April 2011 GRANTEES
Adoption and Foster Care Mentoring
727 Atlantic Avenue, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02111
www.afcmentoring.org
Grant Amount $35,000 (5 months)
Date Awarded: April 2011
Purpose of Grant: To help AFC Mentoring plan for the incorporation of the Transition Framework into current and future mentoring programs for youth in foster care.
Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, Inc.
417 Arlington Street
Greensboro, NC 27406
www.belovedcommunitycenter.org
Grant Amount: $10,000 (6 months)
Date Awarded: April 2011
Purpose of Grant: To convene a group of AFF-funded truth-seeking processes for the purposes of learning from the truth and reconciliation process in Greensboro, as well as from each other’s ongoing work.
Edmund Muskie School of Public Service
University of Southern Maine
29 Baxter Boulevard
Portland, ME 04104
www.muskie.usm.maine.edu
Grant Amount: $80,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: April 2011
Purpose of Grant: To engage the Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission, the Office of Child and Family Services, Tribal governments, Maine governments and Tribal communities in supporting and engaging in the next phase of the Maine Tribal-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Project.
Edmund Muskie School of Public Service
University of Southern Maine
29 Baxter Boulevard
Portland, ME 04104
www.muskie.usm.maine.edu
Grant Amount: $112,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: April 2011
Purpose of Grant: To engage training and technical assistance to establish sustainable Healing Circles for each of the five Maine Tribal communities who wish to participate, specifically for the purpose of supporting community members during the truth commission process.
Educate Tomorrow, Corp.
1717 N. Bayshore Drive, Suite 203
Miami, FL 33132
www.educatetomorrow.org
Grant Amount: $100,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: April 2011
Purpose of Grant: To (1) add a transition coordinator position to the staff, (2) to add an additional program coordinator and (3) to facilitate an inter-agency task force devoted to incorporating the Transition Framework into Miami-area foster-youth-serving organizations.
First Place for Youth
519 17th Street, Suite 600
Oakland, CA 94612
www.firstplaceforyouth.org
Grant Amount: $210,000 (2 years)
Date Awarded: April 2011
Purpose of Grant: Through adding new in-house trainers and emerging leaders/youth, this grant will ensure long-term sustainability of the organization’s use of the Transition Framework.
Grassroots Leadership
P.O. Box 36006
Charlotte, NC 28236-6006
www.grassrootsleadership.org
Grant Amount: $29,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: April 2011
Purpose of Grant: To wrap up Grassroots Leadership’s involvement in the Black-Brown community reconciliation project in Houston, Texas.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
2105 First Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
www.iatp.org
Grant Amount: $66,000 (9 months)
Date Awarded: April 2011
Purpose of Grant: To develop a plan for the creation of Community Restoration of Environmental Justice project initially focused on two communities in the Midwest with the intent for the model to be replicated in other communities around the country that have suffered environmental injustices.
L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center
The Village at Ed Gould Plaza
1125 N. McCadden Place
Los Angeles, CA 90038
www.lagaycenter.org
Grant Amount: $81,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: April 2011
Purpose of Grant: To identify foster youth who would benefit from peer, group and one-on-one mentoring, and provide them with leadership development and life skills needed to transition from systematic reliance to independent living.
Legal Aid Justice Center
1000 Preston Avenue, Suite A
Charlottesville, VA 22903
www.justice4all.org
Grant Amount: $76,000 (9 months)
Date Awarded: April 2011
Purpose of Grant: To support the immigrant communities of Northern Virginia as they design a community reconciliation process to better identify, understand and address the community’s challenges in terms of the state’s changing demographics and strengthen their ability to participate in official state-wide decision making processes.
New York Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004
www.nyclu.org
Grant Amount: $90,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: April 2011
Purpose of Grant: To continue addressing the over-policing of NYC public schools by building partnerships, promoting successful school safety models and generating public support for a Memorandum of Understanding between relevant stakeholders that restores authority over school safety to educators.
On the Move
780 Lincoln Avenue
Napa, CA 94558
www.onthemovebayarea.org
Grant Amount: $118,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: April 2011
Purpose of Grant: To support young leaders and neighborhood residents in working to reconcile longstanding issues of educational inequity for children and youth across the McPherson Neighborhood.
Union of Minority Neighborhoods
42 Seaverns Avenue
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
www.unionofminorityneighborhoods.org
Grant Amount: $143,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: April 2011
Purpose of Grant: To build community support and knowledge about a truth process and to convene a truth commission to examine the busing/desegregation period in the Boston public schools (1974-78).
Urban Homesteading Assistance Board
120 Wall Street, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10005
www.uhab.org
Grant Amount: $95,000
Date Awarded: April 2011
Purpose of Grant: To support low income communities affected by predatory equity practices to create coalitions and bridge the divide between themselves and the “development community” in order to pursue mutually beneficial outcomes that result in the improvement and preservation of affordable housing.