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North Star Fund, New York City’s community foundation supporting grassroots groups leading the movement for equality, economic justice and peace, has announced its first round of grants following the 2010 launch of a new grantmaking vision and guidelines.
“We are intentionally helping grassroots activist groups and their memberships think not just about their own organizational development, but how they can connect with other grassroots organizations, coalitions and global movements,” said North Star Fund Executive Director Hugh Hogan.
The new strategy includes:
- Movement Leadership Grants which provide $50,000 grants over two years for a deeper investment of general support in effective organizations that have already shown a strong record of success in their community organizing work.
- Grassroots Strategy Grants which provide $15,000 grants enable groups to obtain additional research, legal, media, policy and organizing expertise at a critical strategic moment.
- Grassroots Action Grants, which include $5,000 and $10,000 grants that focus on new, emerging groups who are reaching out through the tools of community organizing to engage more people as leaders and grassroots activists in New York City's most marginalized communities.
The first round of grantees under this new strategy are as follows.
Movement Leadership Grants:
- Brandworkers International organizes and trains non-union workers in the food and retail sectors to win just treatment in the workplace;
- Domestic Workers United (DWU) raises the level of respect for domestic work, establishes fair labor standards in the domestic work industry, and builds power and unity across diverse communities of nannies, housekeepers, and eldercare workers;
- Families for Freedom addresses the most brutal aspects of immigration enforcement, especially the constitutionally questionable collaboration of local police and federal immigration officers;
- New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) - On behalf of recent immigrants from Central and South America, NICE organizes to prevent hate crimes, stop financial consumer fraud, safeguard workers' rights, lobby for comprehensive immigration reform, engage their members in the election process, and ensure bilingual access to public and other information;
- VOCAL NY (Voices of Community Activists and Leaders) s a statewide grassroots organization that aims to empower low-income people who are living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, drug use and incarceration through community organizing, leadership development, participatory research, public education and direct action.
Grassroots Strategy Grants:
- DAMAYAN Migrant Workers Association ($15,000);
- VAMOS Unidos ($15,000);
Grassroots Action Grants:
- Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice ($10,000):
- All Awda New York ($5,000);
- Black Women's Blueprint ($5,000);
- Brooklyn Congregations United ($10,000);
- Brooklyn Food Coalition ($5,000);
- Bushwick Housing Independence Project ($5,000);
- Coalition for Parole Restoration ($5,000);
- Community Connections for Youth ($10,000);
- DAMAYAN Migrant Workers Association ($10,000):
- Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees ($10,000);
- Jews for Racial and Economic Justice ($5,000);
- Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio/Movement for Justice in El Barrio ($10,000);
- Resilience Advocacy Project ($5,000);
- Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities ($10,000);
- SEVA Immigrant Community Advocacy Project ($5,000);
- Streetwise & Safe ($5,000);
- Trinity Lutheran Church ($5,000);
- Ugnayan ($10,000);
- Women on the Rise Telling Her Story (10,000);
Since 1979, North Star Fund has brought together New Yorkers from all backgrounds to work towards this vision by investing in grassroots community activists who make change happen. For more about the North Star Fund and its grantees visit http://northstarfund.org.
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