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Grant Recipients List for the 4th Cycle, 1998C-Beyond $5,0003629 Clayton Road Concord CA 94521 C-Beyond is a membership-based organization of youth in the Contra Costa County suburbs. Its mission is to develop solutions to the trends of racism, scapegoating and hate in predominantly-white communities. By combining community action, education and service provision C-Beyond unites youth from different racial and ethnic backgrounds around their common issues. Carolina Farm Stewardship Association $7,000 PO Box 448 Pittsboro NC 27312 CFSA is a membership organization of farmers, processors, gardeners and businesses dedicated to promoting sustainable agriculture and organic farming. The Small Farm Enterprise Program is an effort to combat, at a local grassroots level, the institutional bias of large-scale corporate agriculture. Working with existing public/private agencies and institutions, the SFEP will work to strengthen rural communities in southeastern NC through educational sessions designed to encourage grower-owned cooperatives and small/micro enterprises which will empower and support the people living and working in the region. Concerned Citizens of Franklin County $10,000 RR 1 Box 101B Highgate Center VT 05459 CCFC is a group of farmers and residents formed in 1995 to oppose the first large factory livestock facility in Vermont, Vermont Egg Farms. They have since become a very active group working to protect all of Vermont from large factory-style farms. Through public education, citizen and family farmer organizing and legislative advocacy, they are working to strengthen state policy to regulate factory farm operations. Farm Labor Research Project $5,000 503 Solomon Faison NC 28341 FLRP works to empower migrant farmworkers to organize for better wages and working conditions. After great success organizing the tomato and pickle workers in the Midwest, FLRP has set its sights on organizing workers in North Carolina, where pickle workers make one fourth that of what their colleagues make in the Midwest. Their work involves efforts to establish the right to have access to workers, in order to conduct meetings and educational sessions on farmworker rights, pesticide protection and leadership development. Farmworker Institute for Education & Leadership Development $7,000 PO Box 62 La Paz Keene CA 93531 FIELD provides leadership training and active public support for the farmworker movement for justice and self-determination, especially through the goals and work of the United Farmworkers, AFL-CIO. The Alliance for Safety project is working to change the policy and practice of agriculture in California's strawberry industry regarding toxic pesticides. With Farmworker, Community and Coalition Mobilization components, The Alliance for Safety intends to improve the safety and quality of life for farmworkers, the safety of the water supply in strawberry-growing communities and the safety of strawberries for consumers. Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center $5,000 PO Box 332 Williams OR 97544 KSWC was created to increase the programmatic scrutiny of federal land management actions from a legal perspective and to improve public involvement in agency decisions. The Public Lands Oversight Campaign works to reduce destructive federal land management activities by forcing agency land managers to comply with existing environmental laws. KSWC monitors projects to assure that they are in compliance with Federal and State environmental laws and if not, employs administrative and legal tools to force agencies to fulfill their legal requirements. Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition $1,000 44 Bromfield Street Room 207 Boston MA 02108 The Earn-A-Bike Program in Worcester, Mass., introduces inner-city youths to the concept of cycling as viable, inexpensive and pollution-free transportation, teaches them self-sufficiency and empowers them to pass on their new knowledge and skills to younger kids through working on a donated bicycle that will eventually become their own. Newtown Florist Club, Inc. $10,000 PO Box 908403 1067 Desota Street Gainesville GA 30501 The Newtown Florist Club was established 48 years ago by a group of African-American women to provide support and assistance to neighborhood families during times of bereavement. As such, the NFC members were in a unique position to observe clusters of illnesses and deaths caused by cancer and lupus. As this African-American community is built on top of an old dump and is surrounded by toxic and polluting industrial plants, the club's major focus now is organizing for environmental justice. Northwest Connections $5,000 PO Box 1340 Swan Valley MT 59826 NwC's mission is to conserve and restore critical habitat linkages in NW Montana utilizing community-based approaches in order to overcome the social (class) fragmentation that plagues most efforts at conservation in this region. Funds were given in support of Community-based Ecological Monitoring projects, which provide training, volunteer opportunities and employment for local residents in the monitoring of wildlife and habitat linkages. Orange Revitalization Partnership $7,000 20 South Main Street Orange MA 01364 The ORP is a self-reliant, resident-driven community development organization. Funds were provided for the Youth Entrepreneur Society (YES), an innovative, youth-run program that will establish an Odd Jobs Coop, business skills training, and wage subsidies for the youth. A concurrent local currency project will enable low-income residents and small businesses to hire teens from the Coop and insure that the money earned circulates within the community. The idea for this program was conceived by the teens themselves. Powder River Basin Resource Council $5,000 PO Box 1178 Douglas WY 82633 PRBRC is membership, chapter-based organization dedicated to community organizing for the protection of Wyoming's natural resources. Currently, members are organizing to protect ground and surface water from industrial livestock operations, protect the states highest quality streams from point source degradation and to challenge a refinery to become a "good neighbor". Prairie Rivers Network $1,000 809 South Fifth Street Champaign IL 61820 The Center offers low-cost organizing and technical assistance to citizens working on waterways and other environmental issues. Funds were provided in support of the "Big Stakes on the Little Vermilion" Project to identify, educate and organize citizens to address threats to a stretch of the Little Vermilion River near Georgetown, Illinois. Skipping Stones $1,000 PO Box 3939 Eugene OR 97403-0939 Skipping Stones is a unique multicultural and nature awareness magazine for young people. Distributed to schools, libraries, organizations and families, the magazine publishes writing and art by children from different countries and backgrounds, promoting creativity, self-respect and community-building. Funds were provided to support a gift subscription to 50 rural schools in Vermont. Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers $10,000 3909 Centre St. #210 San Diego CA 92103 SCMW generates cross-border support to advance the rights of workers in the U.S.-based assembly plants of the Mexican border area. Taking its guidance directly from the requests and needs expressed by the maquiladora workers themselves, SCMW facilitates their organizing to improve living and working conditions through corporate pressure and publicity campaigns, coordination of resources and advocacy to heighten public awareness and change U.S. Policies. |