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Grant Recipients List for the 3rd Quarter, 1997Black Men for the Eradication of Sexism $4,000PO Box 11078 Atlanta, GA 30310 BMES is a collective of students and youth striving to provide young people with the skills needed to monitor, discourage and interupt violence against women and other forms of sexist oppression. BMES provides political education on the ills of domestic violence and sexism and its relationship to racism and facilitates hands-on community service in prevention and intervention programs and projects. Buckeye Forest Council $5,000 PO Box 99 Athens, OH 45701 The mission of BFC is to protect and restore the native forests of Ohio. Funds were given in support of the Coalfield Citizens Organizing Project, a grassroots education and organizing campaign directed at empowering coalfield citizens with the skills they need to protect themselves and the land from the effects of mining. Centro Independiente de Trabajadores Agricolas $10,000 Box 78 Florida, NY 10921 Initiated and run by farmworkers and former farmworkers, this farmworker organizing group seeks to empower farmerworker field leaders to bring their first hand perspectives to the debate on food safety and the use of pesticides in agriculture. Project ACCESS will provide farmworkers with the skills and knowledge base to contribute to a database to be used to document pesticide abuses and illegal pesticide use, as well develop farmworker policy advocates and trainers. Chinese Staff & Workers' Association $5,500 5411 Seventh Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11220 The National Mobilization Against Sweatshops (NMASS) is a bold attempt to bring together working people, women and youth in particular, to highlight the abusive impact of long-hour, exploitative work conditions. The Project integrates a local organizing component targeted at women garment workers and a national education component aimed at fostering a connection between youth and communities of working people. Equality Colorado $5,000 PO Box 300476 Denver, CO 80203 Equity Colorado is a statewide grassroots organization working to develop community organizing and public education activities around lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality and justice in the face of radical right anti-gay initiatives and hate motivated activities in the state of Colorado. Friends of Nitassinan $3,000 PO Box 804 Burlington, VT 05402 Dedicated to the protection of the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula (Nitassinan) and the Innu people who live there, Friends of Nitassinan is working to educate the public on the connections between our consumption patterns--particularly energy use--and the rivers, forests, and communities of the north. In coalition with other groups in New England and Canada, the Vermont Consumer's Campaign for Energy Responsibility is developing a regional campaign against new and revived Hydro Quebec projects and for the promotion of renewable, local energy sources. Greater Boston Regional Youth Council $5,000 186 Lincoln Street, Suite 815 Boston, MA 02111 The Teens Training Teens program is a teen-led peer leadership training program for inner-city kids, providing a process for teens to develop strategies and skills to help themselves and their peers deal with social and personal conflicts around such issues as racism and violence. Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center $5,000 PO Box 332, Williams, OR 97544 KSWC is dedicated to protecting the biological diversity of the Klamath Syskiyou bioregion of Southwest Oregon and Northwest California. Funds were provide in support of their Road Density Reduction Campaign, intended to ensure that government land management agencies are complying with environmental regulations, laws and procedures pertaining to the impacts of roads on public wildlands. In light of these laws, KSWC works to pressure these agencies to close and decommission roads with biologically destructive impacts. Maine Forest Biodiversity Project $10,000 328 Main Street, Suite 205 Rockland, MRE 04841 The MFBP is a collaboration of diverse forest stakeholders who are not traditional allies, including representatives of industry, government, environmentalists, recreation advocates, landowners, scientists and citizen activists. They are working to maintain viable populations of existing native species through a combination of baseline ecological reserves and managed forests and to develop working relationships among individuals representing a diversity of forest management and conservation interests, in order to make these goals possible. Powder River Basin Resource Council $5,000 PO Box 1178 Douglas, WY 82633 PRBRC is a citizens action group working to preserve Wyoming's clean land, minerals, water and air. Funds were provided in support of the "Don't Hog Wyoming" Campaign, working to encourage counties to adopt strong, enforceable land use planning and zoning regulations, and to educate the public about the devastating environmental effects of the corporate hog industry in other parts of the country. REACH Project $10,000 1545 W. Morse Chicago, IL 60626 The REACH project will organize tenants, families, community groups, and conscientious landlords to create an innovative new community development financial institution, a Renters Escrow And Community//Housing (REACH) Fund. Tenants will pool their existing security deposits in the REACH Fund and their landlords sign a contract which waves a cash deposit. REACH will provide the landlords a guarantee of reimbursement for legitimate damages. By combining the deposits, the REACH Fund will become a substantial pool of capital which can increase the rate of return, leverage low-interest community development loans through "linked deposits", and support grassroots tenant organizing with a portion of net earnings. Funds were provided for the pilot project. Annunciation School $500 3536 Lafayette Street Denver , CO 80205 The Annunciation School has expanded it's role to provide afterschool services for families in it's low-income inner-city neighborhood. Funds were provided for the Families and Literature Project, in which mothers who have not experienced school success in their own lives are trained to become role models for their children as well as taught skills they may not know, such as good children's authors, and letter, color and number recognition strategies. Along with educational activities, the program will send home with the mothers books to share with the family. Ecumenical Interfaith Council $1,000 PO Box 3125 4950 E. Wabash Ave. Terre Haute, IN 47807 EIC is a coalition of religious and lay community leaders of all faiths. Funds were provided in support of "Reconciliation: Social Justice and Racial Equality in Religion", an all day conference to promote racial and social tolerance. The goal of the conference is to assist congregations to begin conversations about racism and encourage the undoing of racism in people's everyday lives. Project Trust Wilmington College $1,000 Pyle Center Box 1293 Wilmington, OH 45177 Project Trust is a collaborative process of the Wilmington Middle School, Wilmington College and Wilmington High School faculty and students. Middle school faculty identify student group "opinion leaders", whether their influence is positive or negative. These leaders attend an intense 3-day retreat to build foundation of trust and respect. This is achieved as students begin building relationships with peers outside of their normal affiliations. Project Trust leaders return to school and to their cliques ready to influence others to be more respectful and understanding of those not included in their peer groups. The process continues throughout the year. |