A New Way of Life Re-Entry Program
$20,000
As a transitional home for women leaving prison, the program provides a sober-living home for up to 15 women and their children. They provide education, job training, counseling, case management and other services to prepare the women for self-sufficiency. Their grant supports the Empowering Communities for Change project. Joining with the national All of Us or None Coalition, this project creates an informed and active contingent of previously incarcerated women working to reform policies and practices that currently create barriers to successful re-entry.

Centro Binacional Para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño
$20,000
Centro Binacional Para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño (CBDIO) organizes and engages immigrant communities, providing leadership development programs to help their constituents.  CBDIO operates the Project to Uplift, Educate and Build the Leadership of Oaxacans (PUEBLO) helping organize indigenous Oaxacans living in Los Angeles through home visits, workshops, and networking with other organizations to share organizing, planning, and evaluation strategies.  Their grant will help continue these efforts

Coalition Against Militarism in Our School     
$10,000
Founded in 2003 as a coalition of individuals from three organizations, Coalition Against Militarism in Our School (CAMS) organizes against the increased military presence in community high schools.  Their grant will fund the CAMS Adopt-A-School Project to mobilize and organize students, parents, school staff, veterans and grassroots organizations to go into local public high schools to demilitarize and provide alternatives for students and parents such as a career fairs and planning material for after high school.    

Collective SPACE
$10,000
Developing grassroots leadership and community-led campaigns, Collective SPACE improves the quality of life for residents of the MacArthur Park district of Los Angeles, an area infamous for high poverty and crime rates. Their campaigns turn the spotlight on the lack of affordable housing, need for after-school programs and affordable childcare, as well as ongoing threats to public safety in the area. Their grant is for general support.

Ex-Offender Action Network
$10,000
The Ex-Offender Action Network (EAN) trains and organizes former prisoners to successfully re-enter society. EAN is the only offender-led group assisting ex-offenders in the country. They have won a $70 million commitment from the City of Los Angeles to create a Special Needs One-Stop Center to provide job training and health care services for ex-offenders, beginning in late 2005. EAN is also working with employers to provide living wage jobs for ex-offenders. Their grant is for general support.

Faith Communities for Families and Children
$10,000
Focusing on rehabilitation rather than punishment, FCFC works for reform in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems by advocating for increased community involvement, educating religious and lay leaders about the mistreatment of youth in foster care and juvenile halls, and mentoring youth caught up in the system. FCFC helped lead the campaign to remove juveniles from County Jail. Their grant is for general support.


Greater Long Beach Interfaith Community Organization
$12,750
Mobilizing people of faith to improve the lives of low-income people, ICO has grown to include 12 congregations and a medical center in Long Beach. They train grassroots leaders to work on housing, safety and educational concerns in their own neighborhoods. Their grant supports the Housing and Shelter Campaign, increasing the number of shelter and transitional housing beds.

Khmer Girls in Action
$20,000
Run by young Khmer women living in Long Beach, KGA advocates for the health and well being of Asian and Pacific Islander communities, stressing gender- and culturally-sensitive youth organizing. The Khmer community in Long Beach is the largest Cambodian community in the country. Their Khmer Justice Training Program helps the young people connect wider political, social, cultural and economic issues to their own lives. KGA also advocates for the rights of immigrants and deportees, and works to reform INS/Homeland Security policies. Their grant is for general support.

L.A. Voice
$12,750
L.A. Voice represents twenty congregations and 30,000 families who organize their membership and leadership around a comprehensive set of community issues including affordable housing, transportation, public safety, and immigrant rights, inviting neighbors, regardless of religious affiliation, to be part of organizing committees.  Their grant will support their current work and the Accountable Development in Hollywood and South Los Angeles effort to create a negotiating team that will work on a community benefits agreement and solidify the commitments of developers.

Los Angeles Youth Justice Coalition
$17,500
Los Angeles Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) mobilizes youth, parents and community members to deal with race and class inequities in the juvenile justice system and pushes the county to develop community-based alternatives to arrest, detention and incarceration through organizing, advocacy and education. Their grant supports their current campaigns and others to challenge L.A.'s System of School-to-Jail Tracking, the lock-down of schools and zero tolerance policies in schools to ensure that all students have access to education.

Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Worker Organizing Network
$15,000
The Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Worker Organizing Network (MIWON) is a collaboration of worker advocates and immigrants’ rights groups designed to organize immigrant workers, educate them about their rights, and develop leadership and civic participation to improve workplace and living conditions.  Their grant is for general support to continue their organizing strategy and the implementation of their Legalization and Workers Rights campaigns that take into account the different realities of immigrant workers and foster dialogue.

Ne'ayuh  
$10,000
Ne'ayuh is composed of a partnership between the National Forest Service and members of the local Native American Community and works in conjunction with several environmental groups.  Their grant is for general operating expenses pertaining to the Haramokngna Native American Cultural Center which provides education about Indian culture and heritage while providing a connection to the land needed to bring home the power and meaning of our responsibilities as caregivers for the land.

Pilipino Workers' Center of Southern California
$20,000
PWC is a membership-based organization working for broad-based improvements in the quality of Filipinos’ lives including living wages, safe working conditions and safe and understandable immigration policies. Funding supports the Caregivers Organizing for Unity, Respect and Genuine Empowerment (C.O.U.R.A.G.E.) campaign including efforts to pass a statewide bill that will improve home healthcare working conditions, create a media strategy and generate public support for home healthcare workers.

Pomona Economic Opportunity Center
$17,000
Pomona Economic Opportunity Center (PEOC) was founded in response to a City of Pomona ordinance prohibiting day laborers from standing on street corners. They now work to provide an opportunity for day laborers to look for work, obtain skills, and connect with referral networks.  Funding will support the Pomona Day Labor Center to advocate for worker's rights.  PEOC also hopes to expand its membership base through community/ student partnerships, ESL classes, conflict resolution projects, training classes and cultural programs.

Progressive Jewish Alliance
$17,500
PJA is a national membership organization designed to assert a progressive Jewish presence in the struggles for social, racial, and economic justice in Southern California.  PJA raises awareness within the community about poverty in Los Angeles and the plight of low-wage workers. Funding will expand their Jewish Community Justice Project, a program that trains PJA volunteers to act as mediators between non-violent criminal offenders and their victims, and support continuing work against the death penalty.

Southern Californians for Youth
$10,000
Southern Californians for Youth (SC4Y) is a network of youth organizations throughout L.A. County that promotes the growth of youth organizing by serving as a resource and information center as well as a provider of skills training to young people. Through training and outreach, they develop the capacity of existing youth organizations to build a strong youth movement in Los Angeles. Their grant is for general support.

Women and Criminal Justice NETWORK
$17,500
The Women and Criminal Justice NETWORK (W+CJ) works to bring systemic change in the correctional justice system through the integration of gender-responsive programming and developing strategies to transform the incarceration experience for women and their children.  Their grant will strengthen infrastructure in order to increase membership, improve organizational effectiveness, and create long-term sustainability while continuing current services. 

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