A sample listing of Grantees is offered here by subject area of interest. For further details concerning grant criteria, please see the Grant Applications guidelines.

Subject Areas

Civic Engagement

Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA - funding public dialogues and educational programs regarding the "Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America" exhibit

*Indian Law Resource Center, Helena, MT - eliminates and reforms discriminatory legal doctrines denying Indian nations basic security in their homelands and control over resources through education, outreach, and advocacy

Resolution, Inc., San Francisco, CA - public engagement events and activities addressing California Newsreel's production of "Race: The Power of an Illusion" series broadcast on public television

University of Pittsburgh Department of Sociology, Pittsburgh, PA - conducting research on the consequences of ethnoviolence in the United States

Criminal Justice

*Defender Association, Seattle, WA - Racial Disparity Project providing technical assistance to CBOs challenging racial disparity in the Seattle/King County criminal justice system

Domestic Abuse Counseling Center, Pittsburgh, PA -- supporting field trials contributing outcome data to a national study for retaining African-American men in domestic violence treatment programs

*Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA - Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children to reform Louisiana's juvenile justice system

*Georgia Justice Project, Inc., Atlanta, GA - Campaign for Juvenile Justice aims to end the practice of mandatory prosecution of children as adults with the passage of the Community & School Safety Act

Economic Security/ Development

American Institute for Social Justice, Washington D.C. - support of the Campaign to Stop Predatory Lending and Financial Justice initiatives through the Allegheny County chapter of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)

Carnegie Mellon University Department of History, Pittsburgh, PA -- Center for AfricanAmerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) - supporting research linking historians' interests in race, work, and economic change over time with contemporary analyses of the urban labor force, employment policies, and community development

*CASA of Maryland, Tacoma Park, MD - Day Labor Rights Project to organize and engage grassroots day laborer centers across the country in law reform campaigns

*Miami Workers' Center, Miami FL - Organizing, Race, and Affordable Housing ensuring low-income African-Americans have equal and affordable housing by addressing discriminatory practices in the housing system through grassroots organizing, education, advocacy, coalition building, leadership development and negotiation with key decision makers and public institutions

*Mississippi Center for Justice, Jackson, MS - Poultry Worker Initiative designed to help poultry processing workers achieve social justice in their workplace and communities by addressing unsafe labor conditions, low wages, and predatory lending

*Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights, Greenville, MS - Community Advocacy Project providing a "Know Your Rights" campaign focused on 20 counties in Mississippi to increase access for people of color to political, social, economic, educational, and healthcare systems

Mon Valley Initiative, Pittsburgh, PA - Community Outreach Services coordinating 12 Community Development Corporations in the Mon Valley focusing on workforce, housing/real estate, and business development. The project trains and produces community leaders to ensure that resources are pooled and shared, public services are adequately provided, and planning for private investment takes place in an inclusive manner

Education

ACLU Foundation of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA - for expanding the Clara Bell Duvall Project in the Pittsburgh area educating minors, their parents, school officials, and medical and legal professionals about minors' rights to access medical and psychological care under Pennsylvania law

Good Schools Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA - funding the Pittsburgh field office to raise awareness and educate citizens about disparities in school funding and the need to improve the quality of public education

School District of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA - for televising the Pittsburgh Public School Board meetings to allow greater public access for citizens to view the content, context, and decision-making processes of their elected School Board members

*Southern Echo, Jackson, MS - Campaign for Educational Democracy Project addressing detrimental school disciplinary practices and policies by giving voice to parents and students through training, education, technical and legal assistance

University of Pittsburgh Department of Family Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA - Media Literacy and Health Education Project for a physician to teach minority youth how to critically analyze advertising on television and in print ads promoting the use of alcohol or tobacco products and educating them about the health implications

Media / Outreach

Artists and Cities, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA - For the production of a video entitled Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, documenting his work from 1958 through 1965, from desegregation efforts in Montgomery and Birmingham, the Freedom March from Tennessee to Mississippi, the enrollment of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi, the march from Montgomery to Selma, Ku Klux Klan activities, and voter registration drives

Worldwide Documentaries, Inc., Bloomfield, NY - support for the documentary film A Closer Walk: Global AIDS and Planetary Responsibilities focusing on the development and promotion of human rights as a crucial element in containing the epidemic

American Institute for Social Justice, Washington, DC -- Allegheny County ACORN campaign addressing predatory lending practices

Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA - Resident Empowerment Initiative support for the Southwestern Pennsylvania Alliance of HUD Tenants (SPAHT) working to stem the tide of lost Section 8 housing units, educate communities and developers about integrating low-income housing, convene housing revitalization planning meetings, and advocate for fair housing practices

Fair Housing Partnership of Greater Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA - working to eliminate housing discrimination through education and outreach, fair housing testing, enforcement and litigation, monitoring and research, and legislative reform