Social Justice Grants 2007

Goal: Inspire civic action and democratic participation that contribute to a just society. 

124 grants totaling $1,930,520

Objective: Engage Bay Area residents in understanding and protecting their civil and human rights, and decrease discrimination against individuals based upon race/ethnicity, disability, age, national origin, religion, marital status, or sexual orientation. Total: $312,500

Applied Research Center
To provide core operating support to this organization working to address racial inequalities.
Oakland
$20,000

CaliforniaCoalition for Women Prisoners
To develop a Crisis Response Network intended to monitor and advocate for the human rights of women prisoners.
San Francisco
$15,000

Community United Against Violence
To provide core operating support to an agency combating hate crimes against LGBT people.
San Francisco
$30,000>

Ella Baker Centerfor Human Rights
To provide core operating support.
Oakland
$15,000

Inmate Correctional Education Project
To support volunteer-based reentry training and mentoring for women coming out of California prisons into the Bay Area.
Foster City
$15,000

Islamic Networks, Inc.
To facilitate increased civic engagement of Bay Area Muslim Americans and foster interfaith collaboration.
San Jose
$3,500

John Burton Foundation for Children Without Homes
To support Phase I of the THP-Plus Statewide Implementation Project to improve outcomes for foster youth in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$20,000

Justice Now
To support an internship program and training clinic for law, criminology, and other university students interested in prison activism and assisting female and transgender prisoners.
Oakland
$15,000

La Raza Centro Legal, Inc.
To support the Immigrant Worker Advocacy and Legal Services Project, a program that provides legal services, economic training, and advocacy for low-income immigrant communities.
San Francisco
$20,000

Lighthouse Community Center
To provide capacity building assistance to an organization providing educational and support services to LGBT residents of Hayward and South Alameda County.
Hayward
$24,000

Muslim Advocates
To support and protect the rights of Muslims in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$15,000

National Council on Crime and Delinquency
To improve the impacts on communities where released prisoners return and to lower the rate of recidivism for parolees.
Oakland
$20,000

Our Family Coalition
To provide core operating support to a membership organization serving the needs of LGBT families in Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco Counties.
San Francisco
$20,000

Pace e Bene Franciscan Nonviolence Center
To support education for nonviolent conflict resolution among English- and Spanish-speaking men at San Quentin prison, and among English-speaking women at the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin.
Oakland
$10,000

San FranciscoSuperior Court
To build the capacity of San Francisco's Behavioral Health Court to help mentally ill criminal defendants stay out of prison.
San Francisco
$30,000

Swords to Plowshares
To provide support for research into the needs of returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and to assist with technical assistance for a proposed agency merger.
San Francisco
$20,000

Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights
To provide capacity building support for an executive director transition and the implementation of a strategic plan for this organization promoting human rights regionally and nationally.
San Francisco
$20,000 

Objective: Increase adult and youth civic participation and leadership, including support for emerging leaders in the nonprofit sector. Total: $957,020

African Immigrants' Social and Cultural Services
To provide civic education training to African immigrants in the Bay Area to assist their integration into the larger Bay Area community.
El Sobrante
$3,000

Alameda County Foster Youth Alliance
To support the "Walk a Mile" project in Alameda and San Francisco Counties, focused on developing shared understanding and personal connections between foster youth and legislators.
Oakland
$20,000< 

Ally Action
To provide core operating support to this East Bay organization working to insure safety in schools for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning students.
Concord
$15,000

Ariel Outreach and Mission Ministries
To support a civic engagement and violence prevention program for homeless and underrepresented adults, seniors, and youth in East Oakland.
Oakland
$3,000

Asian and Pacific Islander Youth Advocacy Network
To increase support for families with youth who are a part of or at risk of being in the juvenile justice system.
San Francisco
$25,000>

Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
To provide infrastructure support through the Post 9/11 Civic Engagement Project to support capacity-building in Muslim, Middle Eastern, and South Asian immigrant organizations in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$51,520

Black Alliance for Just Immigration
To provide project support for organizing and education among Africans and African Americans on immigration policy, immigrant rights, and social justice.
Berkeley
$20,000

Buddhist Peace Fellowship
To support the Coming Home Project in the East Bay, which assists returning prisoners with reintegration into the community.
Berkeley
$20,000

Buena Vista Community Institute/The SPOT Youth Organization
To engage Asian Pacific Islander youth in providing service, advocacy, and policy support for children and their families in transitional housing at the Alameda Point Collaborative.
Alameda
$5,000

California Reinvestment Coalition
To support advocacy and organizing to stop predatory lending targeting the poor in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$25,000

California Youth Connection
To support a California-wide foster care advocacy and policy organization being led by foster youth and former foster youth.
San Francisco
$60,000

Californians for Justice Education Fund
To provide project support for the "Can You See Me in College" campaign for more high school counselors in the Oakland Unified School District.
Oakland
$20,000

Canal Welcome Center
To provide core operating support to an organization providing support for Marin County immigrants.
San Rafael
$20,000

Center For Third World Organizing
To support the Bay Area Leadership Development Training project that nurtures and trains community activists working for racial justice.
Oakland
$20,000

Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere
To support core operating expenses of the Bay Area chapter to support organizing and leadership development of children of lesbian and gay parents.
San Francisco
$15,000

Chinese Progressive Association
To improve the lives and strengthen the community of low-income Chinese residents.
San Francisco
$25,000

Contra Costa Interfaith Housing, Inc.
To develop a civic action club for Garden Park Apartments and the surrounding neighborhood youth and their families in the Monument Corridor.
Lafayette
$3,500

Corporation for Supportive Housing
To support organizing and advocacy at the local level to implement the foster youth provisions of Proposition 1C to build housing for emancipating foster youth, and to seek a permanent source of funds to build this type of housing.
Oakland
$30,000

Democracy Matters Institute
To support the expansion of Democracy Matters chapters on university campuses throughout the Bay Area.
Hamilton
$15,000

Filipino Community Center
To support a part-time community education specialist to work with low-income immigrant workers.
San Francisco
$15,000

Filipinos for Affirmative Action
To support core operations of this organization promoting the well-being of the Filipino immigrant population in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
Oakland
$15,000

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
To support media training, consultation, and coordination for LGBT and allied organizations in the Bay Area.
Los Angeles
$15,000

Hands on Bay Area
To support the immigration, cultural diversity, and community volunteer program in San Francisco, Alameda, and San Mateo Counties.
San Francisco
$15,000

Healthy Oakland
To implement "Health Power," a series of activities to empower and motivate faith-based community members to be aware of civic issues that affect the West Oakland community.
Oakland
$3,500

Insight Prison Project
To provide support for documenting and replicating an inmate rehabilitation program at San Quentin Prison.
San Rafael
$15,000

Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights
To support the Faith and Immigrant Leadership Civic Participation Program engaging immigrant families from Saint Elizabeth's congregation in Oakland and Saint Anthony's congregation in San Francisco.
San Francisco
$3,500

Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights
To provide core operating support to this alliance that organizes faith partners in support of Bay Area immigrants.
San Francisco
$25,000

Lavender Seniors of the East Bay
To support a project to promote older adult LGBT civic engagement and to help ensure the needs of elder LGBT residents are met.
San Leandro
$15,000

Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center
To provide core operating support to this agency serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$25,000

League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
To support the cost of printing and distributing the "Easy Voter Guide" and "Voting is Easy as 1-2-3"  in the Bay Area.
Sacramento
$20,000<

League of Women Voters of San Francisco
To support non-partisan voter education.
San Francisco
$25,000<

Manos Unidas Community Development Center
To increase civic awareness and participation among citizens and residents in the Mission District.
San Francisco
$5,000

Marin Interfaith Council
To convene, educate, support, and mobilize Marin County clergy and faith communities around the issue of immigration reform.
San Rafael
$3,500

Mobilize the Immigrant Vote California Collaborative
To provide core operating support to a collaborative of immigrant-serving organizations promoting civic engagement and voter registration among new citizens in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$20,000

Movement Generation
To strengthen the leadership capacity of a cohort of young Bay Area social justice activists.
Oakland
$20,000

Myanmar Community of the United States of America
To support the Myanmar community through leadership development, community education, and civic participation
Daly City
$15,000

New America Media
To support the costs of a cell-phone survey of 600 youth aged 16-22 throughout the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$30,000

New America Media
To support a first-ever poll of over 600 undocumented immigrants.
San Francisco
$20,000<

Oakland Coalition of Congregations
To expand and strengthen capacity to address city-wide policy issues and increase civic engagement.
Oakland
$20,000

Pace e Bene Franciscan Nonviolence Center
To offer nonviolence trainings to congregations and community members in East Oakland neighborhoods through the Community of Spirit Coalition.
Oakland
$5,000

Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center
To support immigrant parent leadership training at five schools in Redwood City and one school in San Mateo.
San Mateo
$15,000

People Organized to Win Employment Rights
To provide core operating support to this organization promoting the interests of low- and no-wage working residents of the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhoods.
San Francisco
$17,500

People's Institute
To support "Undoing Racism" training for the San Francisco Department of Children, Youth, and Families and key community partners to improve child welfare.
New Orleans
$18,000

Presbytery of San Francisco
To provide educational opportunities for Presbyterian church leaders and members in the San Francisco Bay Area to understand immigrant needs and issues and become civically engaged.
Berkeley
$5,000

Project Avary
To provide core operating support to this agency offering leadership development opportunities to children of incarcerated parents throughout the Bay Area.
San Rafael
$50,000>

Regional Congregations and Neighborhood Organizations Training
To support the continued expansion into Northern California of this organization building the capacity of African American congregations to engage in policy advocacy related to criminal justice.
Los Angeles
$20,000

Socially Responsible Network
To provide funding to a network of social justice nonprofit agencies fostering intergenerational and strategic partnerships, and providing capacity building assistance in Alameda County.
Oakland
$15,000

South of Market Community Action Network
To build the capacity of an organization developing and engaging leadership among residents in the South of Market neighborhood.
San Francisco
$15,000

Urban Strategies Council
To support the development and expansion of InfoAlamedaCounty, an online database tracking a variety of important census, geographic, housing, and health related information useable by the community-at-large to better design housing, health, education, and community participation projects in Alameda.
Oakland
$30,000

World Bridges
To support a strategic planning process for this volunteer-run organization offering international experience to young Bay Area activists of color.
Oakland
$15,000

Youth Media Council
To challenge media bias and promote accurate and fair representation of youth and people of color in local media, and to amplify the public voice of Bay Area youth organizing and racial/economic justice organizations.
Oakland
$30,000>

Objective: Increase access to and availability of legal services, especially for low-income residents and newcomers. Total: $495,000

Advocates for Children
To support the training of volunteer advocates to improve educational outcomes for children in San Mateo County who are under court supervision.
San Mateo
$15,000

African Immigrant and Refugee Resource Center
To provide core operating support to this agency serving Bay Area African immigrants and refugees.
San Francisco
$20,000

AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area
To support the AIDS Housing Advocacy Project for the Bay Area region.
San Francisco
$20,000

Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
To support the anti-human trafficking project for the Bay Area region.
San Francisco
$20,000>

Centro Legal De La Raza
To provide core operating support for legal services and advocacy programs serving low-income Spanish-speaking people in Alameda County.
Oakland
$25,000

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Contra Costa County
To provide core operating support for this organization that trains, screens, and pairs adult volunteers with children under court supervision in Contra Costa County.
Walnut Creek
$20,000

Donald P. McCullum Youth Court
To strengthen the interface between the Youth Offender and Youth Attorney programs in order to divert youth away from the juvenile justice system in Alameda County.
Oakland
$20,000

East Bay Community Law Center
To provide funds for a coordinator for the second Annual Alameda County Criminal Records "Clean Slate" Summit.
Berkeley
$15,000<

East Bay Community Law Center
To support an executive director transition.
Berkeley
$5,000<

Family Violence Law Center
To provide domestic violence victims residing in Alameda County with immediate crisis intervention and longer-term assistance, including legal advocacy, relocation services, and resource referrals.
Oakland
$15,000

Hastings College of Law
To provide core operating support to the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies to continue protecting the human rights of women seeking asylum in the United States on account of gender.
San Francisco
$10,000

Housing Rights, Inc.
To provide capacity building support to help a  lawyer referral service for Bay Area tenants become self-sustaining through revenue generation.
Berkeley
$15,000

Immigrant Legal Resource Center
To increase the capacity of community organizations to support the legal needs of recent immigrants.
San Francisco
$75,000>

Instituto Laboral De La Raza
To provide labor rights education and free legal services and advocacy for low-income residents of the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$15,000

International Institute of the Bay Area
To support a weekly immigration clinic in San Mateo County.
Redwood City
$20,000

Korean Community Center for the East Bay
To support the Bay Area Korean immigrant community by providing free to low-cost legal services.
Oakland
$15,000

Law School Consortium Project
To support a project to promote increased access to legal advice and representation by low-income people by helping attorneys in solo practice or small firms to develop economically viable and professionally satisfying practices in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$50,000>

Legal Advocates for Permanent Parenting
To provide matching funds to increase the capacity of Bay Area foster, kinship, and adoptive parents to care for their children through targeted legal services.
San Mateo
$15,000

Legal Assistance for Seniors
To support partial salaries of attorneys specializing in elder abuse and the guardianship of children.
Oakland
$20,000

National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement
To support pro bono and low-cost legal services to Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian immigrants in the Bay Area, and a strategic planning process.
San Francisco
$20,000

Neighborhood Law Corps
To support community-based legal services that assist residents with improving physical blight.
Oakland
$25,000

Public Interest Clearinghouse
To support the Pro Bono Project in increasing the amount of legal services conducted with low-income residents of the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$25,000

Transgender Law Center
To support the Community Legal Services Program for transgendered residents of the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$15,000 

Get Out the Vote Program
The San Francisco Foundation’s non-partisan Get Out the Vote Program aims to increase voter registration, provide voter education, and encourage voter participation. Launched in 2004, several donor advisors have joined in the effort. With access to the Foundation’s quick-turnaround mini-grants ranging from $500 and $7,500, grassroots organizations and local faith-based leaders are able to register voters, educate them, and mobilize their communities to go to the polls on election day. The program has a particular focus on low-income residents, people of color, and new citizens. These grants focused on activities for the November 2006 election in California. Total: $61,000

Asian Health Services
Oakland
$2,500<

Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Oakland
$5,000<

Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action
Berkeley
$3,000<

Chinese Progressive Association
San Francisco
$4,000<

Congregations Organizing for Renewal
Hayward
$3,000<

Contra Costa ACORN
Bay Point
$5,000<

Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization
Martinez
$5,000<

Filipinos for Affirmative Action
Oakland
$3,000<

Just Cause Oakland
Oakland
$3,000<

La Clínica de la Raza, Inc
Oakland
$2,000<

Marin County Grassroots Leadership Network
San Rafael
$2,000<

Oakland ACORN
Oakland
$5,000<

Oakland Community Housing, Inc.
Oakland
$3,000<

Rose Foundation
Oakland
$1,500<

San Francisco ACORN
San Francisco
$5,000<

San Francisco Methodist Federation
San Francisco
$3,000<

San Francisco Organizing Project
San Francisco
$4,000<

Southeast Asian Community Center
San Francisco
$2,000<

Disaster Preparedness and Relief     
Mini-grants were awarded to faith-based organizations and congregations from diverse Bay Area neighborhoods to provide disaster preparedness training to vulnerable populations and prepare their institutions to be effective first responders.Total: $30,000

Grace Urban Ministries, Inc.
To support the Parish-Based Earthquake Preparedness Project for low-income residents in the Mission District.
San Francisco
$5,000>

Interfaith Council of Contra Costa County
To build the capacity of congregations in Contra Costa County to provide disaster preparedness education to vulnerable community members and become a resource in a local disaster.
Walnut Creek
$5,000

Oakland Coalition of Congregations
To build the capacity of Oakland congregations to provide disaster training and response.
Oakland
$5,000

Peninsula Clergy Network
To build the capacity of Peninsula congregations to provide disaster preparedness training to their members and neighborhood residents, and prepare their institutions to effectively respond to local disasters.
San Mateo
$5,000

Providence Foundation of San Francisco
To provide disaster preparedness education to congregations, schools, homeless shelters, neighborhood groups, and residents in Bayview Hunters Point.
San Francisco
$5,000>

Temple Israel
To build the capacity of congregations in the City of Alameda to provide disaster preparedness trainings to vulnerable community members, and respond to a local disaster.
Alameda
$5,000

Budget Education         
To help Californians understand the current budget and fiscal issues facing our state and identify collaborative short- and long-term solutions that can help address this crisis. Total: $50,000

California Association of Community Organizations for Reform
To build powerful regional coalitions to engage in a strategic outreach effort to educate and organize constituents around State budget reform.
Oakland
$20,000

California Partnership
To expand training to organizations to deepen their knowledge about the State budget and legislative process, and to motivate low-income people to act to improve the health and welfare of their communities.
Los Angeles
$30,000

Faiths Community Partners FY 2006
Since 1998 the FAITHS Program has hosted a small grant and technical assistance program to assist congregations and faith-based organizations to promote dialogue and action that strengthen the economic, racial, and civic fabric of local neighborhoods. An advisory group of clergy and lay congregational leaders annually participate in the process by advising the FAITHS team on issues that are important to the faith-based community. Through Community Partners Program, FAITHS promotes civic participation, particularly nonpartisan voter registration, voter education, and voter mobilization, directed toward constituencies that do not regularly vote including new citizens, residents with low-incomes, youth, and ethnic minorities. Total: $10,000

Good Samaritans of the East Bay
To increase the civic engagement and voter participation of the Korean American community in the East Bay.
Alameda
$5,000

Project WeH.O.P.E.
To develop an outreach sports facility designed to address the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of East Palo Alto families.
East Palo Alto
$5,000

Faiths Youth-led Mini-grants             
The development of youth leadership is a long-standing priority of the FAITHS Program. The FAITHS Youth Leadership Program engages approximately 15 high school students in an intensive exposure to the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors, and provides them with invaluable community leadership opportunities including building strong equitable communities and responsibility for making grant recommendations in support of nonprofit youth-serving organizations. Total: $15,000

Harbor House
To support a comprehensive youth development and academic enrichment program for children and youth in the San Antonio neighborhood.
Oakland
$3,500< 

Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California
To support a youth empowerment program for Muslim youth in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties.
Oakland
$2,500< 

Jewish Youth for Community Action
To support a social justice, leadership development and empowerment training program for Jewish youth in the Bay Area.
Piedmont
$3,000<

San Francisco Youth for Christ "Da Chose Generation"
To support positive activities for youth residing in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.
San Francisco
$4,000< 

Victory Outreach Oakland G.A.N.G.
To provide an alternative to gang involvement, prostitution, substance abuse, and violence for youth in East Oakland.
Oakland
$2,000<

< Denotes grant term is less than 12 months.
> Denotes grant term is more than 12 months.