2011 Abelard Foundation West Grants
In 2011, the Abelard Foundation West awarded 19 grants totaling $208,210.
Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) • San Francisco, CA • $10,000
To support civil rights and community empowerment for Arab Americans and Arab Immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Arkansas Community Organizations • Little Rock, AR • $10,000
To support organizing for healthy families, living wage standards, fair lending practices, and equal access to education for all.
Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network (PLAN) • Oakland, CA • $11,000
To support community organizing for education justice in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Center for Intercultural Organizing • Portland, OR • $12,463
To support efforts to build a multi-racial, multi-cultural movement for immigrant and refugee rights through civic engagement, education, policy advocacy, community organizing and mobilization.
Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores • Denver, CO • $10,642
To support organizing and community empowerment among low-wage immigrant workers in Colorado that advances immigrant and worker rights.
Centro Laboral de Graton • Graton, CA • $10,000
To support organizing and leadership development among day laborers and domestic workers and the advance worker rights and improve labor standards.
Common Counsel Foundation Grassroots Exchange Fund • Oakland, CA • $20,000
To support capacity building, networking and collaboration for grassroots social change and environmental justice organizations across 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.
Domestic Workers in Action - Southwest Workers Union • San Antonio, TX • $10,000
To support organizing and leadership development among Latina immigrant home care and domestic workers and advance fair labor practices.
El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos ("El CENTRO") • Albuquerque, NM • $10,642
To advance immigrants' rights by strengthening immigrant community leadership in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Faith Action for Community Equity (FACE) Maui • Honolulu, HI • $10,000
Mobilizing faith communities in Hawaii to advance housing justice, health care and immigration reform.
Heartland Workers Center • Omaha, NE • $10,000
To support the ongoing establishment of this worker rights center and its efforts to organize low-wage construction, meat packing, and janitorial workers.
Restaurant Opportunities Center of Los Angeles (ROC-LA) • Los Angeles, CA • $11,000
To support organizing among restaurant workers to improve their working conditions and address discrimination in the restaurant industry.
San Francisco Day Labor Program / Colectiva de Mujeres (Women's Collective) • San Francisco, CA • $10,000
To support low-income Latina immigrant women organizing for economic and social justice in the Bay Area.
Seattle Young People's Project • Seattle, WA • $11,000
To support 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.
South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN) • San Francisco, CA • $10,000
To support organizing among Filipino and Latina/o residents in San Francisco’s South of Market Neighborhood and advocacy for housing rights and access to affordable housing.
Texas Tenants’ Union • Dallas, TX • $10,000
To advance the rights of low-income tenants, maintain and expand access to affordable housing, and help families work together to improve their living conditions in the Dallas metropolitan area.
Union de Vecinos • Los Angeles, CA • $10,463
To support tenant organizing in East Los Angeles to protect and expand access to affordable housing.
Young Workers United • San Francisco, CA • $11,000
To support organizing among young people in San Francisco to demand rights as workers, and to unite the youth and labor movements to raise standards in non-union, low-wage jobs.
