ECONOMIC JUSTICE $2,278,500
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 jobs, welfare reform and public housing for low-income families. www.communitychange.org
Family Values @ Work: A Multi-State Consortium: $40,000 For its Amplifying Workers' Voices Initiative to link federal work and family policy proposals with state campaigns. www.familyvaluesatwork.org
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. www.frac.org
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund: $100,000 For general support of this organization, which educates the public on the need for national policies that support civil rights and social and economic justice ($35,000); and for expansion of its Jobs for America Now Coalition. ($50,000) www.civilrights.org
The Rebecca Project for Human Rights (RPHR): $55,000 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. www.rebeccaproject.org
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United: $40,000 For general support of ROC United, a new national restaurant workers' organization dedicated to improving restaurant workers' working conditions across the country. www.rocunited.org
US Action Education Fund (USAEF): $85,000 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 ($35,000); and for its Job for America Now Campaign. ($50,000) www.usactioneducationfund.org
REGIONAL PROGRAMS
A. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PUBLIC POLICY
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP): $150,750 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. ($75,000); and for the DC Fiscal Policy Institute's Defeat Poverty DC project, which works to raise awareness of poverty issues and highlight the need for comprehensive solutions in the District. ($75,750) www.dcfpi.org
DC Appleseed: $45,000 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. www.dcappleseed.org
DC Employment Justice Center: $45,000 For general support of this organization, which works to secure, protect, and promote workplace justice for low-income workers in DC. www.dcejc.org
DC Jobs With Justice: $25,000 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. www.jwj.org
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. www.dchunger.org
Jews United for Justice: $25,000 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. www.jufj.org
Washington Area Women's Foundation (FRAC): $10,000 For its Portrait Project 2010, which documents the status of women and girls in the Washington metropolitan region and includes policy recommendations aimed at improving the status of at-risk women and girls. www.thewomensfoundation.org
Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless (WLCH): $67,000 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 ($45,000); and for its Fair Budget Coalition, which brings together community members, service providers, and faith organizations to collaboratively and strategically advance a public policy agenda that responds compassionately and effectively to the needs of the poor in DC ($22,000).
Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers: $20,000 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. www.washingtonaidspartnership.org
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. www.wowonline.org
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. www.aohdc.org
Community Foundation for the National Capital Region (CFNCR): $32,000 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 ($25,000); and to hire a consultant to assist policy groups to develop a workforce agenda to recommend to the city's new leadership ($7,000). www.cfncr.org
Southeast Ministry (SEM): $22,250 For general support of this organization, which provides education, job readiness training, and job placement services to residents of Wards 6-8 ($20,000); and to develop a website ($2,250) www.reformationdc.org
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. www.yearup.org
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
Campaign for Youth Justice: $10,000 (a) For the final month of services for its Justice 4 DC Youth project, which works to improve the District's juvenile justice system ($5,000); and (b) for its publication documenting the philanthropic community's contributions to juvenile justice reform in DC ($5,000). www.jdcy.org and www.campignforyouthjustice.org
Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families: $5,000 For its 2010 Annual Policy Conference.
Heads Up: $20,000 For support of staff transition costs related to its merger with the Center for Youth and Family Investment. www.headsup-dc.org
Latin American Youth Center: $20,000 For general support of this organization, which provides comprehensive youth development services to immigrant youth in the city. www.layc-dc.org
Life Pieces to Masterpieces: $40,000 For general support of this organization, which provides academic support, art instruction, mentoring and leadership development activities to boys and young men living in low-income and public housing east of the Anacostia river. www.lifepieces.org
Metro TeenAIDS (MTA): $90,000 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); ); and for DCAYA's executive director transition ($10,000) www.metroteenaids.org and www.dc-aya.org
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. www.urbanalliancefoundation.org
Young Women's Project: $45,000 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. www.youngwomensproject.org
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. www.empowerdc.org
Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development (CNHED): $35,000 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. www.cnhed.org
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. www.onedconline.org
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. www.aje-dc.org
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care: $25,000 For general support of this organization, which provides low-income, immigrant families with health, education, and employment services. www.maryscenter.org
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington: $15,000 For general support of this organization, which provides comprehensive, culturally sensitive, affordable and confidential family planning and reproductive health services to low-income, at-risk teens, women, and men in the metropolitan Washington area. www.ppmw.org
B. MARYLAND PUBLIC POLICY
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. www.casademaryland.org
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. www.mdhungersolutions.org
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. www.jotf.org
Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations (MANO): $60,000 For its Maryland Budget & Tax Policy Institute, which provides accessible research and analysis of state budget and tax policies ($50,000); and to hire a consultant to help in the creation of an organizational development plan ($10,000). www.marylandnoprofits.org
C. VIRGINIA PUBLIC POLICY
Center for American Progress: $30,000 For its Half in Ten project's work in Virginia to build political and public will to cut the state's poverty rate in half over the next ten years. www.halfinten.org
Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Policy: $60,000 For general support of this organization, which analyzes how policy, budget and tax proposals will affect low-income families and communities in Virginia. www.thecommonwealthinstitute.org
Tenants and Workers United: $20,000 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. www.tenantsworkers.org
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy: $35,000 For general support for this organization, which is an interfaith partnership focused on social and economic justice issues. www.virginiainterfaithcenter.org
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. www.virginia-organizing.org
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. www.vplc.org
D. EDUCATION
Abraham Joshua Heschel School: $4,000 For general support of this organization, which provides a learning environment that exemplifies excellence in education, appreciation of the needs of the whole child, commitment to Jewish life, and responsibility to Jewish and world communities. www.heschel.org
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School: $25,000 For its project to improve reading proficiency; the school educates 325 culturally diverse elementary school students in the District of Columbia to be leaders, scholars and responsible citizens who are committed to social justice. www.ewstokes.org
The Gillen Brewer School: $15,000 For general support of this organization and its Smiling Bauti Fund, dedicated to transforming the lives of young children with a wide variety of language, emotional, developmental, learning and health-related disabilities. www.gillenbrewer.com
The Manhattan Children's Center: $5,000 For general support of this organization, which provides a multidisciplinary approach to teaching in which all areas of a student's deficits are addressed through collaboration between professionals and the home in its one to one teaching model whose philosophical underpinnings are rooted in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). www.manhattanchildrenscenter.org
New Schools Venture Fund: $120,000 Recommended for Green Dot America for its Locke Project, a grass roots community organizing campaign in Los Angeles, Denver and the New York City area to build local support for Green Dot America's school turn-around in each of those three metropolitan areas. www.finschools.org
Star Scholarship Foundation: $1,000 For general support of this organization, which works to improve students' education and build job skills.
Stephen Gaynor School: $10,000 For general support of this organization, which provides a unique educational experience for children ages 5-14 with learning differences in a nurturing environment where children are helped to reach their academic potential. www.stephengaynor.org
Success Charter Network: $235,000 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. (Second installment of a two- year $200,000 grant). www.harlemsuccess.org
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