Grants from the Special Assistance Fund
September 16, 2014 – January 31, 2015
20142015
Conferences and Workshops:
1.The BLK ProjeK$1,500
To cover expenses related to the travel of BLK ProjeK director, Tanya Fields, to attend the Growing Food and Justice for All conference in Milwaukeeto present strategies for improving food access in underserved neighborhoods with a focus on the lessons learned from the ProjeK’s mobile market.
2.National Advocates for Pregnant Women$7,500
To help defray registration and travel costs for participants in the Take Root: Red State Perspectives on Reproductive Justice conference.
3.Environmental Leadership Convening for Board Members of Color
For general support.$7,500
Mission-Related Investing:
4.As You Sow$1,250
To support the 2015 Proxy Preview.
Other:
5.Brooklyn Food Coalition$5,000
To support the Coalition’s first strategic planning process.
6.Center for Effective Philanthropy$6,000
For the Grantee Perception Report 2015.
7.Grassroots Global Justice$4,000
To document climate justice and front-line community participation in the Climate March.
8.Hattie Carthan Community Garden$3,000
To replace stolen computer equipment and install a security system at the Hattie Carthan Community Garden’s office in the Magnolia Tree Earth Center in Bedford Stuyvesant.
9.Philanthropy New York$5,000
To support the Fund for 2015.
10.Prison Birth Project$7,500
To increase access to reproductive choice and care of women in jail, and support incarcerated mothers’ leadership and involvement in the reproductive justice movement.
11.Southwest Georgia Project$7,500
To pay consultants to assess the suitability of a Winn Dixie supermarket site for conversion into a food hub.
12.Texas Equal Access Fund$7,500
To assist women in North Texas and the Panhandle region in accessing abortion services and for advocacy efforts to fight restrictive reproductive rights policies.
20142015
13.Women Engaged$5,000
Support for the initial strategic planning process and general operations during the establishment of this organization.
14.Women with a Vision$7,500
To support the work of Women with a Vision in New Orleans to improve the lives of marginalized women, their families and communities by addressing the social conditions that hinder their health and well-being.
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