By Phillip
on Monday, July, 18th, 2016 in Public Education Grants, Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
Amount: $25,000 / Spring 2016 Eric Mann, Executive Director Website: http://www.thestrategycenter.org/ Founded in 1989, the Labor/Community Strategy Center (LCSC) is a multiracial, intergenerational, community based organization based in Los Angeles County working to impact local, national and international public policy and from a regional base. Over the last 25 years, the Center has built successful Read more…
By Marc R.
on Friday, August, 21st, 2015 in Public Education Grants, Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$30,000 / 2010 P.O. Box 344116 Florida City, Florida 33034 Jonathan Fried, Executive Director Website: www.we-count.org We Count! is a multi-cultural membership-based organization established in 2002 focused on: immigrant rights, including a path to citizenship for undocumented workers and students; workers’ rights, including defense against wage theft and fair treatment for day workers; and students’ Read more…
By Marc R.
on Friday, August, 21st, 2015 in Public Education Grants, Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$30,000 / 2010, 2011 201 Humphrey Street, P.O. Box 386 Marks, Mississippi 38646 Robert L. Jackson, CEO 662-326-3022 Website: www.qcdo.org Quitman County Development Organization (QCDO) was founded in 1977 by civil rights activists who recognized the need for systemic community change and economic and leadership development. Since 2005, QCDO has been working to build the Read more…
By Marc R.
on Friday, August, 21st, 2015 in Public Education Grants, Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$30,000 / 2010 164 NW 20th Street, #104 Miami, Florida 33127 Denise Perry, Director Website: www.poweru.org Power U Center for Social Change, incorporated in 1999, is a community-owned grassroots organization. Power U’s mission is to organize low-income communities directly impacted by institutional oppression by utilizing leadership development, promoting self-determination, and building community power to create Read more…
By Marc R.
on Friday, August, 21st, 2015 in Public Education Grants, Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$30,000 / 2010, 2011 P.O. Box 276 Lexington, Mississippi 39095 Ellen Reddy, Executive Director Website: www.citizensforqualityeducation.net Citizens for Quality Education (CQE) is an intergenerational organizing group that trains and organizes parents and youth to effectively impact the Holmes County school policy and practice and to hold the district superintendent and school officials accountable for providing Read more…
By Marc R.
on Friday, August, 21st, 2015 in Public Education Grants, Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$30,000 / 2010 2-4 Nevins Street, 2nd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11217 Jon Kest, Executive Director Website: www.nycommunities.org Over the period of the previous strategic plan, New York Communities for Change (NYCC) took on a range of important public school reform issues including: inadequate funding, class size, school safety and teacher quality. ACORN/NYCC helped to build Read more…
By Marc R.
on Friday, August, 21st, 2015 in Public Education Grants, Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$30,000 / 2010, 2011 1512 Townsend Ave. Bronx, New York 10452 Jack Doyle, Executive Director New Settlement Apartments is a housing and community-building organization that works toward education reform in public schools. The Parent Action Committee (PAC) is a parent and community organizing project of NSA, begun by a small group of parents in 1997 concerned Read more…
By Marc R.
on Friday, August, 21st, 2015 in Public Education Grants, Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$30,000 / 2011 2720 East 22nd St Minneapolis, MN 55413 Doran Schrantz, Executive Director Website: www.isaiah-mn.org ISAIAH is a network of congregations from various faith traditions working in the Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Rochester and Saint Cloud regions to promote racial and economic justice through intentional, intensive leadership development and collective, faith-based actions with the goal Read more…
By Marc R.
on Friday, August, 21st, 2015 in Public Education Grants, Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$30,000 / 2010, 2011 2811 Whittier Blvd Los Angeles, California 90023 Maria Brenes Executive Director Website: www.innercitystruggle.org InnerCity Struggle (ICS) is an intergenerational community organization that works for educational justice through two organizing components: United Students (youth) and Familias Unidas (family/adult). Over the past five years, it has achieved significant victories in East Los Angeles, Read more…
By Marc R.
on Friday, August, 21st, 2015 in Public Education Grants, Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$30,000 / 2010 1028 Prichard Road Tunica, Mississippi 38676 Melvin Young, Executive Director Website: www.tunicateensinaction.org Concerned Citizens For a Better Tunica County (CCBTC) was formed in 1993 to fight to create a quality education for all students in the Tunica County which ranked as the 2nd poorest county in the US in the 1990 census, Read more…
