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Funds will be used toward the development of our membership and on grassroots organizing against deportation and for driver's license access. 15000 Center for Constitutional Rights 666 Broadway 7th floor New York NY 10012 NONE PC General support 5000 Health Gap 429 W 127th St 2nd Fl New York NY 10027 NONE PC General support 5000 WASHINGTON COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK 1806 E Yesler Way Seattle WA 98122 NONE PC As part of our Ending Mass Incarceration project, we will organize with formerly incarcerated people and family members of those incarcerated to build support for passing an innovative, restorative parole system called a Community Review Board. 15000 AYNI INSTITUTE - Movimiento Cosecha 1120 SARATOGA ST SUITE 2 EAST BOSTON MA 02128 NONE PC Our mission is permanent protection, respect and dignity for all immigrants. We are working to build our base by growing a decentralized network of members in Cosecha villages across the country. 16000 MECA - THE FREEDOM THEATRE 1101 8th Street Suite 100 Berkeley CA 94710 NONE PC The Freedom Theatre has been a creative center in Jenin Refugee Camp since 2006, using theatre and culture as tools of resistance to oppression, while opening creative possibilities. 10000 Black Bottom Archives 516 E Kirby Apt 7 Detroit MI 48202 NONE PC Black Bottom Archives (BBA) is a community-driven media platform dedicated to centering and amplifying the voices, experiences, and perspectives of Black Detroiters through journalism, art, business, and community 10000 Black Love Resists in the Rust 450 West Utica Street Buffalo NY 14213 NONE PC Reduce impact of law enforcement on/in communities of color in Buffalo NY. 15000 REDUTA DEUX LTD - MOMENTA QUARTET 1075 GRAND CONCOURSE BRONX NY 10452 NONE PC The Momenta Quartet will commission Elizabeth Brown to compose Babel for string quartet, electronic sound, and video/sculpture installation, and Frances White to compose The book of evening for string quartet and shakuhachi. 10000 GOOD WORK INSTITUTE - RISE UP KINGS 40 ABRUYN ST KINGSTON NY 12401 NONE PC Community organizing and leadership development to develop strategy for housing justice in the city of Kingston. 15000 ROSC - MAINE PRISONER ADVOCACY COAL 272 TURKEY HILL FARM ROAD BLUE HILL ME 04614 NONE PC Campaign to reinstate parole in Maine. 10000 EAST HARLEMEL BARRIO COMMUNITY LAND 236 E 118th St 4 NEW YORK NY 10035 PC GENERAL SUPPORT 15000 SOMALI COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE - BL 2238 FARNSLEY ROAD LOUSIVILLE KY 40216 NONE PC GENERAL SUPPORT 5000 TIDES CENTER - PALESTINE LEGAL 637 S DEARBORN FLOOR 3 CHICAGO IL 60605 NONE PC GENERAL SUPPORT 10000 NRCAT - STOP SOLITARY CT 32 NOOK FARMS WINDSOR CT 06095 NONE PC Stop Solitary CT is creating an organizer training program for those directly impacted by solitary confinement and a survivors' storytelling project to end the silence around the use of solitary. 13000 ALLIANCE FOR FAIR FOOD 110 S 2nd St IMMOKALEE FL 34142 NONE PC This grant would power the student-led Boot the Braids Campaign to cut Wendys contracts on key university campuses, demonstrating students demand Wendys uphold farmworkers' human rights by joining the proven, farmworker-designed and monitored Fair Food Program 20000 TRIANGLE ADVISING - CHOOSE YOURSELF 24 CLIFTON ST PORTLAND ME 04101 NONE PC Open a safe space for young immigrants to collectively find themselves in their new city 8000 RURALMIGRANT MINISTRY-ADELANTE STUD 505 South Main Street GENEVA NY 14456 NONE PC Adelante Student Voices is a network of undocumented students in rural areas and towns in New York. Members teach one another how to self-advocate for education, and take action to create structural changes at institutions and within policies that will widen opportunities for others. 10000 CORRECTIONAL ASSN OF NY - RAPP 22 CORTLAND STREET 33RD FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10007 NONE PC GENERAL SUPPORT 15000 SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIES-PEOPLE POWER 1428 FRANKLIN ST OAKLAND CA 94612 PC ORGANIZE MEMBERS OF THE FRONTLINE EAST OAKLAND COMMUNITY DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACTED BY THE HARMS OF AN EXTRACTIVE ECONOMY TO BUILD A COMMUNITY OWNED AND CONTROLLED SOLAR PROJECT AS A WAY TO BUILD WEALTH, POLITICAL POWER, AND RESILIANCE 15000 NORTH STAR FUND - COMMUNITIES UNITE 520 8TH AVENUE SUITE 18000 NEW YORK NY 10018 NONE PC A GRANT WOULD BE USED TOWARDS START UP COSTS OF CPR NEW ALTERNATIVES & BUDGET AREA, TO DEEPEN AND EXPAND PROGRAMMATIC APPROCHES TO REDUCE PUBLIC RELIANCE ON POLICING AND CHALLENGING INCREASING PUBLIC FINANCING AND LEGITIMACY OF EXPANDING CRIMINALIZATION. infrastructure. 10000 VOCAL VILLAGE INC 1455 GENEVA LOOP Apt 5E BROOKLYN NY 11239 NONE PC Renaissance is a debut solo album featuring soprano, Tyenne Sillekens. 10035 LA CASITA CENTER 223 E Magnolia Ave LOUISVILLE KY 40208 NONE PC Development of an outreach program and resource network to empower immigrants, asylum seekers, and TPS holders enrolled in Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP). Vulnerable individuals are regularly exploited due to their lack of resources and knowledge about the system and their rights. 15000 GREEN LENTS - LENTS STRONG HOUSING Green Lents c/o 12707 NE Halsey PORTLAND OR 97230 NONE PC Housing Stabilization: During a housing and gentrification crisis, educating and organizing poor, working poor and working class renters and homeowners on how to advocate for local anti-displacement policies and practices, including a compassionate response to homelessness 10000 UNLOCKING FUTURES-THE BLACKOUT COLL 25 West 38th Street 8th Floor NEW YORK NY 10018 NONE PC The Training for Trainers will teach direct action practitioners how to coordinate and implement direct actions and prepare them to train fellow organizers in new tactics and liberatory theories, and lead processes to generate creative ways to collectively address anti-Blackness. 15000 ARISE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 38 SCHOOL ST SPRINGFIELD MA 01105 NONE PC Creating a youth led, adult supported organizing program in Springfield 10000 UNITED WE DREAM-CT STUDENTS FOR A D 2470 Fairfield Ave BRIDGEPORT CT 06605 NONE PC Summer Program, Youth Organizing in Action, that seeks to create and foster leadership through raising critical consciousness and engaging youth in community organizing strategies in Harford, CT. 15000 AUSTIN COMMUNITY LAW CENTER 2221 Hancock Drive AUSTIN TX 78756 NONE PC The Austin Community Law Center seeks funding to start an organizer training program (our "Leadership Institute"), to train leaders from among our client community at Title I schools, who will advocate for systemic change at the city, county, and school district. 15000 SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS-ARBEIT OPE 83 SCHOOL ST SPRINGFIELD MA 01105 NONE PC Creating a youth led, adult supported organizing program in Springfield 10000 EMPOWERMENT CONGRESS OF DONA ANA CO 3880 Foothills Rd Ste A Las Cruces NM 88011 NONE PC Empowerment Congress of Doa Ana County will expand its popular education informed, leadership development program and community organizing workshops with low-income, marginalized rural (colonia) and urban communities. 10000 WORKING COMMITTEE FOR PEACE JUSTICE 6465 Bordeaux Avenue DALLAS TX 75209 NONE PC PALESTINE ACTION COMMITTEE OF TEXAS - To build a sustainable pro-Palestinian agenda in Texas, leveraging national resources to provide a series of comprehensive education workshops. 15000 MISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE-W 202 Brooks St MISSOULA MT 59801 NONE PC Sustain and grow a community organization providing peer mentoring to currently and previously incarcerated individuals, then training and empowering those individuals to advocate for improved re-entry conditions within the community, all building to a community-wide reintegration event in 05/20. 10390 SMASH - Struggle for Miami's Afford 2103 CORAL WAY 2ND FLOOR MIAMI FL 33145 NONE PC Creation of a Community Land Trust that will adequately address the needs of inner-city Miami residents affected by the symptoms of gentrification (slumlords, rising rents, lack of community control), and that is shaped, developed and implemented by those same residents. 5000 NORCAL RESIST 620 JONES WAY SACRAMENTO CA 95818 NONE PC The building of a community and impacted-person oriented and led solidarity network, to ensure that trans and queer asylum seekers have culturally competent homes, and access to legal, medical, educational, and emotional support and assistance. 10000 NH PEACE EDUCATION FUND-350 NEW HAM 1 Washington St Suite 3123 DOVER NH 03820 NONE PC Youth Climate Organizing: The next generation of activists and leaders 10000 SOCIAL GOOD FUND-CREATING FREEDOM M 224 Collins St RICHMOND CA 94801 NONE PC Creating Freedom Movements is an intensive year-long program that brings together over 40 Bay Area social and environmental justice leaders to train new organizers, incubate grassroots projects, & build community across multiple lines of difference under a framework that prioritizes justice & joy. 7500 THE WATERSHED CENTER - DISSENTERS 6621 N Lakewood Ave Apt 1E CHICAGO IL 60626 NONE PC To launch Dissenters, a new national anti-militarism youth organization. This grant will go to train student members to lead decentralized, nonviolent direct action campaigns to reclaim millions of dollars from the war industry. 12000 LOWER 9TH WARD HOMEOWENERSHIP ASSOC 5234 N Claiborne Ave NEW ORLEANS LA 70117 NONE PC The L9WHA will support homeownership creation by and for neighborhood residents, using broad-based community advocacy to obtain equal and adequate services for the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. 10000 THE MARCH 13 FUND - PAROLE ILLINOIS 601 S California Av CHICAGO IL 60612 NONE PC We respectfully request a grant to fund a new organizer to train formerly incarcerated people as well as family members, friends, and loved ones of incarcerated people to share with legislators and the broader public how extreme sentencing policies have affected them and their families. 15000 MEDIA MOBILIZING PROJECT-PRISON HEA 4722 Baltimore Ave PHILADELPHIA PA 19143 NONE PC Prison Health News is a free, quarterly print newsletter for people in prisons across the United States, with lifesaving information on chronic illnesses, mental health and trans health care and strategies people in prison use, individually and collectively, to advocate for quality health care. 5000 CAIR MINNESOTA - THE ATWOOD CENTER 2511 E Franklin Ave Minneapolis MN 55406 NONE PC Funds from this grant will support organizing as we expand our community outreach and overall operations in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. 13200 WESTERN REGIONAL ADVOCACY PROJECT 2940 16th Street Suite 200-2 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103 NONE PC Hiring a half-time organizing position to support the development of a regional anti-homeless sweeps campaign, led by WRAP core members across the U.S. West. 15000 WHAT'S NEXT WASHINGTON 1620 43rd Ave E 16-B SEATTLE WA 98112 NONE PC Through the collective leadership talents in our community, we will launch the JI Leadership Collaborative in order to provide nonprofits led by directly impacted individuals in Washington State the skills, support and resources they need to lead the transformation of the criminal legal system. 15000 COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY 458 Blair Blvd EUGENE OR 97402 NONE PC The BIPOC Capacity-Building Initiative creates affinity spaces for healing, connection, and community-building by and for People of Color, to build toward a vision of collective power, strength and leadership locally within Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities of Lane County. 15000 ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE - ZOCHR 225E 26th st Suit TUSCON AZ 85713 NONE PC Organizing a new local Tel Aviv Yaffa community of activists working to promote public awareness to the Nakba and push forward a discussion about the return of Palestinian refugees, 15000 GLOBAL EXCHANGE - STOP US ARMS TO M 1446 Market St SAN FRANCISCO CA 94102 NONE PC A skills training day in southern Arizona to stop US arms to Mexico in March-April 2020, will bring together activists, researchers, Mexican and US human rights defenders, victims, and peace groups, as part of a weekend of workshops on border imperialism with School of Americas Watch. 10000 COOPERATION JACKSON 939 W Capitol St JACKSON MS 39203 NONE PC GENERAL SUPPORT 5000 TIDES CENTER - ADALAH JUSTICE PROJE PO Box 541 GLEN CARBON IL 62034 NONE PC GENERAL SUPPORT 10000 PALESTINE LEGAL 637 S Dearborn St 3rd Floor CHICAGO IL 60605 NONE PC GENERAL SUPPORT 5000 560125 435 146147 55 370566 517203 517203 false false false false false false false false false false ACCOUNTING FEE 5356 5356 0 5356 COMPUTER 2014-09-16 2328 2194 200DB 0.0576 134 EQUIPMENT 2017-06-15 1544 803 200DB 0.1920 296 NEUBERGER BERMAN #1150 NFS 4822720 7362012 659850 660000 NEUBERGER BERMAN #1150 NFS AT COST 2550 2550 Machinery and Equipment 3872 3427 445 BANK CHARGES 126 126 FILING FEES-NEW YORK STATE DEP.OF LAW 250 250 INVESTMENT EXPENSE 87967 87967 MEETING EXPENSES 408 408 PAYROLL SERVICE FEES 1829 1829 1829 POSTAGE/DELIVERY 498 498 498 STORAGE 1044 1044 SUPPLIES 290 290 TELEPHONE 2213 2213 1107 WEBSITE EXPENSES 4056 4056 4056 WORKER COMPENSATION 373 373 373 Other Investment Income 55 ROUNDING 2 FEDERAL INCOME TAXES 2688 2688 FOREIGN TAXES WITHHELD 6394 6394 PAYROLL TAXES 5355 5355 5355