2009 Abelard Foundation West Grants
In 2009, the Abelard Foundation West awarded 22 grants totaling $260,000.
9 to 5 Colorado • Denver, CO • $12,500
Fiscal Sponsor: 9to5, National Association of Working Women
A renewal grant 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.
Alliance of Forest Workers and Harvesters • Albany, CA • $12,000
To build a strong network of forest workers and harvesters throughout Northern California and the Pacific Northwest that is worker-led and promotes the rights of workers in the forest while also protecting the forest ecosystem health.
California Coalition for Women Prisoners • San Francisco, CA • $12,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
A renewal grant to continue 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 • $12,500
A renwal grant to build a multi-racial, multi-cultural movement for immigrant and refugee rights through civic engagement, education, policy advocacy, community organizing and mobilization.
Common Counsel Foundation Grassroots Exchange Fund • Oakland, CA • $20,333
A renewal grant to support capacity building, networking and collaboration between grassroots social change and environmental justice organizations accross the nation.
Community Alliance of Tenants • Portland, OR • $10,000
To educate and empower tenants in Oregon to demand safe, stable and affordable rental housing.
Faith Action for Community Equity - Maui • Honolulu, HI • $9,000
To help build-up a community organizing model to create space and leadership for community members to work on issues such as housing, health care and immigration reform.
Hispanics in Philanthropy • San Francisco, CA • $16,667
A renewal grant 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.
HOMEY - Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth • San Francisco, CA • $12,000
Fiscal Sponsor: International Child Resource Center - Tax ID#: 94-2835018
To transform the lives of at-risk and in-risk youth by inspiring them to not only choose a path of education, self-sufficiency and non-violence, but to also strive towards stability in their physical, mental and emotional health.
Houston Interfaith Worker Justice Center • Houston, TX • $10,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Interfaith Worker Justice
To defend and promote the rights of low-wage earners in the Houston area through organizing of low-wage workers who identify solutions to their own problems through leadership development, political education and through the collective organizing process.
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.
Justice Overcoming Boundaries • San Diego, CA • $12,000
To support and develop grassroots community leadership, empowering individuals with the tools and skills necessary to shape the public policies that affect them, their families and communities.
KoreaTown Immigrant Workers Alliance • Los Angeles, CA • $10,000
To empower Koreatown's low-wage immigrant workers and to develop a progressive constituency and leadership in the Koreatown community that can struggle in solidarity with other under-represented communities.
Land Rights Council, Inc. • San Luis, CO • $8,000
A renewal grant to craft a scientifically based and environmentally sensitive management plan to protect La Sierra in rural southern Costilla County, Colorado.
Nevada Young Activist Project of PLAN • Reno, NV • $15,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
The fourth 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.
Piñeros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN) • Woodburn, OR • $15,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Willamette Valley Law Project
The last 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.
Restaurant Opportunities Center of Los Angeles (ROC-LA) • Los Angeles, CA • $10,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York
To form a new chapter in Los Angeles based on a successful model of organizing restaurant workers to improve their workplace and the industry as a whole, with a particular focus on immigrants and people of color who are systematically denied opportunities in this industry.
San Bernardino ACORN • San Bernardino, CA • $11,000
Fiscal Sponsor: ACORN Institute
To organize tenants and homeowners facing evictions and foreclosures through an education equity lens that address economic parity in San Bernardino and surrounding areas.
San Francisco Day Labor Program / Colectiva de Mujeres • San Francisco, CA • $9,000
Fiscal Sponsor: La Raza Centro Legal
A renewal grant to support low-income Latina immigrant women organizing for economic and social justice in the Bay Area.
Sunflower Community Action, Inc. • Wichita, KS • $11,000
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.
Voz Workers' Rights Education Project • Portland, OR • $10,000
To support a worker-led center in the Portland area through leadership development and political education on issues impacting immigrant workers such as immigration reform and the Employee Free Choice Act.
Western Shoshone Defense Project • Crescent Valley, NV • $10,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development Inc.
A renewal grant 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.
