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Grant Recipients List for the 3rd Cycle, 2004Boundary Waters Wilderness Foundation $6,000401 North Third Street Minneapolis, MN 55401 The BWWF's campaign to Protect Minnesota's Wilderness is working to mobilize its strong base of support to permanently protect nearly 90,000 acres of roadless areas in Superior National Forest. Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center $7,000 Box 396 Twain Harte, CA 95383 CSERC uses fieldwork, monitoring, educational outreach, media work, and intense involvement with key players to engage the public and advocate for workable solutions to environmental threats in the Central Sierra region. The Wildlife and Meadow Protection Project will utilize attention-getting wildlife photo-detection surveys along with other monitoring tools to identify where grazing and other activities are harming meadows and riparian areas on public lands and to then press decision-makers to halt harmful activities and protect critical wildlife habitat, meadows, and water resources. Citizens of Louisville Organized and United Together (CLOUT) $10,000 1113 S. Fourth Street louisville, ky 40203 CLOUT is a faith-based grassroots organizing group working to build a more just community in Louisville. Funds were provided in support of the Community-Oriented Policing Project, which has worked to institute and now monitor implementation of specific community-oriented policing strategies, and holding the police chief and police department accountable to the strategic plan. Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition $13,500 2508 1/2/ W. Colorado Avenue Colorado Springs, CO 80904 CCJRC is a network of organizations, faith communities and individuals working together to reverse the trend of mass incarceration in Colorado. Using public education, research, policy analysis, community organizing, coalition building, leadership development of affected individuals, litigation and legislative campaigns, CCJRC is focused on halting the construction of additional prisons and advocating for state-level reform of policies that are driving prison expansion with a focus on the war on drugs and ineffective parole laws. Colorado Women's Agenda $5,000 400 Corona Street Denver, CO 80218 CWA is working throughout the state to organize and empower women to become advocates and leaders to advance public policies that improve social structures and create greater opportunities for women and communities. This year they are working to expand their organizing and advocacy programs in communities along Colorado's Front Range. Dakota Rural Action $12,500 PO Box 549 Brookings, SD 57006 DRA is a member-driven statewide organization of rural and urban people that use direct action organizing to protect South Dakota's environment, rural communities and family agriculture. Funding was provided in support of the Stop Factory Farms Campaign focused on halting the influx of huge industrial dairies into the state using the right of citizens referendums where necessary. Day Laborer Collaboration $10,000 2226 S. Whipple Avenue Chicago, IL 60623 DLC is a coalition of organizations working to organize and train day laborers, develop worker leaders, study the temporary staffing industry, and advocate for systemic change in the day labor market in Chicago and Illinois. Funding was provided in support of the Code of Conduct Campaign, which will raise the standards and improve the working conditions of low-wage immigrant and African-American workers employed in the exploitive temporary staffing industry. Directed by workers, the campaign persuades client companies to move their business from abusive day labor offices to code compliant agencies with whom workers have negotiated agreements of fair labor practices or Codes of Conduct. Environmental Health Alliance $10,000 PO Box 6806 Falls Church, VA 22040 The Environmental Health Alliance is a national coalition of hundreds of local, state, and national organizations working together to strategically educate and mobilize the American Public about protection, caution and responsible actions that safeguard human health and the environment. Their BE SAFE Initiative's goals are to advance specific precautionary-based policies and decisions and to strengthen and broaden the environmental health movement. Funds will support national media and educational events, workshops, issue brochures, and other activities designed to promote a wide range of state- and local-level precaution-based policies. Environmental Justice & Climate Change Initiative $13,500 1904 Franklin Street, 6th Floor Oakland, CA 94612 The EJCC Initiative is a group of U.S. Environmental justice, climate justice, religious, policy and advocacy networks working together to promote sane and equitable climate policy. Recognizing that Indigenous Peoples, communities of color and low-income communities have the most to gain from meaningful action to slow global warming, EJCC works to empower these communities to engage in the political process. Funding was provided in support of the Climate Justice Corps, a campaign to provide leadership development for young organizers and researchers from disproportionately affected communities in the U.S. and to invigorate a new constituency for climate action. Equity Trust, Inc. $8,000 PO Box 746 Turner Falls, MA 1376 Equity Trust promotes new ways of understanding property that offer more equitable and sustainable approaches to ownership, and develops and supports alternative land tenure models and tools to implement these approaches to ownership. Funding was provided in support of the CSA Land Tenure Initiative. This initiative is developing model documents and guidelines that will allow Community Supported Agriculture farms to make secure long-term land tenure possible through innovative approaches to ownership. Families United for Racial & Economic Equality (FUREE) $13,500 141 Fifth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217 FUREE is a multi-issue grassroots organization made up almost exclusively of low-income women of color. They organize to build power to win systemic policy changes so that low-income families can effectively and permanently exit poverty. General support funding was provided to build membership and help sustain the organization. Global Community Monitor $12,500 222 Richard Avenue San Francisco, CA 94110 GCM and its founder Denny Larson are world famous for their pioneering work with Bucket Brigades in oil refinery communities. They train and support grassroots communities in the use of environmental monitoring tools to understand the impact of fossil fuel industry pollution on their health and the environment, and play a critical role in linking communities from different parts of the world who are facing the impacts of industrial pollution. Funding was provided in support of expanding the use of Bucket Brigades into non-refinery communities that are over-burdened by chemical pollution, including from hazardous waste incinerators, landfills, pulp and paper mills, pesticide production and power plants. Great Old Broads for Wilderness $13,500 PO Box 2924 Durango, CO 81302 Broads' uses the unique image of its membership, and the wisdom and grace of long experience, to advocate for wilderness protection. Funding was provided in support of the Broads' Healthy Lands Project, which will train citizen volunteers to collect field data to bridge a serious policy information gap addressing the use and impacts of Off-Highway Vehicles (OHV) on public lands. Institute For Social Ecology $12,500 1118 Maple Hill Road Plainfield, VT 5667 The Biotechnology Project is an internationally recognized grassroots initiative for biotechnology activism, committed to expanding public debate around genetic engineering and other biotechnologies through grassroots education and action, internationally recognized public events, and the development of democratic, community-based activist networks to challenge corporate agribusiness and advocate for ecological and equitable local food systems. Justice Productions $12,500 PO Box 550 Bridgehampton, NY 11932 Justice Productions has produced "The Empty Chair", a 52-minute documentary film that explores issues surrounding capital punishment. The film raises questions and encourages thoughtful discussion as it shifts the debate on the death penalty from the state vs. the murderer to the victim's family and the murderer. Funding was provided in order to employ the services of Working Films which specializes in organizing community outreach for socially conscious documentary films and linking them up with community groups and organizing campaigns. Kentucky Environmental Foundation $5,000 PO Box 467 Berea, KY 40403 KEF is the lead organization for the Chemical Weapons Working Group (CWWG) which works to promote environmental justice for all citizens affected by the U.S. chemical weapons legacy. CWWG demands safe, prompt disposal of chemical weapons with non-incineration technologies, direct involvement of citizens in the technology decision-making process and ongoing citizen oversight and monitoring of chemical weapons disposal processes. North Country Farming Network $15,000 278 Apixia Way Wolcott, VT 5680 The NCFN strives to break down the isolation that is often experienced by farmers, especially those who are just starting out or who are working with limited resources, through providing shared equipment, quality livestock, technical assistance and mutual support. They are farmers helping farmers to achieve self-sufficiency. Funding was provided to hire a part-time coordinator to help bring the organization to the next level and to help expand the model. Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) $10,000 PO Box 6753 Huntington, WV 25773-6753 OVEC has been working to stop mountaintop removal/valley fill strip mining in West Virginia by organizing citizens affected by serious mining problems. OVEC has taken the lead in getting applicable laws fully enforced and organizing a broad-based opposition to this highly destructive mining practice. Oregon Action $12,500 6601 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Portland, OR 97211 Oregon Action is a broad-based, multi-racial community organization dedicated to economic justice. Funding was provided in support of a year-long civic engagement program that is making a deep investment in the long-term leadership of low-income, disenfranchised communities and building an established voting force of 50,000 people. Oregon Physicians For Social Responsibility $12,000 921 SW Morrison, Suite 308 Portland, OR 97205 Funding was provided in support of the Campaign for Safe Food, to advance the establishment of an agricultural system and food supply in Oregon that does not use genetically engineered organisms. The two specific goals of the project are to discontinue the production of any dairy products from cows treated with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), and to ensure there is no risk of food or environmental contamination by biopharmeceutical crops. Oregon is the first PSR chapter in the nation to address the problems created by GE food. This pilot program could be adopted by other statewide chapters if successful. Philadelphia Student Union $12,500 1315 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 The Philadelphia Student Union is dedicated to empowering youth to work toward a more just society, through true educational reform, while preparing them for community leadership. Funds will enable them to continue to provide programs to empower young people to become activists and leaders in their own schools. Regional Environmental Council, Inc. (REC) $5,000 PO Box 255 Worcester, MA 1609 REC works to build strong and healthy communities in Worcester by empowering community members from all walks of life to become environmental leaders in their neighborhoods. Funding was provided in support of YouthGROW (Growing and Raising Organics in Worcester), a summer program that engages low-income teens through sustainable agriculture and grassroots organizing. The youthGROWers are responsible for running the farm while also completing a hands-on, applied "curriculum" that covers topics such as environmental justice, the chemistry of composting, and inequality in the global and local food system. San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace $13,500 PO Box 164 Pismo Beach, CA 93448 Mothers for Peace is an all-volunteer organization that has been monitoring safety issues at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (DCNPP) for over 30 years and is one of the most respected anti-nuclear groups in the country. They focus on the interconnected issues of the need for peace, social justice and a safe environment. Funding was provided in support of their efforts to educate the public and elected officials on the importance of making aging nuclear power plants safer and more secure in the face of terrorist and seismic threats. Save Our Cumberland Mountains $13,500 PO Box 479 Lake City, TN 37769 SOCM is a statewide, member-run organization that works for environmental, social and economic justice for all Tennesseans. Funding was provided in support of the Mountaintop Removal Organizing Project which engages local community members to organize to prevent the permitting of specific MTR mining operations and will implement a statewide campaign to pressure the governor to stop the spread of MTR. Vermont Genetic Engineering Action Network (VTGEAN) $7,500 15 Barre Street Montpelier, VT 5602 VTGEAN is a network of individuals and organizations throughout the state that make up the GE FREE Vermont campaign. Using a multi-layered strategy to fight GMOs locally, regionally and statewide, VTGEAN has built a system of strong local leadership and community groups which work together to build a statewide movement to halt the spread of GMOs. Vermont Public Interest Research Group $6,000 141 Main Street Montpelier, VT 5602 VPIRG is a statewide membership-based consumer and environmental advocacy organization. VPIRG produces original research, policy analysis, and creative tools to educate the public and decision-makers about critical issues facing the state of Vermont. Funding was provided in support of the organizing component of their Safe Food and Sustainable Agriculture Project. VPIRG will conduct regional workshops for activists and coalition partners to provide training and strategic collaboration in support of the statewide movement to control GMOs. Washington Street Corridor Coalition $10,000 1891 Washington Street Boston, MA 2118 WSCC goal is to obtain a public transportation system to replace the elevated Orange Line that was removed from the community in 1987 and to eliminate transportation discrimination and disinvestment in this low-income neighborhood. Through grassroots, legislative and legal efforts they hope to obtain a light rail vehicle system as the replacement transit system for the Corridor. Continued funding was provided in support of their grassroots organizing efforts. |