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Grant Recipients List for the 1st Quarter, 19979to5's Poverty Network Initiative $7,500225 Maple Avenue, Waukesha WI 53186 9to5 works to strengthen low-wage and low-income women's ability to win economic justice. Understanding the relationship between welfare and work is key to winning fairness for women moving off welfare and justice for working people in general. The Poverty Newtork Initiative will help document the problems and work in collaboration with other groups to educate elected officials, employers and the public on the realities of living in poverty and welfare, and provide an organizational vehicle for women to have an impact on policies that affect their lives and to fight for their rights as workers. Bay Area Nuclear (BAN) Waste Coalition $10,000 2760 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA 94118 BAN Waste has been working to stop a proposed shallow trench nuclear waste dump at Ward Valley in the east Mohave Desert. They are actively promoting source reduction and responsible containment of nuclear wastes, protection of wilderness and endangered species, enviromental justice and preservation of Native American homelands. BAN Waste engages in grass-roots organizing, technical research, legal action, outreach and education. Child Welfare Organizing Project $5,000 3280 Broadway, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10027 CWOP is working to build a citywide, grassroots organizing effort of parents who are affected by child welfare policies, but who thus far, have no voice in the system that is such a large part of their lives. Parents, mostly African American and Latina women, will work in concert to identify weaknesses in the systems and processes of the Administration for Childrens Services and its funded agencies and with these agencies work to address those weaknesses and implement strategies for change. Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger $7,500 E12629 Weigand's Bay, South Merrimac, WI 53561 CSWAB is working to secure a community-based Reuse Authority, for the defunct and polluted Badger Army Ammunityion Plant (BAAP), in order to insure that the reuse plans for the facility reflect the goals and objectives of the community around the plant. CSWAB plays a critical role in assuring citizens know the extent of local pollution, facilities are adequately cleaned up, disposal methods are safe, and new military or civilian industry is pollution-prevention oriented. Commercial Sexual Exploitation Resource Institute $5,000 Lake Street Station, PO Box 8615, Minneapolis, MN 55408 Support was provided for the Community Action Group to increase participation and promote leadership of survivors of commercial sexual exploitation, conduct a public awareness campaign, encourage and support effective community organizing strategies, and monitor and respond to civil rights violations of prostituted women. Cooperative Ownership Development Corporation $10,000 610 N. Silver Street , Silver City, NM 88061 CODC was formed by people from the low-income and Mexican-American community of Grant County to develop control over its local economy. The Minority Ownership Development Project works to create new forms of ownership for jobs, housing and access to capital via youth entrepreneurship, minorty business ownership, community-based financing, worker-owned industrial development, and community-based home ownership programs. The Food Project $5,000 PO Box 705, Lincoln, MA 01773 The Food Project brings together people of diverse backgrounds, particularly young people, to grow and distribute food in greater Boston, practicing care for land and community and creating new opportunities for others in a local food system. Funds were provided in support of the Common Ground Initiative, which brings together youth, urban gardeners and local farmers to create a local food system that will feed low-income residents. Massachusetts Tenants Resource Center $5,000 14 Beacon Street, #503, Boston, MA 02108 Funding provided in support of the Tenant Unity Council, made up of the leaders of tenant unions all over Greater Boston, bringing them together for mutual support, leadership development, and coordinating broad-based issue campaigns in order to impact the systemic, city-wide housing issues which lead to tenants' individual problems. River Alliance of Wisconsin $5,000 122 State Street, Suite 200, Madison, WI 53703 Funding provided in support of the Free Flowing Rivers Project, educating local communities about the environmental, safety and economic problems dams cause river ecosystems and encouraging communities to remove old dams rather than pay to repair them. Timbisha Shoshone $10,000 PO Box 206, Death Valley, CA 92328-0206 The Death Valley Land Restoration Project is a tribally chartered organization dedicated to restoring the ancestral homelands of Death Valley to the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe. Funds were provided to continue the struggle to hold the Park Service accountable to the mandates of the California Desert Protection Act of 1994 to restore traditional homelands to the stewardship of the tribe. The project will also continue its efforts to assure protection for the cultural and natural resources in Death Valley and Panamint Valley by calling public attention to the severe environmental degradation of the cyanide heap-leach mining operations and working with appropriate public agencies to enforce meaningful environmental oversight of those operations. Youth United for Community Action $5,000 655 13th Street, #202, Oakland, CA 94612-1220 YUCA is a youth of color led organization that works to cultivate young leaders in the movement for environmental and social justice by placing young people of color into community-based organizations through a summer long paid internship and year-round follow up program. Youth leadership is developed by providing interns with the opportunity to work along-side with and learn from seasoned community activists. |