2007 Penny Family Fund Grants List
In 2007, the Penney Family Fund awarded 33 grants totaling $495,000.1000 Friends of Oregon, Portland, OR • $20,000
A renewal grant for statewide organizing and advocacy work responding to the passage of Measure 37, which dramatically changes all of Oregon's community and land protection laws.
ACCION International, Boston, MA • $2,500
A renewal grant to support microenterprise trainings for communities in Brazil, Haiti, West Africa and India.
ACORN Peru/ACORN International, New Orleans, LA • $5,000
A renewal, general support grant for this grassroots membership-based organization in Lima, Peru, part of the international program of ACORN, a community organization of low and moderate-income families that organize and act to improve conditions in their neighborhoods.
Action Alliance for Children, Oakland, CA • $5,000
For general support to provide information and communications for California service providers, parents, and activists working with and for children, and to help them connect to build a strong movement for children and families.
California Childcare Resource & Referral Network/ Parent Voices, San Francisco, CA • $30,000
A renewal grant to support local chapters in California of this parent led, parent run grassroots organization fighting to make quality childcare affordable and accessible to all families.
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE), Ventura, CA • $15,000
A renewal, general support grant to promote economic and social justice in the Central Coast region of California, with an emphasis on community organizing and policy advocacy to expand living wages, health coverage, and accountable development ordinances for working people.
Child Care Law Center, San Francisco, CA • $15,000
A renewal grant for the Child Care Law Center to work with local groups in Oregon to improve the legal framework of licensing that monitors early care and education programs in Oregon.
Children's Institute, Portland, OR • $25,000
A renewal grant to develop the tools needed to persuade the public and lawmakers to create additional funding streams for at-risk children ages 0-5 in Oregon.
Communities for a Better Environment (CBE), Huntington Park, CA • $20,000
A general support grant for CBE's environmental health and justice organizing, advocacy, and leadership development programs in Northern and Southern California.
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE), Oakland, CA • $10,000
For EBASE's work to build labor, community, and faith-based coalitions to win strategic policies that increase incomes for low-wage workers and support organizing in the growing, low-wage service sector in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Grassroots Exchange Fund of Common Counsel Foundation, Oakland, CA • $15,000
A renewal grant to provide small travel and technical assistance grants to encourage community organizations to seek assistance from one another and to build regional and national networks.
Hoopa Valley Tribe, Hoopa, CA • $15,000
To support the Hoopa Tribe's efforts to protect and restore salmon fisheries in the Klamath Basin, and gain full recognition of the Hoopa people's rights to fish and water resources.
Karuk Tribe of California, Orleans, CA • $15,000
To support the Karuk Tribe's efforts to protect and restore salmon fisheries in the Klamath Basin, and restore related traditions, customs, language and ancestral rights.
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), Los Angeles, CA • $15,000
A renewal, general support grant for work to reduce working poverty in Los Angeles through research and community organizing, with an emphasis on developing and implementing Community Benefit Agreements.
Money In Politics Research Action Project (MIPRAP), Portland, OR • $25,000
A renewal grant for general support of this organization's work to increase access, accountability, and participation in the political process and in governmental decision-making.
NALEO Education Fund, Los Angeles, CA • $50,000
A grant to support the assessment of the impact of campaign finance reform on Latino political participation and representation.
Northern California Environmental Grassroots Fund, Oakland, CA • $2,500
A renewal, general support grant to allow the Northern California Environmental Grassroots Fund to support underserved environmental organizations in the region.
Northwest Early Childhood Institute, Portland, OR • $10,000
A renewal grant in support of the Institute's work on improving the quality of the early childhood healthcare system, and on educating physicians about critical child care issues so that they can be more effective voices in the public policy arena.
Oregon Child Care Resource & Referral Network, Salem, OR • $25,000
A renewal grant for the Quality Indicators Project, a pilot project to measure and improve quality of child care by collecting and storing data on seven research-based indicators of child care quality from child care providers. This data will be shared with parents seeking child care, and reported to the community.
Oregon Rural Action, La Grande, OR • $15,000
A renewal, general support grant for efforts to organize rural residents to take leadership on campaigns promoting sustainable community development and economic justice in Eastern Oregon, with an emphasis on low-income and Latino residents.
Oregon Tradeswomen, Portland, OR • $15,000
A renewal grant to promote the success of working women in non-traditional trades, such as the construction, mechanical and utility trades, through education, leadership training and mentorship.
Piñeros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste, Woodburn, OR • $20,000
A renewal grant for ongoing PCUN programs to build leadership in the Woodburn/Salem Latino and farmworker community to strengthen labor and immigrants’ rights, and to promote community and economic development initiatives.
Portland Jobs With Justice, Portland, OR • $10,000
A general support grant for the coalition's efforts to defend the rights of working people and organize multi-issue campaigns for social and economic justice.
San Francisco ACORN, San Francisco, CA • $10,000
For work to train and empower low- and moderate-income residents of San Francisco to improve their communities and to fight for social and economic justice, equitable economic development, high-quality public education, healthy communities, and immigrant rights.
Seacology, Berkeley, CA • $2,500
A renewal, general support grant for Seacology's work to preserve the environments and cultures of islands throughout the globe.
Sisters Of The Road, Portland, OR • $2,500
For Sisters Of The Road's Systemic Change Program which works on immediate and long-term solutions to problems faced by people experiencing homelessness.
Stand for Children Leadership Center, Portland, OR • $30,000
A renewal grant for work in Oregon to build grassroots support in the state for improvements in early childhood education and care as well as the development of quality after-school programs.
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE), Los Angeles, CA • $10,000
A renewal grant for SAJE's economic justice and popular education work build the power necessary to achieve the long-term goals of criminalizing slumlord activity, creating a universal Tenants’ Rights Law, reforming redevelopment, and building low-income people’s control over land.
Sustainable Northwest, Portland, OR • $15,000
To support work in the Klamath Basin to increase dialogue, understanding and joint action between members of the tribal and agricultural communities, and develop renewable energy projects to support local economic development.
The Klamath Basin Coalition, Eugene, OR • $15,000
A renewal grant for this federation of 15 local, regional, and national organizations working on a comprehensive restoration program to restore the damaged ecosystems of the Klamath Basin in northern California and southern Oregon which takes into account both people and natural resources.
The Piper Fund, Amherst, MA • $5,000
A renewal grant to monitor, assess, and provide technical assistance to clean money campaign finance reform efforts in select states across the country.
Water Watch of Oregon, Portland, OR • $15,000
A grant to support the Klamath River Basin Restoration Project and the development of strategies that will bring regional demands for water back into balance with what the Klamath Basin ecology can supply.
