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CALL DATE: 10/15/2014 APPLICATION DATE: 10/31/2014 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 20400 JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE 147 Prince St Suite 17 BROOKLYN NY 11201 NONE PC GENERAL SUPPORT 6500 PEACEFUL UPRISING PO Box 521011 Salt Lake City UT 84152 NONE PC The launch of an ongoing training camp called Campaign Field School in eastern Utah, in which participants will develop and use nonviolent direct action and organizing skills to stop the firstTar sands mine in the U.S. 10000 GREATER FOUR CORNERS-Action for Reg 380 Washington St Dorchester Center MA 02124 NONE 501C3 Utilize up-to-date communication tools to build a stronger voice for good jobs . 5000 SOUTHERN MAINE WORKERS CENTER 68 Washington Ave PORTLAND ME 04101 NONE PC The Southern Maine Workers Center is a membership-led organization committed to creating a grassroots, people-powered movement that improves the lives, working conditions, and terms of employment for working And poor people in Maine through a combination of education, organizing and advocacy. 10000 PHILA POSH-The Philadelphia Workers 4509 Chester Ave Philadelphia PA 19143 NONE PC "To hire a full-time, experienced organizer to bring together a group of day laborers in North Philadelphia To challenge the recent increase in police interference at their job-seeking site and build a worker-led community organization." 10000 DATACENTER 1904 Franklin Street Suite 900 Oakland CA 94612 NONE PC "Increase trainings, toolkits and web based activities in order to strengthen DataCenters Sustainability and produce new research that supports social justice campaigns." 10000 Rockaway Wildfire 8000 Shore Frontkwy ROCKAWAY BEACH NY 11693 NONE PC "Fighting for jobs, affordable housing and a resilient community by advocating for community controlled Development in Rockaway, Queens." 10000 CAAAV-Organizing Asian Communities 55 Hester Street NEW YORK NY 10002 NONE PC "Organize project to develop the leadership of Asian tenants in New York City's public housing developments, and build a pan-Asian base to join a larger multi-racial fight for systemic and Institutional changes at NYCHA." 10000 NEW ISRAEL FUND-Al-Bir PO Box 53410 JERUSALEM MIDDLE EAST OC NONE PC "Training and mentorship for a network of 20 young activists from 10 rural Palestinian communities in the north of Israel who want to creatively advocate for their rights and The sustainability and dignity of their communities." 10000 alQaws PO Box 161610 Hanassi street 1st F Jerusalem MIDDLE EAST OC 91016 NONE NC "Production of music videos from our social change initiative, using them to develop Educational activities and content we provide to partner civil society organizations." 10000 Barelas Community Coalition PO Box 7547 Albuquerque NM 87194 NONE NC Bolster efforts to supply affordable housing in a low-income neighborhood at risk of gentrification. 10000 Brandworkers 45-02 23rd Street 2 LONG ISLAND CITY NY 11101 NONE PC "Assessment and curriculum design of an autonomous women's leadership development Program for workers in food production and distribution industry." 5000 Environmental Justice Coalition for PO Box 188911 Sacramento CA 95818 NONE PC "Grassroots community organizing, capacity- and coalition-building toward the realization Of the human right to water and sanitation in California." 10000 Families and Friends of Louisiana 1600 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd New Orleans LA 70113 N/A PC "FFLIC's goal is to build a movement to stop the school to prison pipeline. We are requesting funding to support our 50-2017 Campaign. We will work to reduce out-of-school suspensions Of our children across LA increasing our membership base to enhance education and juvenile justice reform efforts." 10000 Freedom Archives 522 Valencia St San Francisco CA 94110 NONE PC "Chican@as and cointelpro: a new film exploring the history of government repression Against the Chican@ liberation struggle." 5000 Idaho Community Action Network 3450 Hill Road Boise ID 83704 NONE PC Three-year rural strategy outreach project in North Idaho to organize in new unserved communities. 10000 ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUST-Mashjar Ju 225 EAST 26TH STREET TUCSON AZ 85713 NONE PC Engage and empower Palestinian communities to learn clean, green environmental practices. 9960 WHEELOCK MOUNTAIN FARM-Migrant Just 91 WEST WHEELOCK ROAD GREENSBORO VT 05842 NONE PC "Launch of ""Human Rights for Food Justice"" campaign to create and enforce a set of ""milk with dignity"" Standards with guidance from the extremely successful model of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (FLA)." 10000 Queer Detainee Empowerment Project 4 Metrotech Center Attn QDEP BROOKLYN NY 11201 NONE PC "This is our first year operating, as we launched in January of 2014; thus this grant would go towards paying the salary for our community organizer, so that they can work to establish a strong organizing Base in the queer/trans people of color immigrant community in NYC." 10000 Rural and Migrant Ministry Inc PO Box 4757 Poughkeepsie NY 12602 NONE PC "The Farmworker Organizing Center empowers farmworkers in New York as they organize to win dignity and labor rights by ending racist exclusion from many statewide laws, such as denial of the right to overtime Pay or even a day of rest each week." 10000 Sacramento Regional CoalitionTo End 1331 Garden HighwaySuite 100 Sacramento CA 95833 NONE PC "Homeless Civil Rights Project - conduct discrimination survey - discrimination by law enforcement - belongings confiscated, citation, arrest; businesses, direct service providers [HIV/AIDS, sexual orientation, Transgender & immigration status] Goal is develop civil rights campaign based on results" 10000 ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE-UNIDOS 225 EAST 26TH STREET Tucson AZ 85713 NONE PC "Access to Mexican-indigenous educational program services (MAS) banned by the State of Arizona and an Accompanying organizer training to preserve and expand the curriculum, despite illegality." 9600 RES PUBLICA-Wildfire Project 857 Broadway 3FL New York NY 10003 NONE 501C3 National convening of front-line groups organizing around economic, social, and ecological justice 10000 OAK HILL CDC-Worcester Green Low In 74 PROVIDENCE STREET Worcester MA 01604 NONE PC "A community organizer will continue to link together energy efficiency programs and funding sources with the aging building stock of the extremely low-income. This will include advocacy efforts on energy programs, Direct work helping housing partners, research, and publication of replicable results" 10000 SYRACUSE CENTER-Wks' Center of CeN 2013 E GENESEE ST Syracuse NY 13210 NONE PC "To advance our outreach to low-wage workers in Syracuse - particularly in the high-growth service industries Of retail, restaurant and hospitality - and to build a larger, more active, and more diversified membership." 10000 7amleh POBox 99604 Haifa OC 31996 NONE NC "Establish a training project of 6 workshops, enabling Palestinian activists throughout Israel and the Opt for increased social media tools to address human rights abuses." 15000 STUDENT FARMWORKER-Alliance Fair Fo PO Box 603 Immokalee FL 34143 NONE PC "Growing and strengthening the ally network of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and building Upon the successes of the Campaign for Fair Food to work for justice for farmworkers nationwide" 10000 PEACE DEV'L FUND-Art Forces PO BOX 40250 SAN FRANSICO CA 94140 NONE PC "Creating a globally accessible multimedia archive on access to water, based on a year of media education Workshops offered in partnership with Palestine's EWASH: Emergency Water Sanitation Hygiene in the Gaza Strip and West Bank and the International Indian Treaty Council in the US" 15000 API WELLNESS CENTER-Asian Pacific I 730 POLK ST SAN FRANCISCO CA 94109 NONE PC "Establishing an intergenerational oral history project that explores queer Asian Pacific IslandersAnd their experiences with love and activism from the 60s-90s." 10000 FACTS ED FUND-California Families 1137 E Redondo Blvd Inglewood CA 90302 NONE PC "Developing CFASC from a start-up to a sustainable organization and expanding it to involve family members of All those who are incarcerated in addition to the family members of those in solitary confinement with the launch Of the Family Unity Network as a project of CFASC." 10000 Community Reporting Alliance Alliance20 West Avenue Chester NY 10918 NONE PC Library-based, youth-ed community news project in Ferguson, MO, where young people can use journalism tools with Professional support to explore local subjects that matter to them and to their community. 10000 Food Chain Workers Alliance 1730 W Olympic Blvd 300 Los Angeles CA 90015 NONE SO I "The pilot four-day training program of the new Food Justice Education Project will develop 8 worker-leaders, Who will then train others in their workplaces and communities to broaden worker participation in the food justice Movement in order to positively transform the food system for all." 10000 GREATER HOMEWOOD-Force-Upsetting 3503 N CHARLES ST Baltimore MD 21218 NONE PC "An educational program to train leaders to mobilize their communities in publicly supporting survivors of sexual abuse and rape as part Of The Monument Quilt, a crowd-sourced public art project to help survivors reconnect with their communities and provide public healing space" 10000 CRENULATED CO-New Settlement P A C 247 WEST 37TH STREET 4TH FL NEW YORK NY 10018 NONE PC "The District 9 New Teacher Mentoring Initiative is an innovative initiative coordinated by the New Settlement Parent Action Committee (PAC) That will train teacher mentors and pilot community-led professional development for educators on family engagement in a struggling Bronx District." 10000 Prison Justice League PO Box 49988 Austin TX 78765 NONE PC "Development of the Prisoner Resource and Organizing Center (PROC) to challenge inhumane conditions inside prisons, educate And train community members impacted by incarceration, and holds the state accountable for actions that support mass incarceration." 10000 SEVENTH GENERATION FUND-Sacred Plac PO BOX 4569 ARCATA CA 95518 NONE PC "To convene and catalyze tribal communities and regional and global partners to bring awareness to and contribute Possible solutions to both the local and global issue of industrial scale development on desert ecosystem." 10000 SF World Music Festival 1007 General Kennedy Ave SUITE 215 San Francisco CA 94129 NONE 501C3 "To launch THE XI PEI KUN IMMIGRANT MASTERS INITIATIVE, which will provide under-employed Bay Area immigrant music Masters with the professional development services and job opportunities to help them survive and grow a thriving music career in America." 10000 THOMAS MANN CENTER-Shalefield Justi 5129 PENN AVENUE PITTSBURGH PA 15224 NONE PC "Bringing together college students, people from the front lines of Environmental Justice struggles, and Environmental Justice Organizers for a week of education and movement building." 7500 GRAND ASPIRATIONS-Soulardarity 413 WACOUTA STREET STE 400 ST PAUL MN 55102 NONE PC "For leadership and membership development and co-op education of a self-sustaining cooperative pursuing community-owned solar Streetlights and collaborative solutions to energy poverty in Highland Park, MI - a small city inside of Detroit." 10000 Stonewall Youth PO Box 7383 Olympia WA 98507 NONE PC "Building and sharing a sustainable model of youth organizing: providing the training, resources and support necessary For youth within Stonewall Youth." 8500 PEOPLE'S COMM ORG-Ugnayan Youth 300 W CESAR CHAVEZ AVENUE LOS ANGELES CA 90012 NONE PC "Providing leadership/community organizing training to low-income/working class youth of Philippine ancestry in NYC through Our 6-week summer internship program and consistent weekly youth organizing and programming throughout the year." 12000 UNITED METHODIST-Workers' Advice 475 RIVERSIDE DR RM 1503 NEW YORK NY 10115 NONE 503C3 "Workforce training and empowerment workshops for Palestinian women in Israel to teach them how to advocate for themselves, Identify employment, work with employers, and overcome obstacles to working outside the village." 10000 Center for Constitutional Rights 666 Broadway 7th floor New York NY 10012 NONE PC General support 3000 CENTER FOR NEW IDEAS-Hands Up Unite 438 N Skinker St St Louis MO 63130 NONE NC General support 3000 US Campaign to End the Occupation PO Box 21539 WASHINGTON DC 20009 NONE PC General support 1500 Bronx Freedom Fund 260 E 161st Street Bronx NY 10451 NONE PC General support 5000 NEW WORLD FOUNDATION-Justice League 666 West End Avenue New York NY 10025 NONE PC General support 3000 Health Gap 429 W 127th St 2nd Fl New York NY 10027 NONE PC General support 4000 VOCAL 80-A Forth Ave Brooklyn NY 11217 NONE PC general support of work organizing to end AIDS in New York City 1100 Picture the Homeless 2427 Morris Ave BRONX NY 10468 NONE PC GENERAL SUPPORT 5000 SE UPLIFT-Recode 5272 N Interstate 411 Porland OR 97217 NONE PC trains residents in community organizing so they can engage in participatory democracy to transition Oregon to using performance based code 10000 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 485060 10 158129 3351 740330 901820 901820 false false false false false false false false false false KWLLC 1313 1247 66 0 COMPUTER 2014-09-16 2328 200DB 0.2000 466 Auto./Transportation Equip. 1862 Machinery and Equipment 2328 466 1862 BANK CHARGES 289 275 14 FILING FEES-NEW YORK STATE DEP.OF LAW 250 238 12 INVESTMENT EXPENSE 97765 97765 4888 MEETING EXPENSES 177 168 9 OFFICE EXPENSE 426 405 21 PAYROLL SERVICE FEES 1440 1368 72 POSTAGE/DELIVERY 399 379 20 REIMBURSEMENT 168 160 8 TELEPHONE 495 470 25 WEBSITE MAINTENANCE/FEES 11892 11297 595 11892 WORKER COMPENSATION 352 334 18 Other Investment Income 3351 267 267 FEDERAL TAXES 8278 7864 414 FOREIGN TAXES 2483 2359 124 PAYROLL TAXES 2996 2846 150