Grantees: 2000 Strategic Use Fund Awards

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Chicago, Illinois, $20,000
AFSC is a Quaker-based peace and social justice organization that works in partnership with grassroots constituents in the U.S. and throughout the world to change the root causes of poverty, injustice and war. AFSC plans to create a model program to train grassroots leaders in video capture, editing, production, and Internet dissemination in order to tell their stories of grassroots campaigns for social justice.

Kentucky Economic Justice Alliance (KEJA), Whitesburg, Kentucky, $20,000
KEJA is a collaborative, strategic effort by five diverse grassroots, policy and research organizations in Kentucky working for economic, social and environmental justice. By working together these organizations are creating a model of strategic alliance that presents a new vision of economic justice for Kentucky, changes the discourse around economic issues, and builds the grassroots power needed to realize that vision. KEJA will combine the strategic use of community mapping, database management and website development to strengthen their social change efforts.

Rural Coalition/Coalición Rural, Washington, DC, $20,000.00
The Rural Coalition is an alliance of regionally and culturally diverse community based organizations in the US and Mexico working to build a more just and sustainable food system. Rural Coalition plans to create an on-line Action Network utilizing web-based technology tools and e-mail which will educate and mobilize Coalition members to influence 2001 Farm bill debate and secure resources for small and people of color farmers, farm workers and rural communities.