$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 and economic justice, and to democratically control or own community resources including housing, education and health care. Alexandria United Teens (AUT) is the youth arm of TWU and is the principal organizational base for their youth constituents. Its activities are dedicated to organizing for education justice, youth leadership development, and regional base-building. Hazen’s $30,000 grant in 2010 will support TWU’s youth organizing work to eliminate the education opportunity gap, protect immigrant rights and build the power of multi-ethnic, low-income youth leaders to challenge and dismantle systemic inequalities in Northern Virginia schools.