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CALL DATE: 10/15/2015 APPLICATION DATE: 10/31/2015 SPARKPLUG FOUNDATION MAKES GRANTS ONLY FOR SEED MONEY, OR TO LAUNCH NEW IDEAS WITHIN EXISTING PROJECTS--THERE ARE ALSO RESTICTIONS ON WHAT TYPE OF EXPENSE WHICH THEY WILL FUND WESPAC Foundation 52 North Broadway White Plain NY 10603 NONE PC general support of Adalah-NY 300 SYRACUSE CENTER-Wks' Center of CeN 232 E Onondaga St 2nd Floor Syracuse NY 13202 NONE PC The WCCNY will galvanize the New York Dairy Worker Campaign, a public education effort, by convening three regional meetings of farmworkers, with trainers in organizing and campaign development, to help workers define their goals, hone base building strategies, and engage in leadership development. 15000 Picture the Homeless 104 E 126th St NEW YORK NY 10025 NONE PC GENERAL SUPPORT 15000 STOREHOUSE OF HOPE-N END WOODWARD C 341 WESTMINSTER DETROIT MI 48202 NONE PC Purchase of software and salaries of both a project manager to organize resident members to operate the station and a grassroots fundraising advisor to build capacity of resident members to create awareness and engage community in participating in and creating programming 7000 IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR PO BOX 3565 NEW YORK NY 10008 NONE PC IVAW will establish a Veterans Speaker's Bureau to aid in the development of our veteran community while educating and providing tools to the public to counteract U.S. militarism at home and abroad. 10000 MECA - Nawa for Culture and Arts As Gaza Strip Deir El-Balah Al-Berka Deir el -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. 10000 The Art of the Early Keyboard-ARTEK 170 WEST 73RD STREET 3C NEW YORK NY 10023 NONE PC ARTEK will present multi-media, semi-staged performances based on the life and poetry of the celebrated Italian Renaissance poet, Torquato Tasso: Melancholia/Follia. 10000 QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA 7340 Laurel Oak Lane CINCINNATI OH 45237 NONE PC An audience development initiative in order to expand awareness and sustainable earned revenue sources for Queen City Chamber Opera. 5000 ABOLISHIONIST LAW CENTER-Amistad La PO BOX 9148 PITTSBURGH PA 19139 NONE PC Co-creation of an organizing training by incarcerated and outside organizers to inform the family members and loved ones of people serving life without parole sentences of the current movement and political landscape, and teach them basic and intermediate organizing skills. 13753 GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP - Youth Rise 2301 E Cesar Chavez St AUSTIN TX 78702 NONE PC Youth Rise Texas is developing the leadership and organizing capacity of youth directly affected by parental incarceration and deportation. Youth Rise uses popular education, mentorship, organizing, and creative cultural production to challenge mass incarceration and immigrant criminalization. 10000 NETWORK ON WOMEN IN PRISON-Californ 1540 MARKET ST SUITE 490 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94102 NONE NC Spitfire provides speaking opportunities for formerly incarcerated women and transpeople to share about incarceration and re-entry challenges. As those most impacted by the PIC, their personal stories and perspectives are central in our movement to foster change toward social justice for all people. 10000 THE SPACE AT TOMPKINS-The Persist H 147 Prince Street BROOKLYN NY 11201 NONE PC This grant will fund Persist Health Project's leadership and membership development, as well as political education workshops, for people with experience in the New York City sex trades. These efforts will focus on health & human rights issues for people in the sex trades. 15000 GLOBALEXCHANGEDALIA-Aid Watch Pales Post Office Box 2394 Ramallah PALESTINE OC NONE PC Aid Watch Palestine is an independent, civil society initiative to make international aid accountable to Palestiniansstarting with reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. We invite critical and constructive scrutiny of aid so we can liberate ourselves from aid that harms and focus on long-term solutions. 10000 GREATER BOSTON LEGAL-MASS COAL DOM 197 FRIEND STREET BOSTON MA 02114 NONE PC Grassroots organizing and mobilization of domestic workers in Massachusetts be selected worker leaders 10000 PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY 13330 S CORLISS AVE CHICAGO IL 60827 NONE PC Organizing for the Preservation of Public and Low Income Affordable Housing in the Riverdale Community Area of the City of Chicago. Our goal in the creation of a tenant assoication for the neighborhood of Concordia Place Apartment and to force the renvation of 648 vacant unit in Altgeld Gardens. 10000 CLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NY 52 LINWOOD BUFFALO NY 14209 NONE PC Funds will be used to organize residents who live next to an abandoned American Axel plant that is leaking PCBs to win a clean up the site and force the current company operating on the site to develop and emergency management plan. 10000 NEW ENERGY ECONOMY 343 EAST ALAMEDA SANTA FE NM 87501 NONE PC A new organizing and advocacy campaign to develop a unique model of energy choice in NM that will transform and enable communities to exercise their rights to pursue renewable energy alternatives through a combination of municipal energy policy and statewide community choice aggregation legislation 15000 PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS NEIGHBORH 237 Flatbush Ave 193 BROOKLYN NY 11217 NONE PC BEFORE ITS GONE // TAKE IT BACK: Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification (B4G) is the only Brooklyn-wide anti-gentrification neighborhood and online organizing campaign 10000 GREAT SMALL WORKS-Mariposa and the 648 Prospect Place 4R BROOKLYN NY 11216 NONE PC We are seeking funding for the national tour of our play: Mariposa & the Saint; From Solitary Confinement, A Play Through Letters,? which connects audiences to one womans story through her own words, then inspires them to take collective action to end solitary confinement in their state. 10000 MEDIA ISLAND INTERNATIONAL 816 ADAMS STREET OLYMPIA WA 98501 NONE NC Forming the "Cascade Radio Network" and strengthening the backbone of northwest low power community radio collaboration with a much needed strategic infrastructure project to raise the power of the KOWA antennae giving it new importance in the capitol city of Olympia. 10000 SOCIAL GOOD FUND - Amy LaCour 624 Brooklyn Ave 307 OAKLAND CA 94606 NONE PC Any Place But Here is a song cycle, composed for alto voice and string quartet, and using African American poetry as lyric, that tells the story of a fictional African American man leaving the rural South and heading to an unnamed city during the years of the Great Migration. 10000 BILLINGS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORALE 2721 2ND AVENUE NORTH SUITE 350 BILLINGS MT 59101 NONE PC Our Tutti Behind Walls project will teach guitar lessons to women who are incarcerated in the Montana State Women's Prison in Billings, MT, giving the residents a chance to gain a basic understanding of guitar techniques, which will provide the groundwork for more advanced playing upon release. 5000 A BETTER WAY FDTN - Hearing Youth V PO BOX 615 NEW LONDON CT 06320 NONE PC My Black is Beautiful is a space for New London to engage in critical analysis and celebration of Blackness, and eventually develop a platform and organizing strategies to work towards Black safety in our city. 7500 SANKOFA FOUNDATION-Racial Justice N PO Box 60261 DAYTON OH 45406 NONE PC RJN! seeks to continue the work of strategically centering the most impacted parents as leaders in transforming educational outcomes for their children in the state of Ohio and Dayton community in particular. 7500 RELEASE AGING PEOPLE IN PRISON - RA 2090 ADAM CLAYTON POWELL BLVD 200 NEW YORK NY 10027 NONE NC The work involved grassroots organizing, building collaborations with community-based organizations, and general education on the issues. This entails doing workshops, presentations, legislative hearings, and lobbying key players. 12000 SOCIALLY EQUAL ENERGY EFFICIENT DEV 1617 DANDRIDGE KNOXVILLE TN 37915 NONE PC Building and launching a citizens' organization for energy democracy in Knoxville, Tennessee 9900 WESPAC - Palestinian Youth Movement 1136 W Blaine Street apt 101 RIVERSIDE CA 92507 PC This summer, PYM will host the first ever "Youth Leadership Summer School: Palestinian and Arab Youth Transforming Theory into Practice." The school is a seven day long intensive program in Riverside, CA and includes political education, cultural empowerment and organizational training. 12000 WESPAC - IJAN PO Box 29724 OAKLAND CA 94604 PC IJAN would use Sparkplug funding to print and tour our just released and highly acclaimed 120 page report, The Business of Backlash: The Attack on the Palestinian and Other Movements for Justice, and to complete and print an accessible primer on the politics and history of Jewish anti-Zionism. 4000 WESPAC - Transforming Lives 752 East Mountain Rd South COLD SPRING NY 10516 PC A program created by three inmates at Eastern Prison to help other inmates get in rehabilitation and journal about it so that they have a record of their activities when they go before the parole board and then go for jobs. Currently rehab is not happening, for most, because of prison politics. 6000 WESPAC - Freedom Food Alliance 4872 Route 9g GERMANTOWN NY 12526 PC Funds will help us formalize our alliance of farmers, organizers, students, prisoners and prison families and purchase a green vehicle that will provided transportation and food to familiesfriend of people incarcerated. 15000 NEW ISREAL FUND - 972 Magazine 40 Shderot Chen Tel Aviv MIDDLE EAST IS 64167 PC 972 Magazine's Advancement of Citizen Journalism is a non-profit grassroots journalism initiative aiming to expose local and overseas audiences to underreported events and perspectives in Israel and Palestine. It maintains two digital magazines: +972 Magazine (English) and Local Call (Hebrew). 10000 ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE-FOSSIL 4840 Walton Ave Philadelphia PA 19143 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. 12250 317203 150439 287 515054 665780 665780 false false false false false false false false false false KWLLC 5131 2565 0 2566 COMPUTER 2014-09-16 2328 466 200DB 0.3200 745 Auto./Transportation Equip. 1117 Machinery and Equipment 2328 1211 1117 BANK CHARGES 39 39 FILING FEES-NEW YORK STATE DEP.OF LAW 250 250 INVESTMENT EXPENSE 94159 94159 MEETING EXPENSES 675 675 OFFICE EXPENSE 203 203 PAYROLL SERVICE FEES 1512 1512 1512 POSTAGE/DELIVERY 351 351 351 REIMBURSEMENT 68 68 TELEPHONE 1431 1431 715 WEBSITE MAINTENANCE/FEES 11149 11149 11149 WORKER COMPENSATION 463 463 463 Other Investment Income 287 ROUNDING 1 FEDERAL TAXES 7882 7882 FOREIGN TAXES 4300 4300 PAYROLL TAXES 5355 5355 5355