2019 Annual Report (5)

Impact And Successes
- In Maine, Community Change?s local partners successfully lobbied for expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit
by executing a strategy to attend public hearings, coordinate demonstrations, and engage local media. This
strategy involved partnering with local business owners to share support on social media and procuring a
bipartisan op-ed in local media from key state congressional figures.
- In D.C., Community Change?s local child care partner attended budget meetings, offered community members
leadership training, and placed a series of op-eds to successfully lobby for the approval of a $16M investment into
child development for the first 3 years of life.
- In 2018, Community Change Action engaged more than 2.5M voters of color, women, and young people in the
2018 elections through in-person canvassing, phone calls, texts, and social media. Through partnerships with
Color of Change PAC, Planned Parenthood Votes, and the Service Employees International Union, statewide
mobilization and turnout programs were conducted in Florida, Michigan, and Nevada.
The Fund for Global Human Rights | New York
Current Grant Commitment: $250,000 per year for 3 years, 2019-2021, $750,000 total
Total Granted to Date: $2,000,000 SF Grantee Since: 2008
Annual Budget: $16.8M Founding Year: 2002
Leaders: Regan E. Ralph (President and CEO), Sushil Raj (Director of Strategic Partnerships)
Relationship: Cynthia
The Fund for Global Human Rights (FGHR) supports courageous activists who speak truth to power, challenge
wrongdoing, and strive to build a more just and equitable world, envisioning a world where all people live with dignity and
can secure their rights. The Fund works in 15 countries around the world, supporting human rights advocacy on a full
range of issues, from women?s rights and LGBT acceptance to environmental activism and the defense of indigenous
communities.
Currently the Fund?s key role, in an increasingly inhospitable climate for human rights, is to enable frontline human rights
defenders to continue the work they have painstakingly built up over years and sometimes decades. In order to support
these individuals and organizations, the Fund provides grants using a model that recognizes the primacy of frontline
human rights defenders in understanding local needs and carrying out effective advocacy.
The Schooner grant provides general support to the Fund and plays a large role in ensuring that they maintain the
flexibility they need to make smart investments in the future while continuing to play the most effective role they can in
building the human rights movement today. SF?s three-year grant of $750,000 will provide additional general operating
support and fuel their progress at a critical time for the human rights movement.
Impact And Successes
- Fund grantees have won major victories in all of the regions where they are working.
- Land Rights in Morocco: the Moroccan government approved 116 income generating projects valued at 81 million
Moroccan Dinars for 93 community groups who hold the rights 13 to communal agricultural land due to a Fund
grantee (Azetta, advocating for the rights of the Amazigh people).
- Sexual and reproductive health rights in El Salvador: the Fund supports a number of women?s rights organizations
that have secured the release of women jailed on abortion-related charges over the past two years in El Salvador,
specifically securing the release of 11 women.
- Rights for Domestic Workers in Mexico: their grantee, Centro de Apoyo para Empleadas del Hogar (CACEH),
strategically advocated for domestic rights and inclusion leading to the Supreme Court to declare it
unconstitutional to exclude domestic workers from the social security regime in Mexico in 2018.
Homeless Children?s Foundation | Indian River County, FL | hcfirc.com
Current Grant Commitment: $25,000 per year for 3 years, 2019-2020, $75,000 total
Total Granted to Date: $335,000 SF Grantee Since: 2015
Leaders: Hannah Hite (Executive Director), Allison Hamilton (Case Manager) Founding Year: 2015
Relationship: Vin and Carla
Homeless Children?s Foundation (HFC) aims to fund and coordinate programs for homeless children to enable their
healthy development and long-term success while guiding their families to self-sufficiency. Their vision is to ?Change the
Outcome? through providing support and resources to homeless families and children. The organization and its board is
dedicated to providing opportunities to local homeless children that encourage social and developmental growth.
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