2007 New Grants
ADDED VALUE
370 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
$42,500 for a community-based initiative to educate youth about food justice in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
AFRICAN HOPE COMMITTEE
441 Convent Avenue, Suite 4D, New York, NY 10031
$42,500 to provide health education, immigration and social support services to meet the needs of the African immigrant population in the New York metropolitan area.
ALLIANCE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION
94 Central Avenue, Albany, NY 12206
$42,500 to organize and empower parents, youth, and community organizations to hold the school system accountable for spending new funds secured through the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit.
ASSOCIATION FOR NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
50 Broad Street, Suite 1125, New York, NY 10004-2376
$42,500 support for Initiative for Neighborhood and City-Wide Organizing (INCO), a collaboration between ANHD and the Neighborhood Opportunities Fund to strengthen community organizing in underserved neighborhoods around New York City.
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE
at NYU School of Law, 161 Avenue of the Americas, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10013
$42,500 to improve the enforcement of employment and labor laws at the city and state levels, and to advocate for standards and accountability in New York City's economic development process.
CENTRO ALTAGRACIA DE FEY Y JUSTICIA
511 West 164th Street, New York, NY 10032
$42,500 to strengthen and expand the Social Justice Ministry Teams Program in the ten Catholic churches in northern Manhattan.
CHINESE STAFF AND WORKERS ASSOCIATION
P.O. Box 130401, New York, NY 10013-0995
$42,500 to develop a campaign for the education and organizing of immigrant food-delivery workers in Chinatown and Sunset Park.
COALITION OF INSTITUTIONALIZED AGED AND DISABLED
425 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010
$42,500 to increase adult home residents' organizing and leadership capacity to engage in campaigns to improve their quality of life.
COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY
49 West 45th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10036
$42,500 to support CSCS' transition to a statewide organization.
EMPIRE STATE HOUSING ALLIANCE
c/o Center for Community Change, 330 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1802, New York, NY 10001
$42,500 support for the Empire State Housing Alliance, which brings together organizations across New York State in an effort to advance an agenda that would meet upstate and downstate housing needs.
LA UNION DE LA COMUNIDAD LATINA
621 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
$42,500 to advance economic and social justice for low-wage immigrant workers in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
LATIN AMERICAN WORKERS PROJECT
1080 Willoughby Avenue, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11221
$42,500 to empower immigrant day laborers in their interaction with the job market, and to support their personal growth to ensure greater long-term self-sufficiency.
MANHATTAN LEGAL SERVICES
55 West 125th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10027
$42,500 for Stop Elder Evictions, a project to provide legal and advocacy services to elderly New Yorkers living in Community District 7.
MOSHOLU PRESERVATION
3400 Reservoir Oval East, Bronx, NY 10467
$42,500 to start a journalism program for high school students through three Bronx newspapers.
NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS
443 39th Street, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11232
$42,500 to support the tenant-organizing team to prevent displacement of low-income residents of Sunset Park.
NEIGHBORS TOGETHER
P.O. Box 330-562, 160 Thomas S. Boyland Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233
$42,500 to expand a program to train clients in advocacy and activism by establishing a full-time community-organizer position.
NEW YORK LAWYERS FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST
151 West 30th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10001-4007
$42,500 to work with communities to ensure that schools built on Brownfield sites are safe for the children who attend them.
NEW YORK STATE YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
137-139 West 25th Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10001-7277
$42,500 for a grassroots youth movement to improve access to higher education and create equal opportunity for immigrant youth.
PRISON FAMILIES COMMUNITY FORUM
PO Box 362, Bronx, NY 10461
$42,500 to provide support for incarcerated individuals and their families.
QUEENS CITIZENS ORGANIZATION
85-18 61st Road, Rego Park, NY 11374
$42,500 to provide advocacy and organizing support for new immigrant congregations in Queens.
QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE
108-25 62nd Drive, Forest Hills, NY 11375
$42,500 support for a community-organizing project to generate involvement and build a diverse participant base at the Pomonok Community Center in Flushing, Queens.
RED HOOK INITIATIVE
595 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
$42,500 to support community-organizing efforts in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
RIGHTRIDES FOR WOMEN'S SAFETY
25 Washington Street, Suite 612, Brooklyn, NY 11201
$42,500 to serve low-income, minority and at-risk communities by reducing the incidence of gender-based harassment and sexual assault.
SOUTHWEST BROOKLYN CONGREGATIONS
6713 Ridge Blvd., Brooklyn, NY 11220
$42,500 to support advocacy and community-organizing efforts in Bay Ridge and Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
VAMOS UNIDOS
2284 Second Avenue, #5A, New York, NY 10035
$42,500 support for a Bronx-based membership-led organization of low-income immigrant workers.
VOCES LATINAS
43-22 50th Street, Suite 2E, Woodside, NY 11377
$42,500 to mobilize immigrant Latinas living with HIV/AIDS and those at risk for HIV/AIDS to promote awareness of the crisis in Queens.
WELFARE RIGHTS INITIATIVE
c/o Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue, Room E1029, New York, NY 10021
$42,500 to expand WRI's youth advocacy and organizing project in New York City public schools, providing critical resources to low-income and welfare eligible high school students.
YOUNG KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE & EDUCATION CENTER
136-19 41st Avenue, 3rd Floor, Flushing, NY 11355
$42,500 to educate and mobilize the Chinese and Korean American communities in Flushing.
YOUTH REPRESENT
c/o CASES, 346 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013
$42,500 to provide criminal and civil legal representation, reentry services, policy advocacy, and social services to youth aged 23 and under who are or who have been involved in the juvenile justice system.
