INTERPROGRAM INITIATIVES FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE PROGRAM
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GOAL: To support social and economic justice, in order to encourage equitable and sustainable development that promotes democracy; as well as community, cultural, social, spiritual and individual well-being. Interprogram will advance this goal by supporting the exploration, development, and implementation of public policy, private efforts, and activities for institutional and systemic changes. |
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OBJECTIVE I: Accountability |
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OBJECTIVE II: Social Alliance Building |
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American Institute for Social Justice Washington, DC |
To improve the quality of life of low- to moderate-income Florida residents, including improving access to health and healthcare. |
$250,000 Total [$175,000 Health, 1 Year |
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Towards Hospitality and Justice Chicago, IL |
To support a regional working conference--to bring together church, immigrant, labor, farm, civic, legal, academic and community leaders to learn about and address issues, concerns and impacts related to the corporate meatpacking and poultry processing industry in the Midwest and Plains states resulting in the development of a regional Leadership Network to assist churches and communities in a long-term process of developing community -based responses to this industry, and will approve and advance a document incorporating principles of operation for this industry in the region. |
$95,000 Total [$65,000 Interprogram, 1 Year |
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Chicago, IL Presidential Authority Grant |
To build a strong base of diverse constituencies in the Midwest and
Plains states to hold meatpacking and poultry processing corporations
accountable for negative hiring practices, low-wages, treatment of immigrant
workers, and community, environmental, and health care impacts. |
$95,000 Total [$65,000 Interprogram, 1 Year |
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National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support Washington DC |
To reduce poverty and increase economic security which includes healthcare benefits. |
$100,000 Total [$50,000 Health, 1 Year |
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Emerging Threats to Health Insurance Coverage and to the Roles of Corporations and Government in Providing It Washington, DC |
This project will address two emerging threats to health insurance coverage. The first involves the growing potential for federal tax policies to be adopted that begin relieving corporations of the responsibility to provide health insurance for their employees, and also undermine efforts to strengthen government health insurance programs. The second centers on threats to Medicaid stemming from the large budget deficits that states face and entails working with state fiscal and health not-for-profit groups, as well as state policymakers, to curb corporate tax avoidance, boost revenue from corporations and high-income individuals, and avert deep cuts in Medicaid and related programs. |
$169,100 Total [$100,000 Interprogram, $69,100 Health] 1 Year |
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Living Wages and Health Benefits for San Diego San Diego, CA |
The goal of this project is to increase the number of low-wage workers in San Diego who earn a living wage with healthcare benefits. The project will develop and implement a multi-faceted campaign to build public support for employment standards that require employers to provide healthcare benefits and a wage that can lift low-income workers and their families out of poverty, especially if the employer receives government subsidies or contracts. The project will build a broad-based coalition of student, community, labor and faith-based organizations, and provide the leadership development training necessary to enable coalition partners to conduct a citywide public education campaign. It will conduct in-depth research to determine the potential for and the policy impacts of focusing the living wage with healthcare benefits campaign initially on the employment policies of the City of San Diego, the Port of San Diego, and/or the Center City Development Corporation (the areas largest redevelopment agency). |
$100,000 Total [$65,000 Interprogram, $35,000 Health] 1 Year |
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Sustainable Governance Project Boston, MA |
To support their efforts to organize a new corporate board accountability system that would hold individual board members responsible for their companies' social, economic and environmental impact. In addition, the project seeks to persuade institutional investors that introducing sustainability concerns is the logical next step to their historical work to improve corporate governance. |
$100,000 Total [$75,000 Environment,$25,000 Interprogram] 1 Year |
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Prescription Access Litigation Project Boston, MA |
This grant will support the Prescription Access Litigation (PAL) project's effort to reduce the price paid by American consumers for prescription drugs in order to increase access to healthcare in the United States. The PAL coalition is working to use litigation as a tool to change industry behavior, to reimburse consumers and taxpayers for drug overcharges, to support further grassroots efforts to lower drug prices and to highlight the need to monitor pharmaceutical pricing. PAL also is increasing action by state and local constituency groups on the cutting edge issue of corporate accountability in the American health system. |
$200,000 Total [$115,000 Interprogram, $85,000 Health] 1 Year |
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Education Fund of Family Planning Advocates of New York State Protecting Patient' Rights; Fighting Religious Restrictions on Health Care Choices Albany, NY |
This project will work in collaboration with the National Women's Law Center to expand and preserve women's access to the full range of reproductive health services. The project will build a broad-based coalition of consumer groups and healthcare providers to protect patients' access to reproductive and other critical health services, especially in communities vulnerable to a reduction in services as a result of a merger between a non-religious hospital and a religious hospital or other healthcare The coalition will design and implement a national and state level action agenda to protect patients' rights to be informed of all treatment options based on sound medical advice and their individual religious or ethical doctrine. |
$67,900 Total [$47,900 Interprogram, $20,000 Health] 1 Year |
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Farmers Legal Action Group, Inc. St. Paul, MN |
To support family farm organizations that are challenging the Pork Checkoff program and corporate concentration and vertical integration in agriculture that increases environmental pollution. |
$250,000 Total [$150,000 Environment, 1 Year |
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Government Accountability Project Freedom to Warn Washington DC |
To support their efforts to shape national policies in support of government and corporate whistleblowers. |
$60,000 Total [$30,000 Interprogram,$30,000 Environment] 1 Year |
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San Francisco, CA
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To support programs to expand publication and distribution of the ethnic press and periodicals that focus on environmental and other social justice issues. |
$250,000 Total [$100,000 Environment 1 Year |
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Interfaith Education Fund, Inc. Arizona Project Austin, TX |
The Interfaith Education Fund's (IEF) Arizona Project will address the issues of economic and political inequality in Arizona, with special emphasis on health and healthcare. IEF organizers will identify and develop leaders connected to the Arizona Interfaith Network, equipping them with the research, organizing and skills necessary to advance their own Human/Family Development agenda at both local and statewide levels. It will support a combination of individual and small group meetings, institutional assemblies, training sessions, research actions, and large scale public meetings to develop leaders and to create a broad public conversation about the conditions faced by low-wage workers and their families, especially conditions related to healthcare and wages. |
$247,500 Total [$138,750 Interprogram, $108,750 Health] 1 Year |
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Jewish Council for Public Affairs New York, NY |
To support the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL) in its first year of a four-year period of organizational expansion. |
$150,000 Total [$112,500 Jewish Life, 1 Year |
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Jobs with Justice Education Fund Washington, DC |
To strengthen the capacity of local JwJ coalitions to improve access to quality health care.
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$300,000 Total [$150,000 Health, 1 Year |
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Rx Express Portland, ME |
Rx Express is dedicated to winning expanded access to fairly priced prescription drugs for Maine's elderly and uninsured through a combination of innovative policy development, strategic litigation, grassroots organizing, coalition building, research, education, advocacy, and acting as a watchdog over the pharmaceutical industry's tactics. Rx Express is working to change the balance of power between the pharmaceutical drug industry and consumers, and to hold the industry accountable for marketing and pricing practices that drive up the cost of medicine. |
$50,000 Total [$35,000 Interprogram, $15,000 Health] 1 Year |
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National Health Law Program, Inc. Los Angeles, CA |
To monitor and track appellate and Supreme Court cases for their impact on access to the courts for beneficiaries of government-supported programs, including health-related programs such as Medicaid. |
$150,000 Total [$100,000 Interprogram, 1 Year |
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Human and Reproductive Rights Washington, DC |
The goal of the Health Care Provider Merger Project is to expand and preserve women's access to the full range of reproductive health services. The project will identify and test new strategic tools and legal theories for protecting reproductive health choices for women in communities vulnerable to a reduction in services as a result of a merger between a non-religious hospital and a religious hospital or other healthcare industry transaction. It will provide in-depth technical assistance to one at-risk, rural community and one at-risk, low-income, urban community in order to develop models for preserving reproductive choice options in communities nationwide. In addition, it will explore broadening the coalition of organizations working to reduce the negative impact of mergers on the accessibility of reproductive and other critical healthcare services (for example, to include organizations focused on such issues as care at the end of life and HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted disease). |
$175,000 [$100,000 Interprogram, $75,000 Health] 1 Year |
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Washington, DC |
To support the efforts of the Working Group on Labor and Community, a project of the Neighborhood Funders Group, to develop the emerging relationship between grantmakers and organized labor. |
$15,000 Total [$5,000 Interprogram, 1 Year |
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Public Pension Fund Trustee Corporate Accountability Project Washington, DC |
To support efforts to identify qualified candidates for appointment to the boards of public pension funds. These candidates would be committed to investment policies, proxy voting guidelines and corporate governance standards that promote responsible corporate policies, including the areas of employment, the environment, healthcare and human rights. |
$50,000 Total [$25,000 Interprogram,$20,000 Environment, $5,000 Health] 1 Year |
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The Organization for Competitive Markets Porterville, MS |
To reduce the environmental and health risks in the agriculture business by reducing the market power of large agriculture and food corporations and increasing the viability of smaller (and therefore less harmful) farms. |
$75,000 Total [$25,000 Interprogram, 1 Year |
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Union of American Hebrew Congregations Washington, DC |
To support the educational, advocacy and coalition building activities of the Religious Action Center (RAC). |
$150,000 Total [$125,000 Jewish Life, 1 Year |
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Washington, DC |
To assure access to prescription drugs for everyone who needs them. |
$325,000 Total [$225,000 Health, 1 Year |
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William J. Brennan Jr. Center for Justice, Inc. New York, NY |
To protect the rights of legal services clients, museums universities, medical clinics, foundations, and other institutions that rely on government grants to finance essential work, yet refuse to forfeit their First Amendment rights. |
$100,000 Total [$60,000 Interprogram, 1 Year |
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Winning Together-Building Health Communities San Jose, CA |
Working Partnerships will build a Healthy County Coalition in Santa Clara County, CA that will improve access to quality healthcare for Santa Clara families by improving the availability, affordability, and coverage of employer-based health insurance, and by improving the quality of healthcare through the establishment of countywide staffing standards for hospitals. Through a three-part strategy of bringing in new community partners, strengthening the organizational capacity of current community partners, and developing county organizing model Working Partnerships will play a leading role in building community power in Silicon Valley to effect sustainable social and economic change. It will spark the creation of an effort with an organizational infrastructure that will not only have the ability to address pressing healthcare issues, but will become a basis for a long-term alliance that can identify community needs, establish goals, and organize to achieve them. |
$100,000 Total [$65,000 Interprogram, $35,000 Health] 1 Year |
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MEMBERSHIPS GRANTS |
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Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc. New York, NY |
Membership dues and general support for the Association of Black Foundation Executives, a membership organization of staff, donors and trustees of foundations and corporate grantmaking institutions that works to channel the resources of the philanthropic community to promote effective and responsive philanthropy in black communities. | $5,000 |
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Washington, DC |
For membership and general support. The Council on Foundations serves the public good by promoting and enhancing effective philanthropy.
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$35,000 |
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New York, NY |
For membership and general support. The Foundation Center is a leading authority on institutional philanthropy and is dedicated to serving grantseekers, grantmakers, policymakers, researchers, the media and the general public.
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$7,500 |
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Washington, DC |
For membership and general support. Independent Sector is the only national forum that brings together foundations, corporate giving programs and nonprofit organizations to strengthen the nonprofit sector.
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$12,500 |
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National Center For Family Philanthropy, Inc. Washington, DC |
For membership and general support. NCFP is the only national resource center that focuses solely on matters of importance to families engaged in philanthropy and their effective giving.
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$1,000 |
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New York Regional Association Of Grantmakers New York, NY
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For membership and general support. NYRAG is the primary nonprofit membership association of and for donors of the tri-state area. |
$11,500 |
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New York, NY |
For membership and general support for the Grants Managers Network, a project of the Rockefeller Family Fund. GMN serves more than 350 philanthropic organizations with education and networking opportunities for grants management best practices.
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$3,000 |
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San Francisco, CA |
For membership and general support of the Social Venture Network, a project of the Tides Center. SVN is a nonprofit network committed to building a just and sustainable world through business.
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$3,000 |
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Washington, DC |
For membership and general support. Women & Philanthropy advocates within the field of philanthropy for the full engagement of women and girls in society.
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$2,000 |
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