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Grant Recipients List for the 1st Cycle, 2002Action for Social and Ecological Justice $1000019 Church Street Burlington, VT 05401 ASEJ, formerly Native Forest Network, is an autonomous collection of activists involved in advocating for social justice and ecological protection in the Americas. Funds were provided for the GE Trees Campaign which is working to educate the public about the threat and dangers of genetically engineered trees, and to create a vast movement to prohibit the release of these trees into the environment. Cambridge Eviction Free Zone $15000 11 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138 The Cambridge EFZ works to mobilize low-income residents of Cambridge through effective grassroots organizing on the issues of affordable housing, immigrant rights, and economic justice, both to ensure that Cambridge remains a thriving and diverse city, and to prepare increasing numbers of disenfranchised citizens for collective social change. Cascadia Wildlands Project $7500 PO Box 10455 Eugene, OR 97440 CWP works to defend the forests, waters and wildlife of the Cascadia Bioregion by monitoring destructive land management practices and organizing for more environmentally responsible stewardship of the ecosystem. Funds were provide in support of their Legacy Forests Campaign, which utilizes outreach and education, monitoring and litigation, and policy and advocacy work to end old growth logging in the westside federal forests of Oregon, Washington and northern California. Citizens Coal Council $12500 1705 S. Pearl Street #5, DENVER, CO 80210 CCC is the only national organization solely dedicated to challenging and changing the practices of the coal industry by organizing and empowering coalfield citizens to work for social and environmental justice. Funding was provided in support of the Appalachian Organizing Project. Its goals are to build a strong coalfield movement, strengthen members media skills, halt the illegal practice of mountaintop removal strip mining and create thousands of jobs cleaning up abandoned coal mines. Coalition for Jobs and the Environment $5000 PO Box 645 Abingdon, VA 24212-0645 CJE is a coalition of grassroots, community-based groups from northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia which came together in 1990 to address the dilemma of "jobs versus the environment" more effectively. Through education, networking and monitoring, members are working to build healthy, sustainable communities in Central Appalachia. Funding was provided to support the development of a five year strategic plan. Coosa River Basin Initiative, Inc. $10000 408 Broad Street Rome, GA 30161 CRBI is a grassroots environmental organization dedicated to the restoration and conservation of the Coosa River Basin. Funding was provided in support of the General Electric PCB Contamination Project, which is seeking to make GE accountable for the environmental devastation they have wrought on the community of Rome, Georgia. Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition $12000 5410 First Avenue NE Seattle, WA 98105 DRCC was formed by community, tribal and environmental activists to ensure that the cleanup of the lower Duwamish River, a federally designated superfund site, is done right. Their goal is to ensure that the community--not the polluting corporations--dictate the terms of the river's cleanup. To accomplish this goal, they have developed a community outreach, education and public participation plan. Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT) $7500 3035 Vallejo Street Denver, CO 80211 GIFT develops and strengthens the grassroots fundraising skills of people of color working for social justice. The goal of GIFT is to build the capacity of progressive organizations to raise money and to increase the number of people of color in the field of fundraising. Gulf Restoration Network $15000 PO Box 2245 New Orleans, LA 70176-2245 The GRN is a diverse network of local, regional and national organizations and individuals committed to protecting and restoring the resources of the Gulf Region. GRN provides mentoring and technical assistance to communities faced with severe environmental threats. Funds were provided to increase their efforts to empower low income citizens in the Mississippi Delta region to more effectively advocate for the protection of water quality and public health. Irish Immigration Center $10000 59 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111 The IIC works for social justice on behalf of all immigrants and has a commitment to building bridges between Irish immigrants and other ethnic groups. Funds were provided in support of the Anti-Racism and Immigrant Organizing Program which works to actively collaborate and build relationships with diverse immigrant groups in Boston. ARIOP's goals are to work together to promote immigrants' and workers' rights and improve immigrants' quality of life; and to train and educate new anti-racist leaders from the Irish immigrant community. Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center $10000 PO Box 332 Williams, OR 97544 KSWild is dedicated to preserving the globally significant biological diversity of the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion of southwest Oregon and northwest California. Using primarily legal and administrative means, they seek to enforce compliance with environmental laws in the land management activities of the BLM and NFS. Funding was provided in support of increasing their capacity for community outreach by hiring a staff person to focus on media relations, networking, member action alerts and direct community outreach such as tabling at events and outreach to the schools. Literacy for Environmental Justice $10000 6220 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94124 LEJ is a youth empowerment and environmental justice education organization serving the Bayview Hunters Point District of San Francisco. LEJ works in the public schools to bring issues of environmental health and sustainable redevelopment of the bayshore to youth. Each education program is centered around a final action project which enables young people to voice their concerns and hopes for their communities in a way that is articulate, empowered and informed. Little Tokyo Residents Association $12000 E. Third Street Los Angeles, CA 90013 LTRA works to identify and represent the needs and rights of low-income public housing residents in Little Tokyo and downtown LA., and to increase their involvement in affordable housing and redevelopment decisions and civic life in general. Funds were provided in support of the Neighborhood Urban Planning Initiative which hopes to secure a formal mechanism within the proposed system of neighborhood councils in LA through which LTRA and its collaborators can be heard. Maine Rivers Coalition $7500 3 Wade Street Augusta, ME 04330-6351 Maine Rivers is a network of people and organizations working together to unite, promote and strengthen the efforts of citizens and watershed organizations to restore and protect Maine's river systems. Funds were provided for the Rivers Need Water project which seeks to educate statewide policymakers about the need to maintain healthy river flows as part of a statewide water withdrawal policy, and to reach out to local officials, farms, ski resorts and other water users in support of conservation and healthy river flows. Currently, Maine lacks a statewide permitting system for water withdrawals. Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation $12500 2161 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02140 MVFR is a national organization of people who have lost a family member to murder or state execution and who oppose the death penalty. They advocate for programs and policies that reduce the rate of homicide and promote alternatives to violence. They also support programs that address the needs of victims. Funding was provided to help strengthen the grassroots organizing component of the work, in order to help more members make their voices heard and more effectively spread the message that not all victims' families are calling for the death penalty. Neighborhood Alliance of Spokane County $10000 35 W. Main #240 Spokane, WA 99201 The Alliance is an all volunteer organization that is comprised of individual neighborhood groups committed to improving uses of land, resources and energy, so that the environment and quality of life are sustained or improved rather than depleted or degraded. The Alliance provides a strong neighborhood voice in the face of powerful realtor, developer and business interests when it comes to land use planning and development policy. Funds were provded to help hire a half-time coordinator/community organizer who will facilitate the Neighborhood Empowerment for Collaborative Communities Program-a neighborhood planning strategy and curriculum designed to empower citizens on land use issues. Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society $13900 9824 79th Street SE Fullerton, ND 58441-9725 NPSAS is a grassroots educational organization committed to developing a sustainable society through the promotion of ecologically and socially-sound food production and distribution systems. Funds were provided in support of the Farm Breeding Club, which is working to bring together farmers to share knowledge and seed stock for seed saving and breeding, in order to start an alternative seed movement that is independent of the control of agribusiness and biological sciences corporations. Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty $10000 PO Box 58128 Philadelphia, PA 19102 PAUADP is a multi-racial, cross-class, grassroots movement which uses nonviolent direct action to end capital punishment in Pennsylvania. Through education, teach-ins, rallies, vigils, petition gathering, legislative activity and civil disobedience, they engage the local and statewide government, corporate, religious and civic communities to end the death penalty in the state. Funds were provided in support of the Death Penalty Moratorium Campaign, focusing on current legislation to secure an immediate halt to executions in Pennsylvania. Project Underground $15000 1916 A Martin Luther King Jr. Way Berkeley, CA 94704 The Indiginous Mining Campaign Project is a collaboration between Project Underground and Indiginous Environmental Network to support and empower indiginous peoples to develop strategies for the protection of the environment and health of their communities against the spiritual, cultural, economic, social and environmental impacts of mining and oil extraction. The IMCP builds coalitions, carries out community outreach, serves as an informational clearinghouse and hosts support meetings/gatherings to develop a united strategy of resistance against transnational corporations and governments. Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center $10000 1520 Euclid Avenue Boulder, CO 80302 RMPJC is a multi-issue organization dedicated to research, education and action in nonviolence as a way of life and a means of social change. Funds were provided in support of the International/Economic Justice Collective which takes action for economic justice and environmentally sustainable policies as alternatives to the current system of corporate-controlled globalization and Free Trade policies. ScSEED: Saguache County Sustainable Environment and Economic Development $10000 PO Box 372 Saguache, CO 81143 Begun in 2000, ScSEED is a grassroots group of volunteers representing a diverse cross section of citizens of the towns and occupations in Saguache County, Colorado. They function as an open public forum, with a commitment to achieving participation of all segments of the population. The goals of the organization are to overcome ethnic and geographic separation of communities in order to identify and proactively address common concerns. Initial action agendas are: Sustainable Living & Shop Locally, Value-Added Agriculture/Homegrown Business: Enterprise Lending, Roots of Poverty, Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment. Shaw EcoVillage Project, Inc. $10000 1701 6th Street NW Washington, DC 20001 Shaw EcoVillage works to train inner city youth to become effective leaders and catalysts for sustainable change in Washington, DC's urban neighborhoods. Funds were provided for the EcoDesign Corps, a youth-run leadership program that gives high school students the opportunity to assess the major environmental, social and economic problems facing their communities and develop strategies for combating the root causes of these problems. In the process the youth work with other citizens, community leaders and decision-makers, and thereby actively help build a more sustainable neighborhood through their research and actions. Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships 1$2500 PO Box 417 Kings Beach, CA 96143 SWEP is a grassroots initiative which promotes environmental stewardship through comprehensive, school-based watershed education, service-learning and collaborative hands-on environmental restoration programs. SWEP uses teacher training, community education and collaboration with resource agencies to implement service learning watershed restoration projects with K-12 students. Statewide Poverty Action Network $9000 PO Box 31151 Seattle, WA 98103 SPAN, a diverse coalition of low-income people and their allies, works collectively to educate, organize and advocate for public policies that eliminate the systemic causes of poverty. Funds were provided in support of the SPEAK (Sharing Personal Experience as Knowledge) Project, a public awareness campaign, which solicits life-stories from low-income people and presents them to the public, to show that even though the faces of poverty are disappearing from view, poverty itself isn't disappearing. Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network $10000 1515 E. Magnolia Avenue Knoxville, TN 37917 TIRN is an economic justice organizing alliance of workers, unions, community-based organizations, religious groups, environmental organizations and individuals. Funding was provided in support of the Fair Trade and Globalization Program, which works for fair trade by encouraging public discourse between workers, community members, environmentalists and immigrants on alternatives to the free trade model, and builds strategic campaigns to democratize the global economy. Washington Sustainable Food & Farming Network $12500 PO Box 6054 Bellingham, WA 98227 The Network is a statewide alliance that includes organic and sustainable farmers, environmental organizations, farmers markets, faith-based groups, food co-ops, children's nutrition and welfare organizations, the natural foods industry, farmworker advocates and others. The Network serves as a voice for small farmers and sustainable agriculture interests on policy issues and successfully works for more institutional support for small and sustainable farmers in terms of farming as well as production and marketing resources. Western Land Exchange Project $10000 PO Box 95545 Seattle, WA 98145-2545 WLXP is the only public interest organization dedicated solely to monitoring land exchanges between the federal government and private landowners/corporations. They conduct research, outreach and advocacy toward federal land exchange policy reform. They strive to reform policies and regulations that govern the land exchange process in order to ensure that the public interest is upheld and protect fragile ecosystems being considered for trade. Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund $10000 1202 Williamson Street Madison, WI 53703 WCAF is a statewide organization that brings together individual citizens and progressive organizations to work for environmental, economic and social justice. Funds were provided in support of the Family Farm Stewardship Campaign which coalesces farmers, environmentalists, rural residents, consumers and church groups in a statewide public education and grassroots mobilization effort to protect Wisconsin's environment and rural economy from a pending 50% increase in industrial livestock operations. Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment $1000 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA 94550 Tri-Valley CAREs is conducting a campaign to urge students and currently-employed scientists and engineers working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the nation's principal nuclear weapons design lab, to renounce work on nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. Also, by educating science and engineering students at the University of California on the nature and extent of current nuclear weapons work at Livermore, they hope to counter LLNL's aggressive recruitment efforts and stem the flow of new talent into weapons work. United Parents Against Lead of North Carolina, Inc. $1000 15312 Murray Loop Road Whitakers, NC 27891 Advocacy = Education X Empowerment is a multi-component workshop that is offered to low-income, minority parents of lead poisoned children which teaches them basic skills so that they may more effectively advocate for remediation services for their children. |