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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
    Knoxville, Tennessee back to top

 

 

 

 

      

 

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