2008 Grantees
Civic Participation
Catholics in Alliance
for the Common Good
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support “A Campaign for the Common Good” and related civic participation
activities.
Center for Community
Change
Washington, DC
$100,000
To support the Community Voting Project.
Center for Public Interest Research,
Inc.
Washington, DC
$100,000
To support nonpartisan voter registration activities.
Coalition for DC Representation and
Education Fund
Washington, DC
$50,000
For general support.
Gamaliel Foundation
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the Faith and Democracy campaign.
Institute for Policy Studies
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the Hip Hop Caucus Institute.
Institute for Policy Studies
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the Hip Hop Caucus Institute.
League of Conservation Voters
Education Fund
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the “Heat Is On” project to make global warming a priority among
voters, donors, the media and candidates in 2008.
League of Young Voters
Education Fund
Washington, DC
$60,000
For general support.
Women’s Voices. Women Vote.
Washington, DC
$75,000
To support general research and vote-by-mail research to better understand
the issue agenda of unmarried women.
Working
America Education Fund
Washington, DC
$100,000
For general support.
Domestic
Center for Economic and Policy
Research
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support a public education and research project on the impact of unions on
the low-wage workforce.
Center for Political
Accountability
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support a Directors Program to induce corporate directors to conduct
oversight of political spending and activity.
Center for Progressive
Leadership
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the New Organizing Institute Education Fund.
Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Inc.
$75,000
For general support.
Consumer Watchdog
Santa Monica,
$75,000
To support OilWatchdog.org, a company-by-company comprehensive watchdog of
the oil industry.
Drum Major Institute,
Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
To support Marketplace of Ideas Online, a web-based archive of ideas for
progressive public policy.
Institute for America’s Future,
Inc.
Washington, DC
$50,000
For general support.
National Employment Law Project
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the merger between NELP and the Economic Justice Project of the
NYU's Brennan Center for Justice.
The Project on Government Oversight,
Inc.
Washington, DC
$75,000
To support investigator work on contractor accountability.
Public Campaign
Washington, DC
$250,000
To support the Seize the Moment Coalition.
Taxpayers for Common Sense
Washington, DC
$75,000
To support research and public education on contracting practices in the
federal government.
Tides Center
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To support the Healthcare for America Education Fund.
International
Action Center for Human
Rights
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support the U.S. Campaign for Burma.
Advocacy Project
Washington, DC
$25,000
For general support.
Alliance for Middle East Peace, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
For general support..
Center for Democracy in
the Americas
Washington, DC
$75,000
For general support.
Institute for Policy Studies
Washington, DC
$75,000
To support Foreign Policy in Focus to promote foreign policy based on global
cooperation and multilateral approaches.
Latin America Working Group
Education Fund
Washington, DC
$35,000
To support educating the public and policymakers about allowing unrestricted
US citizen travel to Cuba.
Media Development Loan
Fund
Washington, DC
$50,000
For support of Global Voices.
Medical Education Cooperation with
Cuba
Decatur, GA
$30,000
To support continuing and expanding MEDICC's journalism internship program.
National
Security Archive Fund, Inc.
Washington, DC
$100,000
To support the documentary film "Torturing Democracy" and the launch
of the online "Torture Archive" in the amount of $25,000 and to
support "Missed Opportunities? Exploring the Prospects and Pitfalls of
Contemporary U.S.-Iran Relations” in the amount of $75,000.
New America Foundation
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the research of a coalition of organizations working on US-Cuba
policy.
Tides Center
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support CorpWatch and its corporate Wiki project, www.crocodyl.org.
Media
Center for Digital
Democracy
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support"The Future of Public Media" project and "Promoting
Public Health in the Digital Era" project.
Center for Independent Media
Washington, DC
$100,000
For general support.
Foundation for National
Progress
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support the general operations of the Media Consortium in the amount of
$50,000 and to support “Live from Main Street with Laura Flanders” in the
amount of $25,000.
Independent Media Institute
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support AlterNet and its news and information coverage of strategic
issues.
Media Access Project
Washington, DC
$50,000
For general support.
Proteus
Fund, Inc.
Amherst, MA
$50,000
To support the Media Democracy Fund, a grantmaking collaborative in support
of a just media environment and democratic media policy.
Public Interest Pictures, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support the completion of the documentary film "Broadcast Blues"
as a critical tool for media reform.
Musgrove
Brown University
Providence, RI
$25,000
To support the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Institute for International Studies to
convene former, prominent decision-makers for a retreat on U.S.-Iran
relations during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.
Catholics in Alliance
for the Common Good
Washington, DC
$25,000
To convene key leaders within the Catholic social justice movement with the
goal of developing media and field strategy that will increase civic participation.
Philanthropy
Council on Foundations
Crystal City, VA
$7,200
For general support.
Foundation Center
New York, NY
$500
For general support.
National Committee for Responsive
Philanthropy
Washington, DC
$2,500
For general support.
Ploughshares Fund
San Francisco, CA
$1,000
To support the Peace and Security Funders Group.
Public Interest
Projects, Inc.
New York, NY
$2,500
To support the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation.
Public Interest Projects, Inc.
New York, NY
$500
To support the International Human Rights Funders Group.
Travel
Brown University
Providence, RI
$1,000
Center for International Policy
Washington, DC
$2,200
Center for Democracy in the Americas
Washington, DC
$1,000
Center for Progressive
Leadership (New Organizing Institute Education Fund)
Washington, DC
$5,000
Community
Initiatives
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
Food and Water Watch
Washington, DC
$3,500
Institute for Multi-Track
Diplomacy (Digital Democracy)
Arlington, VA
$4,142
Military Families Speak
Out
Jamaica Plain, MA
$3,850
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
Baltimore, MD
$1,440
New Words Live,
Inc./Center for New Words
Cambridge, MA
$5,000
Oregon Progress Forum/Bus
Project Foundation
Portland, OR
$2,577
Psychologists for Social
Responsibility
Washington, DC
$2,850
Puentes Cubanos
Miami, FL
$2,600
Tides Center
(Generational Alliance)
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
Tides Center (Organizers'
Forum)
San Francisco, CA
$2,000
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