Center for Community Change
The Center for Community Change helps low-income people build organizations that can win change in their communities and affect public policy on diverse issues at the local.state and federal levels.
2000 ($15,000)

Community Resource Exchange
Community Resource Exchange provides management assistance to nonprofit groups serving the poor and disenfranchised. Funding underwrote training and technical assistance to economic justice organizations in New York City.
2001 ($25,000)

Economic Policy Institute
The Economic Policy Institute provides high-quality research and education in order to promote a prosperous, fair and sustainable economy. Support helped EPI make its findings accessible to the general public, the media and policy-makers.
2000 ($25,000)

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
The Center advocates a “human investment” agenda that aims to build powerful, vibrant communities. Support was provided for the Books Not Bars campaign, which organized California youth to advocate for the redirection of criminal justice funding to education.
2001 ($25,000), 2000 ($25,000)

Fifth Avenue Committee
Fifth Avenue Committee organizes Brooklyn residents to develop affordable housing and community-based employment opportunities for low-income community members.
2002 ($15,000), 2001 ($15,000), 2000 ($15,000), 1999 ($15,000), 1998 ($15,000)

Grassroots Leadership
Grassroots Leadership is a regional effort that brings diverse groups together to work on shared social justice goals. Support was provided for the Public Safety and Justice Campaign, which challenges privatization in the South.
2002 ($20,000), 2001 ($20,000), 2000 ($15,000), 1999 ($25,000)

Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center
Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center rehabilitates vacant industrial buildings to help create high-quality jobs for low-income New Yorkers.
2002 ($15,000), 2001 ($20,000), 2000 ($15,000), 1999 ($25,000)

Inequality.Org
Start-up funding was provided to develop a Web-based resource for journalists, researchers and activists on economic inequality issues.
2001 ($25,000), 2000 ($20,000), 1999 ($25,000)

The Institute for Labor & the Community
The Institute for Labor and the Community works on economic justice issues in New York City. Support was provided for the Girls Project, which offers training and economics education for young women in lower Manhattan.
2000 ($20,000)

Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Institute for Local Self Reliance provides technical assistance and information on environmentally sound economic development strategies. Support was for the New Rules Project, a comprehensive resource for policy-makers, organizations and activists who support humanly scaled politics and economics.
2002 ($20,000), 2001 ($30,000), 2000 ($25,000)

Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy brings together diverse community organizations, labor groups and activists to develop an economic justice agenda. Support helped to provide training and technical assistance to Living Wage Campaigns across the country.
2001 ($15,000), 2000 ($20,000)

Make the Road by Walking
This Brooklyn-based group organizes low-income Latino and African-American community members on diverse economic justice concerns.
2002 ($15,000), 2001 ($20,000)

Ms. Foundation for Women
The Ms. Foundation for Women supports the efforts of women and girls to govern their own lives and influence the world around them. This funding went to the Collaborative Fund for Women’s Economic Development, which supported micro-enterprise development by low-income women.
1999 $75,000, 1998 ($25,000)

National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support (Center for Community Change)
This broad-based campaign was developed in response to the changes in federal income support policies in the 1990’s. Funding was provided to develop a coordinated response to so-called welfare reform.
2001 ($25,000), 2000 ($20,000)

National Federation of Community Broadcasters
National Federation of Community Broadcasters is a national alliance of stations, producers and others committed to community radio. Funding was provided for the Youth Radio Project, which supports internships for young people in community radio stations.
2000 ($30,000)

Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project
Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project is a technical assistance resource for community groups and neighborhood activists. It challenges discriminatory banking practices in New York City.
2001 ($25,000), 2000 ($20,000), 1999 ($25,000), 1998 ($24,000)

New York ACORN Institute for Social Justice
ACORN is a national membership organization of low- and moderate-income families. Funding was provided to organize low-income workers on economic justice issues in New York City.
2002 ($15,000), 2001 ($15,000), 2000 ($20,000), 1999 (25,000), 1998 ($20,000)

New York Community Leadership Institute
The Institute works with community, labor and activist organizations. Funding supported a public education campaign on Living Wage organizing.
2002 ($20,000), 2001 ($30,000)

Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute
The Institute trains and places low-income New Yorkers in well-paying health-care jobs. Funding was provided for the development of a co-operative home health-worker enterprise.
2000 ($15,000), 1999 ($15,000), 1998 ($15,000)

THE POINT Community Development Corporation
The POINT is a community-based organization dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the South Bronx. Support was provided for the Hunts Point Radio Project, a youth-run micro-radio station.
2001 ($15,000), 2000 ($15,000), 1999 ($30,000), 1998 ($15,000)

Prometheus Radio Project (Paper Tiger Television Inc.)
Prometheus Radio Project is a collective of radio activists that serves as a micro-radio resource center offering legal, technical and organizational support for noncommercial community broadcasters. They conduct workshops and radio tours, provide direct assistance and advocate for broader access to the airwaves.
2000 ($10,000), 1999 ($25,000)

Real Art Ways
Real Art Ways built an audio lab and designed an educational program that offers digital audio training workshops for high school students, senior citizens, artists, teachers and other members of the community. Participants produce original projects for web streaming and Internet radio. Projects include citizen journalism, audio art, drama, poetry, music, storytelling, oral history and sound design.
2000 ($100,000)

Rheedlen Centers for Children & Families
The Rheedlen Center improves the lives of children in Harlem by providing education, social services and recreation opportunities. Support was provided for the Harlem Overheard Publishing Enterprise, a youth newspaper.
1999 ($25,000), 1998 ($15,000)

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. Support was provided to build a tzedakah “bank” for economic justice grant-making by progressive Jewish donors.
2001 ($20,000), 2000 ($25,000), 1999 ($25,000), 1998 ($25,000)

Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network
This statewide network of community organizations organizes low-income communities on economic justice issues, with an emphasis on job creation and retention.
2001 ($15,000), 2000 ($15,000)

United for a Fair Economy
United for a Fair Economy raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide and disrupt communities. UFE provides training, education and resources to help build social movements for greater equality.
2002 ($15,000), 2001 ($15,000), 2000 ($15,000)

Urban Homesteading Assistance Board
Urban Homesteading Assistance Board supports self-help housing and community building in low-income neighborhoods by training, organizing, developing and assisting resident-controlled housing opportunities in New York.
2000 ($15,000), 1999 ($25,000), 1998 ($25,000)

Utah Progressive Network Education Project
Utah Progressive Network Education Project is a multi-issue coalition of community-based organizations and individuals working for social change and economic justice in Utah.
2001 ($10,000), 2000 ($10,000)

Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation
Located in the former Morissania Hospital in the Bronx, Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation offers an integrated program of education, services, job creation and housing for low-income members of the community.
2002 ($10,000), 2001 ($10,000), 2000 ($15,000), 1999 ($15,000), 1998 ($15,000)