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.
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.
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 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
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
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