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GRANT LIST 1997-2006
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"77% of Americans believe the government should help people leaving welfare obtain jobs with opportunities for advancement even if it takes longer than placing them in the first available jobs."

-NATIONAL POLL, LAKE, SNELL, PERRY & ASSOCIATES, 2002

 
  Maryland Governor Parris Glendening signs Baltimore's living wage bill into law. Photo courtesy of BUILD.
  Former Maryland Governor Parris Glendening (seated center) signs Baltimore's living wage bill into law as Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD) members look on. Photo courtesy of BUILD.

All Grantees are Public Charities (Operating project or affiliate of grantee appears in parentheses)

Alliance for Global Justice
Washington, DC
www.usasnet.org
www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org

American Institute for Social Justice, Inc. (ACORN Living Wage Resource Center and ACORN projects in IL, MA, NJ, NY and WI)
Washington, DC; Chicago, IL; Baton Rouge, LA; Peterson, NJ; Cleaveland, OH; Phoenix, AZ
www.acorn.org

Anti-Displacement Project
Springfield, MA
www.a-dp.org

Applied Research Center
Oakland, CA
www.arc.org

Arizona Institute for Public Life (Arizona Interfaith Network)
Phoenix, AZ
www.arizonainterfaith.org

Association for the Rights of Citizens (Chicago Homecare Organizing Project and New Orleans Living Wage Campaign)
Chicago, IL and New Orleans, LA
www.acorn.org

Austin Interfaith
Austin, TX

Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development
Baltimore, MD
www.buildiaf.org

Building Responsibility Equality and Dignity
Columbus, OH
www.nabrit.com/bread/

Campaign for Sustainable Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI

CASA of Maryland
Takoma Park, MD
www.casademaryland.org

Center for Community and Corporate Ethics
Washington, DC
www.walmartwatch.org

Center for Community Change (National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support)
Washington, DC
www.communitychange.org, www.nationalcampaign.org

Center for Connecticut's Future
Hartford, CT

Center for Labor Education & Research, Inc. (Massachusetts Jobs with Justice)
Cambridge, MA; Boston, MA
www.massjwj.net

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Washington, DC
www.cbpp.org

Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
Chicago, IL
www.chicagohomeless.org

Childspace Cooperative Development (Philadelphia Jobs with Justice)
Philadelphia, PA

Cleveland Workers Rights Education Fund (Cleveland Jobs with Justice)
Cleveland, OH

Coalition for Economic Justice (Buffalo Jobs with Justice)
Buffalo, NY
cej_maria@yahoo.com

Coalition for Immokalee Workers
Immokalee, FL
www.ciw-online.org

Community Labor United
Boston, MA

Community Voices Heard
New York, NY
www.cvhaction.org

Connecticut Center for a New Economy
New Haven, CT
www.ctneweconomy.org

Connecticut Citizen Research Group, Inc.
West Hartford, CT

Direct Action for Rights and Equality
Providence, RI
www.daretowin.org

Earth Day Network
Washington, DC
www.earthday.net

Economic Policy Institute
Washington, DC
www.epinet.org

Education and Training Institute, Inc.
New Brunswick, NJ
www.newlabor.net

Equal Justice Center
Austin, TX
www.equaljusticecenter.org

Essex County Community Organization
Topsfield, MA
www.eccf.org

Faith Action for Community Equity
Honolulu, HI

Faith Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church
Stamford, CT

Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami, Inc.
Haitian Women of Miami, Inc.
North Miami Beach, FL

Farm Labor Research Project
Toledo, OH
www.floc.com

Fifth Avenue Committee
Brooklyn, NY
www.fifthave.org

Front Range Economic Strategy Center
Denver, CO
www.fresc.org

Gamaliel Foundation
St. Louis, MO
www.gamaliel.org

Greater Boston Interfaith Organization
Dorchester, MA
www.gbio.org

Hartford Areas Rally Together
Hartford, CT
www.hartnet.org

HERE Education and Support Fund
New York, NY
www.rocny.org

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Chicago, IL
www.icirr.org

Immigrant Worker Citizenship Project
Las Vegas, NV
citizen@iwcproject.org

Institute for Public Life (Omaha Together One Community)
Omaha, NE
www.otoc.org, HollerIPL@cox.net

Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (Good Jobs First)
Washington, DC
www.goodjobsfirst.org

Interfaith Education Fund
Mercedes, Texas; Weslaco, Texas
viemail@sc2000.net

Interfaith Worker Justice
Chicago, IL
www.iwj.org

Jobs With Justice Education Fund
Washington, DC
www.jwj.org

Judson Memorial Church (New York Jobs with Justice)
New York, NY
www.nyjwj.org

Korean Immigrants Workers Association of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
www.kiwa.org

Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Los Angeles, CA
www.laane.org

Labor Neighbor Research and Training Center, Inc.
Tampa, FL
www.walmartwork.org

Maine People’s Resource Center
Portland, ME

Make the Road by Walking
Brooklyn, NY
www.maketheroad.org

Merrimack Valley Project
Lawrence, MA
MValleyP@aol.com

Metro Industrial Areas Foundation
New York, NY

Metro Organization for Racial and Economic Equity
Kansas City, MO

Michigan Organizing Project
Muskegon Heights, MI

Ms. Foundation for Women
New York, NY
www.ms.foundation.org

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
Washington, DC
www.ncrp.org

National Employment Law Project
New York, NY
www.nelp.org

National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
Chicago, IL
www.nicwj.org

National Organizers Alliance
Washington, DC
www.noacentral.org

National Training and Information Center
Chicago, IL
www.NTIC-US.org

Neighborhood Funders Group
Washington, DC
www.nfg.org

Northeast Action (Campaign on Contingent Work)
Cambridge, MA
www.neaction.org

Northwest Federation of Community Organizations
Seattle, WA
www.nwfco.org

Northwest Indiana Federation of Interfaith Organizations
Gary, IN
www.interfaithfederation.org

Organizing and Leadership Training Center
Boston, MA
LewFinfer@aol.com

Philadelphia Interfaith Action
Philadelphia, PA
www.libertynet.org/~fpc/pia.html

Preamble Center for Public Policy
Washington, DC

Progressive America Fund (New York Community Leadership Institute and Progressive Maryland Education Fund)
New York, NY
dcantor@igc.org
www.progressivemaryland.org

Progressive Education and Research Associates
New Haven, CT

Restaurant Opportunities Center
New York, NY
www.rocny.org

Rhode Island Organizing Project
Providence, RI
RIorgProj@aol.com

Sacramento Valley Organizing Community
Sacramento, CA

Service Employees International Union Education and Support Fund
Washington, DC
www.seiu.org

St. Paul Ecumenical Alliance of Congregations
St. Paul, MN

South Central Los Angeles Inter-Religious Sponsoring Committee
Los Angeles, CA

Tenants Support Committee/Apoyo De Inquilinos (Tenants' and Workers' Support Committee)
Alexandria, VA
www.twsc.org

Tides Center
San Francisco, CA
bjbowen6@aol.com

Unemployment Information Center (Philadelphia Unemployment Project)
Philadelphia, PA
www.philaup.org

Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson (Pima County Interfaith Council)
Tucson, AZ

United States Student Association Foundation
Washington, DC
www.usstudents.org

United Students Against Sweatshops
Washington, DC
www.usanet.org

Unite for Dignity
Miami, FL
annalfink@hotmail.com

U.S. Action Education Fund
Washington, DC
www.usaction.org

Voice and Future Fund, Inc.
Boston, MA
wwaldstein@seiu615.org

Washington Interfaith Network
Washington, DC
mptrimble@aol.com, wwaldstein@seiu615.org

Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund
Milwaukee, WI
www.wi-citizenaction.org

Wisconsin Modernization Institute, Inc. (Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership)
Milwaukee, WI
www.wrtp.org

Working Today
New York, NY
www.workingtoday.org

Workplace Project
Hempstead, NY
workplace@igc.org


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