chapel Hill , NC General support to continue their programs that fight for protection from harassment of LGBTQ youth in schools and community institutions. Challenging the school systems to create and implement policies that protect LGBTQ children from bullying and discrimination by classmates, school administrative staff and teachers.
Time Out Youth $4000
Charlotte , NC
General support to continue their programs that support and advocate for GLBTQ youth in the Charlotte , NC area.
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY
Communities United for Action, Power and Justice $3000
Atlanta , GA
General support to help fight for pardon and parole board reform. To rid of the state's “secret status”, which means that the parole board does not have to justify decisions or explain the process used to make the decisions of individuals up for parole.
Georgians for Common Sense $4000
Decatur , GA
General support to help with capacity building and to support a future statewide campaign on affordable, fair, comprehensive and universal healthcare coverage.
ENVIRONMENT
Agricultural Resources Center and Pesticide Education Project $3000
Raleigh , NC Project support for the Drift Watch Project. ARC will work with several local pesticide affected communities across North Carolina to monitor pesticide exposure from drift. ARC will publicize results and facilitate community action plans to deal with the sources of the drift.
Community Organizing for Rights and Empowerment $4000
Holly Hill, SC
Project support for “Word Out Productions” project, a traveling theatre would be used as a vehicle to spread the word on community and environmental issues, and the health defects that are associated.
Soque River Watershed Alliance $3000
Clarksville , GA Project support to continue efforts to engage a wider, more multi-cultural group of folk to become involved with the issues that concern the watershed, especially for the lower-socioeconomic folk that are often marginalized and underserved in our community.
WORKERS RIGHTS
Public Service Workers Union $3000
Durham , NC Project support to combine organizing with legal strategy to repeal a law that prohibits collective bargaining for public sector workers.
Southeast Regional Chapter of Teamsters of a Democratic Union $5000
Woodstock , GA General support to help build the internal capacity of the organization in order to better serve their constituents. SRCTDU was established to organize workers to combat low-wages, shed light and find resolution for poor or unacceptable working conditions. They are a progressive labor movement that has goals to raise standards for all working people.
Triangle Sponsoring Committee $5000
Durham , NC
Project support to expand their Living Wage Campaign. This campaign was organized in an effort to pass a Living Wage for all Durham public school employees and service contractors. They are also in the preliminary stages of fighting for a living wage campaign focused on Duke University , one of the largest employers in the city.
Western North Carolina Workers Union $5000
Morganton , NC General support to continue to strengthen the program that organizes and supports workers, their rights and education in Western North Carolina . This organization was established to help improve working conditions for low wage workers. They also fight for a living wage and fair business practices for low wage workers. The majority of the workers are people of color, a number of them being from the growing Latino community of migrant workers who speak very little or no English.
YOUTH
Youth Creating Change $4000
Chapel Hill , NC General support for capacity building for our programs that cultivate young people who will be the future activists and leaders for social change.
2004 Spring Grants Cycle Grantees
Athens Living Wage Campaign
Athens, GA $4500
Pursuing economic justice by fighting for a living
wage. For workers in Athens, with the ultimate goal of passing a living
wage ordinance in the merged city-county government and then moving on to
the University of Georgia, Athens largest employer.
Athens Land Trust, Inc.
Athens, GA
$4700
To promote quality of life through integration of
community and the natural environment by preserving land, creating energy
efficient and affordable housing to revitalizing neighborhoods.
Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities
Mebane, NC $3500
Organizing to demonstrate how the local government
discriminates against grassroots groups. In addition, to help community
folk create a more livable and sustainable community through applied
multi-disciplinary research and public education.
First City Network
Savannah, GA $5000
To organize young gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered/questioning
community of Savannah to foster a supportive positive community. First
City Network allows for a forum and a safe place for young people to come
together to fight for social change and issues that effect the g/l/b/t/q/
community.
Georgia Tribe
Eastern Cherokee Indians, Inc.
Dahlonega, GA $4500
General support to continue organizing to expedite
our mission to be recognized by the Federal Government as a Tribe to be
governed by our own constitution to ensure continuance of Tribal identity.
Georgia Employee Federation
Palmetto, GA $3000
Working to address inequities that affect minorities
and working families with physical and mental disabilities. They are
committed workers of Georgia who help to facilitate social and economic
change to promotes self determination in low income communities.
Health Students
Taking Action Together
Atlanta, GA $3000
To fight for equal healthcare for those too
impoverished to afford it. To create a statewide community of health
professional students that are engaged in education, activism and service.
Meet
Me There
Wilmington, NC $2500
To support and interracial/generational program
designed to groom young people to become torchbearers of social change.
North Carolina Peace Action Education Fund
Knightdale, NC $1500
Serving as a keystone to unite activist and
grassroots organizing in North Carolina, with a larger vision of
establishing a vibrant cooperative social justice movement.
North Carolina Poultry Growers Association
Siler City, NC $5000
Dedicated to improving contract poultry growers
economic condition through more balanced contract between growers and
integrators.
Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation
Mebane, NC $4500
Working to improve the economic, social and
educational well being of tribal members to create a more economically
stable community.
Partnership Housing Affordable to Society
Everywhere
Bainbridge, GA $1500
Struggling for rights, serving as an advocate and
fighting for decent affordable housing for farmworker tenants.
Snow Camp Land Use Forum
Snow Camp, NC $2000
Organizing the community to ensure they play a
decision making role for unincorporated land use in the rural section of
Alamance County.
Southern Anti Racism
Network
Durham, NC $3000
Working to dismantle systemic racism in the arenas of
economic justice and education.
Students United for a Responsible Global
Environment
Chapel Hill, NC $1500
A nonviolent network led by students working to
achieve political, social, economic and environmental justice through
education and action.
Within Reach,
Greenville,
SC $2500
Organizing the community of Greenville, SC to help
empower the low-income residents in the area, in addition to providing
technical and programmatic assistance to ensure well-planned grassroots
community development.
ZAMI
Decatur, GA $3500
Organizing the African American Lesbian community to
address issues of education and social change.
2003-2004 Donor Advised Grantees
Appalachian Heritage Alliance, Topton, NC - $500
Asheville Biodiesel Coop, Asheville, NC - $500
Asheville
Community Resource Center, Asheville, NC - $700
Asheville Free School, Asheville, NC - $500
Asheville Global Report, Asheville, NC - $500
Asheville Team Medics, Asheville, NC - $500
Bountiful Cities Project, Asheville, NC - $310
Bread for the World, Washington, DC - $2000
Carolina Justice Policy Center, Asheville, NC - $300
Center for Action & Social Assistance, Morganton, NC - $ 500
Churches for Middle East Peace, Washington, DC - $2000
Coalacion Organizaciones Latin Americanas, Asheville, NC - $500
Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Immokalee, FL - $3000
Common Cause, Washington, DC - $2000
Community Supported Development, Asheville, NC - $625
Dumbarton United Methodist Church, Washington, DC - $5000
El Porvenir, Sacramento, CA - $2000
Fund for Southern Communities, Decatur, GA - $17,000
Highlander Research & Education Center, New Market, TN - $2000
Maryknoll Mission, Maryknoll, NY - $2000
National Farm Worker Ministry, St. Louis, MO - $1000
Open Door Community, Atlanta, GA - $3000
Pigeon Community Development Center, Waynesville, NC - $500
Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, Louisville,KY -$2000
Southern Empowerment Project, Maryville, TN- $5000
Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network, Knoxville, TN - $3000
United for a Fair Economy, Boston, MA - $2000
Women's Alliance for New Directions, Boston, MA - $2000
The Southern Funders
Collaborative Awards
The Fund for Southern Communities is pleased to be a part of the
Southern Funders Collaborative, along with Appalachian Community Fund, and
the Southern Partners Fund. Through a grant received from the Ford
Foundation, this collaborative made its second round of grants, totaling
$196,500 to 10 groups spread across the Collaborative's seven state range.
The multi-year grants are designed to increase the capacity of community
organizing groups in the South.
The following groups received
multi-year grants:
Carolina Alliance for Fair
Employment - $23,000
Greenville, South Carolina
Center for Community Action -
$25,000
Lumberton, North Carolina
Citizens for Quality
Education, Inc - $25,000
Lexington, Mississippi
Community Farm Alliance - $23,000
Frankfort, Kentucky
Concerned Citizens for Tunica
County - $22,000
Tunica, Mississippi
Esperanza Peace and Justice
Center - $20,000
San Antonio, Texas
LaMujer Obrera Program - $25,000
El Paso, Texas
Solutions to Issues of
Concern - $20,000
Knoxville, Tennessee
Southerners On New Ground -
$22,000
Durham, North Carolina
-
Tennesseans for Fair Taxation
- $15,000
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