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Baltimore Algebra Project: The Baltimore Algebra Project combines academic tutoring, networked student groups and civil disobedience in order to increase public awareness of both the causes and effects of the underfunding of Baltimore city schools. Several Baltimore City Circuit Court rulings affirm their advocacy and organizing activities aimed at securing the over $1 billion due Baltimore city schools from the State Department of Education. HSF provided a $15,000 grant award for their Advocacy Committee.
Contact: Jay Gillen, Executive Director, 1523 Lakeside Ave., Baltimore, MD 21218, (410) 243-4969
www.algebra.org
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Black Mesa Water Coalition: Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC) addresses issues of environmental and economic justice in the Black Mesa region. HSF provided a $15,000 grant to support its Youth in Sustainability Leadership Project and Just Transition Campaign,which create opportunities for local Indigenous youth to explore renewable energy, food justice and health issues with the ultimate goal being to develop a sustainable economic infrastructure for the Hopi Nation.
Contact: Enei Begaye, Executive Director, 408 E. Route 66, Suite #1., Flagstaff, AZ 86001, (928) 213-9760
www.blackmesawatercoalition.org
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California Fund for Youth Organizing (CFYO): CFYO is a collaborative, community-based grantmaking vehicle that promotes the civic engagement of youth in issues that impact them the most. HSF made a $35,000 grant to build the capacity and leadership of individual youth and organizations in Los Angeles, San Diego, and the Central Valley; strengthen the capacity of regional networks; and begin a strategic planning process.
Contact: Raquel Laviña, Coordinator, 1611 Telegraph Rd., Suite 510, Oakland, CA 94612, (510) 444-0640 ext. 324 California.Fund@gmail.com
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Californians for Justice (CFJ): CFJ is a statewide grassroots group that organizes youth and parents in low-income communities, communities of color and immigrant communities to lead and engage in campaigns for racial justice in California’s public education system. HSF provided a special one-time, 18-month grant of $52,500 to build a base of youth organizers, increase their youth development capacity and effectiveness and wage local and statewide campaigns on key education issues.
Contact: Solomon Rivera, Executive Director, 1611 Telegraph Rd., Suite 317, Oakland, CA 94612, (510) 452-2728
http://www.caljustice.org
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Citizens for a Better Greenville(CBG): CBG was founded in 2001 to address growing concerns about the school system, economic development and environmental concerns in the Mississippi Delta city of Greenville. HSF made a $25,000 grant to CBG to deepen the leadership capacity of parent and youth leaders working to address academic achievement, parental involvement, special education policies, and juvenile justice issues.
Contact: Joyce Parker, Executive Director, P.O. Box 5673, Greenville, MS 38701, (662) 332-4497
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Coleman Advocates for Youth: Coleman Advocates for Youth combines policy advocacy, community organizing, and leadership development to transform San Francisco’s services and policies to better benefit children, youth and working families. HSF made a $20,000 grant to Coleman Advocates for Youth for Youth Making a Change (Y-MAC), a multi-ethnic youth-led organizing program to build leadership and power for youth of color in San Francisco and for its new effort to build a multi-generational organizing structure within the organization.
Contact: N’Tanya Lee, 459 Vienna St., San Francisco, CA 94112 (415) 239-0106 http://www.colemanadvocates.org
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Concerned Citizens for a Better Tunica County/Tunica Teens in Action: The mission of Concerned Citizens for a BetterTunicaCounty is to empower the local African-American community by building an intergenerational organization, with leadership representing youth and adults from Tunica. HSF made a special one-time, 18-month grant of $45,000 to support efforts with community members and school board officials to inform the development of a 5-year educational improvement plan for TunicaCountySchool District, and continued participation in statewide and national coalitions aimed at decreasing the educational achievement gap in Mississippi. Contact: Melvin Young, Executive Director, P.O. Box 2249, 1028 Prichard Rd., Suite 201, Tunica, MS 38676, (662) 363-1228
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Facilitating Leadership in Youth (FLY): The mission of the FLY is to support youth East of the AnacostiaRiver in WashingtonDC to achieve their educational goals, develop their talents, and expand their leadership roles. HSF made a $20,000 grant to FLY in support of its continued campaign addressing police brutality in Southeast DC.
Contact: James Pearlstein, Director of Youth Leadership, 611 Pennsylvania Ave., SE #409, Washington, DC 20003, (202) 423-2124
http://www.flyouth.org
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FIERCE!: FIERCE! is a New York City-based youth/young adult-run, multi-racial community organizing project for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, two-spirited, or transgendered (LGBTST) youth, focusing on youth of color and homeless/low-income youth. HSF made a $25,000 general support grant to develop LGBT youth programming on the Christopher Street Pier, shift police practices toward LGBT youth of color in WestVillage, and increase their membership through leadership and political education skill building.
Contact: Bran Fenner, Co-Director, 437 West 16th St., Lower Level, New York, NY 10011, (646) 336-6789
http://www.fiercenyc.org
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Funders’ Collaborative for Youth Organizing (FCYO): FCYO is a collective of national, regional and local grantmakers and youth organizing practitioners dedicated to advancing youth organizing as a strategy for youth development and social transformation.
HSF made a special one-time, 18-month of $52,500 to launch ReGenerations: Leadership Transition in the Environmental Justice Movement, an initiative supporting and deepening knowledge about inter-generational environmental justice organizing groups, as a means of formulating lessons for sustaining the broader social justice movement.
Contact: Elisabeth Garrett, Executive Director, 183 Madison Avenue, Suite 919, New York, NY 10016 (212) 725-3386
http://www.fcyo.org
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Highlander Research and Education Center: The Highlander Research and EducationCenter is a residential popular education/training center for people of the South that brings community activists and leaders together to learn from each other and develop strategies for social change. HSF made a $25,000 grant to support Highlander’s youth organizing project, The Young and the Restless Program, that provides training to youth so they may engage in youth-led and cross-generational organizations working for social and economic justice in the South.
Contact: Tami Newman, Development Coordinator, 1959 Highlander Way, New Market, TN 37820, (865) 933-3443
http://www.highlandercenter.org
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Honor the Earth: Honor the Earth is a national fundraising, advocacy, and public education campaign whose mission is to create financial and political resources for grassroots Native environmental groups. HSF made a special one-time, 18-month grant of $52,500 to Honor the Earth’s Native youth organizing re-granting program that supports various reservation and non-reservation native youth programs throughout the continental United States.
Contact: Valerie Aas, Associate Director, 2104 Stevens Ave South, Minneapolis, MN 55404, (612) 879-7529
http://www.honorearth.org
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Inner-City Struggle/United Students: Inner-City Struggles’ youth component, United Students, works to improve the quality of education in East Los Angeles by engaging high school students in developing leadership skills to build student power for educational justice. HSF provided a special one-time, 18-month grant of $52,500 grant to support United Students to strengthen local chapters at four local high schools and four middle schools; work with administrators to improve policies that address disciple, attendance, academic achievement, and college matriculation rates; and better prepare student leaders to graduate and attend college.
Contact: Luis Sanchez, Executive Director, 2811 Whittier Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90023, (323) 780-7606
http://www.innercitystruggle.org
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Justice for DC Youth! Coalition (JDCY): JDCY is a coalition of youth, youth-led organizations, youth service providers, faith communities, artists and concerned residents working together to shift the District’s approach to juvenile justice from one that is largely reactionary, punitive warehousing to a pro-active continuum of care model in which after-school enrichment, jobs, and community-based alternatives are key components. HSF made a $20,000 grant to JDCY to provide leadership development opportunities for youth with ties to the juvenile justice system, build and maintain a community presence at juvenile justice facilities, and facilitate direct contact between youth and key policymakers.
Contact: Liz Ryan, Steering Committee Member, 1012 14th Street, NW, Suite 610, Washington, DC 20005
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Nollie’s Citizens for Quality Education (CQE): CQE’s primary objective is to enable the community in Holmes County, MS to make the political, economic, environmental, and education systems accountable to the needs and interests of the poor and African American youth and families in the region. HSF provided a special one-time, 18-month $45,000 general support grant to advocate for a “healthy schools” policy that demonstrates respect for the treatment of children and youth in Holmes County Public Schools, minimizes the number of youth entering the juvenile justice system, builds collaborative relationships between local child/youth-serving agencies, and engages children and youth in advocating on their own behalf.
Contact: Helen Johnson, Resource Developer, 109 Swinney Lane, Lexington, MS 39095, (662) 834-0080
http://www.citizensforqualityeducation.net
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Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC)/ Sistas and Brothas United (SBU): Sistas & Brothas United (SBU) Youth Leadership Program, an affiliate of the NWBCCC, is a grass-roots, membership-led organization of low- and moderate-income young people that organizes youth and their allies to reform the public education system and other community institutions. HSF made a special one-time, 18-month grant of $52,500 to SBU to improve the quality and quantity of high school guidance counselors in 3 area schools, secure tangible improvements in target schools, improve school safety and student-teacher relationships, and secure a permanent site for the Leadership Institute (a “small” public high school designed by SBU).
Contact: Mustafa Sullivan, SBU Youth Program Director, 103 East 196th St., Bronx, NY 10468, (718) 584-0515
http://www.nwbccc.net
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Padres Unidos (PU)/Jovenes Unidos (JU): The mission of Padres Unidos is to empower the Latino community to achieve equality and justice. HSF made a special one-time, 18-month grant of $37,500 to support PU’s youth initiative, Jovenes Unidos, to increase retention and graduation rates for students of color at North High School, advocate for the incorporation of base curriculum goals in the Denver Public School District, and establish restorative justice-based prevention and intervention programs in all public middle and high schools in Denver.
Contact: Pam Martinez, Co-Director, 3025 West 37th Avenue, Suite 209, Denver, CO 80211, (303) 458-6545
http://www.padresunidos.org
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Power U Center for Social Change: Power U organizers and empowers low-income communities of color fighting for environmental, economic and social justice in Miami-DadeCounty. HSF made a $20,000 grant for Power U Youth to increase youth representation on the Power U board, survey students regarding school disciple policies and practices, develop and distribute a report on the connections between school discipline and student displacement, and ultimately increase students’ access to learning.
Contact: Denise Perry, Director, 1633 NW 3rd Avenue, Miami, FL 33136 (305) 576-7449 http://www.poweru.org
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Project South: Project South is a leadership development organization based in the US South that creates spaces for movement building through popular and economic education. HSF made a $10,000 planning grant to Project South for the Youth Adult Alliance, a collaborative project with GeorgiaStateUniversity that seeks to promote inter-generational relationship building, increase the leadership role of youth in Atlanta area youth-serving organizations, and develop youth organizing campaigns.
Contact: William Corderly, 9 Gammon SW, Atlanta, GA 30315 (404) 622-0602 http://www.projectsouth.org
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School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL): SOUL’s mission is to serve as a training center to develop a new multi-racial generation of young community leaders who have the skills needed to build the movement for social justice. HSF made a special one-time, 18-month grant of $37,500 to SOUL to continue its youth training work, including the SOUL Summer School and National Youth Organizing Institute, and to complete a strategic plan.
Contact: Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan, Co-Director, 287-17th Street, Suite 225, Oakland, CA 94612, (510) 451-5466
http://www.schoolofunityandliberation.org
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Southern Californians for Youth: SoCal for Youth, founded in 1999, is a membership based youth organizing network whose vision is to create a strong multi-racial/multi-ethnic youth movement led by youth of color committed to social justice. HSF made a $25,000 general support grant to SoCal to increase communication between youth organizing groups in Los AngelesCounty, better coordinate trainings for representatives of member organizations, and strengthen the internal infrastructure and external campaigns of member organizations.
Contact: Nathan Thuan Nguyen, Director, 5610 Pacific Blvd., Suite 204, Huntington Park, CA 90255, (323) 581-3554
http://www.socal4youth.org
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Southern Echo: Southern Echo is a leadership education, training and development organization founded in 1989 and based in Jackson, Mississippi. HSF made a $25,000 general support grant to Southern Echo to work with its local affiliates to expand youth participation in the policy formation process at the local school district level particularly in areas where children are performing poorly on state standardized tests.
Contact: Leroy Johnson, Executive Director, P.O. Box 9306, Jackson, MS 39206, (601) 982-6400
http://www.southernecho.org
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Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice/Youth Leadership Development Campaign: The Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (SNEEJ) is a people of color, multi-issue, regional, bi-national organization comprising 57 grassroots community-based, native, labor, youth and student groups and organizations working for environmental and economic justice in the southwest and western U.S. and northern Mexico. HSF made a $20,000 grant to provide more youth members with learning and training experiences, better integrate youth into member organizations’ work, develop a popular education training manual from an intergenerational perspective, and increase employment opportunities in environmental justice work for young people.
Contact: Sylvia Ledesma, Resource Development Coordinator, P.O. Box 7399, Albuquerque, NM 87194, (505) 242-0416
http://www.sneej.org
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UPROSE/Youth Justice: UPROSE is an inter-generational organization dedicated to the empowerment of the Southwest Brooklyn community through campaigns for youth justice, environmental justice, and sustainable development. HSF made a special one-time, 18-month $37,500 grant to expand their base of youth leaders engaged in social and environmental justice, launch a youth-led anti-displacement campaign and develop a group of youth skilled in video production.
Contact: Elizabeth Yeampierre, Executive Director, 166A 22nd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232, (718) 492-9307
http://www.uprose.org
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Voces de la Frontera (VF): The mission of VF is to educate low-income and immigrant workers about their rights and promote the ability of community organizations to achieve policy changes that benefit the immigrant community and workers overall. HSF made a $20,000 grant to support the continued development of VF’s multi-generational youth organizing work aimed at increasing civic participation among immigrant students and the children of immigrants.
Contact: Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Executive Director, 1027 S. 5th St., Milwaukee, WI 53204, (414) 643-1620
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Young Women’s Project (YMP): YMP is a multi-cultural organizational that builds and supports DC teen, women and girl leaders so that they can improve their lives and transform their communities. HSF made a $25,000 grant to support YMP’s Foster Care Campaign to increase life, self-advocacy, and leadership skills for youth in foster care through staff positions, Youth Council, and Leadership Institutes and engage them in systemic reform aimed at improving homes.
Contact: Nadia Moritz, Executive Director, 1328 Florida Ave., NW, Suite 2000, Washington, DC 20009, (202) 332-3399
http://www.youngwomensproject.org
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Young Women United: Young Women United is a youth-led project created by and for young women of color that comes together to support, educate, and take action to reduce the violence, improve the health and build the power of its communities. HSF made a special one-time, 18-month grant of $37,500 general support grant to develop more specific demands of Albuquerque Public Schools with regard to comprehensive sexuality education, explore the creation of legislation supporting Comprehensive Sexuality Education for public schools state wide, and incorporate direct action tactics targeting the Albuquerque Public School Board.
Contact: Adriann Barboa, Development Coordinator, P.O. Box 8490, Albuquerque, NM 87198, (505) 831-8930
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Youth Action Research Group (YARG): The mission of YARG is to build the capacity of young people to critically analyze the problems facing their communities and to engage in organizing, advocacy and civic education around issues that directly impact their lives. HSF made a $25,000 grant to support YARG’s efforts to launch a campaign on youth employment, strengthen curriculum and launch chapters in 4 area schools.
Contact: Danielle Kurzweil, Executive Director/Lead Organizer, 1419 V Street, NW, Suite 401, Washington, DC 20009, (202) 462-5767
http://www.yargdc.blogspot.com
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Youth Education Alliance(YEA): YEA is a youth-led group of teenagers and young adults that seeks facility, instructional and resource reform in the District of Columbia public schools. HSF provided a special one-time, 18-month grant of $52,500 to expand membership, increase the quality and quantity of guidance counselor support in DC Public Schools, and monitor the implementation of the Master Education Plan.
Contact: Ann Caton, 2307 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20020 (202) 889-4932
http://www.youtheducationalliance.org/
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Youth Justice Coalition (YJC)/Free LA!: The YJC seeks to mobilize youth who have experienced arrest, detention, incarceration, probation and/or parole to change the Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice system. HSF made a special one-time, 18-month grant of $52,500 to help YJC increase organizational membership, strengthen relationships with member organizations, provide ongoing leadership opportunities, increase awareness of community-based alternatives to “warehousing,” and strengthen county and state networks of members and allies.
Contact: Kim McGillicuddy, P.O. Box 73688, Los Angeles, CA 90003, (323) 235-4243
http://www.youth4justice.org
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Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ): YMPJ is a faith-based youth organization developing the power and potential of young South Bronx residents through youth development and youth organizing. HSF made a special one-time, 18-month grant of $52,500 to YMPJ to implement new core curriculums and CommunityBuilding and Organizing Projects which promote the holistic development of its youth leaders.
Contact: Alexie Torres-Fleming, Executive Director, 1384 Stratford Ave., Bronx, NY 10472, (718) 328-5622
http://www.ympj.org
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Youth United for Community Action (YUCA): YUCA is a grassroots community-organization created, led, and run by young people of color – majority form low-income communities – that provides a safe space for young people to empower themselves and work on environmental and social justice issues to establish positive systemic change through grassroots community organizing. HSF made a $15,000 grant to YUCA to support the active leadership and participation of and develop a forum for decision-makers to receive youth voices on redevelopment, gentrification, and community benefits issues.
Contact: Oscar Flores, 2135 Clarke Avenue, EastPalo Alto, CA 94303 (650) 322-9165 http://www.youthunited.net
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