By Phillip
on Thursday, July, 5th, 2018 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$25,000 / 2018 http://www.colemanadvocates.org/ Coleman Advocates has been organizing poor and working class young people of color in San Francisco since. Through Youth Making a Change (YMAC), Coleman Advocates works to build committed life-long leaders who exert leadership at five levels: in their own life, in their schools, in Coleman campaigns, in the organization, and Read more…
By Phillip
on Thursday, July, 5th, 2018 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$25,000 / 2018 The Latest Started in 2003, the Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) is working to build a youth, family, and formerly and currently incarcerated people’s movement to challenge America’s addiction to incarceration and race, gender and class discrimination in Los Angeles County’s, California’s and the nation’s juvenile and criminal injustice systems. Hazen’s renewed funding Read more…
By Phillip
on Thursday, July, 5th, 2018 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$25,000 / 2018 http://vdlf.org/ Started in 1998, Voces de la Frontera is a membership-based community organization led by low-wage workers, immigrants and youth whose mission is to protect and expand civil rights and workers’ rights through leadership development, community organizing and empowerment. This renewal grant will enable Voces de la Frontera’s Youth Empowered in the Read more…
By Phillip
on Thursday, July, 5th, 2018 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$25,000 / 2018 https://www.swop.net Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) is a multi-issue, intergenerational organization founded in 1980 with an explicitly anti-racist and values-based social justice reform agenda for New Mexico. Over the last few years, SWOP youth have had success in bringing visibility and change to systemic education and food justice issues for primarily Latinx communities Read more…
By Phillip
on Thursday, July, 5th, 2018 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$25,000 / 2018 https://padresunidos.org/ With roots in the struggle for educational justice, Padres & Jovenes Unidos (PJU) has evolved into a multi-issue intergenerational organization led by people of color who work for educational excellence, racial justice, immigrant rights, and quality healthcare for all. This renewal grant will enable PJU to continue to build youth leadership Read more…
By Phillip
on Thursday, July, 5th, 2018 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$25,000 / 2018 http://www.lsna.net Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA) began in 1962 as a committed group of neighbors motivated by the emergence of community redlining. Today, LSNA is a multi-issue, multi-generational community organization, directly serving over 6,500 residents. LSNA has had great success transforming local troubled schools, building strong relationships with teachers and administration and Read more…
By Phillip
on Thursday, June, 28th, 2018 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$25,000 / 2018 https://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 form a regional base. Over the last 29 years, the Center has built successful campaigns and developed publications and popular education Read more…
By Phillip
on Thursday, June, 28th, 2018 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$25,000 / 2018 http://kocoonline.org/ Founded by religious and community leaders in the 1960s, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO) organizes and develops new generations of African American leadership to build stable, viable, and just communities. This one-year renewal grant will enable KOCO to organize low-income, predominantly Black young people and adults in the southside neighborhoods of Read more…
By Phillip
on Thursday, June, 28th, 2018 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$25,000 / 2018 http://innercitystruggle.org/ Since 1994, InnerCity Struggle (ICS) has worked with youth, families and community residents in Boyle Heights, unincorporated East Los Angeles, El Sereno and Lincoln Heights to work together for social and educational justice. This renewal grant will support InnerCity Struggle’s (ICS) ongoing organizing efforts in six critical areas – college access, Read more…
By Phillip
on Thursday, June, 28th, 2018 in Recent Grants, Trustees' Grants.
$25,000 / 2018 https://communitiesunited.org/ Communities United (CU) is a multi-issue, intergenerational community organization located on the northwest side of Chicago, one of the most diverse communities in the country. This renewal grant will support Communities United’s organizing to protect immigrant rights, to preserve affordable and quality housing, to dismantle systems of youth criminalization and to Read more…
