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Advocacy, Organizing, and Immigrant Rights Grants 2010
Goal: Inspire civic action and democratic participation that contributes to a just society.
151 grants totaling $2,254,000
Objective: To support legal services and other advocacy that protects the civil and human rights of Bay Area residents and decreases discrimination against individuals based on race, ethnicity, disability, age, national origin, religion, marital status, or sexual orientation. Total: $892,500
ACLU Foundation of Northern California
To support the Campaign for the Future, working to protect civil liberties and restore rights lost since 2001.
San Francisco
$20,000
Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
To support Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian community organizations to build organizational capacity.
San Francisco
$30,000
Asian Law Caucus
To support core operating costs to provide legal services to the API immigrant community in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$20,000
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association
To provide core funding to provide leadership, support, and technical assistance to the CASA network as well as progressive child-centered policy/legislative guidance to the child welfare community.
Oakland
$20,000
California Faith for Equality
To support organizing and facilitating Bay Area communities of faith on LGBT equality issues.
Los Angeles
$20,000
California Reentry Program
To support general operating expenses, including a program director, project manager, supplies, equipment, travel, and evaluation.
San Quentin
$20,000
Canal Welcome Center
To support core operations and development of the Open Air Market.
San Rafael
$20,000
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry
To support the general operating budget of its Bay Area Community of Welcoming Congregations program and marriage equality work.
Berkeley
$20,000
Centro Legal de la Raza
To provide core operating support for legal services, community education, and advocacy programs serving low-income Spanish-speaking residents of the Bay Area.
Oakland
$25,000
Community Center Project of San Francisco
To support general operations for the LGBT community center.
San Francisco
$20,000
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Inc.
To support programs that reduce the physical and programmatic barriers that people with disabilities face in obtaining healthcare.
Berkeley
$20,000
East Bay Community Law Center
To provide legal service to low-income people living in Alameda County.
Berkeley
$20,000
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
To provide free and low-cost legal services and support the empowerment of low-income refugees and immigrants in the Bay Area.
Berkeley
$20,000
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
To support the organization's Books Not Bars campaign efforts to reform the Department of Juvenile Justice in California and provide opportunities and alternatives to youth incarceration.
Oakland
$20,000
Equal Justice Society
To support capacity building for the social justice and/or legal communities, and litigation and policy advocacy in the Bay Area, California, and nationally towards dismantling the intent doctrine.
San Francisco
$25,000
Equal Rights Advocates
To support general operations.
San Francisco
$20,000
Equality California Institute
To support public education efforts in the Bay Area to engage people of color and faith communities regarding the freedom to marry.
San Francisco
$20,000
Gay Straight Alliance Network
To support curriculum to help lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and straight ally youth develop the analysis, skills, and infrastructure for creating institutional and cultural change in their schools.
San Francisco
$15,000
General Assistance Advocacy Project
To sustain the current level of access to public benefits, and to support the expansion of legal services for homeless and low income individuals.
San Francisco
$17,500
Housing Rights, Inc.
To provide core operating support to an agency specializing in eviction defense legal assistance for tenants being evicted from foreclosed properties and tenants ineligible for other legal services.
Berkeley
$20,000
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
To enhance collaboration among and build the capacity of immigrant and faith-based organizations to advocate with elected and appointed officials on policies and issues that affect immigrant communities.
San Francisco
$20,000
Insight Prison Project
To provide core operating costs to support rehabilitation programs to incarcerated individuals within the California State Prison System, and to implement related community mentoring programs to support reduced recidivism and successful reeentry to Bay Area neighborhoods.
San Rafael
$20,000
International Institute of the Bay Area
To provide legal services for immigration and naturalization to low-income immigrants in San Mateo County.
San Francisco
$20,000
Islamic Networks Group
To promote inter-religious understanding and tolerance through education, civic engagement, and dialogue.
San Jose
$20,000
Jewish Family and Children's Services of the East Bay
To support the Refugee and Immigrant Services department, which offers a broad range of culturally sensitive bilingual/bicultural programs that provide critical health access, citizenship assistance, mental health services, and social services.
Berkeley
$20,000
Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center
To support core operations for job training, arts and culture, and health and wellness programs.
San Francisco
$20,000
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay
To provide core operating support including providing legal representation and advocacy to protect the civil rights of Bay Area residents and newcomers.
San Francisco
$20,000
League of Women Voters of San Francisco
To support non-partisan voter services and education programs encompassing the California Primary Election in June and the California General Gubernatorial Election in November.
San Francisco
$20,000
Legal Assistance for Seniors
To provide free legal advice and representation to Alameda County residents over the age of 60 in the areas of elder abuse, guardianship of minor children, health law (Medicare and MediCal), public benefits, consumer law, and legal services for immigrants.
Oakland
$20,000
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
To provide core support to develop Bay Area community leadership and legislative support to restore the rights, dignity, and power to people, families, and communities of color impacted by the prison industrial complex.
San Francisco
$20,000
Muslim Advocates
To provide core operating services to this Bay Area Muslim legal services organization working to end racial and religious profiling, and to strengthen Muslim charitable institutions.
San Francisco
$20,000
National Center for Youth Law
To provide core operating support.
Oakland
$20,000
National Council on Crime and Delinquency
To research and analyze the decline in California’s youth prison population.
Oakland
$10,000
Pacific Center for Human Growth
To support core operations for this LGBT community center.
Berkeley
$20,000
Prison University Project
To support general operations.
San Quentin
$20,000
Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County
To support core operations for this LGBT center.
Concord
$20,000
San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates Program
To provide volunteer advocacy and mentoring to promote healthy development, success in school, and successful transition to adult life for children and youth in foster care, and to prevent their entry in the juvenile justice system.
San Francisco
$20,000
San Francisco Pride at Work
To support staff costs associated with the implementation of its leadership development and community organizing program for LGBT residents.
San Francisco
$10,000
San Francisco State, Institute for Civic and Community Engagement
To improve academic performance and retention of formerly incarcerated students at through general education courses designed to improve study skills and critical thinking.
San Francisco
$20,000
San Francisco Superior Court
To support an Internet-based, cross-agency database system to support case management, communication, and research for Drug Court, a collaborative court serving roughly 450 felony defendants each year who suffer from substantial substance abuse problems.
San Francisco
$20,000
Sikh Coalition, Western Region
To provide education, advocacy, grassroots organizing, and legal support to protect the civil rights of the Bay Area Sikh community.
Fremont
$20,000
Spanish Speaking Citizens Foundation
To support programs promoting civic, educational, and economic advancement
Oakland
$15,000
Transgender Law Center
To support Bay Area transgender people having the information and legal support or representation to address discrimination and barriers to equality, particularly in healthcare, employment, education, access to social services, and housing.
San Francisco
$15,000
Urban Strategies Council
To support the Alameda County Reentry Network Employment Task Force, professional development training for employment service providers, and the development of an Employer Toolkit about hiring the formerly incarcerated
Oakland
$50,000
Objective: To support increased adult and youth civic participation and leadership, including support for emerging leaders in the nonprofit sector. Total: $682,000
Arab Resource and Organizing Center
To support its work in human rights, civil rights, and the empowerment of Bay Area Arabs and Muslims.
San Francisco
$20,000
Bay Area Organizing Committee
To support regional leadership development, civic education, and public action in San Francisco and Marin Counties.
San Francisco
$20,000
Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action
To strengthen the civic engagement of low- and moderate-income families by providing leadership and organizing skills development.
Berkeley
$20,000
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
To provide education, training, and technical assistance to African American and African immigrant organizations on issues of race, immigration, and globalization.
Oakland
$20,000
California Immigrant Policy Center
To protect health and economic security programs, deepen Bay Area organizational communications capacity, and connect Bay Area organizations with statewide immigrant rights issues.
Oakland
$20,000
California Youth Connection
To provide a vehicle for California foster youth to learn leadership and advocacy skills and to engage directly with policymakers to improve the foster care system.
San Francisco
$20,000
Californians for Justice Education Fund
To support the Oakland Organizing Project, which will train and maintain a base of high school and community college students to develop and implement a regional campaign to improve the quality of education within low-income communities and communities of color.
Oakland
$20,000
Center for Third World Organizing
To support the Bay Area Leadership Training Project, which cultivates new and emerging leaders of color in the social justice movement and builds the capacity of Bay Area social justice organizations to effectively carry out their organizing work.
Oakland
$20,000
Central American Resource Center
To build a membership base to increase the effectiveness of its community organizing and policy advocacy in securing humane local immigration policies.
San Francisco
$20,000
Chinese for Affirmative Action
To support the core work of the organization.
San Francisco
$20,000
Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE)
To increase, broaden, and strengthen the participation of religious leaders and congregations in San Francisco and Alameda Counties in the struggle for immigration reform, immigration rights, and immigrant integration.
Los Angeles
$20,000
Contra Costa ACCE
To provide core operating support for work in east and west county around the issues of foreclosures, tenant protections, land trust, affordable housing, and environmental justice issues, including a port campaign and air and water related issues.
Bay Point
$20,000
DataCenter
To support the organization in attending the Allied Media Conference and the US Social Forum with objectives crucial for advancement of respective project strategies.
Oakland
$7,000<
Donald P. McCullum Youth Court
To increase civic participation and leadership among male youth offenders and their mentors by strengthening PREVAIL, which promotes and facilitates crossover from offender to peer advocate status.
Oakland
$20,000
Filipinos for Affirmative Action
To support for the Filipino Civic Engagement Project, a statewide network of Filipino organizations aimed at increasing voter participation and civic engagement with the help of technology-centered best practices.
Oakland
$20,000
Grace Urban Ministries, Inc.
To serve, empower, and advocate for vulnerable immigrants.
San Francisco
$20,000
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
To coordinate an evaluation of 2010 Census outreach and education activities in the Bay Area.
Sebastopol
$15,000
Intertribal Friendship House
To support its capacity to affect advocacy and social change in systems and policies.
Oakland
$20,000
Korean Community Center for the East Bay
To support general operations.
Oakland
$20,000
Mobilize the Immigrant Vote California Collaborative
To support core operations related to its civic engagement work.
San Francisco
$20,000
Movement Strategy Center
To advance the organization's alliance building and strategic leadership development work with Bay Area base-building groups and provide key support to movement sector initiatives.
Oakland
$20,000
Mujeres Unidas y Activas
To provide organizing skills development for Latina immigrant women in the Bay Area to lead local, state, and national campaigns for immigrant rights and household workers’ justice.
San Francisco
$20,000
Multicultural Institute
To support the delivery of legal, health, education, and emergency services to Bay Area immigrant low-wage workers, day laborers, and families.
Berkeley
$20,000
Myanmar Community of the United States of America
To provide educational and leadership development opportunities for Myammar refugees in order to support their integration to a new culture.
Daly City
$15,000
Oakland Private Industry Council
To provide general support, with an emphasis on planning.
Oakland
$25,000
Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action
To provide general operating support.
Oakland
$20,000
People Organized to Win Employment Rights
To support organize low-income Bayview residents requesting remediation of the toxic Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point, as well as increased access to green spaces by participating in the process for development projects proposed for the area.
San Francisco
$20,000
Progressive Jewish Alliance
To continue to build its capacity to advocate, educate, and organize the Bay Area Jewish community on issues of criminal and economic justice, and to continue its leadership development work.
El Cerrito
$20,000
Project Avary
To support general operations.
Novato
$20,000
Regional Congregations and Neighborhood Organizations Training
To provide advocacy in support of transitional housing and public health services for recently released offenders in Alameda County.
Los Angeles
$20,000
Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
To support general operations.
Oakland
$20,000
Saint Peter's Housing Committee
To defend and promote immigrant rights through a multi-faceted approach, including community education and empowerment, coalition-building, organizing, and advocacy for program development and policy reform.
San Francisco
$20,000
San Francisco Interfaith Council
To strengthen and expand areas of interfaith cooperation among San Francisco’s faith communities, increase capacity to reach out to faith leaders and congregations and engage them in activities to serve the homeless, and provide opportunities for youth leadership engagement.
San Francisco
$20,000
Men of Valor Academy
To support a re-entry program.
Oakland
$20,000
Youth United for Community Action
To support young people of color addressing economic and environmental justice issues in their community and the Bay Area.
East Palo Alto
$20,000
Objective: To support philanthropic leadership to address economic and social needs of Bay Area residents. Total: $219,000
Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy
To support Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy’s planning efforts to strengthen its infrastructure and further develop its governance.
San Francisco
$44,000
East Bay Community Foundation
To support planning, strategies, and tasks related to the leadership and engagement of philanthropy and the Oakland Mayor's Office of Public Private Partnerships.
Oakland
$50,000
Foundation Center
To support core operating costs.
San Francisco
$15,000
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
To support the California Immigrant Integration Initiative’s efforts to maximize the participation of hard-to-count communities in the 2010 census and expand immigration legal services, English as a Second Language, and naturalization programs.
Sebastopol
$20,000
Marga Incorporated
To support the Race and Equity in Philanthropy Group.
New York
$40,000
Northern California Grantmakers
To provide core operation support.
San Francisco
$50,000
FAITHS Community Partners
Supporting the work of congregations providing community services and faith-based organizations increasing the civic participation of traditionally underrepresented constituencies. Total: $218,000
Ariel Outreach and Mission Ministries
To provide low-income individuals in Oakland with support through the Food and Shelter Program.
Oakland
$4,500
AYADI
To support a women’s citizenship program for Muslims in the Tenderloin neighborhood.
San Francisco
$4,500
Buena Vista United Methodist Church
To support arts, creative expression, and community partnership activities in the City of Alameda.
Alameda
$4,000
C. G. and M. Ministries/Food Program
To support a free food delivery program to churches, organizations, and families in the East Bay.
Oakland
$3,500
Calvary Baptist Church
To support music, movement, reading, and culture programs for young children in low-income families in South Hayward to have a successful transition into school and strengthen the parent-child relationship.
Hayward
$4,000
Catholic Charities of the East Bay
To support the Family to Family Program that matches low-income families in Alameda and Contra Costa County with specific parish teams that help them move towards economic self-sufficiency.
Oakland
$4,000
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry
To support the completion of a documentary film that will be used to create dialogue around marriage equality in African American congregations.
Berkeley
$3,500
Congregation Rodef Sholom of Marin
To educate students and their families on the humanity of homeless people and how to affect change through congregation-based community organizing in Marin County.
San Rafael
$2,500
Downs Community Development Corporation
To provide job counseling services for low-income and homeless adults in Oakland.
Oakland
$4,500
FACES of the East Bay
To provide funding for the Reuniting Families Project, offering support for children of incarcerated parents returning home to the East Bay.
Oakland
$4,500
Faith Network of the East Bay, Inc.
To accelerate the reading skills of second graders in urban schools who are well below benchmark.
Oakland
$3,500
Frohm's Martial Arts Foundation
To enhance the quality of life for families in East Oakland through Tae Kwon Do martial art form instruction and the provision of an afterschool homework club.
Pittsburgh
$2,500
Good Samaritans of the East Bay
To increase the participation of East Bay Korean faith-based communities in civic engagement activities.
El Sobrante
$4,500
Grace Lutheran Church
To support music and dance instruction for low-income and at-risk youth in the greater Richmond area.
Richmond
$4,500
Grace Temple Church of God in Christ
To support the Healthy Kids Now project that serves obese and overweight children and young adults.
Antioch
$2,500
Harbor House
To provide safety net services including food, clothing, and health services in Oakland.
Oakland
$4,500
Huong Viet Community Center
To support a Vietnamese Autumn (Tet Trung Tu) Festival in September 2010 in Alameda County.
Oakland
$1,500
Interfaith Network for Community Help
To support the Tongan/Pacific Islander Students After School Tutorial Program in the San Mateo-Foster City School District.
Menlo Park
$3,500
Jumpstart Network
To promote the integration of immigrants in Marin County through providing English as a Second Language classes and links to vital community services.
Novato
$3,500
Kmhmu Pastoral Center
To compose and publish a second volume of oral histories and folk tales by engaging young adults to transcribe the stories of Kmhmú elders living in the East Bay.
Berkeley
$4,000
Mills Grove Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
To support the Mills Grove Save Our Streets Project, a cultural and civic engagement program for at-risk youth.
Oakland
$3,500
Mo' MAGIC
To support art education and classes for low-income children and youth, and to host community youth art shows.
San Francisco
$2,500
Oakland Citizens Committee for Urban Renewal
To build the community service capacity of faith-based institutions in the Bay Area.
Oakland
$75,000
Olivet Institutional Missionary Church
To support civic and community engagement activities with youth.
Oakland
$3,500
OneLife Institute
To support a multimedia community arts event that promotes a vision of peace, justice, and possibility in the East Bay.
Oakland
$3,000
Overcomers with Hope 2nd Chance
To provide training for low-income young women to develop the technical, social, and creative skills necessary to have a successful career in the media and communications field.
Oakland
$4,500
Partnership for Affordable Housing
To provide essential community services and housing assistance to at-risk populations.
Oakland
$4,500
Peninsula Clergy Network
To design and fund the countywide pilot of the Congregations Disaster Preparedness and Response Project in San Mateo County.
San Mateo
$3,500
Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church
To provide free food, resource referrals, and other services to low-income families and individuals in the East Bay.
Oakland
$4,500
Priority Africa Network
To strengthen the civic engagement of African immigrant-led faith-based communities in the Bay Area.
Oakland
$3,500
Project We H.O.P.E.
To support the operation of an Emergency Warming Shelter.
East Palo Alto
$4,500
Puente de la Costa Sur
To build bridges between long-term resident and immigrant communities through the Nativity/Nacimientos Project.
Pescadero
$2,000
Revive the Vote, Inc.
To support the convening of marriage equality conversations within the urban faith community.
Berkeley
$4,000
Saint Francis Living Room Foundation
To support a daily breakfast program that feeds low-income and homeless seniors in the Tenderloin neighborhood.
San Francisco
$4,000
San Francisco Interfaith Council
To commission a photo journalist to capture the work of faith-based agencies addressing poverty, which will culminate in an exhibition/lecture series.
San Francisco
$3,000
San Rafael First United Methodist Church
To publish and distribute The Prison Voice, an education and advocacy newsletter, in the interfaith community in Marin and throughout the Bay Area.
San Rafael
$3,000
SpiritCare Ministry to Seniors
To increase volunteer involvement in visiting residents in assisted living facilities and nursing homes in the Bay Area.
Burlingame
$2,500
Temple United Methodist Church
To support a community arts and education festival in the Ocean View, Merced Heights, and Ingleside neighborhood.
San Francisco
$3,000
Walnut Creek United Methodist Church
To support the Bus Stop After School Program, which provides educational assistance and arts enrichment to immigrant children in east Contra Costa County.
Walnut Creek
$2,500
Welcome Ministry
To support a faith-based arts and public history project focusing on the needs of GLBT people living in poverty in the Tenderloin neighborhood.
San Francisco
$4,500
Youth Spirit ArtWorks
To support a community art making and education project focused on health issues and bridging the health disparities gap.
Berkeley
$3,000
Census 2010 Mini Grants
Strengthening local nonprofits in their campaigns to bring visibility to hard-to-count populations. Total: $242,500
Afghan Coalition
To educate and support the undercounted Bay Area Afghan communities and ensure individuals and families understand the importance of the census, privacy protections, and how to fill out the census form.
Fremont
$10,000<
APA Family Support Services
To support outreach, education, and awareness on the importance of Census 2010 for Asian and Pacific Islander communities through Asian Pacific Islander Family Resources Network.
San Francisco
$10,000<
Arab Cultural Center
To educate the Bay Area Arab and Arab American community about the importance of participating in Census 2010, while simultaneously promoting leadership development, the spirit of civic engagement, and volunteerism in the community.
San Francisco
$12,500<
Asian Health Services
To increase participation in Census 2010 among hard-to-reach Asian and Pacific Islander populations in Alameda County.
Oakland
$10,000<
Berkeley Food and Housing Project
To support staff member training on Census 2010, and to outreach to underserved populations, homeless, and African Americans.
Berkeley
$10,000<
Cambodian Community Development
To support Census 2010 outreach work among Cambodian Americans in the Bay Area.
Oakland
$10,000<
Community Resources for Independent Living
To support work with the cities of Hayward and San Leandro about census outreach as a Census Assistance site and as a Census Informational site.
Hayward
$10,000<
East Bay Rescue Mission, Inc.
To support 2010 Census awareness and outreach of hard-to-count populations in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
Hayward
$5,000<
Good Samaritans of the East Bay
To support work that will drastically raise the Korean immigrant community's awareness of and participation in the 2010 Census.
El Sobrante
$10,000<
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
To support activities that will reduce the undercount of immigrant populations, mixed status families, and their U.S. citizen family members in the 2010 Census by conducting outreach in Contra Costa County, training community lay leaders, and doing policy work with the Department of Homeland Security.
San Francisco
$7,500<
Interfaith Homelessness Network
To support outreach and education activities related to the 2010 Census.
San Leandro
$10,000<
Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California
To promote participation in Census 2010 of the Persian and Afghani communities in the Bay Area.
Oakland
$10,000<
Korean Community Center for the East Bay
To support Census 2010 outreach and education for the Korean American community in the Bay Area.
Oakland
$10,000<
La Clinica de la Raza, Inc.
To strengthen community outreach for the census in hard-to-count populations in Contra Costa County.
Oakland
$10,000>
Marin County Grassroots Leadership Network
To support the implementation of a campaign in the Canal neighborhood to raise awareness and educate the diverse community about the importance of the census.
San Rafael
$11,000<
Multicultural Institute
To help Latino immigrant workers/day laborers and their households, in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, Redwood City, North Fair Oaks, and East Palo Alto, be counted in the 2010 Census.
Berkeley
$9,000<
Narika
To conduct community outreach and education in the South Asian community of the Bay Area to encourage participation in the 2010 Census.
Berkeley
$7,500<
Native American Health Center, Alameda
To support Census 2010 work in the Native American community.
Alameda
$12,500<
Oakland Private Industry Council
To support Census 2010 outreach efforts to communities that are historically undercounted, including African American, Asian, Latino, formerly incarcerated, and immigrant communities.
Oakland
$12,500<
Opportunity West
To support 2010 Census outreach in greater the Richmond area.
Richmond
$10,000<
Partnership for Affordable Housing
To educate low-income and transitional families, individuals, and other diverse groups about the importance of participating in the 2010 Census, and to provide education and information about the consequences of census undercounting and omissions.
Oakland
$10,000<
Refugee Transitions
To support outreach and education for the 2010 Census.
San Francisco
$7,500<
Schools of the Sacred Heart
To support collaboration with the NAACP to reach hard-to-count populations, raise awareness about the census, engage youth, and unite the mission of the census with the centennial of the NAACP.
San Francisco
$10,000<
Training Institute for Leadership Enrichment
To support Training Institute for Leadership Enrichment's outreach efforts to educate and empower Richmond, Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco communities regarding the 2010 Census.
Oakland
$7,500<
United Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County
To support Census 2010 outreach to historically hard-to-count/under-counted populations of seniors, immigrants, disabled persons, and low-income households.
Oakland
$10,000<
California Home Ownership Preservation Initiative
Funding and building the capacity of nonprofit housing organizations to reach and assist low-income and moderate-income homeowners at risk of foreclosure. Total: $778,122
California Community Foundation
To support the California Home Owner Preservation Initiative in southern California.
Los Angeles
$728,352
California Community Foundation
To support the California Home Owner Preservation Initiative in southern California.
Los Angeles
$49,770
< Denotes grant term is less than 12 months.
> Denotes grant term is more than 12 months.