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We work to organize around the structural barriers and state violence that LGBTQI detainee/undocumented folks face related to their immigration status, race, sexuality, and gender expression/ identity. 500 Picture the Homeless 104 E 126th St NEW YORK NY 10025 NONE PC GENERAL SUPPORT 5300 TISHREEN SOUTHERN 24 STREET PO BOX 2203 TAYBEH TAYBEH IS 4040000 NONE NC TO ESTABLISH A GROUP OF ARAB PALESTINNIAN WOMEN ACTIVISTS IN TAYBEH ISREAL WHO WILL SERVE AS GRASSROOTS ORGANIZERS 10000 CIVIC PO BOX 40677 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94140 NONE 501C3 TO END THE ISOLATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES OF PEOPLE IN US IMMIGRATION AND DETENTION 10000 MECA - Nawa for Culture and Arts As Gaza Strip Deir Al-Balah Al-Berka Deir Al Balah PALESTINE OC NONE PC To purchase children library materials for the children library in Deir el Balah, mid of the Gaza Strip in Al-Khidr Monastery (1700 years) which is expected to be restored by the Riwaq Center in May 2015. Nawa for Culture and Arts already guaranteed the financial resources for the furniture. 5000 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. 10000 THIRD SECTOR NE- LAWRENCE DREAM NET 89 South St 700 Boston MA 02111 NONE PC LDN will expand a series of workshops to young, underemployed, underutilized,or underachieving adults and groups to address unpacking the cumulative effect of social and environmental injustices, and its impact on the current functioning of individuals, groups, and the broader community. 10000 TRANSPARENT PO Box 16685 St Louis MO 63105 NONE PC TransParent will: work toward increasing the visibility of the Transgender Community by the development of 5 TransParent Chapters; provide support to the parents in order to help them move from a place of isolation to a place of advocacy in each of their communities; and implementation of Medical 10000 MVEN - FAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEAL 41 West Street Suite 700 Boston MA 02111 NONE PC Implementation of Block-by-Block, an organizing tool which brings forward the voices of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women in dialogue about what criminal justice reform should look like and, once engaged, enables them to work for strategic change. communities. 10000 UNION OF MINORITY - New Start Proje 42 Seaverns Avenue Jamaica Plain MA 02130 NONE PC Mentor and move re-entry residents and allies to action using their first hand experience to organize for increased access to housing and employment resources and advocate for the creation of just re-entry policies. 10000 PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK OF PO Box 2249 Worcester MA 01613 NONE PC PHENOM is launching a three-year campaign to win free, accessible, and high-quality public higher education in Massachusetts by uniting and mobilizing students, staff, faculty, alumni, and the larger community. 10000 CEL EDU-Colibr Center for Human Rig 1330 BROADWAY ST NO 300 OAKLAND CA 94612 NONE PC Providing training in organizing, leadership, and media to family members of migrants who have died or disappeared attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. 12305 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. 5000 C4RJ - Thrive Communities of Massac 219 Walden St Concord MA 01742 NONE PC Thrive will use funds to develop a 2 day restorative reentry training for CoSA program volunteers.and organize a leadership team among adults who have been incarcerated to advise Thrive's board, plan activities to engage the larger community, and work to change the stigma of incarceration. 10000 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. 12000 OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL - RECO 222 NW Davis St 309 Portland OR 97209 NONE PC The train the trainers program, trains residents in community organizing so they can engage in partipatory democracy to transition Oregon to using performance based codes. 10000 PUENTE - MIJENTE 1937 W Adams St Phoenix AZ 85009 NONE PC Start-up support for Mijente to serve as a hybrid digital and grassroots organizing hub with the goal of driving immigrant and U.S. born Latinx and Chicanx people to take action for racial, economic, climate and gender justice. 10000 COMMUNITY POWER NETWORK 3166 Mt Pleasant St NW Washington DC 20010 NONE PC To build, and promote locally based renewable energy projects and policies. 7500 BROOKLYN MOVEMENT CENTER 375 Stuyvesant Ave Brooklyn NY 11233 NONE PC The work to be funded is the Police Accountability Working Group (PAW). PAW is a leadership group of BMC members working to resist abusive policing and the criminalization of Central Brooklyn residents, while building an alternative peace-keeping culture on the streets of Central Brooklyn. 10000 NLG - The Parole Preparation Projec 132 Nassau St Ste 922 New York NY 10038 NONE PC The Parole Preparation Project seeks to address the crisis of mass incarceration by collaborating with and advocating for the release of people serving life sentences in New York State (NYS) prisons. 10000 FLUSHING WORKERS CENTER PO Box 528119 Flushing NY 11355 NONE PC The Wage Law Enforcement Project will organize workers who are victims of wage theft, to be the cornerstone of labor law enforcement measures, and to win back stolen wage and prevent wage theft from happening in future. 15000 URBAN SURVIVORS UNION 1114 Grove St Greensboro NC 27403 NONE PC With these requested funds we will host the first annual Urban Survivor's Union- Leadership Summit. We will highlight the importance of drug user unions and hold a training for people who work with drug users. This will be a one of a kind opportunity for North Carolina professionals and drug users. 12000 DIRECT ACTION FOR RIGHTS AND EQUALI 340 Lockwood St Providence RI 02907 NONE PC DARE requests funding for a new organizing campaign led by directly affected people to reduce barriers to prisoner re-entry and to challenge mass incarceration, by ending the discriminatory ban of individuals with a criminal record from subsidized housing by the Providence Housing Authority. 12000 INDEPENDENT ARTS - Ohlone Profiles 830 Treat Ave San Francisco CA 94110 NONE PC Native Plants _and_ Native Culture: Ohlone tribal song groups will learn to restore native plants and bring their planting songs and dances to Candlestick Park, near 16 village sites, and take a step towards inclusion in Park and Rec. jobs with a tribal economic development plan for San Francisco. 10000 ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL-Southern Arizon 225 E 26th St Suite 1 Tucson AZ 85713 NONE PC Exposing the design and policy framework of the trilateral (US-Israel-Mexico) homeland security complex on the US-Mexico border, named Global Advantage, along with its military-corporate leaders,. 4700 ABOLITIONIST - Campaign to Fight To 433 South Main St Gainesville FL 32601 NONE PC The Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons (FTP) is organizing at the intersections of environmental injustice, climate change, pollution and mass incarceration by challenging the construction and operation of prisons with grassroots organizing, litigation and direct action. 15000 THIRD SECTOR NE - Muslim Justice Le 51 Melcher Street Boston MA 02210 NONE PC Cultivation of action committees -- focusing on health justice, education justice and other sectors -- to advocate against so-called "Countering Violent Extremism" (CVE) campaigns which target Muslim and other marginalized groups and police dissent. 13338 THE FREEDOM SUMMER TEACHING FELLOWS 3 COMMERCIAL COURT BOSTON MA 02109 NONE PC This amount will allow us to send two teachers to one of our four learning sites. 5000 MECA - Shoruq Organization Gaza Strip Deir Al Balah Al-Berka Deir Al Balah PALESTINE OC NONE PC Shoruq Organization will to bring a group of 18 young "debka" dancers and a girls' hip-hop group to tour the US in 2017 to educate people in the U.S., connect Palestinian refugees with U.S. social justice activists, build leadership skills, and raise funds for Shoruq. 10000 FROM THE GROUND UP FARMS 1692 Mangrove Ave 105 Chico CA 95926 NONE PC Gardening and Nutrition Education Programs 5000 SOUTHSIDE PRESBYTERIAN-Southside Wo 317 W 23rd St Tucson AZ 85713 NONE PC Equipping undocumented workers to found a wage theft and barrio defense clinic to recover back-wages, stop deportations and grow our base of migrant workers and organizers in Tucson, Arizona. 9000 WORKERS DIGNITY PROJECT 335 Whitsett Rd Nashville TN 37210 NONE PC The Sparkplug Foundation grant will fund a short-term salary to train Nashville-area housekeeping workers in organizing worksite committees, developing demands, and developing strategy to improve wages and conditions through the Construction-to-Cleaning campaign. 10000 US CLIMATE PLAN - VIRGINIA STUDENT 50 F STREET NW SUITE 700 WASHINGTON DC 20001 NONE PC A weekend long convergence for education, communication, and strategic planning for the Fall of 2016. 825 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. 10000 APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER 32 Broadway Suite 1801 New York NY 10004 NONE PC to popularize the need for racial justice and prepare people to fight for it. By telling the stories of everyday people, ARC is a voice for unity and fairness in the structures that affect our lives. 450 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 FRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS 699 Ranstead Street Suite 4 Philadelphia PA 19106 NONE PC FOFs defensores training institute the first of its kind in Pennsylvania seeks to strengthen the power of community leaders by equipping them with the legal knowledge and tools they need to combat common injustices in their communities. 10000 ROGERS PARK COMMUNITY ACTION - IMPR 6951 N Sheridan Rd Chicago IL 60626 NONE PC Organizing disabled paratransit riders and paratransit drivers, to form a Rider-Driver Alliance to improve the quality and accountability of transportation for people with disabilities in Illinois. 10000 ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE 225 E 26th St Suite 1 Tucson AZ 85713 NONE PC Research, inform, and organize to stop the US export of its prison model of mass incarceration with a focus on Latin America. We call the US model Prison Imperialism. 5000 SOUL SISTERS LEADERSHIP COLLECTIVE 1860 VENICE PARK DR APT 208 NORTH MIAMI FL 33181 NONE PC Funding will cover administering and facilitating program for our Miami Youth Leaders Board (YLB) and our new Jackson, Mississippi YLB. YLB members craft program design, organize with local coalitions, choose campaign topics, lead social action projects and co-facilitate workshops. 8200 SOCIAL ENVI - Local Clean Energy Al 436 14th Street Suite 1216 Oakland CA 94612 NONE PC Building a strong stakeholder association of organizations in communities that are most impacted by climate change to advocate for and help shape a Community Choice energy program that provides economic, environmental, and social justice benefits to East Bay communities. 12500 GIRLS ROCK PHILLY - Lifelines-Voice PO Box 40764 Philadelphia PA 19107 NONE PC LifeLines: Voices Against the Other Death Penalty is a media/cultural project working to end Life Without Parole in Pennsylvania by highlighting the voices and analysis of people serving LWOP sentences. 9000 LATINO UNION - Healing to Action 4811 N CENTRAL PARK AVE CHICAGO IL 60625 NONE PC Pilot a sustainable worker leadership development model with three grassroots organizations in Chicagoland, building their capacity to give low-wage workers a collective healing space, resources and organizing support to ignite solutions to fight gender violence in their communities. 10000 AYNI INSTITUTE - 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. 15000 SUSTAINABLE MARKETS-Cooperative Eco 45 West 36th Street 6th Floor New York NY 10018 NONE PC CEANYC believes those most impacted by systemic oppression should lead, thus our focus is to develop the leadership skills and culture of our members. Our primary vehicle for advancing this focus is the Cooperative Leadership Institute. 13000 ALHUQUQ CENTER Keren Hayesud 5/2 Beersheva Negev IS 84895 NONE PC one stop site for all information about and for Bedouin 5200 PENNSYLVANIA IMMIGRATION - MILPA 2100 Arch Street 4th Floor Philadelphia PA 19103 NONE PC Our principle focus is changing the law to allow drivers licenses for undocumented Pennsylvanians, and building the community network infrastructure (local committees, statewide coordination, community sustainership and education program) that is the foundation of our collective power. 15000 WHEELOCK MOUNTAIN FARM - MIGRANT JU W Wheelock Rd Lyndonville VT 05851 NONE PC The Human Rights Promoters program will travel to dairy farms providing farmworker-to-farmworker education to workers in Vermonts dairy industry on their labor and housing rights in the Milk with Dignity program. 15000 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 462818 218266 20 670870 889156 889156 false false false false false false false false false false KWLLC 5338 2669 0 2669 COMPUTER 2014-09-16 2328 1211 200DB 0.1920 447 Auto./Transportation Equip. 670 Machinery and Equipment 2328 1658 670 BANK CHARGES 96 96 FILING FEES-NEW YORK STATE DEP.OF LAW 250 250 INVESTMENT EXPENSE 83342 83342 MEETING EXPENSES 533 533 PAYROLL SERVICE FEES 1516 1516 1516 POSTAGE/DELIVERY 444 444 444 STORAGE 948 948 SUPPLIES 758 758 TELEPHONE 1628 1628 814 WEBSITE MAINTENANCE/FEES 5326 5326 5326 WORKER COMPENSATION 430 430 430 Other Investment Income 20 FEDERAL TAXES 9470 9470 FOREIGN TAXES 2895 2895 PAYROLL TAXES 5355 5355 5355