2005 Grantee List

Ensuring Economic Justice

• Action for Community Empowerment $5,000 www.actionace.org

  To build the individual and collective power of residents of Central Harlem to combat social, economic and environmental inequalities in their community.

• Andolan, Inc. $10,000 www.andolan.net

  To organize low-wage South Asian women workers who face exploitative work conditions to advocate for better wages and safe and healthy working environments.

• Centro Hispano "Cuzcatlán" $10,000 www.compassforchange.net/main/fullprofile.php?id=2146

  To develop the leadership skills of Central American immigrants in Eastern Queens who can participate in organizing on housing, workers' rights and environmental justice.

• City Project $5,000 www.cityproject.org

  To ensure that New York City's budget and fiscal policies are formed through a democratic process that engages marginalized communities in the decision making process, establishes just distribution of public funds, and spreads tax burdens fairly and progressively.

• Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled $5,000 www.ciadny.org

  To provide information and build the skills of adult home residents to advocate for themselves so that they can improve the quality of their life and care, increase staff in nursing homes, and ensure consumer protection for assisted-living residents.

• Commission on the Public's Health System $10,000 www.cphsnyc.org

  To mobilize community members against the privatization of public hospitals and prevent the closing of hospitals in low-income, immigrant, and communities of color.

• Damayan Migrant Workers Association $5,000 www.damayanmigrants.org

  To educate Filipina domestic workers about their rights as workers and immigrants, and to build grassroots leadership to challenge the root causes of migration and poverty.

• Domestic Workers United $10,000 www.domesticworkersunited.org

  To work with Caribbean, African, and Latina immigrant domestic workers to establish fair labor standards in the industry, raise the level of respect for domestic workers, and build unity across diverse communities of low-wage earners.

• Esperanza del Barrio $10,000 www.esperanzadelbarrio.org

  To grow a cadre of Latina immigrant leaders who are challenging and working to change anti-immigrant and racist practices that limit access to street vending licenses.

• Groundswell Community Mural Project $5,000 www.groundswellmural.org

  To empower low-income youth and communities who have limited access to public expression about social issues by guiding them through the creation of public murals that explore themes relevant to their lives.

• NY/NJ Teamsters for a Democratic Union $5,000 www.tdu.org

  To improve working conditions for all workers by building grassroots low-wage worker, immigrant, and peopleof color activism within local unions.

• NYC AIDS Housing Network $10,000 www.nycahn.org

  To advocate for an increase in safe and affordable quality housing and healthcare for low-income New Yorkers living with HIV

• Public Housing Residents of the Lower East Side $5,000

  To work with public housing residents in the Lower East Side to advocate for affordable housing and economic opportunities and to increase civic participation for low income community members.

• Sistas on the Rise $10,000 www.sistasontherise.org

  To work towards the personal and political development of low-income parenting teens in the South Bronx and to improve the conditions at "P-schools" for pregnant and parenting teens.

Ending Institutional Racism and Discrimination

• AmASSI - New York $5,000

  To offer weekly workshops and forums for same gender loving and bi-sexual men and their allies to create strategies to eliminate homophobia in the black community.

• Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media $10,000 www.awaam.org

  To provide community organizing, anti-oppression, art and media-making skills to young Arab women ages 10-18; to foster a new generation of community leaders who can both advocate for themselves and their community.

• Battered Women's Resource Center $5,000 www.vowbwrc.org

  To provide leadership training and development opportunities to survivors of domestic violence to improve services and legislation that affect battered women and their families.

• Border Crossers $5,000 www.bordercrossers.org

  To develop age-appropriate tools for students in grades2-6 from segregated areas of New York City in order to initiate conversations on societal inequality and discrimination.

• Center for Immigrant Families $10,000 www.c4if.org

  To address inequities in Upper Manhattan by building on the collective strength and knowledge of low-income immigrant women who can advocate for change.

• Circus Amok $5,000 www.circusamok.org

  To raise public awareness about social justice issues through free public performances that are offered to New York City's ethnically and economically diverse communities.

• Critical Resistance - NYC $5,000 www.criticalresistance.org/

  To build the leadership skills of individuals affected by the prison industrial complex; to create alternatives to the imprisonment and policing of low-income communities of color that develop real safety for New Yorkers.

• FIERCE! $5,000 www.fiercenyc.org

  To provide leadership skills and political consciousness to TLGBTSQQ youth of color, enabling them to take action on issues such as equal access to public spaces, housing, employment, healthcare, and education.

• Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of New York $5,000 www.gapimny.org

  To provide social, political, and educational forums for gay, bisexual, and questioning Asian and Pacific Islander men or transgender people and to better the image of queer Asian Pacific Americans and address homophobia in their communities.

• Malcolm X Grassroots Movement $5,000 www.mxgm.org

  To offer community education, legal services, and an anti-police brutality program to residents of Central Brooklyn; to confront hard issues that are prevalent in the black community with the goal of combating social and economic inequalities.

• More Gardens! Coalition $5,000 www.moregardens.org

  To provide direction and organizing support through voter registration drives, educational programming, advocacy, and direct action to address the pressing need to preserve community gardens in the Bronx.

• Out-FM $5,000 www.outfm.org

  To provide a forum for critical analysis of political, social, and cultural issues affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities in New York City through a regular radio broadcast.

• Project Reach $5,000 www.projectreachnyc.org

  To empower young people to identify issues that are affecting their communities and mobilize others to work for social change.

• Pro-RADS / API AIDS Ad Hoc Committee $10,000

  To develop equitable policies and services that reduce discrimination against and improve access to health care for people living with AIDS.

• Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund $5,000 www.transgenderlegal.org

  To ensure that all transgender and gender-variant people can access health care and insurance in a safe and non-discriminatory manner.

• Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan $5,000

  To reach out to Filipino youth and offer political education and organizing training that help them connect the social and economic conditions of immigrants, women, LGBT people and people of color in the United States to conditions overseas.

Protecting Civil Liberties and Constitutional Rights

• Brooklyn Childcare Collective $10,000 www.brooklynchildcarecollective.org

  To engage pregnant and parenting teens in Central Brooklyn to address issues that negatively affect their communities.

• Coalition for Parole Restoration $5,000 www.cprny.org

  To organize and raise public awareness about the effects of the prison industrial complex on local neighborhoods in order to advocate for fair administration of parole for New York State prisoners.

• Community Action Project $5,000 www.capbrooklyn.org

  To build grassroots leadership in Flatbush to improve the quality of life for residents; to protect the civil rights of immigrants in the community.

• Coney Island Avenue Project $10,000 www.ciapnyc.org

  To promote the empowerment of working class South Asians through community education and legislative andlegal advocacy.

• Desis Rising Up and Moving $5,000 www.drumnation.org

  To work with low-income South Asian immigrants to halt the expansion of immigrant detention and deportation, gain safe access to public services, and advocate for legalization status of undocumented workers.

• El Centro de Hospitalidad $5,000

  To organize Mexican day laborers in Staten Island on workerand immigrant's rights issues such as the Real ID Act,and the lack of access to living wage jobs, safe working conditions, and affordable housing and healthcare.

• Families for Freedom $5,000 www.familiesforfreedom.org

  To work with low-income immigrants from the Caribbean, Latin America, and South Asia who are at risk of deportation and human rights violations; to reform an end to immigration and local criminal justice practices that are rooted in racism and xenophobia.

• Fruta Extraña $5,000 www.frutaextrana.tv

  To support the Latino and Black LGBTSTQ community by linking individuals to health, educational, cultural, and political information through public access programming.

• Justice Committee $5,000

  To conduct direct action, advocacy organizing, political education, and leadership development in marginalized communities in order to eliminate police brutality, racism, and inequality.

• Picture the Homeless $5,000 www.picturethehomeless.org

  To conduct grassroots organizing, leadership development, public policy work, research and media training for homeless people who are working to increase opportunities for individuals to acquire safe, affordable housing.

• Sikh Coalition $5,000 www.sikhcoalition.org

  To raise awareness about discrimination faced by the Sikh community, promote their civil rights and engage them in civic participation.

Securing Peace and Justice

• Deep Dish TV $5,000 www.deepdishtv.org

  To increase support for an end to US militarism and the occupation of Iraq through grassroots media activism.

• Educators to Stop the War $5,000

  To use workplace, community, school-based and union organizing and coalition work to end military recruitment in the public high schools and initiate a broader dialogue about the outcomes of war and imperialism.

• Kinding Sindaw $5,000 www.kindingsindaw.org

  To utilize dance drama to reclaim, preserve and draw attention to the history, traditions, and current living situation of indigenous tribes of the Philippines.

• Nodutdol for Korean Community Development $10,000 www.nodutdol.com

  To bridge divisions within the Korean community and create solutions to root causes of oppression through political education, community health organizing, and a peace and social change project.

• Uptown for Peace and Justice $5,000 www.uptownpj.org

  To empower working class youth of color from East and West Harlem, Washington Heights and the Bronx to organize against US militarism and to demand better access to education and job opportunities.