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GRANTS
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2006 McKay Foundation Grant Recipients
The organizations we fund are a wide and diverse group.
But they share a common vision. They seek to redistribute
power democratically, creating a more economically just
society. They nurture community-based leaders. And they
work to spread a politics of compassion. It is our desire
to assist them in becoming permanent institutions that
can effect significant, lasting change in their communities.
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Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), Oakland, CA
www.apen4ej.org
APEN was founded to bring together a collective voice among the diverse
API communities in the United States affected by and working on environmental
justice issues. APEN works on the levels: direct organizing, network
building, and movement building.
Building Partnerships USA
www.buildingpartnerships.net
California Acorn
www.acorn.org
Acorn is the largest community organization addressing housing reform
issues in US. Their priorities include better housing for first time
homebuyers and tenants, a living wage for low-income workers, and
more investment in our communities from banks and government. Acorn
achieves its goals by building community organizations that have the
power to win changes, though direct action, negotiation, legislation,
and voter participation. In the past year Acorn has coordinated various
campaigns around California including the Sacramento Living Wage Campaign,
Common Ground Forum, as well as working on electoral participation,
affordable housing, and predatory lending issues.
Californians For Justice
www.caljustice.org
Center for Civic Policy
www.nmcf.org
Center on Policy Initiatives, San Diego, CA
www.onlinecpi.org
The Center on Policy Initiatives was established in 1997 to promote
higher standards of living for poor and moderate-income families through
research, policy development, public education and effective advocacy.
CPI focuses on research and policy development that addresses structural
factors and issues crucial for linking community and regional economic
development. This year they have focused on projects centering on
living wage issues, the Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, and
issues faced by temporary and contingent workers.
Chinatown Community Development Center, San Francisco, CA
www.chinatowncdc.org
Chinatown CDC works to build community and enhance the quality of
life for primarily low-income residents in San Francisco’s Chinatown,
North Beach and Tenderloin areas. Last year, Chinatown CDC used various
strategies to develop a collective voice across the diverse communities
in San Francisco. These efforts included; convening a Tenants Convention
that brought over 300 tenants from all parts of SF to discuss district
elections and identify key issues within their respective districts.
They also conducted meetings throughout the city to continue to build
momentum about quality of life issues for low-income tenants.
Coalition LA, Los Angeles, CA
www.coalitionla.org
Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco, CA
www.sf-homeless-coalition.org
The Coalition on Homelessness (COH) was organized in 1987 to garner
the active participation of poor people on both the design and critique
of public policy and non-profit services that result in permanent
solutions to poverty. It is a unique organization in that the driving
force is low income and homeless people, working in every aspect of
the organization, from the volunteers to the staff and leadership
body. The COH works to alleviate poverty by taking a multi faceted
strategy, attacking the forces that cause poverty from all sides.
The strategy combines making sure homeless and poor people know their
rights with involving homeless people in the shaping and formulating
of public policy.
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE), Oakland,
CA
www.workingeastbay.org
EBASE was founded on the principle that workers, their communities
and their faith institutions can forge and alliance across sectors,
across government jurisdictions and across cultures to change how
public decision-makers and businesses shape the local economy.
Environmental Health Coalition, San Diego, CA
www.environmentalhealth.org
EHC organizes and advocates to protect public health and the environment
threatened by toxic pollution, particularly how this impacts communities
of color. EHC has responded to community needs in the region by empowering
citizens through community organization and technical assistance and
by developing policies that lead to long-term solutions. Projects
for this year include: organizing to tear down South Bay Power Plant
and see that damaging impacts in the surrounding communities are ended,
and participating in the San Diego Equity Alliance Project to create
a vision and agenda for sustainable living and social equity.
Fund for a New Los Angeles/Liberty Hill Foundation, Los
Angeles, CA
www.libertyhill.org
Just Cause Oakland, Oakland, CA
www.justcauseoakland.org
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), Los Angeles,
CA
www.laane.org
LAANE works to improve the lives of working men and women by combining
a vision of social justice with a practical approach to social change.
They have forged a powerful coalition of community organizations,
unions, religious leaders, and academics and elected officials. This
year LAANE worked to protect the jobs of LAX security workers and
studied city subsidies to private businesses to establish standards
of accountability for the beneficiaries of public funds.
Labor Community Strategy Center, Los Angeles, CA
www.thestrategycenter.org
The Strategy Center's work emphasizes rebuilding the labor movement,
fighting for environmental justice, true mass transit for the masses,
and immigrant rights, as well as actively opposing growing poverty.
The LCSC works through direct grassroots organizing campaigns, including
the Bus Riders Union, the WATCHDOG environmental justice campaign,
and the Urban Strategies Group.
Mujeres Unidas Y Activas
www.mujeresunidas.net
Mobilize the Immigrant Vote (MIV) Collaborative
www.immigrantvoice.org/miv2004
Regional Council of Neighborhood Organizations (RCNO)
formerly Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches (LAM), Los Angeles,
CA
www.rcno.org
RCNO is a national training center building and connecting church
and community organizations throughout the US. The mission of RCNO
is to build the capacity of clergy and lay leaders in small to mid-sized
congregations to participate in faith-based community organizing to
protect and revitalize the communities in which they live, work and
worship. RCNO recognizes that all congregations, regardless of size
or denomination, possess the human, intellectual and spiritual capital
to engage in faith-based community organizing. In the past year RCNO
has won a major legislative victory in California to create programs
to serve ex-offenders.
Sacramento Valley Organizing Community, Sacramento, CA
SVOC has mobilized widespread community action to help thousands of
low-income residents in the Sacramento area improve their employment
and income opportunities. Motivated by a concern about the widening
income gap between rich and poor, their strategies have included enhanced
welfare-to-work programs, home buying, living wage initiatives, voter
registration and community awareness drives. Recently, SVOC has implemented
5 housing projects in the Sacramento area that will produce 114 new
low-income units. SVOC is also helping low-income people purchase
homes with Section 8 vouchers and expanding a program to place former
welfare recipients in full-time positions in hospitals.
Safe Streets/Strong Communities, New Orleans, LA
504/522-3949
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE), Los Angeles,
CA
www.saje.net
SAJE is an economic justice and popular education center that has
been building economic power for working class people in Los Angeles
since 1996. SAJE believes that ordinary people have the power to make
big changes in economic policy through organizing, education, and
coalition building. SAJE projects often start with a small group of
people who share a problem, strategize together, and then engage others
in powerful campaigns that create concrete economic benefits for thousands
- if not millions - of working class people.
Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE),
Los Angeles, CA
www.scopela.org
SCOPE endeavors to develop multi-dimensional approaches that reduce
and eliminate structural barriers to social and economic opportunities
for economically disadvantaged communities. Recently, SCOPE worked
to build Neighborhood Education Teams to help build civic participation,
organized a community Congress on Jobs and Healthcare. SCOPE also
worked to establish a connection with Workplace Hollywood, a new LA
non-profit, designed to help low-income residents gain employment
in the entertainment industry.
Working Partnerships, San Jose, CA
www.atwork.org
Working Partnerships USA was formed in response to a growing concern
about the increasing disconnection between Silicon Valley's economy
and the well being of large sectors of the workforce. Formed a collaboration
between community-based organizations; WUPUSA develops responses to
the impacts of the New Economy through a three-part strategy of initiating
new economic research and policy, new partnerships across constituencies
and new models of workforce development. In 2002, Working Partnerships
continued expanding its Children’s Health Initiative, which provides
comprehensive health insurance to children from low-income families.
They also advocated for an increased commitment by Santa Clara County
for low cost housing.
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