Race and Place Grantees
All of Us or None
$ 50,000
All of Us Or None is a national organizing initiative of prisoners, former prisoners and felons combating the many forms of discrimination they face as the result of felony convictions. It is a project of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, an organization advocating for the human rights and empowerment of incarcerated parents, children, family members and people at risk for incarceration. Their focus is on prisoners, former prisoners and their families, and they emphasize that issues of race are central to any discussion of incarceration.
http://www.allofusornone.org/
Arab Resource and Organizing Center
(formerly the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee)
$ 52,500
The Arab Resource and Organizing Center has been working for nearly 20 years to address the longstanding patterns of racism and discrimination against people of Arab descent. This community-based civil rights organization is helping the Bay Area Arab-American community respond to increased racial profiling, discriminatory and anti-immigration policies, hate crimes and pervasive and dehumanizing stereotyping.
http://www.araborganizing.org/
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
$ 40,000
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) empowers low-income Asian immigrant women workers with limited English to stimulate positive changes in their workplaces, communities and broader society. AIWA provides women with education, leadership development and opportunities for collective action, so that they can fight for dignity and justice in their working and living conditions.
http://www.aiwa.org
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
$ 140,000
Since 1993, the Asian Pacific Environmental Network has worked to create a world where all people - regardless of immigration status, race or class - have clean healthy environments to live, work and play. They work for a world where a decent quality of life is a reality and where people have an authentic say in how their communities are developed.
www.apen4ej.org/
Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership
$ 45,000
Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership (AYPAL) is an Oakland-based community collaborative empowering Asian and Pacific Islander youth with the skills and opportunity to institute self-identified systemic solutions to their most pressing issues.
http://aypal.org/
Black Men and Boys Initiative
$ 30,000
The Black Men and Boys Initiative (BMB) focuses on providing more support for issues affecting Black men and boys. It recognizes that while there are many good programs focused on service provision and self-empowerment, the intent of their effort is to look more closely at opportunities to address the root causes of these issues through community organizing, advocacy, and leadership development.
Californians for Justice Education Fund
$ 140,000
Californians for Justice (CFJ) is a statewide grassroots organization working for racial justice by building the power of communities that have been pushed to the margins of the political process. CFJ organizes youth, immigrants, low-income people and communities of color in order to improve their social, economic and political conditions.
www.caljustice.org/
Center for Young Women's Development
$ 40,000
The Center for Young Women's Development's (CYWD) empowers and inspires young women who have been involved with the juvenile justice system or the underground street economy to create a positive change in their lives and communities. CYWD promotes economic self-sufficiency, community safety, and youth advocacy by providing peer-run employment and leadership opportunities to low-income young women and girls.
www.cywd.org/
Communities for a Better Environment (CBE), East Oakland
$30,000
CBE works in Northern California at the local and regional level to build a powerful base of grassroots leaders and improve air quality, environmental health and quality of life. CBE organizes with community members, public officials, academics and allies through campaigns to fight for pollution prevention and reductions. CBE addresses the lack of information available to communities of color, which is a major barrier to addressing racial inequities and achieving environmental justice.
www.cbecal.org/
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
$ 50,000
The East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) advances economic equity for low-wage workers, immigrants and people of color in the East Bay region. EBASE is building a powerful local movement to end working poverty, using a unique combination of research, coalition building, policy advocacy, and leadership development.
www.workingeastbay.org
EastSide Arts Alliance
$ 130,000
EastSide Arts Alliance (ESAA) is a group of cultural workers of color who live and work in the Lower San Antonio neighborhood of East Oakland. ESAA's programs — including free art workshops for youth, public art projects, festivals, and community cultural events — are dedicated to strengthening grassroots communities and building bridges between the racially and ethnically diverse populations of Oakland.
http://www.eastsideartsalliance.com/
Ella Baker Center
$ 40,000
The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a strategy and action center working for justice, opportunity and peace in urban America. Based in Oakland, California, Ella Baker Center promotes positive alternatives to violence and incarceration with cutting-edge campaigns in four areas: juvenile justice reform, green-collar job creation, violence prevention, and police accountability.
www.ellabakercenter.org
Intertribal Friendship House (IFH)
$20,000
For over fifty years the IFH has served as the heart of the Bay Area Indian Community. It was established in 1955 to respond to the needs of American Indian people of many tribes who had migrated into the area through the Federal relocation program. IFH is grounded in an understanding of how racialized history, policies, and practices have lead to the near annihilation of Native people. It served as the meeting place and organizing center for American Indian activism of the 1960s and '70s including the occupation of Alcatraz, the initiation of The Longest Walk, and the creation of the AIM for freedom Survival School. The IFH recently began a collaboration with Critical Resistance to focus on issues of the prison industrial complex.
Just Cause Oakland
$ 47,000
Founded in 2000, Just Cause Oakland (JCO) is a membership-based organization building a powerful voice for Oakland's low-income tenants and workers. Their mission is to create a just and diverse city and region by organizing Oakland residents to advocate for housing and jobs as human rights, and to mobilize for policies that produce social and economic justice in low-income communities of color.
www.justcauseoakland.org
Justice Matters Institute
$ 25,000
Justice Matters aims to make schools racially just by developing and promoting education policy rooted in community vision. Education policy will promote racial justice in schools only if it is shaped by a powerful vision informed by low-income communities of color.
www.justicematters.org/
Leadership Excellence
$ 52,000
Leadership Excellence provides long-term, sequential development opportunities for children and youth ages 5-21. Leadership Excellence helps young people foster their cultural, social, spiritual, civic and global awareness.
www.leadershipexcellence.org
Movement Generation
$ 60,000
Movement Generation creates much needed spaces for young organizers to engage in long-term strategy development that will lead to pro-active policy change and grassroots organizing capable of shifting the balance of power towards a regional (and eventually statewide) agenda that prioritizes racial and economic justice for low-income people of color, women, and LGBT folks.
www.movemengeneration.org
Mujeres Unidas y Activas
$30,000
Mujeres Unidas y Activas provides a space where Latina immigrant women are able to develop their leadership skills and analysis of power, educate their peers about their rights, and take the lead in building coalitions for immigrant rights, domestic workers' rights, and women's rights in Oakland. Through their leadership development process, MUA members examine the racialized exploitation of labor.
http://www.mujeresunidas.net/
Oakland ACORN
$30,000
Oakland ACORN is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural grassroots community organization comprised of member families, mostly in the flatlands of East and West Oakland. ACORN members organize at the neighborhood level to build long-term, community based organizations dedicated to improving the lives of low and moderate income families through building power to bargain effectively for social and economic justice policies. They are comprised largely of working class African American, Latino and immigrant families located across twelve different neighborhoods and six out of eight council districts throughout East and West Oakland. ACORN’s campaigns seek to address inequities structured by race.
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=8714
Oakland Kid's First!
$ 57,000
Born in 1995 out of the coalition effort to pass Measure K, which set aside $72 million in new funding for children and youth services in Oakland, Kids First Oakland now houses a year-round, youth leadership development program called REAL HARD (Representing Educated Active Leaders - Having A Righteous Dream). REAL HARD has trained more than 1,000 high-school age leaders in organizing, participatory research, issue analysis, advocacy, and alliance building and won several multi-year, proactive, student-initiated campaigns that have improved the lives and educational outcomes of Oakland youth.
www.kidsfirstoakland.org
Partnership for Immigrant Leadership Action
$ 60,000
Partnership for Immigrant Leadership Action (PILA) aims to increase immigrant civic and political activism to strengthen democracy and advance social justice. PILA works to build effective grassroots leadership among low-income immigrants to secure basic human and civil rights like safe and affordable housing, workers rights, quality healthcare and education, and fair and humane immigration policy.
http://www.immigrantvoice.org/
People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights
$40,000
PODER is a grassroots, environmental justice organization based in San Francisco’s Mission District. PODER’s mission is to organize with Mission residents to work on local solutions to issues facing low income communities and communities of color. PODER believes that the community problems reflect racial and other injustices and must be addressed through the active participation of all people in decision-making processes.
http://www.podersf.org/
People Organized to Win Employment Rights
$40,000
People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) is a multi-racial organization of low-income workers and tenants that has been building economic and political power for working class people in San Francisco since 1997. POWER works to increase civic activism amongst working class people of color to advance economic and racial justice.
http://www.peopleorganized.org
Public Advocates
$ 50,000
Public Advocates challenges the systemic causes of poverty and discrimination by defending and expanding civil rights through advocacy, litigation, and partnership with low-income communities, people of color, and immigrants.
www.publicadvocates.org/
School of Unity and Liberation
$ 25,000
SOUL (School of Unity and Liberation) is a political education and training center for young people, a "school to build a movement." SOUL is laying the groundwork for a powerful liberation movement by supporting the development of a new generation of young organizers - especially young women, young people of color, queer youth and working-class young people.
www.youthec.org/soul/
St. Peter's Housing Committee
$ 40,000
Since 1985, St. Peter's Housing Committee has worked in the Mission district of San Francisco to help working class immigrant Latin@ tenants build collective power, preserve and expand affordable housing and immigrant rights, prevent displacement and improve living conditions in their. community. St. Peter's Housing Committee engages in tenant rights counseling, political organizing, movement-building, and the development of leadership within the communities it serves.
http://www.comitedevivienda.org
Urban Habitat
$ 50,000
Urban Habitat builds power in low-income communities and communities of color by combining education, advocacy, research and coalition-building to advance environmental, economic and social justice in the Bay Area. Urban Habitat is working for the day when everyone can live in economically and environmentally healthy neighborhoods.
www.urbanhabitat.org/
UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
$ 37,500
The UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education ( Labor Center) is a public service program of the University of California and the main institutional link between the University and unions and other community based labor organizations in California. These range from established unions to small, community based groups that represent immigrants, youth, low-income workers and other vulnerable members of our society. They strengthen these organizations with research, leadership training and technical assistance, and by linking them to talented students and faculty though collaborative programs and innovative pilot projects.
http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/
$ 50,000
Youth Movement Records (YMR) is a non-profit, youth-directed recording company and youth development project engaging youth through music, mentoring and entrepreneurship in order to reduce violence, develop skills and create community change. Based in Oakland, YMR involves high-risk youth as organizers, producers, performers, sound engineers, event promoters, graphic/web designers and grant developers.
www.youthmovementrecords.org
Youth Together
$ 140,000
Grounded in their commitment to unity, peace and justice, Youth Together addresses the root causes of educational inequities by developing multiracial youth organizers and engaging school and community allies to promote positive school change. Youth Together aims to change public schools into spaces where students, their families, and community members are key decision makers in their educational experience.
http://www.youthtogether.net/
"Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle."
- Malcolm X