Poverty $2,068,500

National programs

A. Family Income

Applied Research Center: $40,000 For general support of this organization, which works to advance racial justice and equity through research, policy analysis, and journalism.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: $75,000 For general support of this organization, which works to reduce poverty in the United States through improvements in federal, state, and local policies, and through more effective operation of low-income programs.

Center for Community Change: $75,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing technical assistance and training to low-wage worker and immigrant grassroots organizations.

Center for Law and Social Policy: $60,000 For general support of this organization, which works to promote policies to improve the economic security of low-income families with children.

Food Research and Action Center: $62,500 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.

U.S. Action 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.

District of Columbia Programs

A. Family Income

Academy of Hope: $25,000 For general support of this organization, which provides educational programs, including day and evening classes, an External Diploma Program, computer and job skills training, career counseling, and one-on-one tutoring for adults reading below the 6th grade level.

Bread for the City: $15,000 For its Pre-Employment Program, which seeks to enhance the lives of unemployed and underemployed individuals by providing a continuum of life management and job readiness training services.

Center for Economic Policy and Research: $10,000 For its Bridging the Gaps project, which will generate a DC-focused report to document family hardships by combining qualitative work with quantitative analysis on the participation rates among eligible working families in key benefit programs.

Jobs for Homeless People: $20,000 For its DC program, which seeks to help homeless individuals in the District of Columbia transform their lives by obtaining meaningful employment and permanent housing.

Neighbors’ Consejo: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which provides bi-lingual individual and group intervention and leadership development programs for the homeless and low-income populations of Wards 1 and 4 in the District of Columbia.

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: $15,000 For its Washington Area Women in the Trades program, which provides low-income women in DC with access to male-dominated occupations, thereby increasing their earning power and their ability to become economically self-sufficient.

B. Youth Development

Asian American LEAD: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which offers tutoring, after-school, mentoring, and family support programs to more than 250 low-income children and families in the District of Columbia.

DC Children & Youth Investment Trust Corporation: $30,000 For (a) its new initiative, Girls Acquiring Meaningful Experiences (GAME), which seeks to identify, support, and develop resources to aid girls – particularly low-income girls of color – to achieve better life outcomes; and for (b) DC BEST, its training program for adults who work with children and youth in a variety of settings.

Earth Conservation Corps: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which uses the challenge and promise of restoring the Anacostia River to engage unemployed, older youth (ages 17-25) in environmental action and community service.

Facilitating Leadership in Youth (FLY): $20,000 For its Barry Farms Community Campaign, which will help inform and highlight the strategy of youth and adult residents from Barry Farms and Parkchester to envision, create, and negotiate a redevelopment design that meets the needs of current residents.

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

The Homeless Children’s Tutorial Project: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which provides educational and emotional support to homeless, formerly homeless, and at-risk children in DC.

Latin American Youth Center (LAYC): $15,000 For its Ward 4 program, which seeks to provide year-round educational enrichment programs focused on academics, healthy behaviors and attitudes, and fitness for youth in Ward 4.

Life Pieces To Masterpieces: $40,000 For general support of this organization, which aims to provide African-American boys and their families living in DC’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 its Bridge and Teen programs, which strengthen and empower youth through education, recreation, and nutrition within a nurturing environment.

Mary’s Center: $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.

Metro TeenAIDS: $80,000 (a) For general support of this organization, which focuses on preventing the spread of HIV infection among youth in Washington, DC; and (b) for its DC Alliance of Youth Advocates (DCAYA) project, which works to ensure the availability of policies, programs, and practices within DC that promote and propel youth into productive and healthy adulthood.

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.

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.

Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers: $10,000 For the Washington AIDS Partnership, which works to support a variety of prevention and advocacy services targeting youths.

Young Women’s Project: $40,000 For general support of this organization, which builds and supports DC teen women and girl leaders so that they can improve their lives and transform their communities.

C. Housing and Development

Alliance for Global Justice: $31,000 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 ($30,000); and b) for support of its US Social Forum delegation. ($1,000)

Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development: $30,000 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.

Manna Inc.: $30,000 For its ONE DC program, which works to create and preserve racial and economic equity in the District of Columbia.

D. Family Support

Advocates for Justice and Education, Inc.: $35,000 For general support of this organization, which works to empower parents to address injustices in the delivery of services to meet special education needs.

Foster & 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 Center, Inc.: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to address issues of chronic poverty in the Northwest One area of Washington, DC.

E. Economic and Social Justice

Campaign for Youth Justice: $20,000 For its Justice 4 DC Youth project, which seeks to improve the District’s juvenile justice system.

Capital Area Asset Building Corporation: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which works to provide low- to moderate-income individuals in DC 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.

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: $35,000 For general support of this organization which organizes volunteers, including attorneys and other experts, to work in teams and develop solutions to problems faced by the city.

DC Employment Justice Center: $35,000 For general support of this organization, which works to secure, protect, and promote workplace justice for low-income workers in the DC metropolitan area.

DC Jobs with Justice: $ 15,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to protect the rights of working people and support community struggles to build a more just society.

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

Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless: $60,000 For (a) general support of this organization, which seeks to provide legal representation to, and advocacy on behalf of, people struggling with homelessness and poverty in DC; and (b) for its Fair Budget Coalition, which seeks to promote a vision of the District of Columbia as a community that values all its citizens, works to lift people out of poverty, and provides adequate supports for those in need.

Wider Opportunities for Women: $75,000 For a) its DC Women’s Agenda project, which works to advance an agenda to promote sound health and well-being, and equality for women and girls residing in the District of Columbia ($25,000); b) for its DC 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 ($45,000) and c) its DC Jobs Council, a coalition working to improve the District’s workforce development system. ($5,000).

F. Jewish Activism and Philanthropy

AVODAH: $20,000 For support of its Washington, DC Program, which integrates Judaism and social activism by placing full-time volunteers 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.

Jewish Funds for Justice: $10,000 For the Selah Collaborative LeadershipProgram, which trains emerging Jewish leaders working in strategic sections of the non-profit world on the fundamentals of collaborative leadership.

G. Other Programs

Fair Chance: $25,000 For general support of this organization, which works to strengthen the nonprofit sector by providing community-based nonprofit leaders in DC with the tools and knowledge they need to thrive.

Maryland Programs

Advocates for Children and Youth: $20,000 For general support of this organization, which promotes the interests of Maryland’s children and families through the effective use of research, policy development, community outreach, media relations, and government relations.

CASA de Maryland: $30,000 For its Community Organizing and Political Action (COPA) Department, which organizes low-income Latino and immigrant workers to effect positive institutional change.

Food Research Action Center: $20,000 For its new state-based project, Maryland Hunger Solutions, designed to reduce hunger among low-income families in Maryland.

Virginia Program

Tenants and Workers United: $30,000 For its New Virginian Initiative, which will increase both the rate of immigrant naturalization and the level of immigrant civic participation in Northern Virginia.

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy: $70,000 For a) its Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Policy, which analyzes how policy, budget and, tax proposals will affect low-income families and communities ($50,000); and b) general support for this organization, an interfaith partnership focused on social and economic justice issues. ($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 (VaPERL), 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, a statewide multi-issue organization working to improve policies and practices that affect children, youth, and families.