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This entails doing workshops, presentations, legislative hearings, and lobbying key players. 18000 ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE-PHILLY 4840 Walton Ave Philadelphia PA 19143 NONE PC The pilot phase of the Just Transition Reinvestment Program will partner student climate justice organizers at 5 colleges with off-campus groups, in order to move university money out of fossil fuels, and into community-led solutions at the frontlines of poverty and pollution. 2750 MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE IN EL BARRIO 232 E 11th St New York NY 10003 NONE PC Community organizing to address the high-speed gentrification of East Harlemactivities aimed at bringing affected tenants together to fulfill these goals. 15000 VOCES CIUDADANAS 664 49th Street Brooklyn NY 11220 NONE PC To build the collective power of migrants and other marginalized people by promoting community leadership and organizing, offering popular education programming and creating spaces to encourage dialogue so that social justice becomes a reality. 15000 WATERSHED CENTER-Mayday Community S 176 St Nicholas Ave Brooklyn NY 11237 NONE PC Although Mayday is still in its startup phase, weve been working to provide movements and grassroots groups with a supportive space to organize, create, build community and maximize their impact. 5000 GREENROOTS INC 227 Marginal Street Suite 1 Chelsea MA 02150 NONE PC GreenRoots is a community-based organization dedicated to improving and enhancing the urban environment and public health in Chelsea and surrounding communities. We do so through deep community engagement and empowerment, youth leadership and implementation of innovative projects and campaigns. 15000 DRUM - Desis Rising Up and Moving 72-18 Roosevelt Avenue Floor 2 Jackson Heights NY 11372 NONE PC DRUM has mobilized and built the leadership of thousands of low-income, South Asian and Indo-Caribbean immigrants to lead social and policy change that impacts their own lives- from immigrant rights to education reform, civil rights, and workers justice. 7000 Damayan Migrant Workers Association 406 West 40th Street 3rd Floor New York NY 10018 NONE PC Damayan empowers low-wage workers to fight for their labor, health, gender, and immigrant rights. Established in 2002, our purpose is to build leadership at the grassroots level to eliminate labor trafficking, fight labor fraud and wage theft, and to demand fair labor standards to achieve economic and social justice. 7000 Westchester MLK Institute 250 Bryant Ave White Plains NY 10605 NONE PC The Westchester Coalition for Police Reform (WCPR) is a group of concerned community organizations, religious institutions and individuals who share a vision to help build safe communities, with improved community-police relations and greater police accountability and transparency. 10000 Chainbreaker Collective PO Box 31666 Santa Fe NM 87594 NONE PC Funding would be used to support our Organizer Boot Camp pilot program, which will deep dive into the theory, skills and tactics of community organizing to prepare Chainbreaker members to be leaders for our Development Without Displacement civil rights an 10000 THIRD SECTOR NE-IMMIGRANT YOUTH COU 89 South Street 203 Boston MA 02111 NONE PC Immigrant teen leadership research and curriculum development 5000 New Labor Education and Training In 103 Bayard St 2nd Fl New Brunswick NJ 08901 NONE PC The Temp Tows for Justice Campaign will fight to improve conditions for temp workers in NJ by developing leaders to police the local temp/warehouse market through worker councils, creating worker health and safety committees with temp workers, and passing 15000 G-8 Inc PMB 1838 243 Calle Paris San Juan PR 00917 PC Loderes Jovenes en Accion (LIJAC) is one of the twelve community-based organizations within the G-8, Inc. aiming to develop leadership skills in youth from ages 11 to 21 and ensure continuity and sustainability of G-8, Inc through educational activitie 30000 ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUS-Alliance fo 8 W 126TH STREET 3RD FLR Brooklyn NY 11238 NONE PC Alliance of Families for Justice seeks to end mass incarceration by supporting, empowering and mobilizing families of incarcerated people and people with criminal records to marshal their advocacy and voting power to end human rights abuses in prisons and 10000 Contact Center 1227 Vine Street Cincinnati OH 45202 NONE PC The Food Security Through Jobs Campaign will organize for paid job training and jobs for food stamp recipients funded through the food stamp (SNAP) program at local, state and federal levels. 5000 Juvenile Justice Coalition PO Box 1016 Worthington OH 43085 PC Creating an internship program for youth organizing leaders who are at-risk of involvement or involved in the juvenile court system to transition our organization from adult-led to youth-led/adult-supported. 10000 Asian American Resource Workshop 42 Charles Street Suite D Dorchester MA 02122 PC The Activist Training Institute (ATI) is an organizing training and praxis program for Asian Pacific American (APA) young adults to gain skills and experience to become social justice and movement leaders. 7500 Duo Odeon 1030 NW 12th Ave 134 Portland OR 97209 PC Violinist Hannah Leland and pianist Aimee Fincher, together Duo Odvon, record their debut album featuring rare, never-before-recorded works by the American composer George Antheil and violinist Werner Gebauer. 4500 Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Act PO Box 1534 Kapaa HI 96746 NONE PC The Hawai`i Peoples Congress is building intersectional solidarity to forward social, environmental, and economic justice in Hawai`i. We enhance the power of resistance through a collaborative, multi-directional approach. 10000 Read Muskegon PO Box 1312 Muskegon MI 49443 PC Read Muskegon will establish a new program, training and employing a corps of our former adult learners to provide outreach into our local community in places like shelters, feeding programs, health clinics and churches to encourage more low literacy adul 5000 Columbia County Sanctuary Movement PO Box Hudson NY 12534 PC CCSM will launch a Family Preparedness Plan (FPP) and Know Your Rights Campaign which includes the printing, distribution, and completion of FPPs, expanding our network of legal services, and organizing Know Your Rights Trainings to empower immigrant fami 10000 Visualizing Impact 229 Niagara St Toronto ONTRAIO CA M6J 2L5 PC Visualizing Palestine seeks funds to apply data, technology, and design to strengthen human rights organizing in Palestine and Israel via a new Thematic Visualization program that focuses on rapid production and release around 3 themes: inequality, solida 10000 Restorative Justice Initiative PO Box 150-014 Brooklyn NY 11215 NONE PC Restorative justice community capacity-building in the Bronx to reduce violence and promote healing. 7000 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 2000 B'Tselem USA PO Box 34064 Washington DC 20043 NONE PC B'Tselem USA seeks funding to produce and distribute specialized video programming for Americans as a critical way of exposing the Israeli occupation and advocating for change. 10000 Building Wings PO Box 1866 Snohomish WA 98291 NONE PC Providing support, resources, and community to the loved ones of people in prison; advocating against the prison industry and campaigning for changes; breaking down statistics and stereotypes about the people impacted by the prison industry through person 10000 Centro de Trabajadores Unidos - Imm 9546 South Ewing Avenue Chicago IL 60617 PC CTU will develop a worker-owned cooperative incubator serving Chicagos southeast side, with a focus on supporting immigrant women. This will be incorporated into CTUs broader labor organizing strategy as an alternative for those who are systemically 10000 Connecticut Bail Fund 129 Church St Suite 416 New Haven CT 06511 PC Building Sanctuary Now is a community organizing model that brings together and educates the individuals who have been released from pretrial and immigration detention by our community bail funds. Participants learn to fight their own cases while identify 10000 Corrections Accountability Project 40 Rector Street 9th Floor New York NY 10019 PC Development of advocacy resources to expose and reduce the harms caused by the commercialization of our criminal legal system 10000 Robert Daniel Jones Refugee Center 521 w 126th St New York NY 10027 NONE PC The project will train 3 asylum seekers to be community organizers. Organizers will identify a problem in the asylum community and organize support among allies and other asylum seekers. They will also work with leaders in 10000 School of the Americas Watch Educat PO Box 43523 Washington DC 20010 NONE PC Utilizing our extensive national network, constituency base, and resources, SOAW will expose the contemporary Israeli role in U.S-backed militarization and state violence in the Americas by original reporting and fact-gathering, followed up by advocacy to 5860 Undeterred PO Box 231 Arivaca AZ 85601 NONE PC Funds will transform Undeterred, a border justice documentary film, into an organizing resource, creating a website and toolkit for educating and organizing against border militarization and a screening/ speaking tour to connect community leaders featured 10000 Warehouse Workers for Justice 37 S Ashland First Floor Chicago IL 60607 NONE PC The E-Commerce Strategy Center helps workers in online retail distribution centers build power to win good jobs, fair schedules, living wages and dignity at work. 15000 Washington Immigrant Solidarity Net 201 SW 153rd st Burien WA 98116 NONE PC WA Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN) will develop a web of organizations and communities in cities, small towns and rural areas around the state to train and prepare communities against Immigration and Customs Enforcement attacks and raids. 15000 Black Love Resists in the Rust 450 West Utica Street Buffalo NY 14213 NONE PC Abolish "The Strike Force", Buffalo Police Department's most deadly police unit, and invest in the community's safety. 10000 LGBTQ Black Immigrant Justice PO Box 70976 Oakland CA 94612 NONE PC A 2017 Soros Justice Fellowship fiscally sponsored by Transgender Law Center, Black LGBTQ Migrant Project uses leadership development and organizing to address the targeting of our community by the criminal law and immigration system, and our marginalizat 10000 395610 178137 408311 BANK ERROR REFUND 1 4767 591215 591215 false false false false false false false false false false KWLLC 5901 5901 0 5901 COMPUTER 2014-09-16 2328 1658 200DB 0.1152 268 EQUIPMENT 2017-06-15 1544 200DB 0.2000 309 Auto./Transportation Equip. 1637 Machinery and Equipment 3872 2235 1637 BANK CHARGES 44 44 FILING FEES-NY STATE DEPT. 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