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Grant Recipients List for the 4th Quarter, 1997Alaska Forum for Environmental Responsibility - $4,000Box 188 Valdez AK 99686 AF works to hold industry and government accountable to the state and federal laws designed to protect the environment and to provide safe and retaliation-free workplaces. The Whistleblower Education & Outreach Project will help defend the rights of government and industry employees to speak the truth about threats to worker safety, public health, and the environment in Alaska without fear of reprisals. Alternatives for Community & Environment$5,000 2343 Washington St., 2nd floor Roxbury MA 02119 ACE works in partnership with low-income communities in the Boston metro area to achieve environmental justice by providing legal and technical support, educational programs and organizing assistance. Funds were provided for the Clear the Air: Public Health and Mass Transit project. This project trains young people and other residents of Boston's Roxbury neighborhood (which suffers from the highest rates of asthma hospitalization in the state) to organize and advocate for cleaner and higher quality mass transit alternatives. Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) - $5,000 310-8th Street Ste. 301 Oakland CA 94607 AIWA fosters the empowerment of Asian immigrant women who work as seamstresses, hotel room cleaners, and electronics workers in the greater San Francisco, Oakland area in order to collectively advocate for better working and living conditions. Funds were provided for the Youth Empowerment Project to develop leadership and organizing skills among immigrant high school youth. Coalition LA - $10,000 411 W. 6th Street San Pedro CA 90731 The Multi-Cultural Community Democracy Project will build a model organization with the capacity to mobilize representative participation in municipal decision-making and elections in a central Los Angeles City Council district. The project will reach this goal by combining community and electoral organizing and integrating the tactics and techniques most effective in each cultural community. Community Action Development Corp. - $10,000 PO Box 471 Boulder CO 80306 Women United for Justice, Community and Family is a community group of primarily low-income women who are working to add their collective voice to the political process. They are especially concerned with the impact that welfare reform has on low-income women and their families. Farmworker Association of Florida - $10,000 815 S. Park Avenue Apopka FL 32703 The purpose of the Lake Apopka Dislocated Farmworkers Self-Help Project is to actively address the difficult re-adjustment process of the loss, due to state legislated farm buy-out, of 2500 farmworker jobs and its many ramifications. Farmworkers and others are working to stimulate creative and innovative thought and planning on a community and state level in order to create a model environmental justice solution to this problem. The Greater Laurentians Wildlands Project - $3,000 4 Laurel Hill Drive So. Burlington VT 05403 The mission of the Wildlands Project is to help protect and restore the ecological richness and native biodiversity of North America through the establishment of a connected system of reserves. Protected core reserves will be linked by biological corridors and surrounded by multiple-use buffer zones. Funds were provided for the Greater Laurentian region portion of the project, working to plan and implement an ecological reserve system in New England, New York, and Canada's Maritime Provinces. Latino Workers' Center - $10,000 PO Box 20329 New York NY 10009 The Campaign for Amnesty and Fair Wages was created with the intention of optimizing the participation of immigrant latina workers. The campaign is structured around the development of borough womens committees, each of which conducts outreach and educational activities in its area and involves workers in city-wide activities to promote immigrant workers rights. Save Our Cumberland Mountains - $10,000 PO Box 479 Lake City TN 37769 The Environmental Justice and Leadership Development Project addresses unregulated forestry practices, strip mining in toxic coal seams, and hazardous and radioactive waste problems at the local community and state policy level.The project emphasizes leadership development of members at every phase of planning and carrying out the project's objectives. Workers' Awaaz - $5,000 PO Box 2547 Long Island City NY 11102 Workers' Awaaz (meaning "workers' voice") is the only organization in the country involved in organizing South Asian immigrant low-wage workers, particulary domestic workers, who are isolated and often exploited by their employers. WA seeks to break the isolation, do outreach and education in the community to increase visibiltiy of the workers' plight and agenda and initiate public campaigns targeted at especially abusive employers. |