Ford Foundation (NY)
General support
To build domestic fair trade movement that encompasses farmers, farmworkers, independent distributors, processors and retailers
To build domestic fair trade movement that offers fair treatment for workers, economic returns for family farmers and rural communities and environmental benefits
For Core support for the Federal Asset Policy Education project to promote policies that increase opportunities for savings and investment in education, enterprise development and homeownership
To develop and disseminate the 2015 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard to provide state-by-state data on asset poverty, asset distribution, and financial policy impact among low-income households
To develop and disseminate the 2014 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard
For Core support for the Federal Asset Policy Education project to promote policies that increase opportunities for savings and investment in education, enterprise development and homeownership
For Core support for the I'M Home program to transform the manufactured housing marketplace so that the owners of manufactured homes enjoy the same benefits of homeownership as owners of site-built homes
For General support to promote fair and affordable access to consumer and mortgage credit for low-income households
Program development To assist Community Philanthropy, Race and Equity in the American South initiative in promoting role of philanthropy in advancing equity and opportunity; and to strengthen MDC's communications capacity
General/operating support; Continuing support; Program development For core support for Program in Community Philanthropy and Civic Culture to increase pool of philanthropic assets in U.S. South and help organizations & communities address racial divide
General/operating support; Program development For core support for Program in Community Philanthropy and Civic Culture to increase pool of philanthropic assets in U.S. South and help organizations and communities address racial divide
Management development/capacity building; Program development To build capacity and relationships among community-based organizations and foundations in the American South
Program development; Technical assistance For technical assistance to University of Namibia's Northern Campus
Program development To administer and regrant funds to philanthropic organizations with commitment to justice and equity in American South, and to document lessons learned from this process
General/operating support; Continuing support; Program development For general support to promote justice by empowering minority and low-income communities and for redistricting litigation and election administration efforts
Program development; Research To engage community organizations and social justice advocates in efforts to ensure that low-income and minority communities in South are fully and accurately counted in 2010 Census
General/operating support; Continuing support; Program development For general support to promote justice by empowering minority and low-income communities to defend and advance their political social and economic rights
Seed money For start-up support for Community Census and Redistricting Institute to develop pool of redistricting experts and train community organizations to participate effectively in the redistricting process
General/operating support For general support to promote justice by empowering minority and low-income communities to advance their political social and economic rights and for racial equity and economic human rights project
Continuing support; Program development To provide small grants to local community-based organizations in Florida and North Carolina to conduct census outreach to ensure full participation in 2010 Census
Program development; Research To develop research agenda for 2010 census and implications for marginalized populations and design training for cadre of experts to help communities engage in the redistricting process
General/operating support For general support to promote justice by empowering minority and low-income communities to defend and advance their political social and economic rights
General/operating support For general support to bring innovative and highly successful model of community lawyering to South to effect social economic and political change
Program development To help statewide network of African-American community development credit unions expand their services and markets
General/operating support For general support for technical assistance to member credit unions that are expanding financial access for low-income and minority communities in North Carolina
Program development To help statewide network of African-American community development credit unions expand their services and markets
Advocacy; Program development; Research For core support for the Budget and Tax Center to inform the public policy debates in North Carolina through timely credible and accessible policy analysis and public education efforts
Program development For Budget and Tax Center to inform public policy debate in North Carolina through unbiased timely credible and accessible policy analysis and public education
General/operating support; Program development For core support for Budget and Tax Center to inform public policy debate in North Carolina through unbiased timely credible and accessible policy analysis and public education efforts
Income development; Faculty/staff development To strengthen Justice Center and North Carolina Budget and Tax Center by hiring additional fiscal policy analyst and development assistant
Program development; Research For support to state-level organizations for budget and tax analysis under State Fiscal Analysis Initiative to benefit low-income populations
Program development; Research For support to state-level organizations for budget and tax analysis under State Fiscal Analysis Initiative to benefit low-income populations
General/operating support; Program development; Research For budget and tax analysis under State Fiscal Analysis Initiative especially as it relates to low-income populations
Program development; Research For planning grant for Southern Justice Vision Project to assess unmet need of marginalized communities for legal representation and feasibility of creating new legal firm to meet this need
Publication; Research To develop and disseminate the 2013 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard
General/operating support; Advocacy; Program development For core support for the I'm Home Program to ensure that families who purchase manufactured homes reap benefits from homeownership comparable to those enjoyed by buyers of traditional site-built homes
Advocacy; Program development; Research To promote development of public policies that provide increased opportunities and incentives for savings and investment in education enterprise development and homeownership
General/operating support; Program development For core support for the I'm Home Program to ensure that families who purchase manufactured homes reap benefits from homeownership comparable to those enjoyed by buyers of traditional site-built homes
Program development For core support for I'm Home Program to ensure that families who purchase manufactured homes reap benefits from homeownership comparable to those enjoyed by buyers of traditional site-built homes
General/operating support; Program development For core support for innovations in manufactured homes program to address lingering problems in substandard manufactured housing and to demonstrate potential manufactured housing offers
Management development/capacity building; Publication; Research To develop and disseminate Assets and Opportunity Scorecard
Program development To promote development of public policies that provide increased opportunities and incentives for savings and investment in education enterprise development and homeownership
Continuing support; Program development To promote development of public policies that provide increased opportunities and incentives for savings and investment in education enterprise development and homeownership
Program development; Research For grant making and technical assistance to expand and diversify Innovations in Manufactured Homes program national demonstration of asset building through manufactured home ownership
Program development To promote development of public policy to support Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) and other asset-building tools for low-income people Individual Development Accounts are restricted savings accounts intended to build wealth in low-income communities that can be used for high return investments such as buying a first home going to college or starting a business
Program development; Research To determine need for national training facility and investment fund to support manufactured housing research advocacy and finance
Program development; Research For core support for SEED (Savings for Education Entrepreneurship and Downpayment) national demonstration to explore potential of Children's Savings Accounts
Program development To engage mainstream financial institutions in providing financial asset-building products for low-income communities
Publication; Electronic media/online services To develop and disseminate on-line and in hard copy second edition of State Asset Development Report Card
Program development; Research To address problems in manufactured housing sector and explore sector's potential for expanding supply of affordable housing
Conferences/seminars To hold four regional conferences on asset-building in partnership with Federal Reserve System
Program development For management of Saving for Education Entrepreneurship and Down Payment initiative (SEED) to demonstrate in sites across the country positive impact of children's savings account on low-income families and children
Program development To manage Saving for Education Entrepreneurship and Downpayment (SEED) initiative to demonstrate effectiveness of children's savings accounts in building assets
Program development To promote development of public policies that provide more opportunities and incentives for saving and investment in education enterprise development and homeownership
Program development; Research To examine connection between entrepreneurship development and triple-bottom line economic development strategies in Central Appalachia and develop case studies and practitioner tools
Program development; Research To develop refine and disseminate Assets 2009/10 and Opportunity Scorecard to measure state-by-state performance in developing asset-building policies
Management development/capacity building; Program development To manage Saving for Education Entrepreneurship and Downpayment (SEED) initiative to demonstrate effectiveness of children's savings accounts in building assets
Building/renovation; Program development For Innovations in Manufactured Homes Project effort to address problems in manufactured housing sector and assist in redevelopment of manufactured homes in response to Gulf Coast Hurricanes
Program development; Research For Innovations in Manufactured Homes (I'M Home) project to address problems in manufactured housing sector and explore sector's potential for expanding supply of affordable housing
Continuing support; Program development To promote development of public policy to support asset-building tools for low-income people
Program development To manage Saving for Education Entrepreneurship and Downpayment (SEED) initiative to demonstrate effectiveness of children's savings accounts in building assets
Conferences/seminars For meetings addressing connection of regional economic development and sustainable wage employment for low-income people
Endowments For endowment grant to ensure long-term capacity to promote asset building opportunities for low-income Americans
Program development To promote development of public policies that support asset-building tools for low-income people produce new scorecard on state policies and disseminate reports on small and medium enterprises
Program development To promote development of public policies that support asset-building tools for low-income people produce new scorecard on state policies and disseminate reports on small and medium enterprises
Program development For planning grant to help City of New Orleans develop children's savings account program for children of low- and moderate-income families who return to New Orleans
Conferences/seminars For national conference on asset building
Program development; Research To explore potential of entrepreneurship training for increasing ownership of wealth by residents of rural America
Program development; Research; Technical assistance For grantmaking and technical assistance to expand and diversify Innovations in Manufactured Homes (I'M HOME) program national demonstration of asset building through manufactured home ownership
Program development To help residents of Plaquemines Parish obtain homes donated from Federal Emergency Management Agency's surplus stock of manufactured housing as part of post-Hurricane Katrina grantmaking efforts
Program development To assess impact of Nuestro Barrio (Our Neighborhood) telenovela America's first locally produced Latin American soap opera on financial literacy of Latino households
Program development; Research For public opinion polling media analysis and an outcomes scorecard to assess the impact of policy and regulatory advocacy on financial services for low- and moderate-income households
General/operating support; Advocacy; Program development For general support to promote and protect home ownership and family wealth and combat predatory lending with a focus on low-income families communities of color and other economically vulnerable populations
General/operating support; Advocacy; Program development For general support to protect homeownership and family wealth by working to eliminate abusive financial practices
General/operating support; Advocacy; Program development To recognize the Center's visionary leadership with a general support grant for education and advocacy to protect homeownership and family wealth by eliminating abusive financial pratices
General/operating support; Continuing support; Advocacy; Program development For general support for education and advocacy to protect homeownership and family wealth by eliminating abusive financial practices
Program development To expand ability of Self-Help Federal Credit Union to provide affordable and responsible financial services to lower income people in California
Program development To expand ability of Self-Help Federal Credit Union to provide affordable and responsible financial services to lower income people in California
Program development; Program-related investments/loans To expand ability of Self-Help Federal Credit Union to provide affordable and responsible financial services to lower-income people in California
Conferences/seminars For meeting of teachers unions and community organizations that are exploring collaborative school reform strategies in cities
Management development/capacity building; Program development For strategic planning and organizational restructuring to enhance and strengthen Center's role as intermediary for community-based organizations concerned with social change
Program development; Research; Technical assistance To provide technical assistance to low-income grassroots organizations and enable them to participate in public dialogue surrounding transportation equity issues
Research For research on predatory lending through analysis of impact of foreclosures on sub-prime mortgages
General/operating support For general support for programs addressing economic development community organizing and civic participation of low-income people
Conferences/seminars For Partnerships for Change Project on union/community collaboration in public education to hold retreats for teachers' union and community organization representatives
Program development To strengthen local regional and national collaboration within immigrants' rights movement
Program development To engage grassroots groups national policy organizations and allies in public debate about jobs work supports and economic security
Research To conduct focus group and survey research and develop media campaign targeting infrequent voters particularly low-income young people and people of color
Program development To build statewide organizational infrastructure linking local grassroots organizations in Great Plains South and California
Program development; Research To explore potential for worker centers to address financial service needs of low-wage immigrant workers
Program development To encourage long-term vision-oriented thinking among social justice activists and spark debate and new ways of working for social justice leaders and institutions
Program development For efforts to increase immigrant civic participation and bridge gap between immigrants and native-born Americans
Program development For Taproots Project to encourage broader voice for grassroots leaders and create space for them to participate in defining questions and parameters of future national policy debates
Program development To develop new grassroots networks and advance new public policy ideas campaigns and messages regarding jobs income and economic security for low-wage workers
Program development; Research For demonstration project to deliver low-cost asset-building financial services to immigrants through community-based worker centers
Program development; Publication To increase resources for community organizing and to produce book of examples of social justice grant making
Program development To develop new grassroots networks and advance new public policy ideas campaigns and messages regarding jobs income and economic security for low-wage workers
Program development; Research For demonstration project to deliver low-cost asset- building financial services to immigrants through community-based worker centers
Program development; Research For demonstration project to deliver low-cost asset- building financial services to immigrants through community-based worker centers
Program development For Linchpin Project to increase resources available for community organizing and to produce book on social justice grant making Goals of Linchpin Project are to create marketing strategies for community organizing in order to increase funding for the field and expand giving opportunities for new and current donors who are committed to building a better civil society
General/operating support; Program development For core support for Fair Immigration Reform Movement national coalition of grassroots organizations fighting for immigrant rights at local state and federal levels
Program development; Research For demonstration project to deliver low-cost asset-building financial services to immigrants through community-based worker centers
General/operating support For general support to build power and capacity of low-income people to change their communities and public policies for better and core support for fair immigration reform movement
Program development To conduct nonpartisan voter education efforts in partnership with community groups to increase voter participation in low-income communities and communities of color
Program development; Research To develop new grassroots networks and advance new public policy ideas campaigns and messages regarding jobs income and economic security for low-wage workers
Management development/capacity building; Advocacy; Program development; Research For strategic planning and leadership development and to explore policies for addressing unemployment engage new constituencies in protecting Social Security and spin off the Black Space Organizing Project
General/operating support; Advocacy; Program development For core support for The Fair Immigration Reform Movement to advocate for comprehensive immigration reform and the civil rights of immigrants in America
General/operating support; Program development For general support to build broad civic participation through support to community organizing nationwide
Program development For The Community Voting Project to partner with community groups in nonpartisan voter education and protection efforts to increase civic engagement in low-income communities and communities of color
Advocacy; Program development For grassroots organizing and grant making to ensure that the voices of people of color women low-wage workers and people with disabilities are heard in the debate on the future of Social Security
General/operating support; Program development For general support to build broad civic participation through support to community organizing nationwide
Program development To support Young Invincibles National Student Impact Campaign an advocacy campaign to reduce the burden of debt on college students
Management development/capacity building; Program development; Technical assistance To provide technical assistance to Housing Trust Fund campaigns in California New York Louisiana and Georgia
General/operating support; Program development For general support to foster and model spirit of authentic community for Multiracial Alliance Project to address racial disparities in public schools and workplace and for media project
Management development/capacity building; Program development To increase effectiveness and sustainability and that of greater Birmingham Ministries and for Democracy Landscape Project to study infrastructure for political participation in Deep South Focus of grant is on minority and African-American populations
General/operating support For general support to foster and model spirit of authentic community and work toward social and economic relations that affirm and realize equality dignity worth and potential of every person Foundation supplied information indicates that focus of grant is for African-American and other minority population groups
General/operating support; Continuing support; Program development For final general support to foster and model a spirit of community and to collaborate with Stone Circles in the transformational training initiative to develop sustainable leadership for social change
Advocacy; Program development For project support to strengthen community organizing in low-income communities of color in North Carolina
