Relief & Other Grants

Relief $95,000

Doctors Without Borders USA/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF): $35,000 For its Emergency Relief Fund, which allows MSF to respond to critical humanitarian needs, including those that may not be receiving public or media attention. (Second installment of a two-year $70,000 grant)

ActionAid USA (AAUSA): $50,000 a) For its Global Food Crisis project, to carry out research and advocacy to address the structural roots of the current food crisis, in an effort to create systemic change, and to promote effective strategies for shorter-term relief ($30,000); and b) emergency relief for Haiti in the aftermath of that country being hit with three consecutive hurricanes in as many weeks, causing extensive damage to a country that already suffers extreme poverty ($20,000).

Rights Action: $10,000 Recommended for relief and recovery efforts by the Asociación Comunitaria de Desarrollo Integral Mam (ACODIMAM) in response to the devastating effects of recent tropical storms in the highlands of Guatemala.

Other $127,500

Alliance for Justice: $2,500 For general support of this organization, which works to advance the cause of justice for all Americans, strengthen the public interest community's ability to influence public policy, and foster the next generation of advocates.

American Constitution Society of Law and Policy: $2,500 For general support of this organization, which works to ensure that the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice are in their rightful, central place in American law.

C & O Canal Trust, Inc.: $2,000 For general support of this organization, which works to protect, restore and promote the C&O Canal National Historical Park.

Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) – Public Education Association: $3,000For technical assistance support to the Israeli and District of Columbia Public School Systems.

The Community Foundation of the National Capital Region: $3,000 For the Black Philanthropic Alliance.

Dade Community Foundation: $5,000 For general support of this organization.

DC Abortion Fund: $7,000 For general support of this organization, which works to cover the gap between what women can afford and the cost of an abortion and to make the freedom of choice a reality for all women.

Drum Major Institute, Inc.: $2,500 For general support of this organization, which seeks to change policy by offering platforms to amplify the ideas of those who are working for social and economic fairness.

Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc.: $3,000 For general support of this organization.

Gillen Brewer School, Inc.: $12,000 For general support of this organization, which is dedicated to transforming the lives of young children with a wide variety of language, emotional, developmental, learning and health-related disabilities.

Global Greengrants Fund: $5,000 For general support of this organization, which provides small grants to grassroots groups worldwide working for environmental justice and sustainability.

Global Heritage Fund: $5,000 For general support of this organization, which work to ensure the long-term preservation of humankind's most important and imperiled sites in the world.

Management Assistance Group: $38,000 For general support of the Management Assistance Group ($20,000) and for technical assistance for the Global Campaign for Microbicides ($10,000).

MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger: $10,000 For its Chanukah-themed, hunger-and poverty-focused educational piece that helps disseminates a social justice message.

Mississippi Center for Justice: $2,500 For general support of this organization, which works to advance racial and economic justice.

National Religious Campaign Against Torture: $3,000 For its Banners Across America! Poster Project to produce a full color poster showing the growing moral consensus against torture among people of all faiths, all across the country.

Pacific Environment and Resource Center: $5,000 For general support of this organization, which works to protects the living environment of the Pacific Rim.

The Posse Foundation: $10,000 For general support of this organization, which identifies, recruits and trains student leaders from public high schools to form multicultural teams called 'Posses' in order to improve access to higher education.

Public Interest Projects, Inc.: $1,500 For the International Human Rights Funders Group, which works to address the growing needs of the human rights community, both grantseekers and grantmakers, at home and abroad.

Second Presbyterian Church: $5,500 For the Alexander Robertson School, which provides a small, safe, nurturing setting in which children learns to be thoughtful independent learners.

St. Margarets Episcopal Church: $5,000 For Charlie's Place in memory of Mrs. Betsy Mathiason; Charlie's Place is a homeless drop-in center that provides breakfast, case management, health services, and referrals to homeless men and woman in DC.

Tides Center: $5,000 Recommended for support of Grantmakers Without Borders, a philanthropic network dedicated to increasing funding for international social justice and environmental sustainability.

Washington National Opera: $5,000For its Arts Education Program with the DC Public Library System, which presents free opera programs to children and their families.