Ensuring Economic Justice

• Bronx Pryde* $5,000 www.bronxdefenders.org/comm/002.html

  Strategic Youth Initiative Grant Recipient
  To provide leadership and organizing training to urban youth and discuss and analyze the critical issues they face.

• DAMAYAN Migrant Workers Association $10,000 www.damayanmigrants.org

  To organize Filipina domestic workers to advocate for themselves and other workers in order to end exploitative working conditions.

• Families United Home Restoration Advocacy Project* $5,000

  To address the rise in exploitative lending practices by home equity lenders who target the elderly, immigrants, single head-of- households, and vulnerable consumers.

• Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project* $5,000

  To train Haitian immigrant youth in media and advocacy and raise public awareness about the needs of the Haitian community.

• Grassroots Literacy Coalition $5,000

  To advocate for better adult literacy and education services in the effort to eliminate illiteracy.

• Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center $10,000 www.mirabalcenter.org

  Esta Armstrong Memorial Fund Grant Recipient

  To build the power and participation of Upper Manhattan residents and involve them in campaigns on affordable housing, tenants’ rights, and family violence prevention.

• NY/NJ Teamsters for a Democratic Union $5,000 www.tdu.org

  To provide one-on-one mentoring support, organizing resources, and worker education to members who are challenging union corruption and fighting for improved working conditions.

• People’s Production House* $5,000

  To train members of grassroots organizations in radio and print journalism so they can better attract public attention to issues faced by their communities.

• Public Housing Residents of the Lower East Side (PHROLES) $5,000

  To offer education, leadership and organizing training to public housing residents in the Lower East Side; to fight for housing and economic justice.

• Sistas on the Rise $10,000 www.sistasontherise.org

  To engage women of color in struggles for equality, foster the personal and political consciousness of teen mothers, and improve services in the city’s “pregnant and parenting schools.

Securing Peace and Justice, Resisting Militarism

• Paper Tiger Television $5,000 www.papertiger.org

  To produce a counter-recruitment toolkit for educators and students and to initiate dialogue on alternatives to US militarism and enlistment.

• United for Peace and Justice $5,000 www.unitedforpeace.org/nyc

  To develop the PeaceZone NYC campaign for a New York City free from military recruiters; to end illegal detainment of immigrants and people who voice opposition to US militarism.

Protecting Civil Liberties and Constitutional Rights

• Battered Women’s Resource Center $5,000 www.vowbwrc.org

  To involve domestic violence survivors in policy-making so the family court, child welfare, and homeless systems meet the needs of families fleeing violence in the home.

• Blackout Arts Collective $5,000 www.blackoutartscollective.com

  To use art and media to raise the political consciousness of youth of color and mobilize them on critical issues that affect their neighborhoods.

• Coney Island Avenue Project $10,000 www.ciapnyc.org

  To promote the empowerment of working-class South Asians through legislative campaigns, legal advocacy, and communitybased education.

Ending Institutional Racism and Gender Bias

• Al Awda-New York* $5,000 www.al-awdany.org

  To support leadership, community building, and activism in the Arab community, and to draw attention to the post-9/11 rise in racial profiling, surveillance, racism against, and deportation of Muslims.

• Alliance for Community Leadership and Power* $5,000

  To strengthen NYC’s community organizations by offering skills-building trainings for their organizers and political consciousness trainings for their membership and staff.

• American Indian Law Alliance $5,000 www.ailanyc.org

  To provide Native Americans in NYC with legal services and support on critical issues; to develop a global campaign to uphold the human rights of indigenous people.

• Center for Immigrant Families $5,000 www.c4if.org

  To holistically address public school inequities by offering skills development, civic participation, and organizing training for immigrant and low-income parents in Upper Manhattan.

• Chica Luna Productions Strategic Youth Initiative Grant Recipient $5,000 www.chicaluna.com

  To promote leadership and support the development of Latinas; to use popular media to raise awareness about issues such as gentrification and trans- and homophobia in their neighborhoods.

• Prison Families Community Forum* $5,000

  To educate family members of incarcerated individuals about navigating the prison system so they are better able to advocate for more humane policies and practices.

• Queers for Economic Justice $10,000 www.queersforeconomicjustice.org

  To train low-income people who are homeless and/or on public assistance to advocate for a welfare and shelter system that provides equal protection and services for LGBT people and communities.

• Third World Newsreel $5,000 www.twn.org

  To partner with and offer media skills training to grassroots groups and activists so they can produce progressive films that further their organizing and advocacy work.