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Alston/Bannerman Memorial Fellowship Program (New World Foundation)
 The Alston/Bannerman Memorial Fellowship Program advances progressive social change by helping to sustain long-time activists of color, through providing resources for organizers to take sabbaticals for reflection and renewal.
2004 ($20,000), 2001 ($28,000)
Center for Digital Democracy
The Center for Digital Democracy is committed to preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realizing the full potential of digital communications through the development and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming.
2003 ($50,000)
Center for New Community
The Center for New Community works with faith organizations at the community level to challenge the Radical Right in the Midwest.
2004 ($15,000)
Center for Third World Organizing
The Center for Third World Organizing seeks to galvanize public support for policies that advance racial justice and promote equity in the areas of gender, economics and sexuality. Support was provided for the Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program, which provides intensive training to young people of color in the art of grassroots organizing.
2004 ($20,000)
Data Center
The DataCenter provides access to strategic information, analysis and research skills that support social justice advocates in conducting more effective campaigns.
2002 ($26,000)
ETC Group
The Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights. Support was provided for public education and advocacy campaigns focused on biotechnology, nanotechnology and life-patenting issues.
2003 ($20,000)
Fifth Avenue Committee
Fifth Avenue Committee organizes Brooklyn residents to develop affordable housing and community-based employment opportunities for low-income community members.
2003 ($30,000)
Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing (Jewish Fund For Justice)
The Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing is a collective of national, regional and local foundations and youth organizing practitioners dedicated to advancing youth organizing as a strategy for development and social change.
2004 ($25,000)
Grassroots Institute for Fundraising and Training
GIFT develops and strengthens the grassroots fundraising skills of people of color working for social justice. GIFT decreases organizations’ dependence on foundation funding by helping them develop a broad base of individual donors to support their programs.
2004 ($20,000)
Green Corps
Green Corps teaches the next generation of environmental leaders the strategies and skills they’ll need to win tomorrow’s environmental battles while providing field support for today’s environmental problems. Since its inception Green Corps has trained thousands of young people in the skills of organizing and advocacy.
2003 ($15,000)
Independent Media Institute
The Independent Media Institute provides independent journalism, information and media tools.
(SPIN)
The Strategic Press Information Service provides media assistance to nonprofit public interest organizations.
Alternet.Org
AlterNet’s online magazine provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on a range of subjects critical to society today.
2004 ($15,000), 2002 ($53,000), 2001 ($10,000)
Independent Press Association
Independent Press Association amplifies the power of the independent press in order to foster a more just, open and democratic society. IPA supports the growth and development of over 550 independent magazines, community and ethnic newspapers, and web sites throughout North America.
2004 ($20,000)
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.
2004 ($20,000) 2001 ($50,000)
Institute for Local Self Reliance
Institute for Local Self Reliance provides technical assistance and information on environmentally sound economic development strategies. Support was provided for the New Rules Project, a comprehensive resource for policy-makers, organizations and activists who support humanly scaled politics and economics.
2001 ($50,000)
Lundy Foundation
The Lundy Foundation helps build collaborative leadership and strengthen organizational capacity in nonprofits seeking to meet the social challenges of our changing world.
2003 ($30,000), 2002 ($50,000)
Media Access Project
Media Access Project is a nonprofit law firm representing the public’s interest on media issues in the courts, before the Federal Communications Commission and in the press. MAP advocates and promotes First Amendment rights in new and old technologies, and has been active in the fight against media concentration and in support of fair and balanced election coverage and democratic technologies such as low power FM radio stations and open-access Internet.
2004 ($30,000)
National Indian Telecommunication Institute
The National Indian Telecommunications Institute is a Native-founded and run organization dedicated to using the power of electronic technologies to provide American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Alaskan Native communities with educational tools, equal opportunity and a strong voice in self-determination.
2002 ($40,000)
National Organizers Alliance
National Organizers Alliance advances progressive organizing for social, economic, environmental and racial justice, and to support the people of all ages who do that work. Support was provided for the NOA Retirement Pension Plan, a portable pension plan for social justice organizers.
2004 ($20,000)
National Voting Rights Institute
Through litigation and public education, NVRI redefines the issue of private money in public elections and, by advocating campaign finance reform, to support the constitutional right of all citizens to participate in the electoral process on a equal basis.
2004 ($15,000)
Northeast Action
Northeast Action is a regional support center for a network of progressive organizations in New England and New York.
2004 ($30,000), 2001 ($30,000)
Political Research Associates
Political Research Associates is a research and public education organization that educates the public about the full spectrum of the Radical Right activities in the U.S. PRA provides research and publications and acts as a national resource and support center for activists, journalists and others.
2004 ($10,000)
Progressive Technology Project
This collaborative organization builds the capacity of progressive grassroots organizations in the effective use of new technologies through grants and educational programs.
2002 ($27,000)
Rocky Mountain Institute
The Rocky Mountain Institute is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of natural, human and other capital to make the world a more secure, just, prosperous, and life sustaining place.
2004 ($20,000)
The Shefa Fund
The Shefa Fund encourages American Jews to use their tzedakah (charitable resources) to create a more just society, and, in the process, to transform Jewish life so that it becomes more socially conscious and spiritually invigorating. The Shefa Fund advises on socially responsible grant-making, low-income community investing and funder education.
2002 $30,000
Southern Echo
Southern Echo is a leadership education, training and development organization that is committed to building accountable grassroots leadership based on an intergenerational model. It provides training and technical assistance to grassroots organizations working for social change in communities throughout Mississippi and the South.
2004 ($20,000), 2003 ($20,000)
Southern Empowerment Project
Southern Empowerment Project supports community organizing throughout the South with skills training in leadership, fundraising, facilitation and other forms of technical assistance.
2004 ($10,000), 2001 ($50,000)
Southern Institute for Education and Research
The Institute for Education and Research provides a broad range of anti-bias teaching resources and inter-group relations training for communities in the Deep South.
2004 ($10,000)
Training for Change
Training for Change provides training in the skills of nonviolent social change and leadership development for grassroots activists and organizations.
2001 ($48,000)
Vallecitos Mountain Refuge (The Tides Center)
Funding was provided for the Fellowship Program, a retreat program for activists of color at the Vallecitos Mountain Refuge in New Mexico.
2004 ($10,000)
Western States Center
Western States Center builds a progressive movement for social, economic, racial and environmental justice in the western states. These grants funded advocacy on campaign finance reform.
2004 ($30,000), 2001 ($25,000)
Wild Earth Society
Through the Wild Earth Society, the Wildlands Project is working to restore and protect the natural heritage of North America.
2004 ($25,000)
Youth Action
Youth Action involves young people in community organizing by working with local groups to facilitate regional networking and to provide supplementary training and technical assistance.
2002 ($27,000)
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