Poverty $1,795,000

National Programs

A. Family Income

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

Center for Law and Social Policy: $75,000For general support of this organization, which works to promote policies to improve the economic security of low-income families with children.

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.

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.

National Women’s Law Center: $40,000 For its 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 escape poverty.

The Rebecca Project for Human Rights: $50,000 For general support of this organization, which works with poor and low-income mothers who are struggling with the intersecting issues of economic marginality, substance abuse, access to family-oriented treatment and the criminal justice system.

USAction Education Fund: $25,000 For general support of this organization, which works to educate the public about the need for national policies that support quality affordable healthcare, quality public education and fair taxes, and that protect the rights of consumers and the environment from corporate abuses.

B. Economic and Social Justice

Applied Research Center: $30,000 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 an agenda of racial justice.

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.: $25,000 For its project Just the Facts: Social Security and the African American Community, which educates African Americans about Social Security and proposals to privatize the system.

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

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.

Community Tax Aid, Inc.: $7,000 For free income tax assistance to low-to-moderate-income residents.

JHP, Inc.: $20,000 For its program to provide employment and housing services to homeless women in Washington D.C.

Neighbors’ Consejo: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which provides individual and group-level intervention and leadership development 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: $15,000 For general support of this organization, which provides education, job readiness training, and job placement services to residents of Ward 8.

STRIVE DC: $30,000 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.

YWCA National Capital Area: $10,000 For its Washington Area Women in Trades (WAWIT) project, which will train women for jobs in construction and other skilled trades.

B. Youth Development

2M Center: $20,000 For general support of this organization, which addresses technology public policy and access issues facing East of the River residents.

Asian American LEAD: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which provides after school technology programs for elementary schools in wards 7 and 8.

Community Foundation for the National Capital Region: $25,000 For its DC Alliance of Youth Advocates project, which is a group of leaders representing a range of youth development programs working to ensure that all young people in the District have access to high-quality, affordable programs, activities and opportunities outside of school.

DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation: $30,000 a) For DC BEST, the Trust Corporation's training program for adults who work with children and youth in a variety of settings ($15,000); and b) for the Summer Programs Initiative, a partnership between the Trust Corporation and the District of Columbia to provide safe, structured, adult-supervised activities for children and youth during the summer months. ($15,000)

HeadsUp: A University Neighborhood Initiative: $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.

Latin American Youth Center (LAYC): $15,000 For LAYC’s after school and summer enrichment activities for at-risk youth from low-income families residing in Ward 4.

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 tools and opportunities to improve their quality of life.

Martha’s Table: $30,000 For support of its Bridge and Teen programs, which strengthen and empower youth through education, recreation, and nutrition within a nurturing environment.

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

Men Can Stop Rape: $2,500 For its evaluation project, which will help the organization to improve its work and to attach quantitative date to the significant anecdotal evidence of positive impact the organization is having on the lives of young men, their peers, and their region.

Metro TeenAIDS: $35,000 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: $45,000 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 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.

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 education planning preparation.

The 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: $35,000 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.

Foster and Adoptive Parent Advocacy Center: $20,000 For general support of this organization, which works to ensure that every foster and adoptive parent serving DC children is provided the best resources and assistance.

Healthy Babies Project: $40,000 For its Teen Parent Empowerment Program, which provides services and resources to teen parents to enable them to become supportive and responsible parents.

Hope House: $3,000 For Hope House's evaluation project to assess the impact of its programs to strengthen relationships between inmates who are incarcerated and their families.

Perry School Community Services, Inc.: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which offers anti-poverty programs that include youth development, economic empowerment, and family support services.

D. Housing and Community Development

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

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, capacity building, public education, and communications components.

E. Economic and Social Justice

Alliance for Global Justice: $30,000 a) For its EMPOWER DC project, which seeks to enhance and improve self-advocacy efforts to improve the quality of life of low-and moderate-income people in the District.

Capital Area Asset Building Corporation: $25,000 For general support of this organization, which provides low and moderate-income individuals and families with opportunities to improve their financial management skills, increase their savings and build wealth.

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

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.

DC Action for Children: $40,000 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.

DC Appleseed: $25,000 For its Anacostia Waterfront Initiative, which focuses on ensuring implementation of the low-income housing and employment requirements of the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation Act.

Food Research and Action Center: $40,000 For its D.C. Hunger Solutions project, which focuses on increasing the use of federal nutrition resources in the District.

Nation’s Capital Child and Family Development (NCCFD): $25,000 For its Child Care Advocacy Project, which seeks to raise the profile of the impact of District budget decisions.

National Housing Law Project (NHLP): $30,000 For its D.C. Public Housing Resident Empowerment Project, which helps residents of public housing to have an impact on policies and plans developed by the D.C. housing authority.

The Community Foundation of the National Capital Region: 5,000 For support of the Community Foundation's Washington Area Partnership for Immigrants Program.

The District of Columbia Employment Justice Center: $35,000 For general support of this organization, which works to improve employment policies affecting low-income individuals and offers legal services and education programs that serve low-income and unemployed District workers.

Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless: $40,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to meet the needs and alleviate the suffering of persons who struggle with homelessness and poverty.

Wider Opportunities for Women: $65,000 a) For its D.C. Workforce Development Project, which seeks to improve the workforce development and income support infrastructure in the District of Columbia, so that it better responds to the needs of unemployed and under-employed job-seekers ($40,000); and b) for support of its DC Women's Agenda ($25,000).

F. Jewish Activism and Philanthropy

AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps: $20,000 For its Washington, D.C. Program, which integrates Judaism and social activism by enabling young adults to work in locally-based anti-poverty organizations.

Jews United for Justice: $15,000 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.

G. Other

Fair Chance: $15,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to build the capacity of human services organizations serving residents east of the Anacostia River.

Management Assistance Group: $10,000 To enable MAG to design a leadership and management capacity building program for executive leaders of progressive activist organizations in the Washington, DC area.

The Community Foundation for the National Capitol Region: $10,000 For the Children, Youth, and Families Working Group.

The Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington, Inc.: $2,500 For SPIN Communications Training for nonprofits.