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Lorraine Hays, a member of Philadelphia Unemployment
Project and Hotel Employees Local 274, leads a rally of unemployed
workers in Washington D.C. post-September 11. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia
Unemployment Project. |
All Grantees are Public Charities
American Institute for Social Justice/Living Wage Resource Center New York, NY
202-547-2500
www.acorn.org
$25,000 to support ACORN's Living Wage Resource Center to provide technical assistance to living and minimum wage campaigns and campaigns for state earned income tax credits and paid sick days.
American Institute for Social Justice/ACORN Southern Region
Miami, FL
727-692-7215
www.acorn.org
$25,000 to support ACORN's coordinated organizing campaigns in key southern states.
American Rights at Work Education Fund
Washington, DC
202-822-2127
www.americanrightsatwork.org
$20,000 to support its public education campaigns in support of the rights of workers to organize unions.
Anti-Displacement Project
Springfield, MA
413-739-7233
www.a-dp.org
$20,000 for the expansion of its worker center to support low-wage immigrant workers to secure workplace rights.
Center for Community Change
Washington, DC
202-387-4893
www.communitychange.org
$15,000 for its project to provide financial services to the unbanked through building the capacity of worker centers with technical assistance and training.
Center for Community Change
Washington, DC
202-339-9300
www.communitychange.org
$25,000 for its Poultry Worker Justice project, providing technical assistance, training and networking to immigrant worker centers in the south to support worker rights and hold employers accountable for worker safety and fair wages.
Community Labor United
Boston, MA
617-723-2639
www.massclu.org
$25,000 in general operating support for organizing campaigns to secure greater economic benefits for low wage workers and their families.
Durham CAN
Durham, NC
919-225-1673
www.durhamcan.org
$20,000 to support its living wage campaigns for both private and public employees.
Farm Labor Research Project
Toledo, OH
419-243-3456
$20,000 to support FLOC's immigrant worker center in Dudley, NC, to assist farm workers to improve their working and living conditions.
Faith Action for Community Equity (FACE)
Honolulu, HI
808-522-1302
www.facehawaii.org
$25,000 for its organizing campaigns in support of the right of hotel workers to organize and secure better wages and working conditions.
Front Range Economic Strategy Center
Denver, CO
303-477-6111
www.fresc.org
$15,000 in general operating support for its organizing campaigns to benefit low wage workers and their families.
Gamaliel Foundation
Chicago, IL
312-357-2639
www.gamaliel.org
$20,000 to support its multi-state Jobs Now Campaign, to provide technical assistance and training to organizing campaigns focused on transportation equity, including job training and local hiring preferences.
Georgia Stand Up
Atlanta, GA
404-581-0061
www.georgiastandup.org
$20,000 in general operating support for its organizing campaigns to benefit low-wage workers and their families.
Idaho Community Action Network
Boise, ID
208-385-9146
www.icanweb.net
$20,000 to continue its Health Care Justice organizing project to expand health coverage to uninsured individuals and families.
Jobs With Justice Education Fund
Washington, DC
202-393-1044
www.jwj.org
$20,000 for its capacity building project for its local affiliates.
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Los Angeles, CA
213-977-9666
www.laane.org
$25,000 for a collaborative project with the Connecticut Center for a New Economy for leadership development activities in support of the right of hotel workers to organize.
Maine People's Resource Center
Portland, ME
207-797-9207
www.mainepeoplesalliance.org
$20,000 to continue its organizing campaign to expand health coverage to uninsured individuals and families.
Metro Organization for Racial and Economic Equity
Minneapolis, MN
612-333-1260
www.more2.org
$20,000 for its Jericho Table organizing campaign to increase participation of minorities and women in the area construction industry.
Mid-South Interfaith Network for Economic Justice
Memphis, TN
901-332-3570
www.midsouthinterfaith.org
$15,000 for the establishment of the Memphis Workers Center to support the rights of immigrant workers.
National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Los Angeles, CA
213-380-2784
www.ndlon.org
$25,000 in general support for NDLON's capacity building and other activities with its affiliates across the country.
National Immigration Law Center/New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice
Los Angeles, CA
213-639-3900
www.neworleansworkerjustice.org
$20,000 in support of immigrant worker organizing to secure improved wages, working conditions and just treatment of workers.
Organizing and Leadership Training Center
Boston, MA
617-822-1499
www.mcan-oltc.org
$20,000 for support of its Metro West Immigrant Workers Center and other community-labor organizing campaigns.
The Partnership for Working Families
Los Angeles, CA
213-977-9400
$20,000 in general operating support for capacity building and other activities for its affiliates that strengthen community-labor collaboration.
Restaurant Opportunities Center
New York, NY
212-343-1771
www.rocny.org
$20,000 in general operating support for its workplace justice campaigns for low-wage restaurant workers.
Valley Interfaith
Weslaco, TX
956-968-3900
$20,000 for its health care organizing project to increase the number of insured individuals and families.
Voces de la Frontera
Milwaukee, WI
414-643-1620
www.vocesdelafrontera.net
$20,000 in general operating support for this worker center to support the rights of immigrant workers.
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