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ACORN Living Wage Resource Center provides grassroots living and minimum wage coalitions with research, policy and strategic organizing advice to build capacity and connect organizing efforts to the broader struggle for economic justice and worker’s rights. HSF made a $20,000 general support renewal grant to the ACORN Living Wage Resource Center to advance a new focus on paid sick days, provide support to organizing efforts to enhance new federal minimum wage law so that it indexed to inflation and  continue working on  traditional living wage and minimum wage ballot campaigns.
Contact: Jen Kern, Director, 739 8th Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003 (202) 547-2500
http:///www.livingwagecampaign.org
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Atlanta Jobs with Justice is a coalition of labor unions, community groups, faith based organizations and student groups that chartered in 2003 with the purpose to help low- to no-wage workers in metropolitan Atlanta. HSF made a $20,000 general support renewal grant to Atlanta Jobs to launch new public sector organizing campaigns on public transportation, healthcare and education.
Contact: Terence Courtney, 542 Moreland Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30316(770) 361-0810
http://www.jwj.org/
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Domestic Workers United (DWU) organizes diverse immigrant women working as nannies, housekeepers and elderly caregivers in New York to raise the level of respect for domestic work, establish fair labor standards and help build a movement to end exploitation and oppression in general. HSF made a $25,000 general support renewal grant to DWU to build its membership base, advance its campaign for a statewide Bill of Rights for domestic workers, and continue the Justice for Exploited Workers Campaigns.
Contact: Ai-jen Poo, 2473 Valentine Avenue, Bronx, NY 10458 (718) 220-7391
http://www.domesticworkersunited.org
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Farm Labor Research Project/United Electrical Workers Association (FLOC/UE) are both labor unions working in North Carolina that are engaged in their respective campaigns to win better wages and work conditions for migrant farmworkers, who are mostly Latino, and public sector employees, who are mainly African American.  HSF made a $20,000 grant to support FLOC and UE’s work together to strengthen relationships between their diverse memberships and build alliances between Latino immigrants and African American workers in the state to challenge ‘Right to Work’ policies that bar both farmworkers and public sector employees from collective bargaining. 
Contact:  Leticia Zavala, Organizing Director, 4354 Hwy 117 South, Dudley NC 28333, (919) 731-4433
www.floc.com
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Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC) is a statewide network of over 50 member organizations that promotes fair treatment and policies for Florida’s immigrants. HSF made a $20,000 renewal grant to FLIC to support its transition into developing organizing and worker justice campaigns.
Contact: Maria Rodriguez, Director, 3000 Biscayne Blvd. #400, Miami, FL 33173
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Garment Workers Center (GWC) seeks to support and empower garment workers and other low-wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles.  HSF made a $20,000 general support renewal grant of to build a stronger base of organized garment workers who can advocate for economic security on their own behalf and hold retailers, manufacturers and contractors responsible for working conditions.
Contact:  Kimi Lee, Director, 1250 S. Los Angeles St., #213, Los Angeles, CA 90015, (213) 748-5866
http://www.garmentworkercenter.org
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Koreatown Immigrant Workers’ Advocates (KIWA) empowers low-wage Korean and Latino workers in Los Angeles’ Koreatown community through improving workplace conditions and educating the broader community about workers’ plights.  HSF made a $20,000 general support renewal grant to KIWA to monitor their supermarket living wage victory throughout Koreatown’s low-wage industries, and to develop a new campaign,  most likely on anti-displacement and accountable development.
Contact:  Danny Park, Executive Director, 3465 W. 8th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90005, (213) 738-9050
http://www.kiwa.org
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Louisiana ACORN is a membership based organization of low to moderate income families that seeks to ensure an equitable reconstruction of the hurricane-affected state.  HSF made a $25,000 general support renewal grant to Louisiana ACORN to organize toward the equitable and accountable rebuilding, particularly of New Orleans, and to ensure active civic participation by residents at all levels of the political process. 
Contact: Tanya Harris , Head Organizer, 1024 Elysian Fields Ave., New Orleans, LA 70117 (504) 943-0044
http://www.acorn.org
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Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA) works to guarantee the human rights of immigrants and all workers in Mississippi through organizing, advocacy and public education. HSF made a $20,000 general support renewal grant toward supporting worker run and led organizing throughout the Katrina recovery area in south Mississippi and the Gulf Coast, to recoup back wages due immigrant workers, improve work conditions, fight anti-immigrant legislation and to begin identifying other community concerns.
Contact: Bill Chandler, Executive Director, 612 N. State Street Suite B, Jackson, Mississippi 39202 (601) 968-5182
http://www.yourmira.org/ 
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National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) is a national coalition of over 35 member organizations that work with day laborers in different capacities in order to improve the lives and work conditions of these mostly immigrant workers.  HSF made a $30,000 general support renewal grant to help NDLON advance worker leadership, civil and human rights in the workplace and to fight against anti-day labor and anti-immigrant ordinances and policies at the local, state and national level; as well as furthering its new partnership with the AFL-CIO and other labor unions to build strategic alliances between worker members and ensure fair and safe work conditions and wages.
Contact: Pablo Alvarado, National Coordinator, 675 S. Park View St. Suite Base, Los Angeles, CA 90057, (213) 380-2784
http://www.ndlon.org
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PICO Louisiana Interfaith Together (LIFT) is the Louisiana state project of the PICO National Network, a faith-based organizing network working to increase access to health care, improve public schools, make neighborhoods safer, build affordable housing, redevelop communities and revitalize democracy. HSF made a $25,000 general support renewal grant to help Louisiana’s displaced residents return, rebuild, and transform the state’s power structure to protect and benefit all people.
Contact: Jennifer Jones-Bridgett, Executive Director, 4550 North Boulevard, Suite 207, Baton Rouge, LA 70806 (225) 248-9595
http://www.picolouisiana.org
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Power U Center for Social Change organizes and empowers low-income communities of color fighting for environmental, economic and social justice in Miami-Dade County. HSF made a $20,000 general support renewal grant to conduct leadership development and political education for youth and adult members, develop and implement a new tenant organizing initiative,and build community participation toward challenging the decline of affordable housing stock in the county.
Contact: Denise Perry, Director, 1633 NW 3rd Avenue, Miami, FL 33136 (305) 576-7449
http://www.poweru.org
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Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) was formed in New York City in 2001 by former employees of the Windows on the World at the World Trade Center, to provide support and win improvements for restaurant workers in New York City.  Since then it has raised standards and wages in the fine dining restaurant business in NYC by exposing abusive practices and has also opened a worker-owned cooperative restaurant to showcase best practices in the industry.  Last year ROC was asked to begin organizing restaurant workers in New Orleans. HSF made a $10,000 planning grant to enable ROC to establish a chapter, recruit and educate members and starting building a base of leaders who can identify and launch campaigns to improve wages and work conditions for the city’s restaurant and hospitality workers. 
Contact: Saru Jayaraman, Co-Director, 275 Seventh Avenue, 17th fl, NY NY, 10001; (212) 343-1771
www.rocny.org
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Tennessee Immigrant and Refuge Rights Coalition (TIRRC) is a statewide immigrant and refugee-led coalition of more than 40 groups whose mission is to develop a unified voice, defend the rights of all immigrants and refugees, and create an atmosphere in which they are viewed as positive contributors to the state. HSF made a $20,000 renewal grant to expand TIRCC’s Immigrant Freedom Schools, hold Know-your-rights trainings for immigrant workers and develop their leadership skills, and launch at least one significant local workers’ rights campaign. 
Contact: David Lubell, State Director, 442 Metroplex Drive Building D Suite 118, Nashville, TN 37211 (615) 833-0384
ttp://www.tnimmigrant.org
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WeCount! is a resident-led, multiethnic organization working to achieve social and economic justice in the Deep South Dade area of Florida through public education, leadership development, and direct action organizing. HSF made a $20,000 general support renewal grant to  increase immigrant workers’ ability to defend their rights and develop a multi-generational model for youth and adult organizing to hold public schools accountable for equitable, quality education for all students.
Contact: Jonathan Fried, Executive Director, Florida City, FL 33034 (305) 281-9377
http://www.we-count.org/
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