| Special Grants (Fall 2007) |
Full list of Fall 2007 grants Download full list of Fall 2007 grant descriptions |
| Partnership Grants | |
| Community Foundation for the National Capital Region Washington, DC |
$2,500 |
| Neighborhood Funders Group Washington, DC |
$2,000 |
| Social Justice Infrastructure Funders Group New York, NY |
$5,000 |
| Rapid Response Fund | |
| BRAC USA New York, NY |
$10,000 |
| San Diego Foundation for Change San Diego, CA |
$10,000 |
| Post-Katrina Initiative | |
| Gulf Coast Funders for Equity Columbia, MD |
$10,000 |
| Louisiana Disaster Recovery Fund Baton Rouge, LA |
$6,000 |
| Louisiana Justice Institute New Orleans, LA |
$10,000 |
| Louisiana Justice Institute New Orleans, LA |
$7,000 |
| New Orleans Survivor’s Council New Orleans, LA |
$10,000 |
| Other Grants | |
| Trinity MOPS Inclusive Pre-School Alexandria, VA |
$15,000 |
| Opportunity Fund Grants | |
| Baltimore Algebra Project Baltimore, MD |
$4,000 |
| Carolina for Fair Employment Hartsville, South Carolina |
$4,000 |
| Community Voices Heard New York, NY |
$3,000 |
| Concerned Citizens for a Better Tunica County Tunica, MS |
$3,500 |
| DC Jobs with Justice Washington, DC |
$3,500 |
| Facilitating Leadership in Youth Washington, DC |
$4,000 |
| Georgia Citizen’s Coalition on Hunger Atlanta, GA |
$3,000 |
| Honor the Earth Minneapolis, MN |
$3,000 |
| Miami Workers Center Miami, FL |
$5,000 |
| Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Bronx, NY |
$3,000 |
| ONE DC Washington, DC |
$2,000 |
| People Organized to Win Employment Rights San Francisco, CA |
$3,000 |
| Tenants & Workers United Washington, DC |
$2,000 |
| Capacity Building Grants | |
| Black Mesa Water Coalition Flagstaff, AZ |
$5,000 |
| CASA de Maryland Takoma Park, MD |
$5,000 |
| Center for Community Change Washington, DC |
$5,000 |
| Empower DC Washington, DC |
$5,000 |
| Families United for Racial and Economic Equality New York, NY |
$5,000 |
| Grassroots Organizing Mexico, MS |
$5,000 |
| InnerCity Struggle Los Angeles, CA |
$4,000 |
| Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance Jackson, MS |
$2,640 |
| School of Unity and Liberation Oakland, CA |
$5,000 |
| Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition Nashville, TN |
$5,000 |
| Youth Education Alliance Washington, DC |
$5,000 |
| Board Discretionary | |
| Autism Speaks New York, NY |
$1,250 |
| Central Asia Institute Bozeman, MT |
$2,000 |
| Collegiate Directions Bethesda, MD |
$26,667 |
| Community Foundation for the National Capital Region Washington, DC |
$10,000 |
| Community Resource Center Jackson, Wyoming |
$12,500 |
| DC Preparatory School Washington, DC |
$5,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders New York, NY |
$1,000 |
| Duke University Durham, NC |
$1,000 |
| Duke University Durham, NC |
$5,000 |
| Duke University Durham, NC |
$5,000 |
| Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy Oakland, CA |
$5,000 |
| Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network New York, NY |
$5,000 |
| Global Fund for Women San Francisco, CA |
$100 |
| Global Fund for Women San Francisco, CA |
$70 |
| Ms. Foundation for Women New York, NY |
$10,000 |
| National Cathedral School Washington, DC |
$1,000 |
| National Cathedral School Washington, DC |
$5,000 |
| National Cathedral School Washington, DC |
$10,000 |
| New York Women’s Foundation New York, NY |
$440 |
| New York Women’s Foundation New York, NY |
$400 |
| Primary Stages New York, NY |
$5,000 |
| Scott Hazelcorn Memorial Children’s Foundation Berkeley Heights, NJ |
$1,000 |
| SEVA Foundation Berkeley, CA |
$1,000 |
| SEVA Foundation Berkeley, CA |
$1,500 |
| Stanford University Stanford, CA |
$5,000 |
| Stanford University Stanford, CA |
$5,000 |
| St. Alban’s School Washington, DC |
$1,000 |
| The Black Student Fund Washington, DC |
$8,333 |
| The Fortune Society New York, NY |
$5,000 |
| The Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Community Center New York, NY |
$5,000 |
| Trinity MOPS Inclusive Preschool Classroom Alexandria, VA |
$17,000 |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL |
$1,000 |
| University of Virginia Law School Foundation Charlottesville, VA |
$1,500 |
| Whit Press Seattle, WA |
$10,000 |
| Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts Vienna, VA |
$1,250 |
| Wyoming Women's Foundation Laramie, WY |
$1,000 |
| Wyoming Women's Foundation Laramie, WY |
$1,000 |
| Employee Matching | |
| Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy San Francisco, CA |
$200 |
| Battered Women’s Resource Center Brooklyn, NY |
$160 |
| Cate School Carpinteria, CA |
$300 |
| Families for Freedom New York, NY |
$100 |
| Global Fund for Women San Francisco, CA |
$100 |
| Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training Oakland, CA |
$50 |
| Jewish Fund for Justice New York, NY |
$72 |
| Legacies of War New York, NY |
$100 |
| Louisiana Justice Institute New Orleans, LA |
$2,000 |
| New York Women’s Foundation New York, NY |
$200 |
| Oakland Food Connection Oakland, CA |
$500 |
| Oxfam America Boston, MA |
$1000 |
| Picture the Homeless Bronx, NY |
$100 |
| Ron Burton Training Village Framingham, MA |
$500 |
| South Africa Development Fund Boston, MA |
$100 |
| South Asian Youth Action Elmhurst, NY |
$500 |
| US Campaign for Burma Washington, DC |
$120 |
| Total Special Grants Fall 2007 | $369,252 |
Partnership Grants
Community Foundation for the National Capital Region: HSF made a $2,500 grant to the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region in support of the Black Philanthropic Fund.
Contact: Lee Christian Parker, Program Officer, 1201 15th Street N.W., Suite 420, Washington, DC 20005 (202) 263-4762.
http://www.cfncr.org/
Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG): HSF made a $2,000 grant to NFG in support of the Working Group on Labor and Community.
Contact: Spence Limbocker, Executive Director, 1301 Connecticut Ave., Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036 (202) 833-4690
http://www.nfg.org/
Social Justice Infrastructure Funders Group (SJIF): HSF made a $5,000 grant to support SJIF’s work to foster shared learning, strategic analysis, and complementary grantmaking activities among staff from progressive foundations.
Contact: Stephanie Linden Seale, Program Associate, c/o Jewish Funds for Justice, 330 Seventh Ave., Suite 1902, New York, NY 10001 (212) 213-2113
http://www.jewishjustice.org/
Rapid Response Grant
BRAC USA: HSF made a $10,000 grant for emergency relief and recovery efforts in Bangladesh following cyclone Sidr in November 2007
http://www.brac.net/usa/index.php
San Diego Foundation for Change: HSF made a $10,000 grant for the Fires 2007 Fund, a re-granting efforts to support community based organizations assisting low income residents displaced by the wildfires in October 2007.
http://www.foundation4change.org/
Post-Katrina Initiative
Soon after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, the Hill Snowdon Foundation awarded grants totaling $20,000 to two organization supporting relief efforts: ACORN Katrina Survivor’s Association and the Southern Partner’s Fund for Katrina Relief & Reconstruction. Last year, in response to the ongoing needs, slow pace of recovery and lack of equitable reconstruction in the region, the HSF board approved a recommendation to allocate $50,000 from the 2007 Grants budget toward an initiative supporting post-Katrina reconstruction in the Gulf Coast. A total of $46,000 has been awarded to the following organizations:
- Gulf Coast Funders for Equity: HSF made a $10,000 grant in partnership to promote equitable rebuilding along the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast.
- Louisiana Disaster Recovery Fund. HSF made a $6,000 grant to support the Louisiana Organizers Renewal Award (LORA) which provides up to $3,000 to an individual organizer for relief and respite.
- Louisiana Justice Institute: HSF made a $10,000 planning grant to this new organization that aims to provide statewide, systemic legal advocacy on behalf of impoverished communities and communities of color, focusing on issues of voting rights and civic engagement, public education, housing, workers rights, healthcare and criminal justice.
- Louisiana Justice Institute: HSF made a $7,000 grant to support their work to block the demolition of public housing in New Orleans.
- New Orleans Survivor’s Council: HSF made a $10,000 grant to support grassroots leadership training for mostly low income African American public housing residents to have a say in reconstruction plans and fight for the right to return for all residents.
Other Grants
Trinity MOPS Inclusive Pre-School: In 2006, HSF made a $25,000 general support grant to Trinity MOPS, a non-profit community pre-school in Alexandra, Virginia that operates an after-school educational enhancement program for children with development delays and typically developing children to learn side by side. Teachers and therapists co-facilitate large and small group learning activities in the program, now entering its third academic year. Every activity is design to elicit language from all of the children.
Opportunity Fund Grants
Baltimore Algebra Project: HSF made a $4,000 grant to the Baltimore Algebra Project to support their members’ participation in the Free Minds, Free People Conference, sponsored by the Education for Liberation Network.
Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment: HSF made a $4,000 to emergency grant to help CAFÉ recover from water damage to their offices and move to a new space.
Community Voices Heard (CVH): HSF made a $3,000 grant to CVH to provide transportation and lodging for members to participate in the US Social Forum.
Concerned Citizens for a Better Tunica County: HSF made a $3,000 grant to support Concerned Citizens’ youth and staff in participating in the US Social Forum.
DC Jobs with Justice: HSF made a $3,500 grant to DC Jobs with Justice in support of their members’ participation in the US Social Forum.
Facilitating Leadership in Youth: HSF made a $5,000 grant to Facilitating Leadership in Youth to devise a plan for increasing resident involvement in planning for the economic development of third New Communities Initiative site, e.g., Barry Farm, Park Chester and Wade Road.
Georgia Citizens' Coalition on Hunger: HSF made a $3,000 grant to Georgia Citizens’ Coalition on Hunger to provide transportation and lodging for a contingent of leaders from Georgia to attend the US Social Forum.
Honor the Earth: HSF made a $3,000 grant to Honor the Earth to provideairfare for the trainers and youth participants in the training regarding renewable energy held at the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation.
Miami Workers Center: HSF made a $5,000 grant to subsidize travel expenses to the US Social Forum for a delegation of social justice activists from southern Florida.
Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition: HSF made a $3,000 grant to support their youth members’ participation in the Free Minds, Free People Conference, sponsored by the Education for Liberation Network.
ONE DC: HSF made a $2,000 grant to ONE DC to support members’ participation in the US Social Forum.
People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER): HSF made a $3,000 grant to support POWERS’ participation in the US Social Forum..
Tenants & Workers United (TWU): HSF made a $2,000 grant to TWU to support members’ participation in the US Social Forum.
Capacity Building Grants
Black Mesa Water Coalition: HSF made a $5,000 to Black Mesa Water Coalition to support a convening of their Just Transition Coalition partners who are working to challenge the nuclear, oil and coal industries by encourage environmentally friendly and culturally appropriate business entrepreneurship among Native peoples.
CASA de Maryland: HSF made a $5,000 grant to CASA de Maryland to strengthen their organizational infrastructure in the areas of performance evaluation staff training and development, campaign development and program implementation.
Center for Community Change: HSF made a $5,000 grant to support youth participation in a convening of partners in the Fair Immigration Reform Movement.
Empower DC: HSF made a $5,000 grant to Empower DC to purchase data management software and train staff in operating the new system.
Families United for Racial and Economic Equality: HSF made a $5,000 grant to support technology training for staff and members.
Grassroots Organizing: HSF made a $5,000 for GRO to launch a member-directed financial education service.
InnerCity Struggle (ICS): HSF made a $4,000 grant for InnerCity Struggle to strengthen ICS’ organizational infrastructure in the areas of staff training and development, campaign development and program implementation.
Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance (MIRA): HSF made a $2,640 grant to provide a MIRA staff attorney with Spanish language training.
School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL): HSF made a $5,000 grant to support their executive leadership transition process.
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC): HSF made a $5,000 to enable TIRRC to provide low-income coalition members with travel support to the Southeast Regional Conference on Immigrants' Rights.
Youth Education Alliance (YEA): HSF made a $5,000 grant to YEA for a website upgrade which enhances their grassroots organizing capacity.
Board of Trustees Discretionary Grants
Each Hill-Snowdon Foundation Trustee has a designated amount for awarding discretionary grants each year. These grants are typically made in the personal interests of each board member and are therefore outside of the Hill-Snowdon Foundation’s regular program areas. Unsolicited applications for these grants are not accepted.
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