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Social Justice Grants 2009
Goal: Inspire civic action and democratic participation that contribute to a just society.
158 grants totaling $2,563,069
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: $825,069
Ally Action
To provide core operating support for access to a safe and inclusive educational environment for Alameda and Contra Costa County students.
Concord
$20,000
Apple of Discord Productions, LLC
To support the San Quentin Media Project's film school and workforce development program.
Emeryville
$30,000
Asian Law Caucus
To develop and implement an effective communications plan to support San Francisco’s Sanctuary Ordinance and the Municipal I.D. plan, and to advocate for fair treatment of undocumented youth in the juvenile system.
San Francisco
$10,500<
Banteay Srei
To cover programmatic costs of SAUCE (Southeast Asian Unity through Cultural Exploration), its intergenerational cooking and storytelling program to help sexually exploited minors and young women at-risk of sexual exploitation to seek alternatives to sex work.
Oakland
$10,000
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association
To support public policy advocacy to improve the quality of life of children in the Bay Area who live in foster care.
Oakland
$34,569
California Reentry Program
To provide core operating support to a program offering pre-release counseling and referral to prisoners in San Quentin.
San Quentin
$15,000
Center for Young Women's Development
To support the Girls Detention Advocacy Program to support young women and expand its advocacy into Alameda County.
San Francisco
$20,000
Community Center Project of San Francisco
To provide core operating support for space and programs that welcome the LGBT community.
San Francisco
$50,000
Donald P. McCullum Youth Court
To increase civic participation and leadership of male youth offenders sentenced here by augmenting the program that promotes and facilitates crossover from offender to peer advocate status and peer leader.
Oakland
$25,000
Equal Justice Society
To support a legal organization to address structural racial inequities by restoring equal protection jurisprudence and helping move a progressive vision forward with other social justice movements.
San Francisco
$15,000
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
To provide core operating support to promote and ensure fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of people and events in the media, eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation in the Bay Area.
Los Angeles
$20,000
Gay Straight Alliance Network
To support its activism program to help lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and straight ally youth develop the analysis, skills, and infrastructure for real institutional and cultural change in their schools.
San Francisco
$20,000
Impact Fund
To support legal efforts to protect poor African American recipients of Section 8 rental vouchers from police harassment in the City of Antioch, and to develop the law necessary to provide such protection.
Berkeley
$15,000
Insight Prison Project
To provide core operating support to support rehabilitation programs to incarcerated individuals within the California State Prison system.
San Rafael
$30,000
Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center
To provide core operating support for community resources for LGBTQQ youth in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$20,000
League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
To support the Easy Voter Guide Project for the November 4, 2008, presidential election, including a partnership with Univision 14 to inform, educate, and motivate Latinos in the Bay Area to participate in political dialogue through the "Ya es Hora" campaign.
Sacramento
$50,000<
No on 8
To provide general support to the No on 8 campaign with the restriction that it only be used in Northern California.
San Francisco
$250,000<
Project Vote
To support the California NVRA Enforcement Project, seeking to force California to comply with Section 7 of the NVRA, which requires social service agencies to offer voter registration to their clients.
Washington, DC
$25,000
Regents of the University of California, Berkeley
To provide core operating support to build broad-based coalitions that support and advance innovative research-based criminal and juvenile justice law and policy approaches in the Bay Area.
Berkeley
$25,000
Safe Communities Reentry Council
To increase transparency, accountability, and effectiveness of city-wide policy and programmatic efforts to support adults returning from jails and prisons in San Francisco County.
San Francisco
$50,000>
San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates Program
To support the Pre-Emancipation Client Youth Project to increase the successful transition to adult life for foster youth.
San Francisco
$25,000
Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project
To provide core operating support for legal services and community leadership development to challenge human rights abuses against Bay Area transgender and intersex people.
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: Increase adult and youth civic participation and leadership, including support for emerging leaders in the nonprofit sector. Total: $927,500
Agape Foundation
To provide core operating support to an intermediary offering fiscal agency to Bay Area grassroots peace and justice organizations.
San Francisco
$15,000
Alameda Multi-Cultural Community Center
To provide core operating support to build multicultural alliances among diverse groups to promote equity, community empowerment, and social change in the city of Alameda.
Alameda
$30,000
Alliance for Justice
To provide core operating support for ongoing work with Bay Area nonprofits to strengthen their ability to play an active role in developing public policy.
Washington
$25,000
Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
To support the Civic Engagement Fund during its second year of implementation, as it seeks to expand the Bay Area Demonstration project into a three-year project.
San Francisco
$40,000
Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition
To provide core operating support.
Oakland
$30,000
Bay Area Organizing Committee
To provide core operating support to organize congregations, civic associations, schools, and unions in San Francisco and Marin Counties.
San Francisco
$25,000
Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action
To provide core operating support.
Berkeley
$25,000
California Clean Money Campaign
To provide capacity building for the Bay Area office to increase regional volunteer recruitment, training, and public education; strengthen local coalition building; and support grassroots efforts in Bay Area cities considering municipal Clean Money reform.
San Francisco
$25,000
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 in Alameda County.
Oakland
$20,000
Canal Welcome Center
To increase the sustainability of this organization and its programs providing services to residents in the Canal neighborhood.
San Rafael
$25,000
Central American Resource Center
To support staff costs associated with the creation of a community organizer position providing services to immigrant families.
San Francisco
$20,000
Children's Defense Fund
To support a California/national summit to strategize and plan for the dismantling of the Cradle to Prison Pipeline in California with partners such as legislators, child advocates, educators, philanthropists, and juvenile justice leaders.
Washington
$2,500
Chinatown Community Development Center
To support voter education, registration, and advocacy for Chinatown residents and tenants.
San Francisco
$25,000
Chinese American Voters Education Committee
To provide general operating support to this organization working to promote marriage equality in the Chinese immigrant community.
San Francisco
$20,000
Chinese Progressive Association
To provide core operating support to strengthen and expand multi-issue, multi-generational organizing, leadership development, and alliance-building work with working class immigrant Chinese families.
San Francisco
$20,000
Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice
To support the growth of a regional Bay Area interfaith network supporting immigrant rights and immigrant integration, engaging the network in education, and building multicultural alliances and advocacy.
Los Angeles
$20,000
Community Initiatives
To support the American Indian Working Group project to map the needs of American Indian artists.
San Francisco
$5,000<
Contra Costa ACORN
To provide core operating support to organize low-and moderate-income residents of Contra Costa County to win changes and better services in their communities.
Bay Point
$20,000
Family Builders by Adoption
To support the LGBT Youth and Families Involved in Foster Care Advocacy Project to improve policies affecting LGBT adoptive families and LGBTQ youth involved in the foster care system.
Oakland
$25,000
Filipino Community Center
To build the power of Filipino immigrants to protect their human and civil rights and exercise their political power, by supporting its efforts to organize Filipino immigrant families and build a multi-sectoral Center.
San Francisco
$15,000
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
To support the California Immigrant Integration Initiative's efforts to develop a comprehensive immigrant integration agenda and strengthen immigrant civic participation in the Bay Area and throughout California.
Sebastopol
$25,000
Homies Organizing the Mission Empowering Youth
To support youth organizing and advocacy to amend the Gang Injunction, offering an alternative strategy that addresses the root causes of violence in the low-income, Latino, Mission District community.
San Francisco
$25,000
Intertribal Friendship House
To support the process of re-building organizational infrastructure and developing a strategic plan to sustain culturally competent programs for Native Americans.
Oakland
$15,000
Just Cause Oakland
To provide core operating support for community organizing, leadership development, and movement-building work in the area of housing justice.
Oakland
$20,000
League of Women Voters of San Francisco
To support the continuation and expansion of nonpartisan research and voter education.
San Francisco
$20,000
Myanmar Community of the United States of America
To provide core operating support for this organization working to increase civic participation, literacy, and community understanding of the social structure for the Myanmar community of the Bay Area.
Daly City
$20,000
Oakland Acorn
To provide core operating support to organize low-and moderate-income residents to win changes and better services in their communities.
Oakland
$20,000
Oakland Youth Movement
To support organizational expansion and the development a Community Action Plan.
Oakland
$10,000
Our Family Coalition
To organize and support LGBTQ parents of young children, by providing community strength, promoting non-discrimination in public institutions, and raising awareness of LGBTQ families with children.
San Francisco
$20,000
outLoud Radio
To provide core operating support to this LGBT youth-led radio program for the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$20,000
Pacific Center for Human Growth
To support the Youth Leadership Development Program working to ensure a positive LGBT community by addressing the needs of LGBT youth and developing LGBT youths' capacity to impact change within Alameda County.
Berkeley
$25,000
Pacific Institute for Community Organization
To support the Bay Area Citizenship and Civic Engagement Initiative, a campaign to launch 25 citizenship drives in 14 cities across five Bay Area counties over the next two years.
Oakland
$25,000
PANA Institute
To provide leadership development training and mentorship opportunities to Bay Area youth and young adults of color.
Berkeley
$30,000
Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action
To provide core operating support for this intermediary organization providing leadership training and technical assistance to immigrant-serving organizations throughout the Bay Area and California.
San Francisco
$20,000
Progressive Jewish Alliance
To provide core operating support to educate, advocate, and organize Jews to become personally involved in the work of building a better Bay Area community.
Los Angeles
$25,000
Public Press
To build the capacity of the organization and support the implementation of an online journalism project.
San Francisco
$20,000
Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County
To provide core operating support to this LGBT community center working to advocate for, increase the visibility of, and mobilize LGBT residents.
Concord
$20,000
Regional Congregations and Neighborhood Organizations Training
To support a campaign to increase the number of homeless beds, drug treatment beds, and support services for Alameda County residents returning from prison.
Los Angeles
$20,000
Saint Peter's Housing Committee
To support the Immigrant Rights Program to defend and promote the civil and human rights of Latino immigrants through a multi-faceted approach, including community education and empowerment, coalition-building, organizing and advocacy for policy reform to residents in the Mission District.
San Francisco
$15,000
San Francisco Pride at Work
To support staff costs associated with the implementation of the organization's leadership development and community organizing program for LGBT residents in the Bernal Heights, Castro, Mission, and Tenderloin neighborhoods.
San Francisco
$20,000
Sikh Coalition, Western Region
To support a community needs assessment survey of Sikhs residing in the Bay Area to serve as an advocacy tool and to provide data will be the focus for the area’s first, full-time Sikh civil rights office.
Fremont
$15,000
South of Market Community Action Network
To provide core operating support to this organization building the leadership of youth and families in the South of Market neighborhood to advocate for economic justice and equity in the city's budget process.
San Francisco
$20,000
Training Institute for Leadership Enrichment
To provide core operating support for this organization developing and incubating a new generation of African American women leaders in the Bay Area.
Oakland
$25,000
Urban Habitat
To support the planning, formation, and launching of a bus riders union in the East Bay that has the power to win more equitable transportation investments and climate-change solutions that benefit low-income neighborhoods.
Oakland
$20,000
Objective: Increase access to and availability of legal services, especially for low-income residents and newcomers. Total: $497,500
Alameda County Bar Association Volunteer Legal Services Corporation
To provide core operating support for pro bono legal services in family, landlord/tenant, immigration, debt collection defense, bankruptcy, and nonprofit law.
Oakland
$20,000
Asian Law Caucus
To provide core operating support for legal representation of the Asian and Pacific Islander immigrant community in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$25,000
Bay Area Legal Aid
To support Coordinated Legal Intake Pilot Project, a pilot centralized legal services intake program that provides access to appropriate legal services with one call.
Oakland
$35,000
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, primarily in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
Oakland
$30,000
Disability Rights Advocates
To provide core operating support to assist people with disabilities residing in the Bay Area.
Berkeley
$40,000
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
To support the Refugee Rights program that provides immigration legal services to low-income refugees, immigrants, and political asylum seekers in the Bay Area.
Berkeley
$15,000
Family Violence Law Center
To support increased access to legal services for low-income survivors of domestic violence, in particular limited-English speakers, immigrants, and youth, in order to increase their safety and enable them to permanently escape abuse.
Oakland
$20,000
General Assistance Advocacy Project
To sustain the current level of access to public benefits and to support the expansion of other legal services for homeless and low-income individuals.
San Francisco
$17,500
Heartland Human Care Services' National Immigrant Justice Center
To support the Bay Area-based Asylum Documentation Project, assisting LGBT and HIV-positive immigrants with their claims for asylum and HIV waivers.
Chicago
$15,000
Housing Rights, Inc.
To provide core operating support to this organization specializing in eviction defense legal assistance in Contra Costa County for tenants being evicted from foreclosed properties and tenants ineligible for other legal services.
Berkeley
$20,000
International Institute of the Bay Area
To provide legal advice and counsel to low-income immigrants and their families in San Mateo and Alameda Counties.
San Francisco
$25,000
Jewish Family and Children's Services of the East Bay
To support the Path to Citizenship Program for Russian, Afghan, Bosnian, and Iranian immigrants and refugees to apply for U.S. citizenship.
Berkeley
$20,000
Justice Now
To support an internship program for Bay Area activists, community members, and college, law, and graduate students.
Oakland
$25,000
Korean Community Center for the East Bay
To support the Immigration and Citizenship Program to empower and create a stronger, more vocal Korean immigrant population through direct services and education in the Bay Area.
Oakland
$15,000
La Raza Centro Legal, Inc.
To provide core operating support for this organization offering immigrant advocacy and legal services in San Francisco, San Mateo, and Contra Costa Counties.
San Francisco
$20,000
Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County
To provide core operating support for free, high-quality legal services to the most vulnerable populations in the areas of law that most affect their lives.
San Mateo
$15,000
Legal Services for Children, Inc.
To provide core operating support for this organization offering legal and social work services specifically for Bay Area children and youth.
San Francisco
$20,000
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
To support the expansion of All of Us or None chapters, providing public education and outreach to counter discrimination faced by formerly incarcerated people, and working with elected officials, community leaders, and community-based organizations to move its campaigns forward.
San Francisco
$15,000
Muslim Advocates
To provide core operating support 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 for this legal advocacy organization for foster children residing in Alameda County.
Oakland
$30,000
National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
To support the implementation of the organization's strategic plan to guide priorities, both internal and external, for the next 3 to 5 years.
San Francisco
$15,000
San Francisco Superior Court
To support Phase II of a database project to expand the core functionality for complex research and evaluation purposes at San Francisco's Behavioral Health Court.
San Francisco
$20,000
Transgender Law Center
To strengthen the infrastructure and sustainability of this organization to provide legal services to the transgender community of the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$20,000
FAITHS Community Partners
To support the work of congregations and faith-based organizations increasing the civic participation of traditionally underrepresented constituencies. Total: $175,000
Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action
To support the Fellows Program, a youth and young adult leadership and empowerment initiative that will recruit and train college-aged youth who reside in South and West Berkeley to engage in community organizing and research.
Berkeley
$4,000
Congregations Organizing for Renewal
To develop stronger multicultural faith and community coalitions that identify strategies to respond to the economic crisis facing residents in unincorporated south Alameda County.
Hayward
$4,000
Corinthian NonProfit Development Corporation
To provide positive financial education for inner-city youth to achieve financial literacy as a pathway to college.
Oakland
$4,000
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
To support the Immigrant Rights Project, engaging congregants, building alliances, and advocating for policies for humane and compassionate treatment of immigrants.
Oakland
$4,000
East Bay Rescue Mission, Inc.
To support the resource and network center to provide health and education information to faith-based and low-income communities in the East Bay.
Hayward
$4,000
FACES of the East Bay
To support a community diversity and racial healing workshop series, Project Together We Can, for Bay Area residents.
Oakland
$4,000
Faith Network of the East Bay, Inc.
To support the Project Urban School Adoption program, which seeks to equip disadvantaged students in Alameda County with basic learning tools that will allow them to reach their full potential.
Oakland
$4,000
Fruitvale Tutoring
To support high school girls and college-age young women in Alameda County in their transition from abuse.
Oakland
$4,000
Good Samaritans of the East Bay
To promote civic engagement of Korean and other immigrant community members, and to support faith community activism and community service to low-income and marginalized residents in the East Bay.
El Sobrante
$4,000
Grace Lutheran Church
To enhance coordination among the nonprofits at Grace Place that provide Richmond residents with food, English as a Second Language, and other social service programs.
Richmond
$4,000
Ignatian Solidarity Network
To support a training on faith-based community organizing for University of San Francisco students, faculty, and staff.
San Francisco
$2,500
Islamic Networks Group
To provide opportunities for leaders of Muslim and Jewish communities in the East Bay to engage in discussions on civic issues through the Exploring Common Ground: Muslims and Jews in America speaker series.
San Jose
$4,000
Kmhmu Pastoral Center
To provide core operating support for educational and cultural services to the Lao community in Richmond.
Berkeley
$4,000
Men of Valor Academy
To support dialogue to build a bridge between Latino and African American communities in East Oakland.
Oakland
$4,000
New Hope Covenant Church
To strengthen community linkages and develop community service projects for Cambodian refugees and the community at large in the San Antonio neighborhood.
Oakland
$4,000
Oakland Citizens Committee for Urban Renewal
To build the capacity of faith-based institutions in the Bay Area.
Oakland
$75,000
Paradise Baptist Church
To support a block party that celebrates community and increases awareness of the wide range of services and support available to residents of the Elmhurst neighborhood.
Oakland
$4,000
Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church
To provide core operating support for a food pantry that provides free food bags to individuals, families, seniors, disabled persons, and immigrants in need living in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
Oakland
$4,000
Priority Africa Network
To support a series of gatherings of African immigrant faith leaders in the Bay Area with the goal of establishing links among them, as well as better integration with social justice, immigrants rights groups, and local civic activities.
Berkeley
$4,000
Project Peace East Bay
To support the Days of Peace community service projects in the East Bay.
Berkeley
$4,000
Revive the Vote, Inc.
To support the convening of marriage equality conversations within the urban faith community.
Berkeley
$4,000
Saint Patrick Catholic Church
To support the Summer Youth Activity Program for low-income and immigrant families of West Oakland's Lower Bottoms neighborhood.
Oakland
$4,000
San Francisco Interfaith Council
To support a world hunger leadership training program for San Francisco high school students.
San Francisco
$4,000
San Francisco Korean Evangelical Church
To support a new language program and provide social and health services to the Korean community.
San Francisco
$3,000
San Francisco Teen Challenge
To provide core operating support to assist homeless men in the Mission District.
San Francisco
$2,500
Sojourn Multifaith Chaplaincy
To support a lay volunteer training program providing services to patients at San Francisco General Hospital.
San Francisco
$4,000
Urojas Ministries
To provide services to West Oakland youth to prevent new and repeat involvement in the juvenile justice system.
Oakland
$4,000
FAITHS Arts Mini-grants
To support free, community-based artistic and cultural activities, with a priority focus on immigrant, refugee, and grassroots communities. Total: $30,000
African Immigrants' Social and Cultural Services
To support cultural and artistic activities for African immigrants in the Bay Area.
El Sobrante
$4,000
American Indian Child Resource Center
To support the cultural dance and regalia program.
Oakland
$4,000
Huong Viet Community Center
To support dance/play/singing/fashion performances and a lantern workshop at the annual Fall Moon Festival.
Oakland
$2,500
Mo' MAGIC
To support art programming for youth in the Western Addition with the art work showcased at several community art shows.
San Francisco
$4,000
Multicultural Institute
To promote creative writing and expression through the summer 2009 Youth Writing Festival.
Berkeley
$4,000
OneLife Institute
To support Transformative Visions, a multi-media art show, jazz, and spoken word concert.
Oakland
$4,000
Walnut Creek United Methodist Church
To support the Bus Stop After School Program, which provides educational assistance and arts enrichment to immigrant children.
Walnut Creek
$3,500
Westminster Hills Presbyterian Church
To provide a venue for immigrant day laborers to display their musical talent to the general public.
Hayward
$4,000
Get Out the Vote Mini-grants
The San Francisco Foundation’s non-partisan Get Out the Vote (GOTV) 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, 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. Total: $108,000
Afghan Coalition
To support non-partisan voter education, registration, and turnout in southern Alameda County among Afghan Americans and other diverse community members, particularly youth and new citizens living in Fremont and surrounding cities.
Fremont
$2,500<
Alameda Point Collaborative
To register, inform, and provide polling place transportation to the formerly homeless residents.
Alameda
$2,000<
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice
To promote voter participation by young Asian American registered voters.
Oakland
$3,000<
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
To conduct a field program to educate and mobilize Chinese immigrant voters in Oakland and Laotian refugee voters in west Contra Costa County for the November 2008 elections.
Oakland
$4,500<
Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action
To support and increase voter participation in South and West Berkeley.
Berkeley
$2,500<
Californians for Justice Education Fund
To support its focus on voter registration and voter education with students at Laney College in Oakland, to mobilize efforts in support of Measure VV, and to defeat Propositions 6 and 9.
Oakland
$4,500<
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry
To conduct voter registration at a town hall meeting discussing the Black church and marriage equality.
Berkeley
$1,000<
Chinatown Community Development Center
To support civic engagement and voter mobilization efforts for the San Francisco November 2008 election among primarily low-income monolingual residents of Chinatown.
San Francisco
$3,500<
Chinese American Voters Education Committee
To provide nonpartisan Asian American voter registration, bilingual Ranked Choice Voting education, absentee ballot application registration, and grassroots Get Out the Vote activities.
San Francisco
$3,500<
Chinese for Affirmative Action
To increase voter registration and voter turnout among Asian Pacific American communities through proven voter education strategies such as distributing voter education materials in underserved neighborhoods, convening community briefings on ballot measures, and hosting candidate forums.
San Francisco
$3,500<
Chinese Progressive Association
To conduct voter registration, education, and turnout activities among low-income Chinese-speaking residents.
San Francisco
$3,500<
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
To support a project working to increase the number of immigrant, low- to moderate-income voters and increase the electoral participation and leadership of 400 low- to moderate-income families and families of color.
San Francisco
$3,500<
Congregations Organizing for Renewal
To deepen the capacity of community leaders to educate and turn out larger numbers of youth and low-income voters of color in historically low voting precincts in south Alameda County in November 2008.
Hayward
$3,500<
Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization
To support the 2008 Contra Costa Active Citizenship and Voter Development Campaign.
Martinez
$4,500<
Democracy Matters Institute
To educate, register, and get young people out to vote on Election Day 2008 at the University of San Francisco, University of California at Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.
Hamilton
$2,000<
Filipinos for Affirmative Action
To support voter identification, mobilization, and Get Out the Vote efforts in Oakland and Union City to pass Measure UU and defeat Propositions 4, 6, and 8 during the November 2008 elections.
Oakland
$4,000<
Homies Organizing the Mission Empowering Youth
To combine voter education, registration, and mobilization to the hardest-to-reach Latino youth vote, targeting at-risk Latino youth from immigrant/new citizen, low-income families, and training at least 20 voter registrars, educating 400 community members and registering 100 new voters.
San Francisco
$2,000<
League of Women Voters of Oakland, Inc.
To support the nonpartisan Oakland Easy Voter Guide for the November 4, 2008, election, listing all the local races with information on the candidates in an easy to read and simple summary of the ballot measures in English, Spanish, and Chinese.
Oakland
$5,000<
Marin County Grassroots Leadership Network
To encourage working families, people of color, and individuals with second language needs to vote in Marin, focusing on the Canal neighborhood of San Rafael, Marin City, and South Novato, comprised of typically unrepresented voters.
San Rafael
$3,000<
Mo' MAGIC
To inspire youth to vote and become more involved in the civic life in the Western Addition of San Francisco.
San Francisco
$2,500<
National Center for Youth Law
To educate and register youth to vote who have aged out of the foster care system.
Oakland
$2,500<
Oakland Acorn
To support the education and mobilization of low- to moderate-income voters for the November 2008 state, local, and national elections.
Oakland
$4,500<
Oakland Private Industry Council
To provide voter education and registration efforts to the traditionally underserved youth of color in Alameda County through peer outreach.
Oakland
$2,500<
onefam
To register 500 young voters, educate them on 2008 ballot initiatives, produce a voters right pamphlet and a ballot initiative cheat sheet with hip-hop vernacular, and hold three community-focused forums to discuss why issues important to our communities.
Oakland
$3,500<
Parent Voices/Oakland
To identify 250 new citizens, non-native English speakers, low-income people, or people of color to register to vote, and to conduct voter education and mobilization with 1,250 additional unduplicated individuals in northern Alameda County.
Oakland
$2,500<
People Organized to Win Employment Rights
To provide intensive Get Out the Vote and non-partisan voter education efforts aimed at increasing voter turnout in Bayview Hunters Point, leading up to the November 2008 elections.
San Francisco
$2,500<
Progressive Jewish Alliance
To mobilize the greater Bay Area Jewish community in Get Out the Vote efforts to defeat Proposition 8.
Los Angeles
$4,000<
Revive the Vote, Inc.
To sponsor a Get Out the Vote basketball tournament and Election Day outreach in San Francisco and Alameda Counties.
Berkeley
$3,500<
Rose Foundation
To register new voters in high schools and low-income neighborhoods through high school civics education classroom presentations and training interested students to register voters at high traffic areas throughout Alameda County.
Oakland
$2,500<
San Francisco ACORN
To increase voter turnout in 25 low-turnout precincts.
San Francisco
$4,500<
San Francisco Organizing Project
To increase voter turn-out by engaging member congregants and families in talking to one another and the general public about specific issues on the November ballot and efforts to defeat Proposition 8.
San Francisco
$4,500<
San Mateo County ACORN
To support non-partisan voter education and voter mobilization efforts for infrequent voters, new citizens, youth, renters, and low-income residents in San Mateo County.
South San Francisco
$4,500<
The Way Christian Center
To support the collaborative efforts with UC Berkeley students of color and West Berkeley residents to increase and provide voter registration, education, and turnout for the local, state, and national elections of 2008.
Berkeley
$2,500<
< Denotes grant term is less than 12 months.
> Denotes grant term is more than 12 months.