Border Action Network

Tucson

AZ

$7600

Border Action Network organizes for civil rights, human rights and the protection of the Sonoran Desert along the Arizona-Mexico Border. The grant will be used for training and technical assistance to customize a contact and membership database; update a web site

Concerned Citizens for A Better Tunica County, Inc.

Tunica

MS

$8600

Concerned Citizens for A Better Tunica County is a broad-based grassroots community organization in a low income community that uses leadership development, education and training within an intergenerational organizing model to influence public policy, particularly in public education. The grant will be used for video training and production to collect oral histories and GIS mapping software to document environmental hazards.

Dine' Citizens Against Ruining our Environment

Durango

CO

$8600

Din� CARE is an all-Navajo environmental organization, based within the Navajo homeland, whose main goal is to empower local and traditional people to organize, speak out and determine their own destinies. This grant will be used for hardware and deeper staff training in computer technology and GIS mapping software which will allow them to better support the community groups that make up the organization.

Families for Freedom

New York

NY

$8600

Families for Freedom is a network of immigrant families facing and fighting deportation. It seeks to build a network of directly affected people whose leadership and experience provide a guiding voice in the movement for immigrant rights as human rights. The grant will be used to build a database of detainee narratives and other organizational information, e-mail list server and an online resource of self-help materials for other groups organizing across the country.

Interfaith Sponsoring Committee - BISCO (Bayou Interfaith Shared Community Organizing)

Thibodaux

LA

$8600

BISCO is building a powerful interfaith multi-ethnic and multi-issue church-based organization that serves as a voice for the low and moderate income persons in South Louisiana. Its goal is to unite and give voice to the poor and moderate income families so they can enhance the quality of life for themselves and the other residents of South Louisiana. This grant is for technology training for organizational leaders and a learning center with Internet access.

Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates

Los Angeles

CA

$8600

KIWA works to empower low-wage immigrant workers to gain dignity and respect in the workplace and to develop a progressive constituency in Los Angeles' immigrant communities that joins with other underrepresented communities to obtain social justice. The grant will support its "Empowerment through Technology" project which will provide immigrant workers in Los Angeles' Koreatown with access to computer technology, training in computer literacy, an introduction to KIWA's organizing program, and the tools and resources to incorporate technology into future organizing campaigns.

Miami Workers Center

Miami

FL

$8600

The Miami Workers’ Center is a strategy and organizing center for no- and low-wage workers in low-income communities. Its work addresses the challenges associated with the rapid expansion of temporary, part-time and low-wage work in a period when both government and private employers are dramatically reducing public services and employer provided benefits. The grant will be used for a computer and phone-banking lab, training for members and a database to track the individual membership grassroots organizations and individual donors,

Mothers on the Move

Bronx

NY

$5000

MOM is a South Bronx-based membership group that carries out campaigns on housing, education and environmental justice to win improvements in community quality of life and address the policies that create inequality. The grant will be used as part of a multi-organization effort to purchase wireless simultaneous translation equipment.

Oregon Rural Action

La Grande

OR

$5000

Oregon Rural Action is a multi-ethnic organization that supports community organizing. Its members and community groups promote social justice; a sustainable economy and agriculture; and stewardship of the region's land, air and water. The grant will be used to obtain technology infrastructure for a new organizer and for traveling organizers.

Teamster Rank and File Educational & Legal Defense Foundation (TRF)

Detroit

MI

$8600

TRF uses grassroots education and leadership development to foster a solidarity and participatory democracy in labor organizations. The grant will be used with Media Jumpstart Collective to revamp their contact management system.

Tewa Women United (TWU)

Santa Fe

NM

$8600

Tewa Women United is committed to advancing the cause of unity among diverse Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous peoples. TWU is a woman-centered, women run organization whose mission is to provide a space for Indigenous (Native American – Tewa) women to free the power, strength and skills that they possess to become a positive force for change in their families and communities. The grant will be used for notebook computers, LCD projectors, digital camera and simultaneous translation equipment in support of community organizing.

The Citizenship Project

Salinas

CA

$8600

The Citizenship Project is a immigrant community-based organizing, service and political action center for workers and their families. The grant will be used for simultaneous translation equipment, a digital projector, accounting software and a technology curriculum for activists.

The Clean Water Fund - Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh

PA

$5000

CWF provides organizing, planning, technical assistance, training, research and education programs to grassroots groups working to increase publich understanding of environmental issues. The grant will be used to purchase office computers and video equipment to monitor coke oven emissions.