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Creating Real Change by Empowering eople to Help Shape Public Policy.


Current Grantees

2009 Grantees

 

Domestic

Center for Economic Policy Research
Washington, DC
$50,000
For general support.

Center for Independent Media
Washington, DC
$50,000
For general support.

Center for Progressive Leadership
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the New Organizing Institute Education Fund.

Consumer Watchdog
Santa Monica, CA
$50,000
To advocate for financial system reforms based on transparency, clarity & accountability and public participation.

Coalition for DC Representation
Washington, DC
$50,000
For general support.

Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
New York, NY
$40,000
For general support.

Foundation for National Progress
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support the Media Consortium.

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
Hyde Park, NY
$50,000
To support the development and dissemination of new ideas around a progressive economic recovery.

Gamaliel Foundation
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support work on health care, mass transportation, and comprehensive immigration reform.

Good Jobs First
Washington, DC
$50,000
For general support.

Institute for America's Future
Washington, DC
$75,000
For general support.

Institute for Media Analysis
New York, NY
$25,000
To support GRITtv with Laura Flanders.

National Employment Law Project
New York, NY
$50,000
To support work to advocate for working families during the economic crisis and recovery.

National Training and Information Center
Chicago, IL
$75,000
To support the Bank Accountability and Transparency Campaign.

People for the American Way Foundation
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the Young Elected Officials Network.

Proteus Fund
Amherst, MA
$50,000
To support the Media Democracy Fund.

Public Interest Projects

New York, NY
$200,000
To support Americans for Financial Reform.

Taxpayers for Common Sense

Washington, DC
$75,000
To provide oversight on the economic recovery and to promote greater transparency at the national and state level with a focus on the bailout.

Tides Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support the Health Care for America Education Fund.

Trustees of Columbia University in the City
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Columbia Journalism Review to improve the quality of media coverage of the economic crisis.

USAction Education Fund
Washington, DC
$75,000
To support the USAction Education Fund's financial reform work.

International

Center for Democracy in the Americas
Washington, DC
$50,000
For general support.

Human Rights Action Center
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the US Campaign for Burma.

Institute for Policy Studies
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support Foreign Policy In Focus.

Internews
Washington, DC
$5,000
To support the dissemination of humanitarian information to residents of Gaza.

J Street Education Fund

Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the J Street Education Fund Student Movement.

Latin American Working Group Education Fund
Washington, DC
$35,000
To support grassroots/grasstops education advocacy efforts to normalize relations with Cuba.

Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba
Oakland, CA
$30,000
To support joint endeavors in health and medicine between US and Cuban institutions.

Mercy Corps
Portland, OR
$125,000
To support the core program activities of the National Committee on North Korea secretariat.

National Security Archive Fund, Inc.
Washington, DC
$75,000
To support the Iran Documentation Project.

Washington Office on Latin America
Washington, DC
$40,000
For general support.

Musgrove

Air Traffic Control Education Fund
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support a convening of artists, managers, and activists, to explore how the music community can have a sustained foot inside of the mechanics of getting effective policy work done.

Foundation for National Progress (The Media Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$22,500
To support a convening of policy experts, grassroots advocates, media watchdogs and independent media producers to discuss how media can increase its capacity and impact to help set the tone for a strong economic agenda.

Philanthropy

Council on Foundations
Arlington, VA
$6,000
For general support.  

Community Partners, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$500
To support the Funders Network on Trade and Globalization. 

Foundation Center
New York, NY
$2,000
For general support.

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
Sebastapol, CA
$1,000
For general support.

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Washington, DC
$1,500
For general support.

Neighborhood Funders Group
Washington, DC
$800
For general support.

Ploughshares Fund
San Francisco, CA
$500
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

American University’s School of International Service
Washington, DC
$5,000

Bus Federation Civic Fund
Portland, Oregon
$2,278

Center for Democracy in the Americas
Washington, DC
$1,000

Center for Media Justice
Oakland, CA
$3,000

Earth Island Institute (Energy Action Institute)
Washington, DC
$5,000

Institute for Public Accuracy
San Francisco, CA
$5,000

Institute for America’s Future
Washington, DC
$2,000

Institute for Multi-track Diplomacy (Digital Democracy)
Arlington, VA
$1,500

National Training and Information Center
Chicago, IL
$2,100

People for the American Way Foundation
Washington, DC
$2,000

The Research Foundation of the City University of New York
New York, NY
$2,700

Third Reconstruction Institute
Durham, NC
$5,000

Veterans for Peace (Iraq Veterans Against the War)
Chicago, IL
$3,515

Veterans for the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Jackson, MS
$3,000

White House Project
New York, NY
$2,000

Workers Right Consortium
Washington, DC
$3,900