2011 SEJ Grants List
In 2011, the Social & Economic Justice Fund awarded 8 grants totaling $41,500.
California Immigrant Policy Center • Los Angeles, CA
To support the mobilization of community members to the annual Immigrant Advocacy Day in Sacramento, CA.
Dakota Rural Action • Brookings, SD
To build grassroots leadership and advocacy for sustainable rural economies through community organizing among rural farmers and ranchers in South Dakota.
Diné CARE (Citizens Against Ruining our Environment) • Winslow, AZ
To support the empowerment of Navajo communities and advance the protection of Navajo lands, environment, and cultural heritage.
Grassroots Global Justice • Beaumont, CA
To support this national alliance of social justice organizations and its national Strategy School convening.
Inter-Alliance Dialogues - Excluded Workers Congress • Washington, DC
To support a convening of the Excluded Worker Congress and its efforts to expand the human right for workers to organize, to win a new era of rights and policies for workers, and to grow and transform the labor movement.
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children • San Francisco, CA
To support the national convening of the Formerly Incarcerated Peoples Movement.
National Day Labor Organizing Network • Los Angeles, CA
To support a convening of six national grassroots alliances to build collaborative strategies that advance immigrant rights in partnership with the Inter Alliance Dialogue. Affiliated alliances include Jobs with Justice, National Domestic Workers Alliance, National Day Labor Organizing Network, Grassroots Global Justice, Right to the City, and Pushback Network.
PODER (People Organized to Demand Economic & Environmental Rights) • San Francisco, CA
To organize residents of San Francisco's Mission District to build leadership among immigrant communities, and youth in particular, to protect their neighborhood from economic and environmental inequities.
