Grantees
NATIONAL GRASSROOTS GRANT People Organized to Win Employment Rights
POWER brings together low-income people in San Francisco to create opportunities for struggling families, youth and workers to leave poverty. The Youth in Power Project is building membership in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood and cultivating youth leaders to help shape the future of their neighborhood using community research, digital storytelling, and community outreach.
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.
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.
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 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 NEWTOWN FLORIST CLUB
NFC was formed in 1950 when a group of African American women came together to provide financial and emotional support to families in time of bereavement. They evolved into social and environmental justice organizers when they realized that a disproportionate number of their neighbors were suffering and dying from cancer and lupus and other chronic diseases due to exposures to airborne contaminants.
MOVEMENT BUILDING GRANT LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE
The goal of the Refinery Efficiency Initiative is to reduce Louisiana refinery accidents, which release thousands of pounds of toxics into the air. Through an innovative and strategic combination of public database management and grassroots organizing, the LABB will enable neighborhood organizing groups to report, access and analyze refinery accident data, and work with regulatory agencies and industry to find systemic solutions.
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.
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.
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.
SMALL GRANT BEYOND BORDERS
The leadership training pilot program will equip and empower rural Alaskan (primarily Native) youth to best serve in their own community; the program will facilitate discussion and interaction with topics revolving around leadership and relationships.
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