Grantees

2010 CAPACITY GRANT VERMONT WORKERS' CENTER

The VWC is building a statewide grassroots movement for change by organizing low-income and working Vermonters to create a sustainable network of leaders and organizing committees in communities across the state through a coordinated fight to win real healthcare reform in Vermont. By organizing to make healthcare a public good in Vermont, through the Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign, they empower low-income and working Vermonters.

MOVEMENT BUILDING GRANT National Day Laborer Network (NDLON)

NDLON is a collaborative of 42 member organizations in 14 states dedicated to improving the lives of day laborers in the United States. The Turning the Tides Campaign, a collaboration with local partners and allied national organizations, is a largescale challenge to the criminalization of immigrant communities in Arizona and nationally.

NATIONAL GRASSROOTS GRANT Red Rock Pictures - Split Estate

Red Rock Pictures have completed their film, Split Estate, about the devastating impact of natural gas drilling in the Colorado Rockies and New Mexico’s San Juan Basin and particularly the impact on surface land owners. Funding for the project is to develop outreach & training materials to be used for a broad audience. The plan is to create both a community and a classroom screening guide to empower audiences to channel their reactions into positive action.

NATIONAL GRASSROOTS GRANT UNITED WORKERS ASSOCIATION

The UWA is an organization of low-wage workers and day laborers who are organizing for better wages and working conditions. Using a combination of strategic corporate accountability campaigns, worker-run cooperatives, leadership development, and ally support, UWA is working to overcome the barriers workers face in ensuring their basic economic human rights.

NATIONAL GRASSROOTS GRANT Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition

OVEC has been at the forefront of the work to end mountaintop removal coal mining and its associated coal sludge impoundments in West Virginia. The Sludge Safety Project is a coalition of organizations and communities working to improve safety and secure safe, potable drinking water for coalfield residents who live near the impoundments or are impacted by underground coal sludge injections.

NATIONAL GRASSROOTS GRANT Healthy Environmental Alliance of Utah

HEAL Utah works to protect the health of Utahns from the risks of nuclear and toxic waste and to promote clean energy policies for the state. General Support funding was provided in support of their work to keep other countries from exporting their nuclear waste to Utah, to challenge a potential new nuclear reactor and to persue a 100% renewable energy project for Utah's electricity grid.

NATIONAL GRASSROOTS GRANT Farm Worker Pesticide Project

FWPP is working to end farm worker community exposures to agricultural pesticides. FWPP acts as an advocate, organizer, educator and researcher. By leveraging resources for and with the farm worker community, FWPP advocates policies and programs that move growers away from pesticides that hurt farm workers and families and to alternatives that are truly safe, just and sustainable.

2009 CAPACITY GRANT HIGHFIELDS INSTITUTE

Highfields works to close the loop on community-based sustainable food and agricultural systems, thus addressing soil health, water quality, solid waste, farm viability, and climate change. Their program, Close the Loop Vermont, has a goal to capture 100% of food waste in Vermont by 2017 through effective educational, behavioral and infrastructural change strategies and engaging local community members as agents of change at the community and municipal level.

NATIONAL GRASSROOTS GRANT Center for Immigrant Families

CIF is a collectively-run organization of immigrant women of color. The Escuela Popular de Mujeres/Women's Popular Education Program, works to engage participants in a process of individual and collective empowerment, reflection, leadership development, and organizing for change.

2007 CAPACITY GRANT RURAL VERMONT

Rural Vermont is a statewide, farmer-led organization that is working toward a vision for a sustainable, thriving Vermont agricuture which supports small farms and local communities. The Capacity-Building Grant was awarded to provide consultation and strategic planning work to help shift their funding base build the membership.

2008 CAPACITY GRANT VERMONT PARTNERSHIP FOR FAIRNESS & DIVERSITY

Vermont Partnership for Fairness & Diversity (Vermont Partnership) is a statewide non-profit, research, education and advocacy organization dedicated to building inclusive and equitable communities in Vermont. The Capacity Grant was given in support of their statewide expansion with a goal to help Vermont institutions transition to a more diverse demographic.

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