Annual Report 2004 - Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

PATHWAYS OUT OF POVERTY: GRANTS
Building Organized Communities
BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE
American Institute for Social Justice
Washington, DC
Grant increase to provide increased training
and technical assistance to ACORN
affiliates across the United States.
Cambridge College
Cambridge, MA
To support a conference to evaluate
accumulated research and knowledge of
community building and social capital.
Catholic Campaign for Human
Development
Washington, DC
To support a multimedia campaign to raise
awareness among Americans of the nature
and scope of poverty in the United States.
$110,000
$8,000
5 mos.
$25,000
15 mos.
Center for Community Change
Washington, DC
To build and strengthen the field of $350,000
community organizing.
24 mos.
To support an organization that provides $650,000
technical assistance to low-income
36 mos.
community groups.
To provide seed grants and technical $250,000
assistance to emerging community-based 12 mos.
organizations serving low-income
neighborhoods.
Community Training and Assistance
Center
Boston, MA
To provide seed grants and technical
assistance to emerging community-based
organizations serving low-income
neighborhoods.
Consejo Vecinal Pro-Desarrollo de la
Peninsula de Cantera, Inc.
San Juan, PR
Grant increase to support the development
of creative strategies for leadership
development and community involvement
in Puerto Rico.
DataCenter
Oakland, CA
To support analysis and research on issues
of welfare reform, fair employment and
economic justice.
Direct Action and Research Training
Center, Inc. (DART)
Miami, FL
To support organizing networks involved in
building and sustaining groups in lowincome
communities across the country.
$250,000
12 mos.
$5,000
$150,000
19 mos.
$310,000
24 mos.
Federation of Congregations United
to Serve
Orlando, FL
Grant increase to support communityorganizing
efforts in central Florida.
$5,000
Foundation-Administered Project $38,346
To convene a meeting to review the
5 mos.
Foundation’s Intermediary Support
Organization program.
Gamaliel Foundation
Chicago, IL
Grant increase to support a collaboration of
community organizations working to
address regional issues affecting urban
communities.
Good Jobs First
Washington, DC
To examine the outcomes of Michigan’s
economic development incentive programs
in relation to the effects of sprawl and
inefficient land use.
Independent Media Institute
San Francisco, CA
To provide communications consulting and
training to community-organizing groups.
Interfaith Funders
Syosset, NY
To support a group of grantmakers working
to strengthen congregation-based
community organizing.
InterValley Project, Inc.
West Newton, MA
To support an organizing network in New
England.
$50,000
$115,000
18 mos.
$80,000
24 mos.
$20,000
12 mos.
$300,000
24 mos.
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