2010 Grassroots Exchange Fund Grants
In 2010, the Grassroots Exchange Fund awarded 119 grants totaling $105,500.
9to5 Los Angeles, National Association of Working Women • Los Angeles, CA • $500
9to5 Los Angeles works to strengthen low-income women's ability to win economic justice. They combine grassroots organizing, nonpartisan voter engagement, policy change campaigns, and leadership development to improve workplace policies while building for long-term goals, especially the creation and retention of living wage, family supporting and family flexible jobs.
Alaska's Big Village Network • Anchorage, AK • $1000
Alaska's Big Village Network creates inclusive communities of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples for the health of all; mental, social, physical, environmental and spiritual well-being. They received GXF support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Alliance of South Asians Taking Action • El Granada, CA • $800
The Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA) works to educate, organize and empower the Bay Area South Asian community to end violence, oppression, racism and exploitation within and against their diverse communities. ASATA received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Arab American Action Network • Chicago, IL • $800
The Arab American Action Network strives to strengthen the Arab community in the Chicago area by building its capacity to be an active agent for positive social change. As a grassroots nonprofit, their strategies include community organizing, advocacy, education, providing social services, leadership development, cultural outreach and forging productive relationships with other communities. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Black Mesa Water Coalition • Flagstaff, AZ • $1000
Black Mesa Water Coalition is dedicated to protecting the earth and the integrity of Indigenous people's cultures with the vision of building sustainable & healthy. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ); Fruit of Labor Ensemble • Raleigh, NC • $800*
Black Workers for Justice work to empower youth, those who are underemployed and low-wage workers in their community and workplace. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Blocks Together • Chicago, IL • $800
Blocks Together works to increase the community's capacity to take direct action to address the root causes of poverty and inequality by challenging members to develop skills to advocate for their community and themselves. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Brazilian Women's Group/Vida Verde Cooperative Project • Allston, MA • $800
The mission of the Brazilian Women's Group is to promote community organizing, empowering community members to speak for themselves regardless of immigration status. The mission of the women's cooperative is to support Brazilian housecleaners in their professions while creating community and promoting healthy and environmentally friendly methods. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Brown Boi Project • Oakland, CA • $800
The Brown Boi Project is a leadership development and organizing project for masculine of center (MOC) womyn, trans men, and straight men of color (ages 17-35) with the aim of helping these young womyn and men to recognize the deep skills and life experiences they can draw on to build collective power within their communities to achieving social justice. GXF supported travel for six people to join the leadership cohort.
Cabrini Rowhouse Tenant Mgmt. Council/Coalition to Protect Public Housing • Chicago, IL • $1000
Cabrini Rowhouse works to protect the human rights of Chicago's public housing residents. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
California Environmental Justice Alliance • San Diego, CA • $1,000
The mission of the California Environmental Justice Alliance is to strengthen the progressive environmental justice movement in California by building on the local organizing efforts and advocacy successes of our member organizations to achieve policy change. GXF supported a statewide gathering to train members on how to collect land use planning and toxins data.
California Prison Moratorium Project • Fresno, CA • $500
The California Prison Moratorium Project seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
CANGRESS (dba; Los Angeles Community Action Network) • Los Angeles, CA • $800
CANGRESS works to help those dealing with poverty create and discover opportunities, while serving as a vehicle to ensure they have a voice in the decisions that are directly affecting them. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Cante Tenza: Strongheart Warrior Society of Lakota Nation • Fairview, NC • $1000*
Cante Tenza is an ancient warrior society as well as a broad-based civil rights movement that works to protect, enforce and restore treaty rights, civil rights, and sovereignty of Native people and their communities on Turtle Island. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
CASA del Llano, Inc. • Hereford, TX • $800
CASA del Llano, Inc helps people help themselves by way of education with tradition, culture and communication. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Central District Organization • Gary, IN • $800
Central District Organization builds social movements through local issue campaigns using direct action organizing that win improvements in the central district neighborhood of Gary around education and safe, clean healthy neighborhoods. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno • Los Angeles, CA • $500
El Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno (or the Center for the Development of Indigenous Communities) seeks to achieve the well-being, equality, and self-determination of indigenous communities by implementing programs that drive civic participation, economic, social, and cultural development of the indigenous community. CBDIO received GXF support to purchase food and other supplies for a gathering with Indigenous immigrant women in Los Angeles.
Centro Humanitario para los Trabajadores (Humanitarian Center for Workers) • Denver, CO • $800
Centro Humanitario para los Trabajadores promotes the rights and well-being of day laborers in Colorado through education, job skills and leadership development, united action and advocacy. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
CHAM Delierance Ministry • San Jose, CA • $800
CHAM encourages people as they battle poverty, consumerism, separation, addiction, anxiety and despair. Their sense of sacredness of life calls them to commit themselves to the kingdom of God through acts of justice. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center • Cincinnati, OH • $700
The Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center helps mobilize, educate and organize low-wage and immigrant workers. These efforts are designed to give low-wage workers from all walks of life the opportunity to creatively challenge the power relationships with their employers to improve their working terms and conditions. They received GXF support to attend the Labor Notes Conference in Detroit.
Clean Air Coalition of Western New York • Buffalo, NY • $800
The Clean Air Coalition of Western New York protects the right of Western New York residents to live and work in a healthy environment. To protect that right, the Clean Air Coalition organizes community members and builds diverse coalitions with other organizations. They received support to travel to Erie, PA to meet with another group challenging the same plant owner that Clean Air Water had targeted to exchange strategies and lessons learned.
Coalicion de Organizaciones Latino-Americanas (COLA) • Asheville, NC • $800
The Coalicion de Organizaciones Latino-Americanas (COLA) is a regional coalition whose members are grassroots groups and organizations working with Latino immigrants in Western North Carolina. The GXF grant supported members to attend a two-day training to explore and understand the history of race and racism in the United States and Latin America as a way to forge stronger long-term alliances and relationships with the African American community, which is central to a strong social justice movement in the South.
Coalition for a Livable Future • Portland, OR • $650
The purpose of the Coalition for a Livable Future is to protect, restore, and maintain healthy, equitable, and sustainable communities, both human and natural, for the benefit of present and future residents of the greater metropolitan region. A GXF grant made it possible for the organization to attend the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership meeting.
Coastal Women for Change (CWC) • Biloxi, MS • $800
Coastal Women for Change makes a difference in communities by securing and revitalizing their neighborhoods. Currently they are working with single women who were displaced due to the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Comite de Defensa Legal de California - People's Legal Defense Committee of California • Porterville, CA • $500
This newly incorporated organization’s primary purpose is to work on behalf of rural Spanish-speaking immigrants by building a grassroots membership organization, which addresses issues that can harm or hinder their civil, human or economic rights, through direct action organizing, developing the organizing and leadership skills of its members, and by educating its constituency of their rights within the USA. They received support to travel to Washington to meet and create relationship with Native American tribes in the Northwest.
Community Organizing Residency • New York, NY • $1500
The Community Organizing Residency is a six-month paid residency for people from different faith backgrounds - Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and other - who want to make community organizing their profession. They gain social justice experience working with leading organizing groups in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area. This grant would support organizers to attend trainings while they are doing their residency. This is a program supported by the Jewish Fund for Justice.
Concerned Citizens for a Better Tunica County, Inc • Tunica, MS • $800
Concerned Citizens For A Better Tunica County, Inc. (Concerned Citizens) is a rural broad based grassroots community leadership development, education, and training organization working to empower the community by developing new grassroots leaders and organizers in Tunica County, Mississippi. Concerned Citizens For A Better Tunica County, Inc. mission is to empower the disadvantaged and low income community (families) by building leadership and organization, involving students and parents using the intergenerational model, (young people and old people working together), in the community of Tunica County, MS. They received funding to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Contact Center • Cincinnati, OH • $937.50
The Contact Center's mission is to end poverty. They are a membership organization of low and moderate income people. Through the empowerment of their members, they work to bring about economic and social justice. They work together through education and action to use a collective voice to effect positive social change. The Contact Center provides leadership opportunities to low-income members to be the primary "change-makers." They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Culture PAC / Rhythm Conspiracy Productions / Dancing 4 Democracy • New Orleans, LA • $937.50
Culture PAC is a music and arts worker-owned cooperative that works for cooperation as an antidote for economic marginalization. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Desiree Alliance • Henderson, NV • $700
The Desiree Alliance is a diverse, volunteer-based, sex worker-led network of organizations, communities and individuals across the US working in harm reduction, direct services, political advocacy and health services for sex workers. They provide leadership and create space for sex workers and supporters to come together to advocate for human, labor and civil rights for all workers in the sex industry. They received support to attend a conference of sex workers in Las Vegas.
Direct Action Welfare Group Inc (DAWG) • Charleston, WV • $1000
Direct Action Welfare Group’s vision is the end of poverty in West Virginia. In order to make this vision a reality, they advocate with low-income families for economic justice. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Earth Heart • Selma, AL • $800*
Funding to support travel to the US Social Forum.
Elements Organization • Philadelphia, PA • $800
The mission of Elements is to create and sustain a safe space in which LGBTQ womyn work towards increased visibility, holistic healing, addressing key issues within our communities and ultimately moving towards a more just society. A GXF grant made it possible for youth, elders and transgendered speakers to attend the second annual LGBTQ Womyn of Color Conference.
Enlace/Communities United for People • Portland, OR • $600
Enlace was founded by a group of low-wage worker organizations in US and Mexico that promote and protect the human and labor rights of their constituencies and communities. Their mission is to build the base of organized low-wage workers to bring balance to the struggle between the rich and the working poor. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Environmental Justice Coalition for Water (EJCW) • Oakland, CA • $800
The Environmental Justice Coalition for Water (EJCW) is a statewide coalition of more than seventy grassroots groups and policy organizations formed in 1999 to empower low-income communities and people of color throughout California to become informed, vocal advocates for water justice. They received support for their youth training and tour on water resources in California.
Every Mother is a Working Mother Network • Philadelphia, PA • $800
Every Mother is campaigning to establish raising children and caregiving as work and to change social and economic policies and practices so that the value of caring work entitles the worker to welfare and other resources. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Inacarcerated Children (FFLIC) • New Orleans, LA • $800
FFLIC fights for a better life for all of Louisiana's youth, especially those in the juvenile justice system. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Fighting Against Injustice Towards Harmony (FAITH) • Daytona Beach, FL • $500
FAITH's mission is to provide a vehicle for people of faith in Volusia County to live out their duty and call to do justice. FAITH received a GXF grant to send members and leaders to a DART training.
Fun Films for Youth • Philadelphia, PA • $450
Fun Films by Youth was founded by Philadelphia youth in order to facilitate film making by young people, and to promote and share youth-made films. Films range from animation to documentary, and are intended to: engage youth in process of creative arts and culture; provoke discussion about issues affecting young people in Philadelphia, nationally, and globally; and to empower young people to create our own media. They received support to attend the US Social Forum.
Gainesville Student Labor Action Project • Gainesille, FL • $800*
Gainesville Student Labor Action Project works to train and inspire young workers and students to join the US labor & new civil rights movement. They received support to attend the US Social Forum.
Georgia Citizens Coalition on Hunger • Atlanta, GA • $800
Georgia Citizens Coalition on Hunger seeks to end hunger, homelessness and poverty in the state of Georgia. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Global Fam • Portland, OR • $450
Global Family Network provides resources and educational opportunities to communities and individuals across cultural and geographic barriers to collaborate and create better lives for themselves and each other. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Grass Roots Organizing (GRO) • Mexico, MO • $800
The mission of Grass Roots Organizing(GRO) is to create a grassroots voice to win economic justice and human rights for all Missourians. Support from GXF made it possible for the organization to take part in the annual conference of the National People's Action, a national coalition of direct action, community-based organizations who meet annually in Washington D.C. to bring campaign demands to congressional leaders.
Greater New Orleans Organizers Roundtable • New Orleans, LA • $1000
The goal of the Greater New Orleans Organizers Roundtable is to be strengthened as a collective of New Orleans and Gulf Coast based residents, organizers, and organizations. To work more collectively while exposing the forum to our experience and reality. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Greater St. Mark Community Organizing Committee • St. Louis, MO • $937.50
Greater St. Mark motivates and empowers citizens to fight for local, state and national policies that enhance community well being, racial and economic justice. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Independent Movement of Paratransit Riders for Unity, Vehicles, Equality (IMPRUVE) • Chicago, IL • $1000*
Organizes and trains paratransit riders to improve accessible transit policies for people who are disabled and work toward a rider-controlled green paratransit and green jobs to reduce poverty, increase health and develop harmonious relationships among paratransit riders/drivers. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice-CA) • Oakland, CA • $800
The Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (ICIR) organizes the interfaith community and immigrant leaders for the rights, fair treatment and dignity of all immigrants regardless of immigration status through education, advocacy, and leadership development. GXF support made it possible for students and low-income immigrants to attend the "Pilgrimage to Angel Island" at the former immigration station and detention center on the 100th year anniversary of its opening.
International Indian Treaty Council • San Francisco, CA • $500
The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America, the Caribbean and the Pacific working for the sovereignty and self-determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous rights, treaties, traditional cultures and sacred lands. GXF supported work that follwed the Indigenous Women's symposium which was a gathering of 40 Indigenous women throughout the Americas to address issues of environmental and reproductive justice.
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) • Oakland, CA • $600
The mission of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) is to coordinate and support Jewish participation in social justice efforts, primarily by contributing to efforts to overcome Zionism and decolonize historic Palestine. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Jobs with Justice of East Tennessee • Knoxville, TN • $1000
The Jobs with Justice Education Fund’s (JwJ) mission is to build a strong, progressive labor movement that works in coalition with community, faith, and student organizations to build a broader movement for economic and social justice. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Justice Now • Oakland, CA • $937.50
Justice Now works with women prisonerss and local communities to build a safe, compassionate world without prisons. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Kensington Welfare Rights Union • Philadelphia, PA • $800
The Kensington Welfare Rights Union is a multiracial organization led by poor and homeless families organizing for economic human rights in the poorest district of Pennsylvania. Through projects of survival and education, they create leaders among the poor and all those committed to economic human rights. They organize in Philadelphia and throughout Pennsylvania to demand full recognition for all people to food, housing, healthcare, education and jobs at a living wage. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) • Philadelphia, PA • $800
The Kensington Welfare Rights Union is a multiracial organization led by poor and homeless families organizing for economic human rights in the poorest district of Pennsyvlania. Through projects of survival and education, KWRU builds leaders among the poor and all those committed to econmic human rights. The organization works in Philadelphia and throughout Pennsylvania to demand full recognition for all people to food, housing, health care, education and living wage jobs.
Kentucky Jobs with Justice • Louisville, KY • $800
Kentucky Jobs with Justice works to protect and improve the quality of life of all workers by empowering individuals and organizations to engage in collective action for economic and social justice. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance • Los Angeles, CA • $800
KIWA's mission is to empower Koreatown low-income immigrant workers and to develop a progressive constituency and leadership in the Koreatown community that can struggle in solidarity with other underrepresented communities for positive social change and justice. KIWA received GXF support to send a field organizer to attend a year-long organizers institute sponsored by the Center for Third World Organizing.
Lakeview Action Coalition • Chicago, IL • $800
Lakeview Action Coalition (LAC) is a multi-issue community organization acting to sustain racial and economic diversity in the Chicago communities of Lakeview and North Center, and to build bridges between community members. LAC operates primarily through its issue task forces, which are currently homeless youth and police relations, affordable housing, health care and environmental justice. They received support to send 8-10 leaders to the National Peoples' Action Conference in Washington, DC.
Latino Union of Chicago • Chicago, IL • $1500
The Latino Union collaborates with low-income immigrant workers to develop the tools necessary to collectively improve social and economic conditions. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Legacy of Equality, Leadership and Organizing (LELO) • Seattle, WA • $937.50
Legacy of Equality, Leadership and Organizing (LELO) is a 38-year old worker's rights organization based in Seattle, Washington. LELO strives to empower workers of color, low-income and women workers to assert our rights, improve our working conditions and gain a voice in our workplaces, trade unions and communities - both within the US and across the globe. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
LIFETIME (Low-Income Families' Empowerment Through Education) • San Leandro, CA • $800
LIFETIME's mission is to empower low-income parents to determine, pursue and achieve their goals for education, employment and economic security. LIFETIME's goal is to help low-income parents enroll in, continue and successfully complete higher education and training. LIFETIME received support to send two low-income mothers to the "End Poverty, Not Welfare," a grassroots Congresssional briefing on poverty, welfare reform, and the state of the US safety net in Washington DC.
Mayday New Orleans • New Orleans, LA • $800
Mayday New Orleans is a people-driven and inspired economic and social justice organization. Mayday is a community based organization that believes that active participation from community members is essential to ensuring that basic rights such as adequate housing, health care, education and safe streets are met. Therefore, Mayday is comprised primarily of residents who live in the communities which have been directly impacted by governmental policies. It is the goal of Mayday to hold government, the private sector, and those who work on behalf of communities accountable for their policies and practices. Through public education, training, community empowerment, and grassroots organizing, it is Mayday’s goal to build stronger communities in post-Katrina New Orleans. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Minnesota Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign • Minneapolis, MN • $800*
Minnesota Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign unites the poor across color lines in Minnesota as the leadership base for a broad movement facilitating sustainable change to abolish poverty. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Missouri Rural Crisis Center • Columbia, MO • $800
Missouri Rural Crisis Center works to preserve family farms, promote stewardship of the land and environmental integrity and strive for economic and social justice by building unity and mutual understanding among diverse groups, both rural and urban. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Moving Forward Gulf Coast • Slidell, LA • $800
Moving Forward provides volunteer-based relief as they strive for community empowerment and foster collaborative efforts through community advocacy, training, and creative programming. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Multi-Cultural Youth Project/Chinese Mutual Aid Association • Chicago, IL • $800
MCYP's mission is to be a collaboration of youth agencies that nurture empowered youth who embrace and act upon their potential to transform their lives and their communities. MCYP cultivates youth leaders who stand in solidarity and actively partner with others who are fighting for social justice both locally and globally. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Nashville Homeless Power Project • Nashville, TN • $800
Nashville Homeless Power Project organizes currently and formerly homeless and those with home to eradicate homelessness and poverty in Nashville. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
National Alliance of HUD Tenants • Jamaica Plain, MA • $800
The National Alliance of HUD Tenants is a tenant controlled national alliance of tenant organizations in HUD assisted housing whose purpose is to preserve affordable housing, protect tenants rights. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
National Organizers Alliance • Takoma Park, MD • $800
The National Organizers Alliance's (NOA) mission is to advance progressive organizing for social, economic and environmental justice and to sustain, support and nurture the people of all ages who do it. Their members are organizers who answer to a defined constituency and build that constituency through leadership development, collective action and democratic structures. They received support to pay for travel for a new mentorship program piloted in three different sites.
Native Youth Leadership Alliance • Pine Ridge, SD • $1000
Native Youth Leadership Alliance is the first leadership development initiative to center its support for Tribal College students who are primed to serve as the next generation of transformative leaders in Native communities. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Native Youth Leadership Alliance • Pine Ridge, SD • $900
The Native Youth Leadership Alliance is the first leadership development initiative to center its support for Tribal College students who are primed to serve as the next generation of transformative leaders in Native communities. This grant supported the attendance of one student at the Annual Conference of the National Indian Education Association in San Diego, CA.
New Mexico Environmental Law Center (NMELC) • Santa Fe, NM • $875
The New Mexico Environmental Law Center's (NMELC) goal is to protect New Mexico's natural environment and achieve environmental justice for New Mexico's communities through legal representations, policy advocacy and public education. They received support to send three Tachee Blue Gap Navajo communities to meet and network around their goals to seek federal assistance to clean up the Tachee Blue Gap area's abandoned uranium mines.
North Carolina International Worker Justice Campaign (IWJC) • Raleigh, NC • $800
North Carolina International Worker Justice Campaign works to repeal North Carolina's anti-worker ban on collective bargaining rights for public sector workers, and to organize, educate and empower public sector workers to have input in shaping the decisions about work and on a societal level. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Northside Coaltion for Fair Housing • Pittsburgh, PA • $800
Northside Coalition for Fair Housing works to engage in activities that ensure and improve the availability and accessibility of low-income and affordable housing in the north side communities while improving the lives of families. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Nuestro Centro • Asheville, NC • $800
Nuestro Centro serves Latina's in Buncombe County to create stronger communities, through community organizing, resource development, and member-led projects. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Oklahoma Sponsoring Committee • Oklahoma City, OK • $800
Oklahoma Sponsoring Committee's mission is to build relational power so that families - especially low and middle income families - can have a voice in the decisions that impact their lives. OSC received a grant to send grassroots leaders to training events with the Industrial Areas Foundation.
Olneyville Neighborhood Association (ONA) • Providence, RI • $800
Olneyville Neighborhood Association organizes low-income families, immigrant communities and people of color in order to create a diverse community-led democratic and non-partisan political movement that wins economic, social and political justice. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
OneFam • Oakland, CA • $800
OneFam is a intergenerational organization that aiims to empower participants by providing them with opportunities to see their lives and future beyond the borders of their community and dream of the possibilities of having a healthy and enriched life through personal and social change. OneFam received support to organize a conference on the state of youth organizing in the Bay Area.
Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights (POWER) • Olympia, WA • $800
POWER is an organization of low-income parents and allies advocating for a strong social safety net while working towards a world where children and care giving are truly valued, and the devastation of poverty has been eradicated. POWER received a grant to cover travel costs for two low-income POWER members to participate in "End Poverty, Not Welfare," a grassroots Congressional briefing on poverty, welfare reform, and the state of the country's safety net.
Pesticide Watch Education Fund • Sacramento, CA • $800
The mission of Pesticide Watch Education Fund is to work side-by-side with communities to prevent pesticide exposure, support local farming, and build healthier communities. They received a GXF grant to stipend small farmers and farmworkers to attend their annual conference.
POOR Magazine • San Francisco, CA • $800
POOR Magazine is a poor people/indigenous people-led grassroots nonprofit arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, art, education and advocacy to silenced youth, adults and elders in poverty across the globe. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) • Cleveland, OH • $800
PPEHRC is committed to unite the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty. They accomplish this through advancing economic human rights as named in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,, such as the rights to food, housing, health, education, communication and a living wage job. They received funding to attend the founding meeting of the Assembly to End Poverty.
Power U Center • Miami, FL • $800
Power U Center is fighting for land, people, and community; organizing for justice in schools and communities; supporting the struggle of social, environmental and economic justice. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Progressive Communicators Network (PCN) • Easthampton, MA • $1000
The Progressive Communicators Network's mission is to strengthen and amplify the power, voices, and vision of grassroots movements that are working for racial, social, economic, and environmental justice. Network participants use communication strategy, framing and messaging, and media tools to: 1) enhance the influence of social change movements on public policy and opinion; and 2) realize a world without poverty, racism, and other forms of oppression. PCN received GXF support for their national gathering in Detroit.
RAISE Kentucky • Frankfort, KY • $800
RAISE Kentucky is a coalition of diverse groups seeking to expand asset-building opportunities for low-income Kentuckians through a combination of policies and practices. They received a grant to make it possible for the organization's executive committee to attend quarterly meetings. The grant covered travel and child care expenses.
Refuge Ministries / Sanctuary Youth Center, Inc. • St. Pete, FL • $800
Refuge Ministries/Sanctuary Youth Center engages in social justice advocacy, food distribution, outreach, arts/music and supports groups for poor and homeless youth. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Restaurant Opportunities Center of New Orleans • New Orleans, LA • $800
ROC in New Orleans is working to build the power and raise the voice of low-wage restaurant workers in New Orleans. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL) • Oakland, CA • $800
The School of Unity & Liberation (SOUL) is a school to build a movement. They work to lay the groundwork for a strong social justice movement by supporting the development of a new generation of organizers rooted in systemic change analysis, especially young people of color, young women, LBGT youth and people from low-income communities. They received support to conduct an intensive training series with We Are Guahan in Guam.
Snake River Alliance • Boise, ID • $600
The Snake River Alliance serves as Idaho's nuclear watchdog and Idaho's advocate for renewable and nuclear-free energy. The organization raises community awareness about the dangers of nuclear waste, weapons and power while working to identify and promote sustainable alternatives. The group does its work through advocacy, collaboration, education and grassroots organizing. They received support to attend the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York City.
Son Armado • Austin, TX • $500*
Son Armado is using the arts, dancing, poetry in the context of communally created and shared space to continue the cultural performance education based art form centered around community gatherings. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Southside Together Orgainzing for Power • Chicago, IL • $800
STOP organizes low-income and working class residents on the south side of Chicago to exert greater control over the forces and decisions that affect our lives. Develop leadership amongst people most affected. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
SpiritHouse Inc. • Durham, NC • $937.50
SpiritHouse, Inc, is a collective that works to support the empowerment of communities most affected by racism, poverty, gender discrimination and the school to prison pipeline through innovative programs, cultural arts and community collaborations. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Stonewall Youth • Olympia, WA • $800
Stonewall Youth works to empower lesbian, gay bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQQIA) youth to speak for themselves, educate their communities, and support each other. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Streetwise & Safe • New York, NY • $800
Streetwise & Safe is a collaborative multi-strategy initiative to develop leadership skills among LGBTQQ youth of color who have experienced gender and sexuality specific forms of race and class based policing. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Students Working for Equal Rights (S.W.E.R.) • Miami, FL • $1000
Students Working for Equal Rights was founded by undocumented youth who are working towards social justice and equal access to education, satisfying the needs of all individuals to further their knowledge, by grassroots organizing, political education, alliance building, action and civic engagement. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Survivors, Inc. • Mattapan, MA • $800
Survivors, Inc provides trainings in writing, speaking, advocacy, computer skills, desktop publishing, organizing and leadership to low-income women. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Team Eduardo for Universal Health Care • Overland Park, KS • $450*
Team Eduardo is an ad hoc group of individuals working to highlight the plight of an undocumented 15 year old boy in desperate need of a heart transplant and, in keeping with that young man's vision, striving to raise awareness about the health care issues facing those underserved by our current system. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
The New Orleans Overcomers • New Orleans, LA • $1000
The New Orleans Overcomers is a group of youth organizers and leaders, that work together to understand the issues that impact all of New Orleans. They have conversations that support systemic change, and encourage other youth to join the movement of shifting power. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
The Steering Committee for the Honor Program • Lancaster, CA • $500
The Steering Committee works to provide a platform for motivated prisoners to affect positive change in themselves, the prison system, and the wider community. GXF made it possible for them to pay for travel and meal expenses of family members of prisoners wishing to attend the California Rehabilitation Oversight Board hearings.
Think Outside the Bomb (TOTB) • Merced, CA • $200
Think Outside the Bomb is the largest youth-led network for nuclear abolition in the US. They received support to attend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York City.
Trans Youth Support Network (TYSN) • Minneapolis, MN • $800
Trans Youth Support Network is a group of young people and community working together to promote racial, social, and economic justice for trans and gender non-conforming youth in Minnesota. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment (CARES) • Livermore, CA • $800
The mission of Tri-Valley CARE is to promote peace, justice and a healthy environment by pursuing five inter-related goals to stop the development and testing of nuclear weapons, clean radioactive toxic pollution, and create greater access to decision-making in public policy issues related to nuclear weapons. They received support to send four members and two staff to attend the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability DC Days.
Unite for Dignity • Miami Lakes, FL • $937.50
Unite for Dignity engages in leadership development with a focus on enabling immigrant women to enhance skills, confront abuses, organize together and make their voices heard. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
United Clevelanders Against Poverty • Cleveland, OH • $800
United Clevelanders Against Poverty unites low-income workers to work on issues of poverty, while working to end poverty in Cleveland. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
United Methodist Inner City Mission • Mobile, AL • $800
United Methodist Inner City Mission is a Christ centered, holistic ministry that celebrates the love of God by sharing the Good News, by touching lives, and by providing a safe, secure environment where each person can experience love, hope and acceptance. The ministry endeavors to provide opportunities and encouragement to children, youth and adults as they recognize and claim their dignity and self worth as children of God and as they excel to excellence. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
US Palestinians Community Network • San Francisco, CA • $800*
The US Palestinian Community Network is a Palestinian community-based network that grew from the Palestinian Popular Conference that took place in Chicago on August 8-10, 2008, drawing 100 members of the Palestinian community in the US together to empower our community, unify our voice, and affirm the right of Palestinians in the Shatat (exile) to participate fully in shaping our joint destiny. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
US PROStitutes Collective • San Francisco, CA • $800
US PROStitutes is a A multiracial network of women campaigning for the decriminalization of prostitution and for higher benefits, wages and other resources so that no woman, child or man is forced into prostitution through poverty or violence. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
USSF Indigenous Working Group • Detroit, MI • $3750
To regrant to Indigenous-led organizations participating in the US Social Forum in Detroit.
V.O.T.E. NOLA • New Orleans, LA • $800
VOTE NOLA is building the political and economic power of people most impacted by the criminal justice system, especially formerly incarcerated persons, their families and loved ones. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Washington Immigrant Rights Action Coalition (WA-IRAC) • Seattle, WA • $937.50*
The Washington Immigrant Rights Action Coalition deals with the indiscriminate immigration enforcement that is affecting immigrant communities and the greater community. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
We Are Guahan • Tamuning, GUAM, • $1000*
To build political consciousness, solidarity and community investment in the fight to demilitarize the island of Guam and to win self-determination for the people of Guam through education and organizing of the local community, and the development of national and international coalitions. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Welfare Rights Committee • Minneapolis, MN • $800
The Welfare Rights Committee started in 1992. It is a group of low-income people fighting so poor families can survive, not just for now, but for the future. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Welfare Rights Organization • New Orleans, LA • $800
Welfare Rights Organization works to help low-income people become empowered and self-sufficient. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Western Regional Advocacy Project • San Francisco, CA • $500
Western Regional Advocacy Project exists to expose and eliminate the root causes of civil and human rights abuses of people experiencing poverty and homelessness. They received funding to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Women in Transition • Louisville, KY • $1000
Women in Transition is a grassroots organization run by and for poor people working to create a world where everyone's economic human rights are provided. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Women with a Vision, Inc • New Orleans, LA • $800
The mission of Women with a Vision is to promote health, wellness, and disease prevention for women and their families living at or below the poverty line through health education, early intervention and harm reduction strategies, referrals to culturally appropriate community resources, and community-based advocacy and organizing. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
Women's Economic Agenda Project • Oakland, CA • $800
WEAP envisions a world in which all women and their families have the skills, healthcare, shelter, and nourishment they need to enjoy happy, healthy, and productive lives. WEAP implements this vision by building the leadership of low-income women through education, training, and advocacy. They received funding to attend the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign.
Workers Defense Project • Austin, TX • $800
Workers Defense Project (WDP) is a membership-based organization that empowers low-income workers to ensure fair employment through education, direct services, community organizing, and strategic partnerships. They received funding to attend a national summit where workers will be able to share their experiences at the workplace and to advocate for improvements for construction workers.
Yamasi People • Savannah, GA • $500
Yamasi People's mission is to protect the light, life, liberty, and land of Yamasi People. In order to do this they work to restore their People, wind, water, land, and culture to good health in order to subsist as their ancestors did. They are fulfilling their mission by distributing food, working to create health care solutions, facilitating housing for the homeless, creating access to land and educational opportunities, and advocating for a just distribution of the land. They received funding to attend the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Young O'odham United Throught Health (Y.O.U.T.H.) • Sells, AZ • $800
Tohono O’odham Community Action (TOCA) is a community-based organization dedicated to creating a healthy, sustainable and culturally-vital community on the Tohono O’odham Nation. They received support to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit.
*Funded with passthrough grants given to the Praxis Project in Washington, DC.
