By Marc R. on Tuesday, August, 25th, 2015 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants, Youth Development Grants.
$30,000 / 2010, 2011 1137 E. Redondo Blvd. Inglewood, CA 90302 Maritza Galvez, Co- Chairperson Website: www.youth4justice.org Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) is working to build a youth-led movement to 1) challenge race, gender, and class inequality in the Los Angeles County juvenile injustice system, 2) work to tear down a system that has ensured the Read more…
By Marc R. on Tuesday, August, 25th, 2015 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants, Youth Development Grants.
$30,000 / 2010, 2011 2135 Clarke Avenue East Palo Alto, California 94303 Annie Loya, Director Website: www.youthunited.net Founded in1994, Youth United for Community Action (YUCA) is a grassroots community organization created, led and run by young people of color from low-income communities. YUCA primarily focuses on issues of social and environmental justice. A central focus Read more…
By Marc R. on Tuesday, August, 25th, 2015 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants, Youth Development Grants.
$30,000 / 2010, 2011 1910 N. Front Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 Andi Perez, Executive Director Website: www.yuc.home.mindspring.com Youth United for Change (YUC) is an organization of low-income high school students working to improve the quality of public education in their neighborhoods. It seeks to build a student-based, democratic movement able to hold school officials and Read more…
By Marc R. on Tuesday, August, 25th, 2015 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants, Youth Development Grants.
$30,000 / 2010, 2011 1027 S. 5th Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53205 Christine Neumann Ortiz, Executive Director Website: www.vdlf.org Voces de la Frontera opened in 2001 with a mission to organize low wage and immigrant workers and students and to advocate for policy changes that will benefit them and their community. In 2009, the Voces youth-led Read more…
By Marc R. on Tuesday, August, 25th, 2015 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants, Youth Development Grants.
$30,000 / 2011 P.O. Box 870366 New Orleans, LA 70187 Minh Nguyen, Executive Director Website: www.vayla-no.org VAYLA-NO is a multi-issue youth organizing group working on campaigns addressing educational equity, environmental justice, and health equity. All campaigns are developed by young people and intended to promote policies that increase access to excellent public education and a Read more…
By Marc R. on Tuesday, August, 25th, 2015 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants, Youth Development Grants.
$30,000 / 2010 3801 Mount Vernon Avenue Alexandria, Virginia 22305 Jon Liss, Executive Director Website: www.tenantsworkers.org Tenants and Workers United (TWU) works to build the power of low-income people – multi-national immigrants, African Americans, women, low-wage workers, and youths – in Northern Virginia, to struggle against racism and sexism, to develop multi-racial leadership for social Read more…
By Marc R. on Tuesday, August, 25th, 2015 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants, Youth Development Grants.
$30,000 / 2010, 2011 2201 E 13th Street Wichita, KS 67214-3169 Dorlan Bales, Executive Director Website: www.sunfloweract.org The Hazen Foundation has supported Students United (S.U.) since its creation in 2003 at Hope Street Youth Development. S.U. is a youth-driven and youth-led organization with members in every Wichita High School. In 2009, Sunflower Community Action became Read more…
By Marc R. on Tuesday, August, 25th, 2015 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants, Youth Development Grants.
$30,000 / 2010 P.O. Box 830706 San Antonio, Texas 78283 Genaro Rendon, Director Website: www.swunion.org Southwest Workers Union (SWU) was formed in 1988 on the principles of community-based organizing to empower people of color, workers, the poor, and youth to organize and build power to speak for themselves to achieve dignity and justice. In 2001, Read more…
By Marc R. on Tuesday, August, 25th, 2015 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants, Youth Development Grants.
$30,000 / 2010, 2011 807 Broad Street, Box 36 Providence, RI 02907 Chanravy Proeung, Executive Director Website: www.prysm.us PrYSM started in 2001, when a series of repeated Cambodian gang fights and resulting deaths, inspired youth and local college students to fight for positive change in the community. In 2003, PrYSM became a non-profit Southeast Asian Read more…
By Marc R. on Tuesday, August, 25th, 2015 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants, Youth Development Grants.
$50,000 / one year 45 W 36th St, 6th Floor New York, NY 10018 Ms. Michelle Lord, Executive Director Website: www.publicinterestprojects.org Launched in 2006, Communities for Public Education Reform has raised $26 million to date from 75 national and local funders and has committed over $20 million in grants and field-building efforts serving 124 organizations. Read more…