Poverty $1,800,000

National Programs

A. Family Income

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.

Center for Community Change: $90,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing technical assistance and training to grassroots organization working on jobs, welfare reform and public housing for low-income families.

Center for Law and Social Policy: $75,000 For general support of this organization, which works to promote policies to improve the economic security of low-income families with children. (Second installment of a two-year $150,000 grant.)

Chicago Women in Trades: $5,000 For the Tradeswomen Now and Tomorrow project, for the development of its overall organizational and strategic goals, and to assist in the launching of its policy agenda.

National Women's Law Center : $40,000 For support of the Project to Strengthen the Safety Net, which ensures that low-income women and their families, both nationally and in the District of Columbia, receive the help they need to leave poverty.

Neighbors’ Consejo: $2,500 To support its strategic planning process.

The Workforce Alliance : $35,000 For general support of this organization, whose mission is to help national leaders develop welfare, workforce and higher education policies that are better informed by effective practitioners from the training and employment field.

B. Family Support

Food Research and Action Center: $60,000 For general support of this organization, which works to ensure that the Food Stamp Program and key child nutrition programs better serve low-income families.

C. National Policy

Applied Research Center : $33,500 For its Race and Public Policy program, an effort to develop alternative policies, educate policymakers and work collaboratively with community organizations and activists to advance a progressive agenda within a racial justice framework.

Ms. Foundation for Women : $25,000 To support the planning process for Public Voices, Public Policy: Enhancing the Power of Women of Color, a new funding collaborative to build the sustainability and capacity of women of color-led organizations.

National Housing Law Project : $20,000 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.

District of Columbia Programs

A. Family Income

Academy of Hope : $20,000 For general support of this organization, which provides educational programs including day and evening classes, computer training, an external diploma program and one-on-one tutoring for adults reading below the 6th 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 for adults and youth in disadvantaged neighborhoods in D.C.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities : $75,000 For the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, a project that analyzes budget, tax, and programmatic issues affecting low- and moderate-income District families and individuals, and prepares analyses for use by policymakers, advocates, and the media.

The District of Columbia Employment Justice Center : $30,000 For general support of this organization, which works to secure and enforce the rights of low-income workers in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area by providing legal assistance on employment law matters to the working poor and by supporting a local workers' rights movement.

JHP, Inc. : $20,000 For general support of this organization, which provides employment readiness programs (including education, counseling, and training) and housing assistance and support services to at-risk and homeless individuals in the D.C. metropolitan area.

Jubilee Jobs, Inc. : $20,000 For general support of this organization, which provides job preparation and placement services to disadvantaged job-seekers in the metropolitan D.C. area, and encourages practical next steps toward wage growth, training, or promotion.

Literacy Volunteers of America-National Capital Area : $20,000 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, workplace literacy, and basic-skills classes for TANF/low-income parents.

Manna, Inc. : $15,000 To support its Tenant Organizing Project, which works with tenants of expiring use Section 8 properties to secure long-term solutions to their needs for affordable housing, and for its efforts to organize activists around affordable housing policies.

Nation's Capital Child and Family Development (NCCFD) : $30,000 For its 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 NCCFD child development facilities .

Neighbors' Consejo : $25,000 For general support of this organization, which provides individual and group-level intervention programs for the homeless and low-income populations of Washington, D.C., particularly for immigrants in the Mount Pleasant, Columbia Heights, and Adams Morgan neighborhoods.

Southeast Ministry : $12,500 For general support of this organization, which provides educational, job readiness training, and job placement services to residents of Ward 8.

STRIVE DC, Inc. : $25,000 For general support of this organization, which offers a training and job placement program for chronically unemployed inner-city adults and youth; this includes three weeks of attitudinal job readiness training, and a minimum of two years of follow-up support.

Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless : $65,000 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 Rebecca Project for Human Rights, which works to create just policies on the national level for parents struggling with poverty and addiction, and to include the parents' voices in the articulation of policy goals and needs ($25,000).

Wider Opportunities for Women : $35,000 For its work to ensure that low-income job seekers in Washington, D.C. have access to the training programs and resources necessary to earn self-sufficiency wages.

YWCA National Capital Area : $25,000 For a planning process for Washington Area Women in the Trades, a new program to train and place low-income women in non-traditional, high-wage occupations.

B. Youth Development

Asian American LEAD : $35,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to nurture, empower, and support the development of Asian American youth and families.

DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation : $30,000 To support D.C. BEST, the Trust Corporation's training program for adults who work with children and youth in a variety of settings.

Heads Up : $35,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to improve the school performance of low-income students, and works to improve local and national out-of-school time policy.

Healthy Babies Project : $35,000 For its Teen Parent Empowerment Program, which provides services and resources to teen parents to enable them to become supportive and responsible parents.

The Homeless Children's Tutorial Project, Inc. : $25,000 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 : $20,000 For its Teen Parent Support Program, which seeks to help teen mothers and fathers continue their education, postpone pregnancy and learn the skills they need to be able to find and keep good jobs. (First installment of a two year $30,000 grant).

Life Pieces to Masterpieces : $25,000 For general support of this organization, which aims to provide African-American boys and their families living in Washington, D.C.'s low-income and public housing in Wards 7 and 8 with the tools and opportunities to improve their quality of life.

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

Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care : $30,000 For support of its Teen Program, which serves uninsured Hispanic teens and focuses on preventing teen pregnancy and STD/HIV transmission, and promoting overall health.

Mentors, Inc. : $10,000 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 TeenAIDS: $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 metropolitan Washington area.

The Urban Alliance Foundation, Inc. : $35,000 For general support of this organization, whose mission is to train high school students for employment through work skills development, life skills enrichment, and educational planning preparation.

Young Women's Project : $40,000 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.

C. Family Support

Advocates for Justice and Education, Inc. : $25,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to educate and empower parents of children with special needs to advocate on behalf of their own children.

Calvary Bilingual Multicultural Learning Center : $35,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to provide safe, nurturing and affordable childcare and family support services to moderate and low-income families.

Community Family Life Services : $20,000 For support of its Trinity Arms Transitional Housing Program, which provides a holistic network of services to strengthen homeless families. (First installment of a two-year $30,000 grant).

Consortium for Child Welfare: $5,000 For support of its Foster and Adoptive Parent Advocacy Center, to develop and disseminate a policy brief on the relationship between recruiting D.C. residents as foster parents and the affordable housing crisis.

DC Action for Children: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which provides policy analysis, research and community education on issues affecting children, youth and families in the District of Columbia.

The Family Place : $25,000 For general support of this organization, which works to promote family empowerment, improve child health and development, and foster parent leadership in Wards 1 and 4.

House of Ruth : $15,000 For support of its Kidspace Child and Family Development Center's Parenting Training Project, which seeks to develop and promote effective parenting skills among homeless and abused mothers.

Perry School Community Services Center, Inc. : $35,000 For general support of this organization, which offers anti-poverty programs that include youth development, economic empowerment, and family support services.

Washington Area Women's Foundation : $20,000 For support of 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.

D. Housing and Community Development

2M Center, Inc. : $20,000 For support of its East of the River Technology Collaborative (ERTECH), a community-based technology resource and advocacy group that promotes basic technology skills and know-how and encourages the use of email and the Internet as effective tools in communicating and organizing.

Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development: $25,000 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, and communications components. (Second installment of a two-year $45,000 grant.)

E. Local Policy

Center for Community Change: $10,000 For support of its D.C. Catalyst Project, which will engage low-income residents in local policymaking to promote equitable economic and social development in their communities.

Council of Latino Agencies : $30,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to advance a policy agenda for D.C.'s Latino population and the organizations that serve it, by using reliable statistical data and accurate information on this community.

Food Research and Action Center (FRAC): $40,000 For support of FRAC's District of Columbia initiative, D.C. Hunger Solutions, which will focus on increasing the use of federal nutrition resources in the District ($25,000); and for a D.C. Hunger Solutions project, specifically to cover costs of D.C. Hunger Solutions staff and related expenses required to develop, organize and provide the Cultural Sensitivity Training and its resultant Community Resource Guide. ($15,000

National Housing Law Project : $30,000 For support of its D.C. Public Housing Initiative, which helps residents of public housing influence the policies and plans developed by the D.C. housing authority.

Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers: $1,500 For the East of the River Taskforce, to help publish a report that will disseminate findings from a series of focus groups with residents and leaders who live and work in Wards 7 and 8.

F. Jewish Activism and Philanthropy

AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps : $15,000 For support of its Washington, D.C. Program, the first expansion site in its efforts to create a national Jewish Service Corps dedicated to the integration of Judaism and social activism by working in locally-based anti-poverty organizations.

Jewish Fund for Justice (JFJ) : $12,500 For support of Shoulder to Shoulder, JFJ's

Washington , D.C initiative to integrate its institutional grantmaking to combat poverty with its efforts to increase Jewish involvement in and support of social justice work.

Jews United for Justice : $12,500 For general support of this organization, which seeks to organize a visible Jewish presence and take action for economic and social justice in the Washington, D.C. area.

MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger: $5,000 To develop a Chanukah-themed, hunger and poverty educational piece that helps disseminate the MAZON social justice message.

Yachad, Inc. : $5,000 For support of its Faith to Faith Community Development Program, which provides free advanced technical assistance and a volunteer labor force to African American churches that undertake neighborhood development projects; and for its Jewish Community Education and Outreach Program, whose mission is to recruit and identify people to help with Yachad's projects.