ECONOMIC JUSTICE  $1,861,000

NATIONAL PROGRAMS

Center for Community Change:  $4,000  For general support of this organization, which works to provide technical assistance and training to grassroots organizations working on job, welfare reform and public housing for low-income families. 

Family Values @ Work:  A Multi-State Consortium:  $35,000  For its Federal-State Events Initiative  to link federal work and family policy proposals with state campaigns.  

Food Research and Action Center (FRAC):  $51,500  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 (NWLC):  $40,000  For general support of this organization, which works to protect and advance the progress of women and girls at work, in school and in virtually every aspect of their lives. This work includes the Center's 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.  (Second installment of a two-year $80,000 grant) 

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

Restaurant Opportunities Centers United:  $20,000 For general support of ROC United a new national restaurant workers’ organization dedicated to improving restaurant workers’ working conditions across the country.   

US Action Education Fund (USAEF):  $35,000  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.   

 
REGIONAL PROGRAMS

A.  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

PUBLIC POLICY

Campaign for Youth Justice (CYJ):  $25,000  For its Justice 4 DC Youth project to improve the District’s juvenile justice system. 

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP):  $135,000  For its  D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI), which analyzes budget, tax, and programmatic issues affecting low-and moderate-income District families and individuals, for use by policymakers, advocates, and the media. (Second installment of a two-year, $150,000 grant); and its DC Poverty Reduction Campaign, which will work to raise awareness of poverty issues and highlight the need for comprehensive solutions in the District.($60,000) 

DC Appleseed:  $40,000  For general support of this organization, which organizes volunteers, including attorneys and other experts, to work in teams to analyze and develop solutions to problems facing the city. 

DC Employment Justice Center:  $40,000  For general support of this organization, which works to secure, protect, and promote workplace justice for low-income workers in DC.  

DC Jobs With Justice:  $20,000  For general support of this organization, which works to bring together labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations to build power for working families in Washington, DC.

Food Research and Action Center (FRAC):  $35,000  For its DC Hunger Solutions project, which focuses on increasing the use of federal nutrition resources in the District. 

Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless (WLCH):  $60,000  For general support of this organization, which seeks to provide legal representation to, and advocacy on behalf of, people struggling with homelessness and poverty in the District of Columbia ($40,000); and its Fair Budget Coalition, which brings together community members, service providers, and faith organizations to collaboratively and strategically advance a fiscal policy agenda that responds compassionately and effectively to the needs of the poor in DC ($20,000). 

Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers:  $15,000  For its Washington AIDS Partnership, which addresses DC’s HIV/AIDS epidemic through a variety of strategies that focus on preventing new infections and improving the regional system of HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, treatment, and care.

Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW):  $50,000  For general support of this organization, which works for economic independence and equality of opportunity for women and girls in DC.

FAMILY INCOME

Academy of Hope (AoH):  $35,000  For general support of this organization, which works to break the cycle of poverty and create a community of hope and opportunity by providing high quality education and job skills training to low-income and at-risk adults in the District.

Capital Area Asset Building Corporation (CAAB):  $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. 

Community Foundation for the National Capital Region (CFNCR):  $15,000  For its Greater Washington Workforce Development Collaborative, which invests in strategies to help low-income adults in the Metro DC area gain the skills they need to advance into sustainable employment.

Southeast Ministry (SEM):  $20,000  For general support of this organization, which provides education, job readiness training, and job placement services to residents of Wards 6-8.

STRIVE DC, Inc.:  $30,000  For general support of this organization, which trains, places, and provides support to chronically unemployed men and women in the DC area.   

Year Up Metro DC:  $25,000  For general support of this organization, which provides low-income young adults (ages 18-24) with a combination of hands-on skill development, college credits, and corporate apprenticeships to place them on a viable path to economic self-sufficiency.

YWCA National Capital Area:  $20,000  For its Washington Area Women in the Trades program, which trains low-income women for non-traditional, high wage occupations in construction and other industries.

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

Asian American LEAD (AALEAD):  $30,000  For general support of this organization, which increases the opportunities and abilities of low-income Asian American children to move out of poverty and become self-sufficient adults by providing year-round mentoring, after-school, and family support programs in the District of Columbia and Montgomery County, Maryland.

Heads Up:  $15,000 For general support of this organization, which works to provide children from low-income neighborhoods with the academic skills and learning opportunities they need to succeed. 

Life Pieces to Masterpieces:  $40,000  For general support of this organization, which provides academic support, art instruction, leadership development activities, and mentoring to boys and young men living in low-income and public housing east of the Anacostia river. 

Martha's Table:  $30,000  For its Bridge and Teen Programs, which provide tutorial, recreational, and other learning programming during the school year and summer for at-risk youth in the Shaw and Columbia Heights neighborhoods. 

Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care:  $20,000  For its Teen Program, which provides year-round programmatic and case management services to teens (ages 13-21 years), most of whom receive their primary health care at Mary’s Center. 

Metro TeenAIDS (MTA):  $80,000  For general support of this organization, which focuses on preventing the spread of HIV infection among youth in Washington, DC ($40,000); and 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. ($40,000) 

Urban Alliance Foundation: $$40,000  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.     

                                                  
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. 

HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Alliance for Global Justice (ACJ):  $40,000  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 in order to preserve and create affordable housing, secure quality, affordable child care and education opportunities, and encourage civic engagement. 

Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development (CNHED):  $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.       

Organizing Neighborhood Equity (ONE DC):  $40,000  For general support of this organization, which works to create and preserve racial and economic equity in the District of Columbia. 

FAMILY SUPPORT

Advocates for Justice and Education, Inc. (AJE):  $35,000  For general support of this organization, which provides educational advocacy, support, legal services, and training to at-risk students and their parents. 

Healthy Babies Project, Inc. (HBP):  $35,000  For its Teen Parent Empowerment Program, which provides services and resources to teen parents in Wards 5-8 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. 

JEWISH ACTIVISM AND PHILANTHROPY

AVODAH:  $10,000  For  its DC program, which delivers critically-needed services to people in poverty while deepening the commitment of young Jewish adults to social activism as a central expression of their core values.   

Jews United for Justice:  $20,000  For general support of this organization, which organizes a visible Jewish presence and takes action for economic and social justice in the Washington, DC area.  

B.  MARYLAND PUBLIC POLICY

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 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 policy changes.   

Food Research and Action Center (FRAC):  $30,000  For its Maryland Hunger Solutions project, which focuses on increasing the use of federal nutrition resources in the state.

Job Opportunities Task Force (JOTF):  $35,000  For general support of this organization, which works to promote and develop policies and programs that increase the skills, job opportunities, and incomes of low-skill, low-income workers and job seekers in Maryland.

Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations (MANO):  $50,000  For its Maryland Budget & Tax Policy Institute, which provides accessible research and analysis of state budget and tax policies. 

C. VIRGINIA PUBLIC POLICY

Tenants and Workers United: $30,000  For its New Virginians Program, which works to move legal permanent residents (LPRs) on a path to citizenship and full community engagement, and to register new voters from disenfranchised populations. 

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy:  $82,500  For general support for this organization, an interfaith partnership focused on social and economic justice issues ($25,000); and for its Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Policy, which analyzes how policy, budget and tax proposals will affect low-income families and communities ($57,500).  

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 (VPLC):  $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, a statewide multi-issue organization working to improve policies and practices that affect children, youth, and families. 

D.  OTHER

Environmental Leadership Program (ELP):  $15,000  For its project to enable two leaders from the District of Columbia to participate in its Mid-Atlantic Regional Network, which will bring together a diverse cohort of emerging leaders from Maryland, Virginia, and DC in order develop their capacity to have a unique and substantial impact on regional environmental issues.  

Mississippi Center for Justice:  $2,000  For general support of this organization, which works to advance racial and economic justice.   

Star Scholarship Foundation:  $1,000  For general support of this organization, which works to improve students' education and build job skills.

Success Charter Network:  $115,000  For its Harlem Success Academy 5 (HSA5), one of three new charter schools in the Harlem Success Academy Network, which seeks to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for low-income children in Harlem and the Bronx in New York City. (First installment of a two- year $200,000 grant).