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CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities/Youth Leadership Program: CAAAV is a multi-issue, intergenerational, membership based organization led by poor and low-income Asian immigrant communities in New York City addressing social and economic justice. HSF awarded a $40,000 grant to CAAAV to protect Chinatown tenants from displacement, provide youth organizers and Asian worker organizers with ongoing development support, document and address the health conditions of Southeast Asian war survivors, build a local campaign to support comprehensive immigration reform nationally and launch a new waterfront development campaign.
Contact: Jane Sung E. Bai, Executive Director, 2473 Valentine Ave., Bronx, NY 10458
(718) 220-7391
http://www.caaav.org
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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 awarded CFJ with a $35,000 renewal grant to expand their base of youth organizers, wage local and statewide campaigns on key education issues and amplify members' voices in the public debate on college access and school finance.
Contact: Rona Fernandez, Interim Co-Director, 1611 Telegraph Rd., Suite 317, Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 452-2728
http://www.caljustice.org
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Community Learning Project/Community Catalyst: The Community Learning Project (CLP) was established in 2002 to develop new, structured and intentional ways of helping the next generation of organizers and social change leaders learn from their peers and predecessors. HSF awarded CLP with a $15,000 renewal grant to implement the Pipeline Project, an pilot initiative that will provide an Associate in Arts degree in community organizing and organizing internship opportunities for out of school young adults and other residents in Hartford, Connecticut.
Contact: Andy Mott, Community Learning Project Director, Community Catalyst, 30 Winter St., 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
(617) 338-6035
http://www.communitycat.org
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Concerned Citizens for a Better Tunica County/Tunica Teens in Action: Concerned Citizens for a Better Tunica County empowers an intergenerational cohort of northern Mississippi Delta residents through leadership development, issues training, strategic planning, and coalition building. HSF awarded Tunica with a $35,000 renewal grant to support efforts with community members and school board officials to continue to revise and implement a 5-year educational improvement plan for Tunica County School District and enhance 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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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 awarded FCYO with a $35,000 renewal grant to expand ReGenerations, an initiative supporting and deepening knowledge about inter-generational environmental justice organizing groups, and disseminate critical information on new trends and developments in the youth organizing field.
Contact: Supriya Pillai, Executive Director, 183 Madison Avenue, Suite 919, New York, NY 10016
(212) 725-3386
http://www.fcyo.org
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FYRE Youth Squad/Downtown Neighborhoods Improvement Association: The Downtown Neighborhoods Improvement Association, founded in 2004, is a voluntary group of residents and business owners from the Treme section of New Orleans. HSF awarded FYRE with a $15,000 renewal grant to support FYRE Youth Squad in addressing the current crisis in New Orleans schools, completing a strategic plan for the organization, expanding youth membership and providing for the holistic development of youth members.
Contact: Liberty Rashad, Education Committee Member, Downtown Neighborhoods Improvement Association, 1249 Kerlerec Street, New Orleans, LA 70116
(504) 905-6957
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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 awarded a $35,000 grant for Honor the Earth's Youth Leadership Initiative that includes a Native youth organizing re-granting program, as well as an internship and apprenticeship program focused on sustainable energy and development strategies and the impact of the military on Native communities.
Contact: Faye Brown, Development and Communications 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 Struggle utilizes a multigenerational organizing model (i.e., parents, residents high school and junior high school students), toward improving the quality of education in East Los Angeles and building student power for educational justice. HSF awarded a $35,000 grant to support United Students to organize in four local high schools and five middle schools, strengthen relationships with residents of Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles communities and better prepare student leaders to graduate and attend college.
Contact: Maria Brenes, Executive Director, 2811 Whittier Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90023
(323) 780-7606
http://www.innercitystruggle.org
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Nollie's Citizens for Quality Education (CQE): CQE's core vision for Holmes County, Mississippi involves agency on the part of low-income African American youth and families toward holding the political, economic and education systems accountable to meeting their needs. HSF made a $30,000 general support grant for CQE to facilitate collaborative relationships between local child/youth-serving agencies and community groups, raise awareness among youth and parents regarding their rights when interacting with the judicial system and engage more students in advocating on their own behalf for specific education reform policy outcomes.
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 awarded a $35,000 renewal grant for SBU to continue educational equity campaigns at four local high schools, better connect local campaigns with citywide school safety initiative and continue efforts to negotiate community benefits in local development projects.
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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Oasis/Community IMPACT: Oasis/Community IMPACT mobilizes high school students in East Nashville, Tennessee around education reform and predatory lending. HSF awarded $15,000 renewal grant to implement and revise a financial education curriculum based on the life experiences of low-income students, lead community education activities around predatory lending, and mobilize community support around the adoption of a Student Bill of Rights for the entire Metropolitan Nashville Public School District.
Contact: Christine Sartain, Director, P.O. Box 60885, Nashville, TN 37206
(615)327-4455
http://www.oasiscenter.org
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Padres Unidos/Jovenes Unidos: The mission of Padres Unidos (PU) is to empower Denver's Latino community to achieve equality and justice. HSF awarded a $30,000 renewal grant to support PU's youth initiative, Jovenes Unidos (JU). JU aims to implement and monitor education and immigration reforms which improve retention and graduation rates for students of color at local urban and suburban elementary, middle and high schools, particularly North High School where PU/JU have won significant changes.
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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School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL): SOUL is an intergenerational training center dedicated to supporting aspiring and established community organizers in sharpening the skills needed to build the movement for social justice. HSF made a $25,000 grant to SOUL to continue its youth training work, including the SOUL Summer School and National Youth Organizing Institute.
Contact: Wilson Riles Jr., Interim Director, 287-17th Street, Suite 225, Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 451-5466
http://www.schoolofunityandliberation.org
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Tenants and Workers United (TWU): TWU is a democratically-controlled, grassroots organization committed to winning social and economic justice for Northern Virginia's diverse population of low-income people. HSF awarded a $25,000 renewal grant to support TWU's youth organizing and economic justice organizing work, including ongoing multi-generational and multi-issue community organizing, new civic engagement initiatives, increased outreach in Prince William County and a greater emphasis on women's leadership development.
Contact: Jon Liss, Executive Director, 3801 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria, VA 22305
(703) 684-5697
http://www.tenantsworkers.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 awarded a $25,000 renewal grant for UPROSE to continue local environmental justice campaigns around various issues, e.g., brownfield clean-up, pollution abatement and increased green space; educate and involve youth of color in climate justice campaigns; craft plan to create "green" career development opportunities for youth; and utilize partnerships to engage in anti-displacement work.
Contact: Elizabeth Yeampierre, Executive Director, 166A 22nd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232
(718) 492-9307
http://www.uprose.org
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Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans (VAYLA-NO): VAYLA-NO is a multi-issue youth organizing group that emerged during the post-Hurricane Katrina reconstruction in response to environmental racism in Eastern New Orleans. HSF awarded a $15,000 renewal grant to continue efforts to secure equitable flood protection for low income people of color communities in New Orleans, explore the creation of a local school reform campaign, and maintain their standing as a resource in the Vietnamese community around civic engagement activities and direct services.
Contact: Minh Nguyen, P.O. Box 870366, New Orleans, LA 70187-0366
(504) 931-5878
http://www.vayla-no.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 renewal grant of $15,000 to continue organizing around implementing a comprehensive sexuality education in the Albuquerque Public Schools system, solidify their Anti-Violence Against Women Campaign and expand organizational capacity.
Contact: Adriann Barboa, Development Coordinator, P.O. Box 8490, Albuquerque, NM 87198
(505) 831-8930
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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 School system. HSF made $35,000 renewal grant to advocate for an increase in the quality and quantity of guidance counselors in high schools and junior high schools, mobilize student input in the DCPS modernization process, grow youth membership and solidify a corps of adult allies
Contact: Jonathan Stith, 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 awarded a $35,000 renewal grant for YJC to advocate for an end to life sentences without parole for youth; continue to conduct regular, strategic direct actions, popular education and media outreach around juvenile justice issues; and increase youth participation in organizer trainings and chapter activities.
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 community building activities. HSF awarded YMPJ with a $35,000 renewal grant to advance campaigns around improving air and water quality, train young organizers and 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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