Reducing Poverty in the United States $1,850,000

National Programs

A. Family Income

• For general support of this organization, whose activities include work on welfare reform and public housing ($70,000);
• for the National Campaign on Jobs and Income Support ($20,000); and
• for support of The Workforce Alliance, which seeks to expand skill building options for low-wage workers through a national coalition of job seekers, training providers, business representatives, and local public officials ($30,000).

Center for Law and Social Policy: $75,000
To support education and technical assistance activities concerning the reauthorization of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and the implementation of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). (Second installment of a two-year $150,000 grant.)

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: $120,000
For general support of this organization, which works to reduce poverty in the United States through improvements in federal, state, and local policies and programs; development of reforms in federal, state, and local tax and budget policies; and more effective operation of low-income programs. (First installment of a two-year $240,000 grant.)

National Housing Law Project: $32,000
For support of its national Earned Income Disregard (EID) initiative, an effort to promote and enforce full implementation of the EID for residents of public housing.

National Women's Law Center: $30,000
For support of the Women and Taxes project, which researches and analyzes the impact of proposed tax legislation on low-income women and their families.

B. Family Support

Food Research and Action Center: $50,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to assure that the Food Stamp Program and key child nutrition programs better serve low-income families.

C. Youth Development

National Center for Youth Law: $50,000
For the Youth Development and Employment Project, which aims to enable low-income youth to gain access to, and make the best use of, their future employment and educational opportunities through programs funded by the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998.

District of Columbia Programs

A. Family Income

Academy of Hope: $20,000
For general support of this organization, which provides educational programs to help at-risk DC adults, including day and evening classes, computer training, an external diploma program, and one-on one tutoring for students reading below sixth grade level.

Byte Back: $25,000
For general support of this organization, which provides career ladder computer training to underemployed or unemployed adults and computer access to at-risk youth.

Capital Area Asset Building Corporation: $25,000
For general support of this organization, which operates comprehensive Individual Development Account (IDA) programs that encourage savings and financial management strategies amongst adults and youth in disadvantaged neighborhoods in DC.

The Children's Foundation: $20,000
To support its Building Blocks to Better Child Care program, which provides training and technical assistance to child care workers in the District.

The District of Columbia Employment Justice Center: $32,500
a) For general support of this organization, which works to improve employment policies affecting low-income individuals and offers legal services and education programs for low-income and unemployed District workers ($30,000). (First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.); and b) for support of the publication and distribution expenses of the D.C. Jobs Council’s One-Stop Evaluation Report project, which will provide stakeholders with a picture of how the employment centers are serving low-income job seekers and make recommendations for improving the new employment and training system in the District ($2,500).

Food Research and Action Center (FRAC): $25,000
For support of FRAC's District of Columbia Initiative, which will focus on increasing the use of federal nutrition resources in the District.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance: $25,000
To undertake a renovation and reclamation project in Ward 5, which would shift the focus from demolishing aging, low-income housing stock to deconstruction and recycling, reducing construction debris, and creating a stock of useable materials. (Second installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.)

JHP, Inc.: $20,000
For general support of this organization, which provides employment and training related services to poor residents of Washington, DC.

Jubilee Jobs, Inc.: $25,000
For the Information Technology Project, which seeks to increase the organization’s capacity to collect and analyze data about program effectiveness.

Literacy Volunteers of America-National Capital Area (LVA-NCA): $25,000
For general support of this organization, which works to improve the rate of adult literacy in the District of Columbia through its one-on-one tutoring and its family literacy, workplace literacy, and basic skills classes for TANF/low-income parents.

Manna, Inc.: $25,000
For the Individual Development Account and Enterprising Staffing Services projects, which seek to increase family incomes through encouraging responsible saving and providing job placement services.

National Child Day Care Association (NCDCA): $45,000
To support the Education and Employment Training Program, which helps parents move from welfare to work by providing education, job readiness training, and job search assistance to low-income individuals with children enrolled at NCDCA facilities.

National Women's Law Center: $20,000
To support the DC Child and Family Support Project, which provides information and assistance to low-income single parents on child support and a range of related issues. (Second installment of a two-year $40,000 grant.)

Neighbors' Consejo: $25,000
For support of its Employment Services Program, which is designed to meet the needs of clients with multiple barriers to employment such as limited formal education, poor English proficiency, lack of job skills and weak employment history.

Rachael's Women's Center: $15,000
For support of its Job Training Program, which provides homeless and formerly homeless women with opportunities to gain the necessary job skills and confidence needed to move to more long-term employment situations.

Southeast Ministry: $15,000
a) For general support of this organization, which provides educational assistance, job readiness training, and job placement services to residents of Ward 8 ($10,000); and b) for support of its capital improvement program ($5,000).

STRIVE DC, Inc.: $25,000
For general support of this organization, which prepares, trains, places and supports inner-city residents in securing employment through job readiness training, job placement, and two years of post placement support.

Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program: $10,000
For support of its Economic Literacy Initiative, which will provide much needed services to low-income women and their families; specifically, the funds will partially support the work of one Women's Law Advocate.

YWCA National Capital Area: $25,000
For general support of this organization, which creates opportunities for employment growth, and leadership for women, children and their families through education and training. (First installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.)

B. Family Support

Advocates for Justice and Education, Inc.: $30,000
For general support of this organization, which educates and empowers parents of children with special needs to advocate on behalf of their own children.

Bread for the City, Inc.: $25,000
For support of its new Southeast Center, which will allow Bread for the City to serve at least 25 percent more people in need, with comprehensive, expanded services closer to home.

Calvary Bilingual Multicultural Learning Center: $35,000
For support of its Family Institute Project, which provides a wide variety of family support services, such as parenting workshops, social service referrals, school/family linkages, health screening, and assistance to the organization's Parent Association.

Community Family Life Services: $35,000
For support of its Trinity Arms Transitional Housing Program, which provides a holistic network of services to strengthen homeless families. (Second installment of a two-year $70,000 grant.)

Council of Latino Agencies: $35,000
a) For general support of this organization, which seeks to advocate for and strengthen the infrastructure of non-profit health and service agencies serving the Latino community ($25,000). (Second installment of a two-year $45,000 grant.); and b) for support of the dissemination and media coverage required for the publication of State of Latinos in the District of Columbia, an advocacy tool to mark the evolution, progress and challenges of DC Latinos ten years after the Mt. Pleasant disturbances ($10,000).

Edward C. Mazique Parent Child Center of the District of Columbia: $35,000
For support of its Pathways to the Future program, which serves teen parents and their children.

The Family Place: $30,000
For general support of this organization, which works to promote family empowerment, improve child health and development, and foster parent leadership in two Washington, DC neighborhoods. (First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)

Healthy Babies Project: $35,000
For general support of this organization, which offers comprehensive medical, mental health, and social services to pregnant women and their families. (Second installment of a two-year $70,000 grant.)

House of Ruth: $30,000
For support of its Kidspace Child and Family Development Center's Parenting Training Project, which develops and promotes good parenting skills among homeless and abused mothers.

Martha's Table: $30,000
For support of its Children and Family Learning Center project, which strengthens families through education, employment and nutrition within a nurturing environment.

Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care: $20,000
For the Healthy Families DC Project, which provides support and information services to its target population of at-risk first-time families in an effort to prevent child abuse and neglect and improve child health outcomes.

Perry School Community Services Center, Inc.: $35,000
For general support of this organization, which offers anti-poverty programs which include youth development, computer learning centers for youth and adults, entrepreneurship, social services and other supportive services, and a job training center.

U.S. Association for Child Care, Inc.: $20,000
For the DC Child Care Providers Coalition, which will strengthen the ability of child care providers to participate in decisions about child care policy and develop a coordinated city-wide training plan that improves access to training.

Washington Area Women's Foundation: $25,000
For its Portrait Project, a collaborative research and public education initiative to document and begin to address the needs of women and girls in the D.C. area, particularly those living in poverty. (First installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.)

Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless: $50,000
a) For general support of this organization, which seeks to meet the needs and alleviate the suffering of persons who struggle with homelessness and poverty ($40,000); and b) for the Crossing the River project, which empowers low-income mothers to lift themselves out of poverty and affect policy change ($10,000).

Wider Opportunities for Women: $25,000
For general support of this organization, which works to increase access to high wage jobs for poor women and girls. (First installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.)

C. Youth Development

2M Center, Inc.: $17,500
For general support of this organization, which seeks to address "digital divide" issues and technology access for low-income residents East of the River through creative youth programming and advocacy.

Asian American LEAD: $35,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to support the development of Asian American youth and to strengthen community building through a partnership between youth, families, and the community.

Center for Mental Health, Inc.: $60,000
For support of its teen program, Club YES, which serves high-risk teenagers and their families through therapy, therapeutic recreation, academic, pre-vocational opportunties, and case management.

DC Action for Children: $30,000
For general support of this organization, which advocates on behalf of children and families in the District of Columbia. (Second installment of a two-year $55,000 grant.)

Heads Up: $25,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to improve the school performance of low-income students. (Second installment of a two-year $45,000 grant.)

Homeless Children's Tutorial Project, Inc.: $20,000
For general support of this organization, which provides educational and emotional support to homeless, formerly homeless, and at risk children in D.C.

Latin American Youth Center: $25,000
For support of its Teen Parent Support Program, to extend its services to teens who are not yet parents and to strengthen services to newly arrived immigrant youth.

Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care: $40,000
For support of Making Dreams Possible for Hispanic Teens-Proyecto Entre Iguales, which uses a prevention case management model to reduce the rate of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS. (Second installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.)

Mentors, Inc.: $20,000
For general support of this organization, which offers a one-on-one mentoring program that provides high school students in the D.C. Public School System with activities to support their academic, career and personal enrichment goals.

Metro Teen AIDS: $20,000
For general support of this organization, which focuses on preventing the spread of HIV infection among youth in Washington, D.C.

Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington: $40,000
For general support of this organization, which provides comprehensive, culturally sensitive, affordable, and confidential family planning and reproductive health services to women and teens in low-income and at-risk communities in the District.

Student Conservation Association, Inc.: $5,000
For support of the National Capital Region Urban and Diversity Program, which aims to provide young DC residents with skills that enable them to articulate and achieve their education and employment goals while working on important conservation projects in the District.

Young Women's Project: $30,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to provide high-quality youth development programs to teen women in high schools and in foster care group homes.

D. Housing and Community Development

Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development: $20,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to preserve affordable housing for low-and moderate-income District residents and to revitalize distressed neighborhoods through its training and capacity building, public education, communications, and research program components.

Community Family Life Services: $20,000
For the Brandywine Street Assocation project, which seeks to re-establish a safe and desirable neighborhood in southeast Washington, and address the underlying social and economic needs of the residents with a solid employment and youth development program.

National Housing Law Project: $18,000
For support of its project to Increase the Capacity and Effectiveness of Resident Organizations, which helps residents of public housing to have an impact on the policies and plans developed by the DC housing authority.

Washington Innercity Self Help: $5,000
For its organizational assessment to enable it to plan for the future of the organization.

National Programs

DC Programs