Grants Awarded |
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| In 2008, the Foundation awarded the following 37 grants: Cohort 1 Established Grants Cohort 2 Established Grants Cohort 3 Established Grants Emerging Grants Capacity Building Fund Grants Opportunity Fund Grants Field Learning Fund Grants Final Year Grant |
Established Grants-Cohort 3 (Year 1 of 5) Albany Park Neighborhood Council's Project Y, Chicago, IL $100,000 - First year of a five year grant. The Albany Park Neighborhood Council (APNC) is a grassroots, intergenerational community organization with a mission to create a safer community, improve the quality of education and preserve affordable housing in Albany Park. Project Y provides a vehicle for young people to work towards their own vision of change. Through leadership training, Project Y youth have been able to secure adoption of the Youth Bill of Rights for appropriate police conduct, increase access to higher education for immigrant students, and conduct citywide, youth-led participatory research addressing Chicago Public Schools' dropout crisis. |
Chicago Freedom School, Chicago, IL $60,000 - First year of a five year grant. Chicago Freedom School (CFS) provides a space for young people and their adult allies to address the root causes of social inequality and oppression. Youth are trained as Freedom Fellows in a year-long organizing institute that provides intensive training in organizing campaigns. Past Freedom Fellows addressed gang violence, stereotypes about black males, domestic violence, and homophobia in schools. |
Inner-City Muslim Action Network, Chicago, IL $100,000 - First year of a five year grant. Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is a community-based, multi-service organization that provides direct services, arts programming and organizing opportunities to the Muslim community and its allies. Youth and adults work on intergenerational campaigns addressing various issues, including criminal justice, immigration reform, and support and resources for low-income and working class families in Chicago's Southwest side. |
Korean American Resource and Cultural Center, Chicago, IL $70,000 - First year of a five year grant. Korean American Resource and Cultural Center (KRCC) is a multiservice organization that serves Chicago's Korean American community through social services and programs in education, organizing, advocacy, and culture. Youth participate in after school arts/culture programs, receive college and scholarship assistance, and organize around issues such as immigrant rights, workers' rights, and youth's access to high education. |
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Chicago, IL $45,000 - First year of a five year grant. Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) provides youth and families opportunities to organize for environmental and social justice in the southwest side of Chicago. Youth and adults partner together in intergenerational campaigns to address issues such as asthma, industrial pollution, and public transit. Young people publish El Cilantro, a newsletter that serves as a platform to express the concerns they are confronting in their personal lives, schools, neighborhoods, and to ultimately mobilize the youth community to take action. |
Tepochcalli Community Education Project's SITY Ollin, Chicago, IL $35,000 - First year of a five year grant Tepochcalli Community Education Project (TCEP) offers community organizing, leadership development and cultural expression opportunities to Chicago's Little Village community. TCEP's youth organizing program, called SITY Ollin (Stop Ignoring The Youth and Ollin means movement in the Nahuatl language), mobilizes its youth to influence policy and to create social change, specifically by addressing the root causes of youth violence, including issues of gang recruitment, lack of safe after school options for teens, and the disconnect between high school programming and higher education. |
Young Women's Empowerment Project, Chicago IL $30,000 - First year of a five year grant. The Young Women's Empowerment Project (YWEP) provides a safe a judgement-free space for young women (including transgender and gender variant young women) impacted by the sex trade and street economy. YWEP's Girls in Charge (GIC), a weekly leadership group facilitated by YWEP youth staff and members, allows young women to participate in social justice and self-care workshops. Young women also have opportunities to apply skills and education into leadership roles within the organization, specifically as outreach workers and workshop facilitators. (back to top) Established Grants- Cohort 2 (Year 2 of 5) Oakland Kids First, Oakland, CA $60,000 - Second year of a five year grant. Oakland Kids First (OKF) organizes high school students in to develop a "college bound culture" in which students, teachers, and administrators work together to advance the goal of supportive classroom climate and increased college enrollment. After seeing its policy victories fail to bring about meaningful improvement in student success rates, OKF developed an approach to organizing that is based on the belief that policy changes rarely succeed without a change in culture. OKF empowers all stakeholders to recognize their role in the success of students and the health of the school communities. |
Oasis Center's Youth Leadership & Action, Nashville, TN $80,000 - Second year of a five year grant. The Oasis Center, a comprehensive youth development and support services organization, provides a wide range of opportunities for youth through its Youth Leadership & Action (YLA) program. Diverse youth across Nashville impact their communities by organizing projects to address predatory lending, community violence, and school equity. Oasis joined 9 other youth organizations to open up the Youth Opportunity Center, where Nashville youth can access counseling services, a health clinic, and a job center all under one roof. |
Northwest Bronx Clergy and Community Coalition's Sistas and Brothas United, Bronx, NY $50,000 - Second year of a five year grant Sistas and Brothas United (SBU) trains youth to lead campaigns on educational equity, community supports for youth, and youth involvement in decisions that affect them. SBU youth increase graduation rates by establishing Student Support Centers, improving school safety through peer-to-peer conflict mediation, and providing opportunities for youth to use art and technology as tools for social change. |
Youth United for Change, Philadelphia, PA $60,000 - Second year of a five year grant. Youth United for Change (YUC) is an organization dedicated to developing young leaders in Philadelphia and empowering them to improve the quality of education and services in their communities to better meet their needs. A diverse group of young people comes together to identify common concerns and take collective action to address them. YUC's five school-based chapters have worked on issues such as improving college matriculation and examining the impact of school restructuring on students. (back to top) Established Grants- Cohort 1 (Year 3 of 5) Appalshop's Appalachian Media Institute, Whitesburg, KY $30,000 - Third year of a five year grant Appalachian Media Institute is a multi-media arts and cultural organization that trains teenagers to bring attention to the culture, stories, and issues of the eastern coalfields of Appalachia as a way to support their communities' efforts to solve their own problems in a just and equitable way. Youth-produced films and recordings are aired locally and debriefed as a way to generate public dialogue about community issues and solutions. Youth media productions have also been broadcast across the country through public radio outlets and have brought congressional attention to the epidemic of teenage prescription drug abuse in rural areas. |
Global Action Project, New York, NY $90,000 - Third year of a five year grant. Global Action Project (GAP) is a youth media production organization founded to allow low-income youth of color to access technology and produce media in order to voice their critical analysis of local and international issues into public debate. GAP provides youth with the knowledge, tools, and relationships they need to create powerful, thought-provoking media on local and international issues that concern them, and to use their media as a catalyst for dialogue and social change. |
Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility's Youth Ensemble, Brooklyn, NY $80,000 - Third year of a five year grant The Ifetayo Youth Ensemble is a leadership and performing arts organization for youth of African descent, in which participants discuss and research issues facing their community, and create original dance, theater, and spoken-word performances to address those issues. In addition, the organization strives to enhance the lives of youth and families by providing programs in cultural awareness, health and wellness, and professional skills development. |
InnerCity Struggle's United Students, Los Angeles, CA $90,000 - Third year of a five year grant. United Students is a youth organizing program that focuses on improving educational quality through strengthening a collective youth and community voice, and creating change within four East Los Angeles high schools. Working in severely overcrowded schools, United Students was instrumental in securing funding for new construction for two new schools, and has also worked with school administration on increasing graduation and college-going rates. |
Youth Together, Oakland, CA $100,000 - Third year of a five year grant. Youth Together trains and supports diverse teams of youth organizers to address problems in East Bay high schools, such as inadequate and unsafe school conditions, lack of appropriate academic resources and materials, and racially and economically segregated classrooms and schools. Youth organizers have identified four areas of impact along a social change continuum: individual support and leadership development for its youth organizers; multiracial team development in order to build empowered and cohesive groups of young people; youth-led base-building in order to mobilize large numbers of youth and advocates; and institutional/policy changes as a result of the previous three strategies. (back to top) Emerging Grants Center for Court Innovation, New York, NY $40,000 - Final year of a three year grant. The Center for Court Innovation acts as a think tank to help courts and criminal justice agencies aid victims, reduce crime, and improve public trust in the justice system. Their Youth Justice Board, a project in which youth study and propose solutions to juvenile justice and public safety challenges that most affect them, provides an important and credible voice of young people in the public debate about juvenile justice policy in New York City. |
Close to Home, Dorchester, MA $40,000 - Final year of a three year grant. Close to Home was founded by community residents in response to an increase in domestic violence in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. Because institutions such as courts and law enforcement are often the last to respond to domestic violence, citizens themselves need to address this problem at the community level. The Youth Team researches the prevalence, perceptions, and impact of teen dating violence on the local community, creates media that addresses this issue, and facilitates follow-up educational workshops and informal discussions with their peers. |
On the Move, Napa, CA $40,000 - Final year of a three year grant. On the Move builds and sustains the leadership of youth and young adults across the San Francisco Bay Area. The Foundation supports its V.O.I.C.E.S. (Voice Our Independent Choices for Emancipation Support) project, in which foster care and emancipated youth advocate for policy changes that will improve the supports and opportunities that they receive, such as housing, education, and transportation. The project is run out of a youth-operated emancipation center, the first of its kind in the country. |
Native Movement, Flagstaff, AZ $25,000 - Final year of a three year grant. Native Movement is a collective of youth leadership projects on the Hopi and Navajo nations of Northern Arizona. Their projects sit at the intersection of economic, environmental, and cultural development. Youth have started a revenue-generating organic gardening business in nearby Flagstaff, are working with community elders to bring back building and farming practices that will increase environmental sustainability and economic independence, and are trying to prevent the commercial development of sites that are sacred to many indigenous tribes in the Southwest. |
Women & Girls Collective Action Network, Chicago, IL $30,000 - Final year of a three year grant. Women & Girls Collective Action Network is a citywide collaborative of organizations and individuals empowering women to address policy and system-level decisions that affect women, such as reproductive rights, domestic abuse, sexual harassment in schools, and the portrayal of women in the media. Females United for Action (FUFA) is a coalition of diverse girls and young women from across Chicago focusing on the portrayal of females in the media. (back to top) Capacity Building Fund Grants Alternatives in Action, Alameda, CA $10,000 - To develop a marketing strategy and create an organizational brand for an after school youth civic engagement program in which participants develop projects that create concrete improvements in their community. |
Alternatives, Inc, Chicago IL $10,000 - To develop website for a youth development organization serving youth and families living in the North side of Chicago. |
Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY $10,000 - To support the strategic planning and program evaluation needs of a youth led social change media organization. |
CityKids Foundation, New York, NY $10,000 - To provide non-profit fundraising and governance training for executive staff and Board of Directors at a multicultural youth organization that engages youth to use the expressive arts to inspire, educate and engage their peers in community improvement projects. |
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth/ Youth Making a Change, San Francisco, CA $10,000 - To improve information technology capacity within a community-based membership organization that empowers youth in public high schools to become effective advocates for quality public schools. |
Inner City Struggle, Los Angeles, CA $10, 000 - To develop a strategic plan for an intergenerational community organizing group working for educational justice in East Los Angeles. |
Crib Collective, Chicago, IL $10,000 - To support curriculum development for social entrepreneurship program that supports youth-led initiatives in the community. |
Educational Video Center, New York, NY $10,000 - To improve marketing and communications capacity at a youth media organization dedicated to using documentary video as a tool for advocacy and social change. |
Global Action Project, New York, NY $10,000 - To implement a strategic plan and access executive coaching at this youth media social justice organization. |
Ifetayo Cultural Arts, Brooklyn, NY $10,000 - To create and implement a teacher workbook that will allow this youth cultural arts organization to share its work with peer organizations. |
Oakland Kids First, Oakland, CA $5,000 - To access executive coaching for this youth leadership organization dedicated to improving schools and building an education movement. |
Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, Chicago, IL $10,000 - To create a website for a community organizing group that has organized around quality health care, quality education, affordable housing, and youth development. |
National Museum of Mexican Art/Radio Arte, Chicago, IL $10,000 - To facilitate the transition planning at an organization that provides youth the opportunity to create their own radio programs at a Latino-owned, youth-driven, urban community radio station. |
Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, Bronx, NY $10,000 - To improve the information technology and communications strategy for a growing membership at a community organizing agency. |
On the Move, Napa, CA $10,000 - To develop a new data information system, which tracks youth program usage, background information, as well as outcomes at a community based organization that focuses on developing young adults as they transition out of foster care. |
Street-Level Youth Media, Chicago, IL $10,000 - To work with consultants on space planning and technology planning for a new office space for this community and school-based youth media organization. |
Women and Girls CAN, Chicago, IL $10,000 - To support the creation of professional marketing materials for Females United for Action, a citywide collaborative of girls advocating for media justice. |
Youth Together, Oakland, CA $10,000 - To provide information technology improvements to enhance capacity to engage alumni, communicate with youth and other stakeholders, and develop relationships with donors and volunteers at a youth organizing group focused on increasing youth voice and educational quality in Oakland public schools. |
Youth United for Change, Philadelphia, PA $10,000 - To support technology improvements that facilitate website development and improve communication between staff, youth and stakeholders at a youth-led organizing group advocating for improved educational quality in Philadelphia public schools. |
Youth United for Community Action, East Palo Alto, CA $10,000 - To support the organizational development and strategic planning of a youth organizing program that addresses environmental, and local economic development issues in East Palo Alto. (back to top) Opportunity Fund Grants Albany Park Theater Project, Chicago, IL $5,000 - To fund the touring opportunities for Aqu�stoy, an original play created and performed by APTP's youth ensemble at a community-based, performing arts, youth theater ensemble. |
Alternatives in Action, Alameda, CA $4,140 - To support travel costs for the Director and staff to attend the Annual California Charter Schools Conference. |
Alternatives, Inc., Hampton, VA $4,000 - To acquire technical consultation to network computers from various locations to improve organization's ability to increase civic engagement opportunities for youth in Newport News, Virginia. |
Center for Court Innovation/Youth Justice Board, New York, NY $5,000 - To print and distribute the youth-produced "Permanency Achievement Kit" for foster care youth. |
Native Movement, Flagstaff, AZ $5,000 - To purchase laptop computer and a portable LCD projector so that staff and youth could make presentations to supporters and peer organizations. |
Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, Bronx, NY $5,000 - To send staff, members, and young people to leadership trainings and conferences in Chicago and Washington, DC. |
Oakland Kids First, Oakland, CA $5,000 - To print communications materials for a multiracial youth leadership organization dedicated to improving schools and building an education movement. |
Pacific News Service/The Beat Within, San Francisco CA $5,000 - To provide workshops to detention facility staff and to support the cost of printing and distribution of literature written by formerly incarcerated youth. |
Street-Level Youth Media, Chicago IL $5,000 - To repair and replace critical equipment damaged in an office fire. |
Women and Girls Collective Action Network, Chicago, IL $3,450 - To assist with transportation for staff and board members to attend the Mundos de Mujeres Conference in Madrid and to share its report titled Communities Engaged in Resisting Violence. |
Youth in Focus, Oakland, CA $5,000 - To access executive coaching and transition planning for an technical assistance provider that offers youth development organizations and youth the tools to conduct youth-led research, evaluation, and planning or REP. (back to top) Field Learning Fund Grants Crossroads Fund, Chicago IL $25,000 A public foundation, the Crossroads Fund supports youth activism in Chicago by providing funding, technical assistance, and learning opportunities to emerging grantees focused on youth led social change. |
Arts Work Fund, Chicago, IL $25,000 A funders' collaborative in Chicago, the Arts Work Fund strengthens the management and operations of small arts and cultural organizations by providing grants for capacity building projects such as website design, audience development, and succession planning. |
Community Learning Project, Washington, DC $20,000 The Community Learning Project's leadership pipeline provides opportunities for young people to access educational and hands-on experience in community organizing. |
Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing, New York, NY $20,000 The Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) is a collective of national, regional and local grantmakers and youth organizing practitioners dedicated to increasing the philanthropic investment and organizational capacities of youth organizing groups across the country. Final Year Grant Albany Park Theater Project, Chicago, IL $60,000 for one year Albany Park Theater Project is a diverse youth theater ensemble in which participants develop community member's cultural experiences into theater performances that challenge the assumptions about marginalized people, including working class families and immigrants. Youth-led post performance discussions generate dialogue, challenge audience members' assumptions, and present opportunities to become more involved in addressing community issues. (back to top) |
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