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Grant Recipients List for the 2nd Cycle, 2003Action for Social and Ecological Justice $15,00019 Church Street Burlington, VT 5401 ASEJ's Genetically Engineered Trees Campaign will work to unite the efforts of local community groups and grassroots organizations, located in the areas where GE trees are being tested and released, with the larger environmental and social justice movement to build an effective, broad-spectrum campaign to oppose the genetic engineering of trees. Strategies include a national corporate campaign and the strategic targeting of a university that is heavily involved in GE trees research. Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment $15,000 PO Box 507 Lewisburg, WV 24901 The Mining Accountability Project will provide policy and legal assistance to grassroots groups seeking to end the devastation of Mountaintop removal mining, the widespread pollution of Central Appalachia's rivers and streams, and the destruction of hardwood forests and of communities at the hands of extractive and polluting industries. Cascadia Wildlands Project $15,000 PO Box 10455 Eugene, OR 97440 The Legacy Forests Campaign utilizes grassroots organizing, monitoring and advocacy work to confront the Bush administration's efforts to undermine protections for federal forests, to permanently protect remaining ancient forests, and to promote the integrity of human communities in western Oregon. Center for Environmental Equity $3,000 610 S.W. Alder Portland , Or 97205 CEE organizes in communities confronted with past, current, and proposed mining operations. Their Taking AIMs Project watchdogs Abandoned and Inactive Mines (AIMs) and pressures federal agencies and mining interests to clean them up. Coalition for People $15,000 PO Box 3232 New Haven, CT 6515 CFP hopes to educate and organize low-income people to participate in the long-term struggle for comprehensive, universal health care. Entirely volunteer-run up until now, funds were provided to hire a part-time community organizer and build the capacity of the organization. Friends of the Mississippi River $8,500 46 East 4th Street St Paul, MN 55101-1112 The Watershed Inititative will incorporate grassroots organizing, partnership building, policy research and advocacy, watershed stakeholder engagement, land protection and restoration, and an environmental education component to approach improving and maintaining the health of two subwatersheds (tributaries) of the Mississippi River in a comprehensive and holistic manner. Great Old Broads for Wilderness $10,000 PO Box 2924 Durango, CO 81302 GOB is the only national environmental group whose message is couched in the broad and wise perspective that comes with age. Their focus is on wilderness protection and includes, oil and gas drilling and exploration, off-road vehicle activity, and grazing. Hilltop Neighborhood Association $6,500 460 S. College Street Valparaiso, IN 46383 HNA is run entirely by neighborhood resident volunteers and strives to build a strong community by inspiring youth, educating families, encouraging community conversation and developing a safer community. Funds were provided for a yearlong leadership development training for interested community members in order to build capacity for more community organizing. Klamath Forest Alliance $15,000 PO Box 21 Orleans, CA 95556 KFA promotes public involvement and activism around issues of biodiversity, natural resource protection, and rural community health and development. Funds were provided to help establish an independent newspaper for the region which would provide a counter-balance to the monopoly controlled right-wing media and to help create an organized, community-based response needed to prevent the US Forests Service from spraying toxic herbicides on public lands and watersheds. Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) $15,000 2856 S. Millard Avenue Chicago, IL 60623-4550 LVEJO is a multi-issue organization based in Chicago's largest Latino community. Comprised of residents, parents and youth, they work on issues such as economic and environmental justice, youth development, education, public transportation, open space allocation, sustainable neighborhood development and promoting their culture through arts. They develop leadership in the neighborhood and build local democratic structures to facilitate community participation in planning and decision making. Missouri Rural Crisis Center (MRCC) $11,500 1108 Rangeline Street Columbia, MO 65201 MRCC is a statewide membership organization that works to empower farmers and other rural people. Family Farms, Not Factory Farms Project works to protect family farmers and local agricultural systems by challenging the corporate takeover of agriculture in Missouri. They do this by directly confronting agribusiness corporations and the organizations that support them, while organizing for and proposing policies that support family farms and stop rewarding factory farms. At the same they work to rebuild the food system by linking family farmers directly with consumers. Mothers On The Move / Madres en Movimiento $15,000 928 Intervale Avenue Bronx, NY 10459 MOM is a multi-issue, membership-based group of South Bronx residents working for social justice in their community. Members research, strategize and carry out community organizing campaigns on issues such as housing, education and environmental justice to win immediate improvements in community quality of life and also address policies that create inequality. National Radio Project $10,000 1714 Franklin Street #100-251 Oakland, CA 94612 NRP trains and supports independent journalists and individuals involved in community organizing and, with community collaboration, produces and distributes a high-quality public affairs program, Making Contact. Funds were provided to expand the work of the Globalization Desk. The Globalization Desk uses radio to educate the public about the impact of the ever-increasing integration of the world's economies, commonly referred to as corporate globalization. Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides $10,000 P.O. Box 1393 Eugene, OR 97440-1393 NCAP is a grassroots membership organization which works to advance healthy solutions to pest problems. The Clean Water for Salmon Community Action Project is designedto create change in environmental policy by encouraging and nurturing community activists concerned about the effects of pesticides on threatened and endangered salmon, water quality, the environment and human health. Rhode Island Parents for Progress $15,000 807 Broad Street Providence, RI 2907 RIPP is a statewide, grassroots, membership-based welfare advocacy organization. Using leadership development, house meetings, and one-on-one connections, RIPP organizes and empowers low-income and poverty-level people to advocate for public policy changes in order to eliminate barriers to ending poverty. Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network $15,000 1515 E. Magnolia Knoxville, TN 37917 TIRN is an organizing coalition of workers, community organizations, labor unions, religious groups, students and other individuals whose mission is to create economic policies that are fair to workers and uplift communities. The Fair Trade and Globalization Program encourages public discourse between workers, community members, environmentalists, and immigrants on alternatives to the free trade model, and building strategic campaigns to democratize the global economy. VOZ: Workers' Rights Education Project $15,000 330 SE 11th Avenue Portland, OR 97214 VOZ organizes day laborers to achieve social, economic, political and legal justice. Using principals of popular education, workers empower themselves to create changes at the local and national level for Washington Toxics Coalition $15,000 4649 Sunnyside Avenue North Seattle, WA 98103 WTC is a grassroots, membership-based organization that builds broad coalitions to advocate for pollution prevention in Washington state. The Building Sustainable Models Project addresses two of the most important pollution issues in the state: pesticides and persistent toxic chemicals such as mercury and dioxin. The goals of the project are to pass and implement local policies to phase out these chemicals, and increase the capacity of local groups and community activists working to reduce their use by municipalities and institutions. Wyoming Outdoor Council $15,000 262 Lincoln Street Lander, WY 82520 WOC is the largest statewide environmental organization in Wyoming. Working on the ground with ranchers, residents, recreationists and conservationists as at the statewide, regional and national levels to protect and enhance Wyoming's environment. The Wyoming Oil and Gas Project is working to prevent or mitigate the many environmentally damaging effects of the extensive oil and gas development proposals and projects throughout the state and press for sound land management decisions that protect the public's interests. Young Women United $15,000 PO Box 8490 Albuquerque, NM 87198 YWU is a multi-racial organization led by young women of color in Albuquerque. They organize for the health and safety of their communities by building the leadership and power of young women. They are currently organizing for comprehensive sex education in Albuquerque's public schools, as a means of ameliorating teen pregnancy and high drop out rates. Gervais Middle School $960 150 Douglas Blvd. Gervais, OR 97026 The Story Project will enable middle school students to gather and preserve unpublished stories from their local community, in an effort to promote racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding. LaFargeville Central School $850 Sunrise Avenue LaFargeville, NY 13656 K-12 students and their parents will be involved in mapping, planning, clearing and building a nature trail and science on donated land adjacent to the school, the process of which will provide ongoing learning opportunity as well as community building opportunity for everyone involved. Sunshine Project $1,000 101 W. 6th Street #607 Austin, TX 78701 The Sunshine Project is tracking the expansion of the US biodefense program while building cooperation between a national network of grassroots organizations who are watchdogs of these new laboratories. Through this exposure, the project hopes to foster a national debate about the hazards of US biodefense and spending priorities. Syracuse Alternative Media Network, Inc. $1,000 PO Box 35550 Syracuse, NY 13235 Voices from the Edge: A Community Confronts HIV/AIDS is a 90-minute documentary that gives voice to those living in the shadow of AIDS and empowers individuals with HIV to take an active and leading role in community education efforts to combat the spread of this disease. The film will be used as an information sharing, empowering and organizing tool for people with HIV/AIDS as well as a public education tool. Universal Health Care Action Network of Ohio - UHCAN Ohio $1,000 1015 East Main Street Columbus, OH 43205 The Parent Storybanking Project is collecting the stories of parents who are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage in Ohio and publishing those stories, thereby giving a human face and voice to people that would otherwise remain statistics, and demonstrating the terrible health and financial consequences facing people who lose Medicaid. To be used in grassroots efforts to save Medicaid in Ohio. |