Poverty $2,000,000

National Programs

A. Family Income

Center for Community Change: $90,000 For 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: $75,000 For 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: $90,000 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 $165,000 grant.

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. First installment of a two-year $100,000 grant.

USAction Education Fund: $40,000 For general support of this organization, which provides information, training, technical assistance and research to state, regional and national organizations promoting social, racial, economic and environmental justice.

B. Economic and Social Justice

Applied Research Center: $40,000 For general support of this organization, a public policy institute advancing racial justice through research, policy analysis and journalism.

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.

Bread for the City: $15,000 For its Pre-Employment Program (PEP), which provides job-preparedness education and case management services for DC residents at its Southeast Center.

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

Neighbors’ Consejo: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which provides individual and group 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

Asian American LEAD: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which offers after-school tutoring, mentoring, and family support programs to more than 200 low-income children and families in the District of Columbia.

Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation: $30,000 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 for research and planning for a new initiative focused on girls ($15,000).

Community Foundation of the National Capital Region: $54,500 For a) 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 ($35,000); b) its Children, Youth and Families Working Group ($17,000); and c) its Workforce Development Project ($2,500).

Facilitating Leadership through Youth (FLY): $20,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to empower and support the development of youth in the Barry Farms housing development.

Fair Chance: $20,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to build the capacity of human services organizations serving residents in Wards 5,6,7 and 8.

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.

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 (LAYC): $15,000 For LAYC’s Ward 4 after school and summer enrichment activities for at-risk youth.

Life Pieces to Masterpieces: $30,000 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 Latino teens and focuses on preventing teen pregnancy and STD/HIV transmission and promoting overall health.

Men Can Stop Rape: $5,000 For its strategic planning initiative, 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: $40,000 For general support of this organization, which focuses on preventing the spread of HIV infection among youth in Washington, D.C. First installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.

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 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. First installment of a two-year $70,000 grant.

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: $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.

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 Development

Brandywine Street Association: $10,000 For general support of this organization, whose mission is re-establish a safe and desirable neighborhood, and address the underlying social and economic needs of the residents with a solid employment and youth development program.

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 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: $30,000 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, which analyzes budget, tax, and programmatic issues affecting low-and moderate-income District families and individuals, for use by policymakers, advocates, and the media. First installment of a two-year $150,000 grant.

Council of Latino Agencies: $33,000 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: $42,500 For a) 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 (first $40,000 installment of a two-year $80,000 grant); and b) for its Youth Crime Emergency Meeting ($2,500).

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.

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.

Food Research and Action Center: $70,000 a) For its D.C. Hunger Solutions project, which focuses on increasing the use of federal nutrition resources in the District ($40,000); and b) for support of its Campaign to End Childhood Hunger in the Nation’s Capital ($30,000).

Justice Policy Institute: $20,000 For general support of this organization, which supports Justice 4 DC Youth! Coalition's work to improve the District's juvenile justice system.

National Housing Law Project (NHLP): $35,000 For its DC Public Housing Resident Empowerment Project, which helps residents of public housing to have an impact on the policies and plans developed by the DC Housing Authority.

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: $70,000 a) For its D.C. Workforce Development Project, which seeks to improve 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 project, which brings a gender-based analysis to the policies and practices that affect women and their families and for the DC Jobs Council, a coalition working to improve the District’s workforce development system. ($30,000).

F. Jewish Activism and Philanthropy

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

Jews United for Justice: $20,000 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. Maryland Programs

Food Research and Action Center: $20,000 To establish a new Maryland anti-hunger project.

H. Virginia Programs

Tenants and Workers United: $15,000 For its planning project to investigate the feasibility of forming a statewide, multi-racial immigrant rights coalition.

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy: $70,000 For the creation of the Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Policy, which will analyze how policy, budget and tax proposals will affect low-income families and communities ($50,000); and for the strategic planning process of the Partnership for Virginia’s Sake ($20,000).

Virginia Organizing Project: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which provides policy analysis, training and technical assistance to low-income individuals and organizations around the state working for economic justice.

Virginia Poverty Law Center: $25,000 For its project, the Virginia Partnership to Encourage Responsible Lending, which seeks to end predatory lending practices that further impede low-income individuals’ and families’ ability to achieve economic security.

Voices for Virginia’s Children: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which is a statewide multi-issue organization working to improve policies and practices that affect children, youth and families.