Ensuring Economic Justice

• Bronx Land Trust * $5,000
  To support a citywide partnership to preserve 64 community gardens and open space plots located in predominantly low-income communities.


• Bushwick Housing Independence Project * $5,000
  To preserve existing affordable housing for low- and moderate-income families in Bushwick, Brooklyn and to combat landlord abuse such as building neglect and tenant harassment.
  


• College and Community Fellowship $5,000
  To increase opportunities for formerly incarcerated women to pursue higher education degrees and raise public awareness about needs of individuals transitioning out of prison.
  


• Commission on the Public’s Health System $10,000
  To fight the privatization of the public hospital system and to ensure that all New Yorkers have equal access to quality healthcare.
  


• Esperanza del Barrio $10,000
  To grow a cadre of Latina immigrant leaders who are working to end the cap on street vendor licenses and promote the economic self-determination of street vendors.


• Green Workers Cooperative $10,000
  To respond to the high rate of unemployment and environmental racism in the Bronx by developing an economic model of worker ownership and environmental sustainability that creates local jobs and reduces polluting practices.


• Housing Here and Now * $10,000
  To sustain a citywide coalition of grassroots groups, affordable housing advocates, labor unions, churches and AIDS activist groups that is working to secure affordable and safe housing for all New Yorkers.


• Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio $10,000
  To enable residents of Harlem to address the negative effects of gentrification and advocate for better housing conditions in low- and moderate-income homes.


• NYC AIDS Housing Network $10,000
  To mobilize individuals infected and affected by the HIV virus and advocate for greater access to affordable housing, healthier housing conditions and sound public policy.


• Women’s HIV Collaborative $5,000
  To build the leadership skills of HIV+ women and involve them in grassroots efforts to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS in communities of color and increase access to treatment.

Securing Peace and Justice, Resisting Militarism

• Immigrant Communities in Action * $10,000
  To unify and build the power of diverse Queens-based immigrant communities to push for a comprehensive immigration reform bill.


• Mass Transit $10,000
  To produce cultural events and workshops at local high schools and community youth groups that foster discussion and encourage involvement in social justice activism on such issues as community violence and U.S. war policies.


• Nodutdol $5,000
  To support efforts that bridge class, language, gender, sexuality and age divisions within the Korean community and create viable long-lasting solutions to community inequality.

Protecting Civil Liberties and Constitutional Rights

• Centro Hispano ‘Cutzcatlan’ $5,000
  To work with Central American immigrants in eastern Queens to organize around tenant, immigrant and workers’ rights.


• Concerned Citizens for Family Preservation $5,000
  To provide legal, housing, educational and counseling resources to Mexican and Latin American immigrants in Port Richmond, Staten Island who have involuntarily entered the child welfare and family court systems.


• Indy Kids * $5,000
  To expose young students (grades 4—8) to social justice activism through a youth-centered newspaper that uses youth-friendly language to explain current events and community issues.


• Queer Immigrant Rights Project $5,000
  To support a peer led project that offers a safe space for LGBT and HIV+ immigrants to network, share information and resources about immigration and health, and organize around the ban on HIV+ individuals entering the U.S.


• Sikh Coalition $5,000
  To sustain work on protecting the civil rights of the Sikh community and to assist individuals who have been victimized by hate crimes, employment discrimination, and other forms of racial profiling.


• Voter Enfranchisement Project $5,000
  To create a more democratic and accountable election process through felony enfranchisement and voter education drives.


• Women for Afghan Women $5,000
  To ensure the individual leadership and development of Afghan women and girls through ESL, Dari and Pashto literacy classes, after-school and college application programs, immigration assistance, welfare and healthcare assistance, and Qur’anic classes.

Ending Institutional Racism and Gender Bias

• Arab Women Active in Arts and Media $5,000
  To teach community organizing, anti-oppression, and art and media-making skills to young Arab women between the ages 10—18 who can advocate for the needs of the Arab immigrant community.


• Border Crossers $5,000
  To develop age-appropriate tools for educators to initiate dialogue in second to sixth grade classrooms on inequalities in schools and communities.


• Interfaith Task Force on LGBT Homeless Youth * $5,000
  To eradicate religious homophobia by raising awareness “one congregation at a time” about the role religion plays in the disenfranchisement of LGBT individuals and homelessness issue among LGBT youth.

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