2010 Donor Advised Grants

North Star Fund provides donor advised services to a diverse array of individuals, family foundations and corporations to meet their philanthropic goals. Many of the organizations granted were vetted by our activist-led Community Funding Committee as an effective, cutting-edge grassroots organizations in New York City.

Anonymous

Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS
Girls Education and Mentoring Services (GEMS)
Sex Workers Project
Women in Prison Project, The Correctional Association of New York

Caribou Fund   

Coro New York Leadership Center
International School of Brooklyn
Literacy Assistance Center

CITGO South Bronx Social Development Fund 

Asociacion de Egresados de la UASD
Asociacion de Provincias Dominicanas (AsoProDom)
Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance! (BAAD!)
Bronx Alternative Action
Casa Atabex Aché - The House of Womyn's Power
Centro de Servicios Cooperativos (CESECOOP)
Cooperativa de Mujeres en Accion
Critical Resistance -- New York City
Cultural Renaissance for Economic Revitalization (CRER)
For a Better Bronx
Freedom Community Resource Center
Friends of Brook Park
Green Worker Cooperatives
Green Youth Collective
Kingsbridge Heights Neighborhood Improvement Association
Mass Transit Street Theater and Video
Mi Rincon Favorito
Mision San Juan Bautista
More Gardens! Fund
Mothers on the Move
Movimiento La Peña del Bronx
Muslim Women's Institute for Research and Development (MWIRD)
NI-KE-HURA
Rebel Diaz Arts Collective
Servicing Our Youth (SOY)
Servicio de Educación Básica (SEBI)
Seven Neighborhood Action Partnership (SNAP)
Sistas on the Rise
South Bronx Food Cooperative
Taller Experimental de Arte

Joanne Lukomnik Fund for Health Care Reform        

Physicians for a National Health Program/NY Chapter (PNHP)

Johnson Family Foundation Fund    

Civic Participation

Community Voices Heard
Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE)
Make the Road New York
MinKwon Center for Community Action
New York City AIDS Housing Network (NYCAHN)/VOCAL
Pushback Network
Voter Enfranchisement Project

Community Media

Bronx News Network
People's Production House
Prometheus Radio Project

Kindling Fund  

Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE)
New York City AIDS Housing Network (NYCAHN)
Prison Policy Initiative
Project South
Resource Generation
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
Third Wave Foundation

NYC Venture Philanthropy Fund

Brooklyn Young Mothers' Collective

Rashawn Brazell Fund Scholarships

Isaiah Sypher, to attend Weslayan University
Nafissatou Traore, to attend Hunter College

REN Fund for Justice

Likhaan
Squeaky Wheel Productions
Street Vendor Project
United for a Fair Economy
VAMOS Unidos
Wittsand Project/Peer Africa

Sunshine Lady Fund

Center for Urban Pedagogy
Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio
Rise Magazine

William Waterman Jr. Memorial Fund

Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development
Brandworkers International
Commission on the Public's Health System
Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project
Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees
IndyKids
Just Food
Lakou New York
New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE)
New York Foundation for the Arts/Urban Art Beat
Pitzer College
River Park Nursery School
Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action (TIGRA), NY