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CALL DATE: 10/15/2012 APPLICATION DATE: 10/31/2012 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 Jumpstart 1801 Avenue of the Stars Suite 210 Los Angeles CA 90067 NONE to support the Project Hayei Sarah 5000 ROSC 161 Stovepipe Alley Monroe ME 04951 NONE Sustainability and expansion of Maine prisoner-and community-directed corrections and judicial reforms to increase democratic rights for all Mainers. 4985 Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation 2013 E Genesee Street Syracuse NY 13210 NONE to develop a broad alliance between the Haudenosaunee and New York State residents with the goals of honoring native treaties and protecting the Earth. 10000 Mid South Peace Justice Center 573 Southern Ave Memphis TN 38111 NONE support development of a co-operative screenprinting business to empower and employ individuals 10000 Brazilian Immigrant Center 14 Harvard Avenue 2nd Floor Allston MA 02134 NONE 501C3 To launch the Domestic Workers Project of Fairfield County, to organize Domestic Workers. 10000 Prasant Radhakrishnan Ensemble 401 Monte Vista Avenue Apt 303 Oakland CA 94611 NONE Creation of original work combining jazz and South Indian classical Carnatic music. 5000 PCASC 2249 E Burnside St Portland OR 97214 NONE 501C3 to amplify public awareness of the PCASCs Prison Divestment Campaign. 10000 Casa Libre en la Solana 228 N 4th Avenue 2 Tucson AZ 85705 NONE 501C3 Implementation of book donation boxes and teach-ins to educate communities both inside and outside of prison 10000 Rabbis for Human Rights-North Ameri 333 Seventh Avenue New York NY 10001 NONE 501C3 Mobilizing American rabbis and Jewish communities, in partnership with Israeli and Palestinian communities, to prevent human rights abuses in East Jerusalem 10000 Prescott College 220 Grove Avenue Prescott AZ 85716 Startup general support to build the voice and power of diverse communities on the Arizona-Sonora border. 10000 Out Now PO Box 5321 Springfield MA 01101 NONE Organizing, supporting, and building the leadership of LGBTQ people in prisons across the United States 10000 WESPAC Foundation 52 North Broadway White Plains NY 10603 support a cross-movement delegation to the World Social Forum Free Palestine in Brazil to build joint struggle between US grassroots movements and the Palestinian grassroots movement. 5000 Pleasant Street Neighborhood Networ 301 Pleasant Street Worcester MA 01609 NONE to push for the introduction of restorative justice practices into Massachusetts sentencing efforts 10000 Young Women's Empowerment Project 2334 W Lawrence Ste 221 Chicago IL 60625 NONE 501C3 Grassroots organizing campaign Street Youth Rise Up 10000 WeCount Inc 201 N Krome Avenue Suites 240-260 Homestead FL 33030 NONE 501C3 To support community organizing against wage theft and county collaboration with ICE. 5000 The LaStraw Inc 2021 Stoneycreek Dr High Point NC 27260 NONE 501C3 Implement Community Mobilization Training in an extremely high poverty area of Guilford County 3999 Social and Environmental Entreprene 22231 Mulholland Hwy Suite 209 Calabasas CA 91302 NONE support afterschool programs that inspire young girls to design and create. 2250 Rhode Island Coalition for the Home 1070 Main Street Suite 202 Pawtucket RI 02860 NONE 501C3 Community organizing to expand the participation of women in affordable housing and homeless prevention policy reform in Rhode Island 8000 Pan Left Productions 631 S 6th Ave Tucson AZ 85701 NONE 501(C) Train and educate student youth in Tucson to organize and use their own media that focuses on restoring banned Mexican American Studies education in Arizona. 5000 Open Space Institute Inc 1350 Broadway Suite 201 NEW YORK NY 10018 NONE 501C3 train ten parents/grandparents to become school food advocates in their children's public school, offering them leadership skills, information about race and class-based disparities in the food system, and effective campaigns to create policy changes. 8300 Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil E PO Box 130 Omer Omer IS 84965 NONE 501C3 support the development of an online resource center designed to confront the many myths and misconceptions about the Arab Bedouin community in the southern desert region of Israel, the Negev. 9444 Music 4 More PO Box 44601 Baltimore MD 21236 NONE 501C3 Music 4 More Classroom website and database development. 5000 Mighty Writers 1501 Christian Street Philadelphia PA 19146 NONE 501C3 Music 4 More Classroom website and database development. 8334 Middle East Children's Alliance MEC 1101 8th Street Suite 100 Berkeley CA 94710 NONE sponsor a 9-day solidarity ride during which Palestinian actors and musicians will use Playback Theatre to perform the personal stories of community members throughout the West Bank. 12000 Organizing and Leadership Training 1773 Dorchester Avenue Boston MA 02124 NONE To develop a membership structure, worker-owned co-ops and an ally support network 10000 Social Justice Learning Institute 664 E Regent Street Inglewood CA 90301 NONE 501C3 Building Urban Scholars: Training Youth to Be Health Advocates and Critical Teachers 7500 Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools 1001 S Broad Street New Orleans LA 70130 NONE 501C3 The Restorative Justice Project 10000 Jewish Voice for Peace 1611 Telegraph Ave Suite 550 Oakland CA 94612 NONE Support for the We Divest campaign, a coalition-based effort of six organizations demanding that financial services giant, TIAA-CREF, divests from all companies that profit from the Israeli Occupation. 7000 Health Global Access Project 429 W 127th St 2nd Fl New York NY 10027 NONE QRASH: Queers Resisting All Street Harassment 8640 Gedakina 285 Shutesbury Road Leverett MA 01054 NONE 501C3 promote literacy among young readers, preschool through middle school from across New Englands Native American rural, urban and reservation communities and that will combine reading and storytelling circles through which children develop an understanding and enjoyment of traditional and contemporary stories relevant to their lives, family and community history, and the world around them. 7500 Everyone Is Gay 237 Flatbush Avenue 153 Brooklyn NY 11217 NONE design and distribute a curriculum that will augment Everyone Is Gays in-person presentations at middle and high schools. 6000 Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson 9 Lagrange Ave Poughkeepsie NY 12603 NONE Purchase of materials (printer, ink, paper, shirts, yard signs, gas, etc.) to facilitate internal education and a recruitment push designed to cultivate particular member-leaders, double our membership, and increase our geographic range in order to make the organization self-sustaining. 3000 Nistha Raj Trio 1451 Belmont Street 216 Washington DC 20009 NONE Recording of cross-cultural collaboration between Hindustani Classical Violin, Progressive Hip Hop (Human Beatbox), and Post-Classical Cello. 7000 DAMAYAN Migrant Workers Association 406 West 40th Street 3rd Floor New York NY 10018 NONE 501C3 Provide an opportunity for high school Filipino youth have a paid internship and training in community organizing. 10000 Music Team San Francisco 791 Myra Way San Francisco CA 94127 NONE 501C3 Hiring a development consultant. 4800 Common Ground of Eastern North Caro PO Box 1121 Kinston NC 28501 NONE 501C3 Hire professional landscape design assistance, and purchase recycling equipment needed to expand revenue-generating activity. 2000 Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign 1401 E 75th St Chicago IL 60619 NONE 501C3 Organizing poor and working class tenants and homeowners in the Chicagoland area to inform the human right to housing 10000 Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la 2511 E Franklin Ave Minneapolis MN 55406 NONE 501C3 Funding will support the CTUL Leadership School, developing the leadership of five retail cleaning workers to be organizers in the Campaign for Justice in Retail Cleaning. 5000 Casa Libre en la Solana Daily Planet Pubishing PO Box 158 Tucson AZ 85702 NONE 501C3 Implementation of book donation boxes and teach-ins to educate communities both inside and outside of prison 6730 Jewish Funds for Justice PO BOX 7870 Oakland CA 94601 NONE 501C3 The Domestic Work Innovation project seeks to improve worker and employer relationships in the domestic work industry through organizing domestic employers and working to create spaces for dialogue between domestic workers and their employers. 7000 Hope United 179 Power St Providence RI 02906 NONE 501C3 Direct action youth organizing program to push for student voice in Providence public schools 8000 Alliance for Global Justice 1247 E St SE Washington DC 20003 NONE 501C3 support the Lakota Elders Truth Tour part of the Lakota Solidarity Project (LSP) 4500 AIDS Project of Southern Vermont PO Box 1486 15 Grove Street Brattleboro VT 05302 NONE 501C3 Community assessment, organizing and training for rural LGBTQ community in Windham County, Vermont, and contiguous 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