Past Grants
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651 Arts Brooklyn, NY |
Development of Tania Leon's Son Sonora Ensemble, a musical $4,000.00 |
http://651arts.or 2004 Spring Music |
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7amleh Haifa, Israel, Israel |
7amleh will establish a training project of 6 workshops, enabling Palestinian activists throughout Israel and occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) in the skills of social media as a campaigning and collaborative tool to collectively address human rights abuses affecting the Palestinian people.
$15,000.00 |
http://www.7amleh.org 2014 Fall Community Organizing |
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972 – Advancement of Citizen Journalism Tel Aviv, Israel, Israel |
972 – Advancement of Citizen Journalism is a non-profit grassroots journalism initiative aiming to expose local and overseas audiences to underreported events and perspectives in Israel and Palestine. It maintains two digital magazines: +972 Magazine (English) and Local Call (Hebrew). $10,000.00 |
http://www.972mag.com 2015 Fall Community Organizing |
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Action for Regional Equity Dorchester, MA, US |
With new community use of up-to-date communication tools, Action for Regional Equity’s Jobs Equity Initiative will build a stronger voice for good jobs to sustain our families and communities, grow our base in communities of color and our regional network, and win our key campaigns for good jobs. $5,000.00 |
http://action4equity.org/ 2014 Spring Community Organizing |
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Address This Philadelphia, PA, USA |
Address This! provides innovative radical education courses via correspondence to individuals currently incarcerated throughout the state of Pennsylvania. $7,500.00 |
http://www.booksthroughbars.org 2013 Spring Education |
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Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice Staten Island, NY |
Women's led community group conducting demographic and needs assessment as part of organizing in the Nepali community in the U.S. $5,000.00 |
http://adhikaar.org 2006 Spring Community Organizing |
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Ady Ben-Israel Brooklyn, NY |
For "One Step Ahead of the Wall," short videos of Palestinian non-violent demonstrations to be shown on Palestinian television to increase knowledge of non-violent techniques $3,800.00 |
http://linkedin.com/pub/dir/Ady/Ben-Israel/ 2004 Spring Community Organizing |
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Africa Project Chapel Hill, NC |
Resource materials and tutoring at new ESL center for NC African immigrants $3,000.00 |
http://africaproject.net 2009 Spring Education |
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African American Club of West Pasco, Inc. Port Richey, FL |
GED prep and colleage readiness program $8,000.00 |
2011 Spring Education |
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African Communities Together Bronx, NY, USA |
Acquire tools and create systems to communicate with and engage our African immigrant membership base. $10,000.00 |
http://africans.us 2013 Fall Community Organizing |
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Aid Watch Palestine Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine |
Aid Watch Palestine is an independent, civil society initiative to make international aid accountable to Palestinians—starting with reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. We invite critical and constructive scrutiny of aid so we can liberate ourselves from aid that harms and focus on long-term solutions. $10,000.00 |
http://www.aidwatch.ps/ 2015 Spring Community Organizing |
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AIDS Policy Project Philadelphia, PA |
AIDS cure conference $5,000.00 |
http://aidspolicyproject.org 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Al Yater Organization for Social Justice Acre, Israel |
Access to Higher Education Project for young Palestinian citizens of Israel $10,000.00 |
2008 Spring Education |
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Al Zahraa Arab Women Sakhnin, Israel |
Supporting and organizing rural Arab women in Israel and linking them to courses and other resources $5,552.00 |
2006 Fall Community Organizing |
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Al-Bir ‘Ar’arah , 'Ar'arah, Israel |
Training and mentorship for a network of 20 young activists from 10 rural Palestinian communities in the north of Israel who want to creatively advocate for their rights and the sustainability and dignity of their communities. $10,000.00 |
2014 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Al-Bizreh Imm al-Fayy-The Seed Gives Birth to Shade Sacramento, CA, USA |
Funds will be used for research, trailer, and website development of a documentary film that tells selected Palestinian stories through the theme of food culture, agriculture, and environmental activism. $10,000.00 |
http://www.bizreh.com 2013 Spring Education |
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Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture Philadelphia, PA |
Arab music concert series $10,000.00 |
http://albustanseeds.org 2011 Spring Music |
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Al-Taj for Health and Heritage Arraba, Israel |
Printing first palliative care manual in Arabic for Palestinian citizens of Israel $10,000.00 |
2008 Spring Community Organizing |
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Alicia Dara Seattle, WA |
Songwriting for children's ensembles $2,500.00 |
http://myspace.com/aliciadara 2006 Spring Music |
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Alliance for Community Services Chicago, IL, USA |
Uniting public service beneficiaries and workers to fight for quality services for all $10,000.00 |
http://www.allianceforcommunityservices.org 2013 Spring Community Organizing |
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Alliance for Fair Food Immokalee, Florida, United States |
Growing and strengthening the ally network of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and building upon the successes of the Campaign for Fair Food to work for justice for farmworkers nationwide $10,000.00 |
http://www.allianceforfairfood.org 2014 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Alliance for GLBTQ Youth Miami, FL |
Creation of countrywide youth council for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth $8,740.00 |
http://www.glbtqalliance.com 2009 Fall Community Organizing |
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Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA) Berkeley, CA |
Solidarity Summer project for South Asian youth $4,000.00 |
http://asata.org 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Allied Media Projects Toledo, OH |
Annual conference for independent journalists $3,500.00 |
http://myspace.com/aliciadara 2006 Spring Community Organizing |
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Allyship Seattle, WA |
Building leadership in Seattle LGBTQ community $5,000.00 |
http://lgbtqallyship.org 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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alQaws Jerusalem, N/A, Palestine/Israel |
With the help of young video artists and animators, alQaws will produce music videos from our social change initiative, Ghanni A’an Ta’arif / “Singing Sexuality” (www.ghanni.net),using them to develop educational activities and content we provide to partner civil society organizations. $10,000.00 |
http://www.alqaws.org 2014 Spring Education, Music |
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Alwan for the Arts New York, NY |
Professional-led community workshops on Middle Eastern music $4,500.00 |
http://alwanforthearts.org 2005 Fall Music |
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Alwan Foundation for the Arts New York, NY |
Sacred Music Festival concert recordings and album production $10,000.00 |
http://alwanforthearts.org 2010 Fall Music |
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American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem Darien, CT |
Drama project in Ramallah $9,900.00 |
http://afedj.org 2011 Year End Community Organizing |
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American Radio Choir New York, NY |
"Music of the New World" program $5,000.00 |
http://americanradiochoir.org 2006 Fall Music |
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Amistad Law Project Philadelphia, PA, USA |
Co-creation of an organizing training by incarcerated and outside organizers to inform the family members and loved ones of people serving life without parole sentences of the current movement and political landscape, and teach them basic and intermediate organizing skills. $13,753.00 |
http://amistadlaw.org 2015 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Amy LaCour Oakland , CA, United States |
Any Place But Here is a song cycle, composed for alto voice and string quartet, and using African American poetry as lyric, that tells the story of a fictional African American man leaving the rural South and heading to an unnamed city during the years of the Great Migration. $10,000.00 |
http://www.amylacour.com 2015 Fall Music |
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Andolan-South Asian Workers Organizing New York, NY |
Community organizer to unite low-income South Asian workers $5,000.00 |
http://andolan.net 2004 Fall Community Organizing |
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API Equality-Northern California San Francisco, California, United States |
Deepening connections with Asian Pacific Islander communities of faith to promote cultural change and community acceptance of LGBTQ people. $4,730.00 |
http://norcal.apiequality.org 2013 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Arab American Action Network Chicago, IL |
Training and empowerment for Arab American youth to fight oppression, profiling and discrimination $10,000.00 |
http://aaan.org/ 2006 Fall Community Organizing |
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Arab American Action Network Chicago, IL |
Coalition to protect Peoples' Rights project $10,000.00 |
http://aaan.org 2011 Spring Music, Community Organizing |
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Arab Women in the Center Neve Shalom, Israel |
Outreach material for Arab women organizing against domestic violence in mixed Israeli cities $7,000.00 |
2009 Fall Community Organizing |
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Arctic Angels Youth Poetry Workshop Anchorage, AK |
Poetry workshops for at-risk youth in Alaska $5,000.00 |
http://blackfeatherpoets.org/ 2008 Fall Education, Community Organizing |
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Arizona Literacy and Learning Phoenix, AZ |
Summer reading camp for pre-kindergartners and kindergartners $6,000.00 |
http://azliteracy.com 2009 Fall Education |
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Art Forces San Francisco, California, United States |
MAIA Media Project creates a globally accessible multimedia archive on access to water, based on a year of media education workshops offered in partnership with Palestine's EWASH: Emergency Water Sanitation Hygiene in the Gaza Strip and West Bank and the International Indian Treaty Council in the US $15,000.00 |
http://www.artforces.org 2014 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Artek New York, NY |
General support $1,000.00 |
http://artekearlymusic.org 2011 Year End Music |
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Arts at St. Ann's Brooklyn, NY |
Commissioning of new music theatre work by Stephin Merritt based on the Children's story, Coraline $3,000.00 |
http://stannswarehouse.org 2004 Spring Music |
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Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Trans Community Oakland, California, USA |
Dragon Fruit is an intergenerational oral history project that explores queer Asian Pacific Islanders and their experiences with love and activism from the 60s-90s. These stories are transformed into art and information and shared widely using a process that bridges generations of community members. $10,000.00 |
http://www.apiqwtc.org 2014 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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ASWAT Haifa, Israel |
Grassroots lesbian organizing in Palestine $5,000.00 |
http://aswatgroup.org 2004 Spring Community Organizing |
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Atlanta Music Project, Inc. Atlanta, GA |
start up general support $6,200.00 |
http://atlantamusicproject.org 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Atlas:DIY New York, NY |
Cooperative center for immigrant youth and allies $9,500.00 |
http://findingatlas.wordpress.com/ 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition Austin, TX |
Developing membership base $8,000.00 |
http://austinirc.org 2008 Spring Community Organizing |
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AWAAM (Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media) Brooklyn, NY |
Summer program in community organizing, anti-oppression, art and media skills for young, primarily low-income Arab women $1,200.00 |
http://awaam.org 2004 Spring Community Organizing |
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B'tselem Washington, DC |
General support $2,500.00 |
http://btselem.org/usa 2010 Year End Community Organizing |
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Backstreet Cultural Museum New Orleans, LA |
oral history project about preserving the New Orleans jazz funeral tradition $5,000.00 |
http://www.backstreetmuseum.org 2010 Fall Music, Community Organizing |