2007 Abelard Foundation West Grants
In 2007, the Abelard Foundation West awarded 23 grants totaling $252,534.
Black Mesa Water Coalition, Flagstaff, AZ • $10,000
For work on issues of environmental justice, energy and water, climate justice, youth leadership development, and building local sustainable economies.
California Coalition for Women Prisoners, San Francisco, CA • $9,000
For building a movement with women prisoners, family members of prisoners and the larger community, through organizing, leadership development and political education.
Center for Intercultural Organizing, Portland, OR • $11,000
To build a multi-racial, multicultural movement for immigrant and refugee rights through education, policy advocacy, community organizing and mobilization, and intergenerational leadership development.
Common Counsel Foundation Grassroots Exchange Fund, Oakland, CA • $9,600 & $9,267
For a fund to supply travel grants to encourage community activists to seek assistance from one another and to build regional and national networks.
Dakota Rural Action, Brookings, SD • $10,000
To build grassroots leadership through community organizing by giving people a strong voice in decisions affecting their quality of life.
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition, Seattle, WA • $10,000
For work to fundamentally change the relationship between government, big business and a traditionally disenfranchised citizenry in toxic cleanup actions locally and nationwide.
El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos, Albuquerque, NM • $11,000
To build the Latino immigrant community and allies to advance immigrants' rights.
El Paso ACORN, El Paso, TX • $8,000
For the work of this grassroots community group to stop the reopening of a polluting smelter plant that threatens the health of citizens on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border.
Hispanics in Philanthropy, San Francisco, CA • $16,667
For work to increase resources for the Latino and Latin American civil sector; to increase Latino participation and leadership throughout philanthropy; and to foster policy change to enhance equity and inclusiveness.
Idaho Community Action Network (ICAN), Boise, ID • $12,000
A renewal grant to support Idaho Community Action Network's emerging work in youth organizing for immigrant and economic justice.
Institute for Socio-Economic Justice & Progressive Community Development, Brawley, CA • $10,000
For work to establish community empowerment movements and services that address the fundamental needs of the underserved communities of Imperial County.
Land Rights Council, Inc., San Luis, CO • $9,000
For work to craft a scientifically based and environmentally sensitive management plan to protect La Sierra in rural southern Costilla County, Colorado.
Latinos Unidos Siempre, Salem, OR • $11,000
To advance the educational, cultural, social and political development of Latino youth by empowering them to take leadership roles in their communities, advocating for social and political change, and combating racist stereotyping and discrimination through grassroots organizing.
Native Action, Lame Deer, MT • $12,000
A renewal grant to organize Cheyenne tribes to protect their homelands' environment and culture from encroaching and dangerous coalbed methane development.
Nevada Young Activist Project of PLAN, Reno, NV • $15,000
The second of a five-year grant to support this project of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, which is organizing the state’s first progressive youth program to work on a range of social and economic justice issues.
Piñeros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN), Woodburn, OR • $15,000
The third of a five-year grant to support a gradual leadership shift within this organization that for the last 20 years has been successfully organizing for better working and living conditions on behalf of Oregon's farmworkers and immigrants.
PUEBLO (People United for Economic Justice Building Leadership through Organizing), Santa Barbara, CA • $12,000
To advocate for policies that foster social and economic justice, and build power and leadership among low-income Santa Barbara residents, especially new immigrants.
Re-Visioning New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM • $12,000
For work to build sufficient community-based, relational power in New Mexico, to eradicate chronic poverty and to create a more progressive future.
Seattle Young People's Project, Seattle, WA • $12,000
A two-year renewal grant for this youth-led organization in Seattle that empowers young people to develop and lead campaigns for quality and equitable schools, police accountability and civil rights.
Sunflower Community Action, Inc., Wichita, KS • $9,000
A renewal grant to support this multi-racial group organizing members for economic empowerment, immigrant rights and community improvement in low-income areas of Kansas.
Western Shoshone Defense Project, Crescent Valley, NV • $8,000
To assist and provide support services to the Newe (Shoshone) people in their ongoing struggle to protect Newe traditional lands, sovereignty, and self-determination in the face of government and corporate-led mining and pollution.
Workers Defense Project/Proyecto Defensa Laboral (PDL), Austin, TX • $11,000
For this organization that empowers Latina/o immigrant workers to act collectively for racial and economic justice in the workplace.
