2008 Abelard Foundation West Grants

In 2008, the Abelard Foundation West awarded 23 grants totaling $260,000.

9 to 5 Colorado • Denver, CO • $12,000
Fiscal Sponsor: 9to5, National Association of Working Women
To support the organizing and policy efforts of women who are disproportionately impacted by poor economic policies such as welfare reform, unemployment, lack of child care and workplace discrimination.

Anchorage Faith & Action - Congregations Together • Anchorage, AK • $10,000
To build strong congregations and develop community leadership to work towards greater health care access, improved school conditions and expand its grassroots organizing statewide.

Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) • San Francisco, CA • $10,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Tides Center
To support the civil rights and racial justice for Arab American, Arab immigrant and Muslim communities by addressing issues such as racial profiling, hate crimes, anti-immigrant policies and institutional racism through organizing, coalition building, legal services and advocacy.

Center for Intercultural Organizing • Portland, OR • $12,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods
To build a multi-racial, multicultural movement for immigrant and refugee rights through civic engagement, education, policy advocacy, community organizing and mobilization.

Colonias Development Council • Las Cruces, NM • $12,000
To support low income Latino communities along the US-Mexico border organizing for environmentally safe policies, infrastructure projects and to strengthen the recruitment and retention efforts needed for Latino students to succeed in higher education.

Comite del Barrio • El Paso, TX • $8,000
Fiscal Sponsor: La Mujer Obrera (LMO)
Funding to support neighborhood-based organizing on economic development and environmental justice issues.

Common Counsel Foundation Grassroots Exchange Fund • Oakland, CA • $20,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Common Counsel Foundation
To support capacity building, networking and collaboration between grassroots social change and environmental justice organizations accross the nation.

Common Counsel Foundation Social and Economic Justice Fund • Oakland, CA • $3,333
Fiscal Sponsor: Common Counsel Foundation
To support capacity building, networking and collaboration between grassroots social change and environmental justice organizations accross the nation.

Diné CARE (Citizens Against Ruining our Environment) • Winslow, AZ • $11,000
To organize the Dine (Navajo) community against the Desert Rock Power Plan project by utilizing youth leadership development strategies and tribal council sessions, public forums and media advocacy.

El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos • Albuquerque, NM • $12,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Enlace Comunitario
To advance immigrants' rights by strengthening Latino immigrant leadership.

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.

Nevada Young Activist Project of Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada • Reno, NV • $15,000
The third of a five-year grant to support the state’s first progressive youth-led program to work on a range of social and economic justice issues.

New Mexico Environmental Justice Working Group • Albuquerque, NM • $10,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Community Networking Resources
To continue strong participation of community members on environmental justice issues through trainings, technical assistance, organizing and advocacy.

Oregon Action • Portland, OR • $10,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Fair Share Research & Education Fund
A renewal grant to continue strengthening grassroots participation statewide to advance economic, racial and social justice through civic engagement, policy and organizing efforts.

Piñeros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN) • Woodburn, OR • $15,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Willamette Valley Law Project
The fourth 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 Education Fund • Santa Barbara, CA • $13,000
To advocate for policies that foster social and economic justice, and build power and leadership among low-income Santa Barbara residents, especially new immigrants.

San Antonio del Rio Colorado Land Grant • Questa, NM • $3,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Mexicano
To organize community-driven economic development initiatives on a land grant in Questa, New Mexico.

San Francisco Day Labor Program / Colectiva de Mujeres • San Francisco, CA • $12,000
Fiscal Sponsor: La Raza Centro Legal
To support immigrant women organizing for economic and social justice in the Bay Area.

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.

Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP) • San Antonio, TX • $10,000
This grant will support registration and voter mobilization among new and infrequent Latino voters, especially  youth and women through the training and leadership development of Latino youth.

Union de Vecinos • Los Angeles, CA • $11,000
A renewal grant to continue organizing tenants in East Los Angeles and to replicate its tenants' union model throughout greater Los Angeles.

Washington ACORN • Burien, WA • $10,000
Fiscal Sponsor: ACORN Institute
A renewal grant to support local and statewide organizing to prevent predatory lending and foreclosures.

Workers Defense Project/Proyecto Defensa Laboral (PDL) • Austin, TX • $12,000
Renewal funding to continue advancing a member-led campaign to organize immigrant construction workers in Austin, Texas.