MAY 2012 GRANTEES
The AFF board met in September 2012 and approved 14 grants totaling $1,531,250
California Partnership for Safe Communities
469 9th Street
Suite 210
Oakand, CA 94607
http://partnershipforsafecommunities.org
Grant Amount: $200,000 (2 years)
Date Awarded: May 2012
Purpose of Grant: To support the design, implementation and deepening of a community reconciliation process in Richmond, California, focused on addressing the city’s legacy of violence, incarceration, and conflict between affected Richmond communities and law enforcement agencies.
Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy
216 Cecil Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
www.ceed.org
Grant Amount: $102,000
Date Awarded: May 2012
Purpose of Grant: To develop a community reconciliation process for addressing environmental harms due to uranium mining and nuclear development in Minnesota. The Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy will create the means for this community to acknowledge and reconcile the losses associated with these environmental harms.
Duke University
Human Rights Center
234 Ernestine Friedl Building
East Campus
Box 90091, Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0402
www.duke.edu/web/rightsatduke
www.paulimurrayproject.org
Grant Amount: $178,000 (2 years)
Date Awarded: May 2012
Purpose of Grant: To support the third stage of the Pauli Murray Project – a collaborative exploration of history and history-telling for the purpose of opening and strengthening cross-community ties, promoting reconciliation, and working for positive change. The long-term goal of the project is a planned history museum and a stronger and more democratic community.
Edmund Muskie School of Public Service
University of Southern Maine
29 Baxter Boulevard
Portland, ME 04104
www.muskie.usm.maine.edu
Grant Amount: $10,000 (6 months)
Date Awarded: May 2012
Purpose of Grant: To provide additional funding to engage training and technical assistance and 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.
Edmund Muskie School of Public Service
University of Southern Maine
29 Baxter Boulevard
Portland, ME 04104
www.muskie.usm.maine.edu
Grant Amount: $151,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: May 2012
Purpose of Grant: The Community Engagement in Truth, Healing and Reconciliation initiative, led by the TRC Convening Group, will engage Wabanaki communities, Maine communities, and Office of Child and Family Services in readying for and learning from the TRC truth-seeking process.
Family and Children Services Division of Clark County
(a/k/a Job & Family Services of Clark County)
1345 Lagonda Avenue
Building C
Springfield, OH 45503
www.clarkdjfs.org/family-children
Grant Amount: $50,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: May 2012
Purpose of Grant: To bring together diverse community partners, agencies, and transition-age youth to fully develop and implement a robust Independent Living program in Clark County, Ohio.
First Star, Inc.
1666 K Street, NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006
www.firststar.org
Grant Amount: $76,500 (1 year)
Date Awarded: May 2012
Purpose of Grant: To support a four-week, scalable residential college prep Academy at UCLA with monthly follow-up meetings. The Academy program offers transformative tools and support for success in college and beyond. The Transitions Framework will support students’ psychosocial functioning and self-sufficiency.
Knotts Family Agency
1505 W. Highland Avenue
Suite 1
San Bernardino, CA 92411
www.knotsfamilyagency.org
Grant Amount: $101,750 (1 year)
Date Awarded: May 2012
Purpose of Grant: To (1) strengthen resilience for 75 at risk children and youth in foster care ages 14-21; (2) integrate the Transition Framework into programs and foster care system; and, (3) implement a robust experimental research examining effectiveness of the framework and intervention.
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: $130,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: May 2012
Purpose of Grant: To expand LifeWorks’ services to LGBTQ foster youth by applying the Bridges’ framework to the RISE Initiative federal demonstration project and feed those lessons back into LifeWorks’ ongoing work with foster youth.
Maine Indian-Tribal-State Commission
P.O. Box 241
Stillwater, ME 04489
www.mitsc.org
Grant Amount: $119,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: May 2012
Purpose of Grant: To support the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission in its efforts to discover the truth about the experiences of Wabanaki people with Maine child welfare and to promote healing and lasting change for Wabanaki children, families and communities.
New York Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004
www.nyclu.org
Grant Amount: $60,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: May 2012
Purpose of Grant: To reform policing and disciplinary practices in New York City public schools by establishing a new governing structure between the NYPD and DOE that restores authority over school safety to educators. In addition, NYCLU wants the entire organization to pick up and continue the racial equity work their participating staff began at the 2011 AFF Grantee Conference.
On the Move
780 Lincoln Avenue
Napa, CA 94558
www.onthemovebayarea.org
Grant Amount: $94,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: May 2012
Purpose of Grant: Through the McPherson Neighborhood Democracy Zone, On the Move will support young leaders and neighborhood residents working to reconcile longstanding issues of educational inequity, while piloting efforts in three additional Napa County neighborhoods.
Union of Minority Neighborhoods
42 Seaverns Avenue
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
www.unionofminorityneighborhoods.org
Grant Amount: $130,000 (1 year)
Date Awarded: May 2012
Purpose of Grant: To build a critical mass of people from diverse communities who are committed to help Boston public school education and the city in their journey toward: (1) quality and excellence; (2) democratic community engagement and action; (3) racial and class equity; and, (4) cultural and historical literacy.
Youth Business Initiative
515 M. Street SE, Suite 217
Washington, DC 20003
www.ybiprograms.org
Grant Amount: $5,000 (3 months)
Date Awarded: May 2012
Purpose of Grant: To seek additional funding/assistance for the video and technological services for the 2012 International Summit of Youth in Care. These technological costs cover onsite video for display, purchasing a premium live broadcasting channel, live web streaming, and production of a 5- to 8- minute mini documentary.
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