2008 Leadership Development Grants
AFRICAN REFUGE
185 Park Hill Avenue, LB, Staten Island, NY 10304
$7,500 to attend the Columbia University Business School Institute for Non-Profit Management Executive Leadership Training program.
FAMILIES FOR FREEDOM
3 West 29th Street, #1030, New York, NY 10001
$7,500 to develop the speaker's bureau training program to train members in deportation knowledge and public speaking skills.
LA UNION DE LA COMUNIDAD LATINA
621 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
$10,000 to begin the Member-Organizer Apprentice Program.
MIRABAL SISTERS CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER
618 West 142nd Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10031-6619
$10,000 to hire a part-time community organizer to expand its work in affordable housing and tenant organizing in the Upper Manhattan neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood.
MISION SAN JUAN BAUTISTA
948 East 156th Street, Bronx, NY 10455
$10,000 to promote program staff and provide them with training and support.
PEOPLE'S PRODUCTION HOUSE
265 Canal Street, Room 410, New York, NY 10013
$10,000 to support an Education and Youth Development Specialist for Radio Rootz.
SAUTI YETU CENTER FOR AFRICAN WOMEN
PO Box 3112, New York, NY 10163
$7,500 to hire an intern to work on Sauti Yetu's girls program.
SOUTHWEST BROOKLYN CONGREGATIONS
890 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11226
$10,000 to promote two existing part-time staff people to full-time positions of deputy director and fund development coordinator.
UNITED CHINESE ASSOCIATION OF BROOKLYN
6625 Bay Parkway, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11204
$10,000 for salary support and leadership development of the Program Manager position.
VAMOS UNIDOS
2284 Second Avenue, #5A, New York, NY 10035
$10,000 to hire a volunteer as a second staff member to provide organizing and administrative support.
WELFARE RIGHTS INITIATIVE
c/o Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue, Room E1029, New York, NY 10021
$7,500 to support a full-time coordinator of the High School organizing project.
YOUNG KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE & EDUCATION CENTER
136-19 41st Avenue, 3rd Floor, Flushing, NY 11355
$10,000 to hire a volunteer of YKASEC as the Youth Program Coordinator for its Youth Empowerment Project.
