JANUARY 2012 GRANTEES
Affinity Community Service
P.O. Box 377948
Chicago, IL 60637-7948
www.affinity95.org
Grant Amount: $33,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: January 2012
Purpose of Grant: To train Affinity Community Services (ACS) in the TF so that ACS can use that knowledge to explore building an LBGTQ/Black/Brown coalition in Chicago to work together on immigration policies.
Institute for Community Peace
1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Suite 706
Washington, DC 20004
www.instituteforcommunitypeace.org
Grant Amount: $109,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: January 2012
Purpose of Grant: To support a planning process that trains Cambodian youth to engage a cross section of their peers, adults, and elders to identify a social problem that can bring the community together across generations in Seattle, Washington.
Just Communities – Central Coast
1528 Chapala Street
Suite 308
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
www.justcommunitiescc.org
Grant Amount: $200,000 (2 years)
Date Awarded: January 2012
Purpose of Grant: The purpose of this grant is to continue Jus Communities Central Coast’s (JCCC) evolution of work from external transitions coaching (from AFF to JCCC) to internal staff transitions coaching (i.e., coach on staff of JCCC) to internal school district-focused Equity and Transitions coaches over the next two years. These two years will also allow JCCC the time to build a stable project funding base anticipating AFF’s withdrawal.
Legal Aid Justice Center
1000 Preston Avenue, Suite A
Charlottesville, VA 22903
www.justice4all.org
Grant Amount: $110,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: January 2012
Purpose of Grant: The purpose of this grant is to build relationships, identify shared goals, and increase the advocacy capacity of the immigrant communities of Northern Virginia by reconciling disparate immigrant communities.
Make the Road New York
301 Grove Street
Brooklyn, NY 11237
www.maketheroadny.org
Grant Amount: $110,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: January 2012
Purpose of Grant: To continue convening one-on-one interviews, maintain strong institutional engagement, continue small cross-stakeholder meetings, hold a full community gathering, build relationships with the African-American community, build energy toward achieving structural change, and create an exhibit reflective of all communities in the area to respond to an intensification of hate-related violence in Port Richmond, Staten Island.
Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion
525 New Center One
3031 West Grand Boulevard
Detroit, Michigan 48202
www.miroundtable.org
Grant Amount: $29,000 (6 months)
Date Awarded: January 2012
Purpose of Grant: To support a convening of the truth commission groups in Detroit prior to the November 4-5 swearing in of Detroit’s truth commission and truth conference.
Mid-South Peace and Justice Center
1000 S. Cooper St.
Memphis, TN 38104
www.midsouthpeace.org
Grant Amount: $139,000 (18 months)
Date Awarded: January 2012
Purpose of Grant: To engage marginalized communities in Memphis (Latino, African-American, youth and GLBTQ) and law enforcement in a process to identify, articulate and take action to remove barriers that preclude reconciliation and healing in police and community relations.
Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
30 Leverett Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
www.namanet.org
Grant Amount: $99,250 (1 year)
Date Awarded: January 2012
Purpose of Grant: To implement the Fleet Vision outcomes – particularly fleet diversity – through rule and policy making pathways (referred to as Fleet Diversity Amendment 18), which resulted from NAMA’s work over the past three years.
Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York
275 Seventh Avenue
Suite #1703
New York, NY 10001
www.rocny.org
Grant Amount: $90,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: January 2012
Purpose of Grant: To support a process to further develop and strengthen the Restaurant Industry Roundtable and bring stakeholders together to create action plans.
Urban Justice Center
123 William Street, 16th Floor
New York, NY 10038
www.urbanjustice.org
Grant Amount: $63,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: January 2012
Purpose of Grant: To evaluate and increase the scale and impact of the Domestic Justice Dialogue, a joint project of Domestic Workers United and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, each of which is currently being funded by the Andrus Family Fund.