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The campaign will be led by affected communities. 10000 Environment Justice Action Group 296 Jersey Street Buffalo NY 14201 NONE 501C3 For the work of the Grassroots Energy Democracy Initiative 10000 FIERCE NY 147 W 24th Street New York NY 10011 NONE 501C3 General Support 5000 Health Gap Coalition 429 W 127th Street 2nd Fl New York NY 10027 NONE 501C3 General Support 10000 Iqrit Community Association PO Box 2255 Kofor Yasif Kofor Yasif IS NONE Media, Website and PR materials for Iqrit's Access to Justice Campaign 10000 Itttijah Union of Arab Community-Ba Main Road PO Box 108 Tamra Tamra IS NONE Training grass roots organizations in the Bedouin community in the Negev 10000 Kyoto USA 800 Hearst Ave Berkeley CA 94710 NONE 501C3 Provide comprehensive technical support to public school districts and other community activists who are considering energy efficiency improvements and the installation of renewable energy systems in their schools. 10000 Long Island Jobs with Justice 390 Rabro Drive Hauppage NY 11788 NONE 501(C to organize Long Island disaster recovery workers from Superstorm Sandy, and to ensure that workers' right are respected on Sandy-related job sites. 10000 MataHari-Eye of the Day 1 Milk St 5th FL Boston MA 02111 NONE 501C3 Women's Cooperative Academy & Startup Incubator 10000 ME2orchestra Inc PO box 4560 Burlington VT 05406 NONE 501C3 Funding will be used to create and distribute a professionally-designed brochure and website for ME2/orchestra, the world's only classical music organization that uses exhilarating performances to erase the stigma surrounding mental illnesses. 7700 Middle East Children's Alliance 1101 8th Street Suite 100 Berkeley CA 94710 NONE 501C3 for children's relief in Gaza 10000 Mosaic Makers Inc 3312 Shelburne Road Baltimore MD 21208 NONE 501C3 Collaborating with impoverished W. Baltimore neighborhoods to create murals as a strategy to control their community and redirect the drug trade by creating mosaic murals 5000 New Vision Taxi Drivers Association 693 NE 167 St Miami FL 33162 NONE 501(C Participatory Action Research with Miami-Dade County Taxi Drivers 5000 New Yorkers Against the Cornell-Tec 80 CPW 15W New York NY 10023 NONE 501(C bi-weekly Google protests + Roosevelt Island expansion 4000 Nicholas Mottern 38 Jefferson Ave Hasting on Hudson NY 10706 NONE 501(C Creation of two eight-foot-long fiberglass replicas of the MQ-9 Reaper drone 6200 Organized and United for Respect at 1901 Lindell Ave Nashville TN 37203 NONE 501(C Organizing a worker=led movement for economic justice at Vanderbilt University 9000 Organizing Apprenticeship Project 2525 Franklin Avenue East Suite 30 Minneapolis MN 55406 NONE 501C3 This will support work with community partners in organizing youth and parents of color to engage in equity assessment and planning process with a set of schools in up to five districts in Minnesota, as part of a larger effort to create new equity standard for schools in our state. 4500 Parent Leadership Project 125 W 109th St New York NY 10025 NONE 501(C work for justice in public education by building power, leadership and organizing among low-income parents of color 10000 People's Justice for Community Cont 105 E 22nd Street Suite 103 New York NY 10010 NONE 501(C Cop Watch Alliance 8000 Picture the Homeless 2427 Morris Ave Bronx NY 10468 NONE 501(C general support 10000 Poughkeepsie Plenty 16 Bain Street Poughkeepsie NY 12601 NONE 501(C Mobilization meetings with diverse groups to increase awareness of food insecurity, understanding of the right to food and participation in food issue forums 7000 Recode 5272 N Interstate 411 Porland OR 97217 NONE 501(C trains residents in community organizing so they can engage in participatory democracy to transition Oregon to using performance based code 10000 REV 601 W 26th St New York NY 10001 NONE 501C3 Domestic employer online fair wage calculator and agreement generator 5000 Revision International 3735 Morrison Road Denver CO 80219 NONE 501C3 As part of a larger effort to build a community-owned food cooperative in Denvers Westwood neighborhood, Revision would use a Sparkplug Foundation grant to help establish an educational commercial kitchen, where low income families can learn to prepare and preserve locally grown produce for their own family nutritional needs and generate additional household income by turning any excess produce into sellable goods within the community. 10000 Safe Return Project 1000 MacDonald Ave Suite B Richmond CA 94801 NONE 501C3 to train 15 new formerly incarcerated leaders for public action 5000 Street Vendor Alliance of North Ame 123 William Street New York NY 10038 NONE 501(C To unify organizing efforts among street vendors, building more local power to win social and economic justice for street vendors, their families and communities. 10000 Student Global AIDS Campaign 12029 Heather Down Drive Herndon VA 20179 NONE 501(C organizing students and youth living with HIV to fight AIDS with political advocacy and direct action 10000 Student Leader Advocates of Music 3734 Vinton Ave 5 Los Angeles CA 90034 NONE 501(C curriculum and instrumental support to college student teachers in after school music program 4000 The Beehive Collective 101 Court St Machias ME 04654 NONE 501C3 movement building conference for artists doing social justice work 4000 The Freedom Theatre 1 School Street Jenin Middle East OC NONE Launching the Filmmaking unit in Jenin Refugee Camp to creating lasting stories that will reflect the true perspectives of the people of Jenin and hidden aspects of the wider Palestinian story. 10000 The Red Umbrella Project 3301 Chartres Street New Orleans LA 70117 NONE 501(C production of original theater piece based on experiences of trans women, written and performed by trans women via an eight-week workshop 10000 The Voice of the Ex-Offender 3301 Chartres Street New Orleans LA 70117 NONE 501C3 organizer development for legal education and civic engagement programs 10000 Tishreen PO Box 2203 Taybeh Taybeh IS NONE start-up funding to establish a group of Arab Palestinian women activists in Taybeh, Israel, who will serve as grassroots organizers. 10000 VOCAL 80-A Forth Ave Brooklyn NY 11217 NONE 501C3 general support of work organizing to end AIDS in New York City 5000 WESPAC Foundation 52 North Broadway White Plain NY 10603 NONE 501C3 general support of Adalah-NY 5000 Women in Trasition 806 E Chestnut Street Louisville KY 40204 NONE 501C3 Hire part-time fundraiser 5000 Social and Environmental Entreprene 23532 Calabasas Road Suite A Calabasas CA 91302 NONE 501C3 general support 7750 Disarat-the Arab Center for Law and PO Box 3190 Nazareth Nazareth IS NONE Dirasat will implement a series of training meetings and seminars for leaders of Arab student unions in Israeli universities designed to increase their ability to help their constituents realize their right to equal education. 10000 ISTV-Israel Social TV PO Box 341 Tel Aviv Middle East IS NONE Implementation of TV journalism as a tool to promote social struggle and the aspiration for peace. 10000 439480 165686 455 746456 912597 912597 false false false false false false false false false false 4790 4551 239 0 BANK CHARGES 79 75 4 FILING FEES-NEW YORK STATE DEP.OF LAW 250 238 12 INVESTMENT EXPENSE 88843 88843 4442 MISCELLANEOUS 180 171 9 OFFICE EXPENSE 294 279 15 PAYROLL SERVICE FEES 1464 1391 73 POSTAGE/DELIVERY 385 366 19 REIMBURSEMENT 89 85 4 TELEPHONE 449 427 22 TRAVEL 205 195 10 WEBSITE MAINTENANCE/FEES 1885 1791 94 1185 WORKER COMPENSATION 283 269 14 Other Investment Income 455 FEDERAL TAXES 8048 FOREIGN TAXES 3203 3203 PAYROLL TAXES 2295 2295