2008 Organizers' Expense Account Grants
ADHIKAAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
39-06 62nd Street, Office BL, Woodside, NY 11377
$1,080 to attend the "Nepali Women Building Bridges: Advocacy, Collaborations, and Research" conference.
BROOKLYN CONGREGATIONS UNITED
890 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11226
$3,300 to send Brooklyn PICO members to a national Leadership Development Training session in Louisiana in January 2008.
CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE IN SUNSET PARK
345 43rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232
$500 to train 60 members on the potential of worker-owner cooperative business in immigrant communities and share strategies for organizing and managing cooperative businesses.
$500 for travel to a three-day Cooperative Movement Forum from August 18 to August 21.
COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD
115 East 106th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10029
$1,500 to send a leader and staff person to the Americas Social Forum in Guatemala as part of a Grassroots Global Justice delegation.
DOMESTIC WORKERS UNITED
2473 Valentine Avenue, Bronx, NY 10458
$2,000 for the National Domestic Workers Congress meeting.
FAMILIES FOR FREEDOM
3 West 29th Street, #1030, New York, NY 10001
$758 to send one staff and one member to Critical Resistance 10, a national conference that brings together organizations fighting to abolish the prison industrial complex.
$2,000 For an organizer's expense account grant to fund an FFF youth retreat.
FAMILIES UNITED FOR RACIAL AND ECONOMIC EQUALITY
81 Willoughby Street, #701, Brooklyn, NY 11201
$500 for childcare for a member planning meeting.
FLANBWAYAN HAITIAN LITERACY PROJECT
504 Hancock Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233
$1,970 to attend the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights national conference that will take place January 18-20, 2008 in Houston, Texas.
HOUSING HERE & NOW
2-4 Nevins Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11217
$500 to support transportation costs to mobilize members for a rally in Albany.
JEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE
135 West 29th Street, Suite 600, New York, NY 10001
$1,460 for travel to the Grassroots Fundraising for Social Change conference in San Francisco July 25-26, 2008.
MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE IN EL BARRIO
125 East 105th Street, New York, NY 10029
$2,000 for a leadership retreat.
NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS
443 39th Street, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11232
$500 to provide childcare and refreshments during its Tenants' Rights Workshops and ongoing leadership development events.
NEW YORK CITY ALLIANCE AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT
27 Christopher Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10014
$2,000 for travel to the Grassroots Fundraising for Social Change conference in San Francisco July 25 - 26, 2008.
NEW YORK CITY ALLIANCE AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT
27 Christopher Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10014
$500 to pay for ASL interpreters for an upcoming strategic planning meeting.
NORTHERN MANHATTAN COALITION FOR IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS
665 West 182nd Street, 1st Floor, New York, NY 10033
$1,767 to attend the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities 5th Annual Leadership Assembly in Washington DC.
OCEAN BAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
434 Beach 54th Street, Ground Floor, Arverne, NY 11692
$500 support for postage, refreshments, and the printing of flyers announcing monthly meetings.
QUEENS CONGREGATIONS UNITED FOR ACTION
103-04 39th Avenue, #105, Corona, NY 11368
$500 incidental expenses for an organizing retreat.
RED HOOK INITIATIVE
595 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
$1,693 to cover travel expenses to the National People's Action (NPA) conference in Washington, DC from April 12-14, 2008.
VAMOS UNIDOS
2284 Second Avenue, #5A, New York, NY 10035
$1,157 to attend the Raising Change conference in San Francisco, CA.
VOCES LATINAS
43-22 50th Street, Suite 2E, Woodside, NY 11377
$2,000 to present a workshop at the 6th Annual National Promotora Conference in Burbank, California.
$500 to attend the Latino Commission on AIDS Reunion Latina Conference.
