Presidential Grants: Year 2001
Discretionary Grants
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Citizen's Budget Commission, Inc.
Conference on New York City's Fiscal Outlook and Challenges
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To support a two-day conference in December 2001, with
supporting background materials, that will provide an opportunity for
newly elected City officials (including the Mayor, Comptroller, and the
City Council Speaker candidates, with their staffs) to reflect on the
challenges they will face in assessing the changing fiscal outlook for
New York City.
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$10,000
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Financial Markets Center, Inc.
Special Program Initiatives
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To support the start-up of a series of new initiatives
that respond to current domestic and international economic developments
in order to address the worsening global economic situation and the geopolitical
turmoil created by the events of September 11.
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$25,000
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Firelight Media Inc.
The Atlantic Slave Trade Project
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To support a multimedia project encompassing a four and
1/2 hour documentary film series for public television entitled The
Atlantic Slave Trade Project and comprehensive web site on the transatlantic
slave trade. This project will trace the trade's impact on the economics
and cultures of Africa, Europe and the Americas, using the points of view
of different people involved, whether European financiers; ships' captains,
doctors or crew; African traders or captives.
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$10,000
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Institute for America's Future
Responding to War and Recession: The Domestic Policy Debate
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To support IAF's project, "Responding to War and
Recession: The Domestic Policy Debate."
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$5,000
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Institute for Media Analysis, Inc.
Rolling Thunder Chautauqua Tour
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To support a tour that will help forge and strengthen
enduring coalitions for joint civic action among diverse grassroots organizations
and enhance their involvement and effectiveness in the democratic process.
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$10,000
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National Security Archive Fund, Inc.
Center for National Security Studies Washington, DC |
To support a public examination and analysis of the dangers
of the Official Secrets Act, an act that will threaten the flow of information
on crucial national and foreign policy matters, delay obtaining information
under the Freedom of Information Act, and allow the overclassification
of national security information.
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$25,000
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New World Foundation
Si Se Puede! Project New York, NY |
To support the production and distribution of free paperback
copies of Si Se Puede! Yes We Can!, a children's book that focuses on
social justice issues.
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$5,000
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Syracuse University, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
(TRAC)
Getting the Word Out Syracuse, NY |
To support a critically important aspect of TRAC's long
term oversight project, specifically, a portion of the salary and expenses
for a new staff person who will spearhead TRAC's active outreach effort
to make available to the public the up to date information they need to
hold the federal government accountable.
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$25,000
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The Vilna Project, Inc.
Vilna: The Vanished City New York, NY |
To support a feature length documentary film that will
portray the vibrant and creative life of the Jewish cultural community
of Vilna, the Jerusalem of Lithuania, between the two World Wars.
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$10,000
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Program Support Grants
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Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest, Inc.
General Support Washington, DC |
To support efforts to educate charities about the important
and appropriate role advocacy can play in achieving their missions.
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$10,000
Interprogram |
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Dwight Hall at Yale
Students Transforming and Resisting Corporations (STARC) New Haven, CT |
To support the growth of STARC's grassroots network of
student activists; to continue to provide vital resources to students
in local and national environmental campaigns.
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$5,000
Environment |
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Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention,
Inc.
El Puente Cultural Connections Program Gainesville, GA
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To support the activities of the El Puente Cultural Connections
program, which seeks to build cross-cultural unity and solidarity between
long term residents (African-Americans) and newcomers (Latino immigrants)
in the southside area of Gainesville, Georgia. This will be accomplished
through a series of dialogues and culture-sharing experiences.
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$5,000
Interprogram |
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Georgia Poultry Justice Alliance Inc.
Farm Tour Program, General Support Maysville, GA |
To show first hand conditions on a poultry farm to groups
unfamiliar with a vertically integrated system of poultry production;
to educate policy makers, community leaders, the media, as well as the
general public about the struggles of those affected by the poultry industry.
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$5,000
Interprogram |
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Georgia Poultry Justice Alliance Inc.
Farm Tour Program, General Support Atlanta, GA |
To support continued and accelerated efforts to educate
policy makers, community leaders, the media, and the general public about
the struggles of those affected by the poultry industry.
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$5,000
Interprogram |
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Midwest Academy
Prescription Drug Campaign Strategy Chicago,IL |
To support the development of a plan for a multi-year
program of public education and advocacy in order to reframe the public
debate around prescription drugs. The purpose of the program will be to
create a broad understanding on the part of policymakers and the general
public that there is a need to establish democratic accountability over
the prescription drug industry to assure that all Americans have access
to the prescription drugs they need.
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$20,000
Health |
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National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
Mental Health Outreach Project Washington, DC
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To support an initiative to remove access barriers for
the homeless in receiving Social Security disability benefits, and therefore
increasing their ability to receive SSI and Medicaid, as well as treatment
for mental and physical ailments.
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$10,000
Health |
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New Israel Fund
Pluralism Through Social Activism and a Commitment to the "Other" Washington, DC |
To support the Re'ut School for development and implementation
of a curriculum for the Pluralism Through Social Activism and a Commitment
to the "Other" project.
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$15,000
Jewish Life
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Newtown Florist Club, Inc.
General Support Gainesville, GA |
To support a community based organization that focuses
on ensuring environmental justice for a low-income community, promotes
youth development, and organizes for social, economic, and environmental
justice in Gainesville, Georgia and adjoining neighborhoods.
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$5,000
Interprogram |
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Newtown Florist Club, Inc.
General Support Gainesville, GA |
To support continued work in environmental justice, civil,
and human rights; to effect social change within the community of Gainesville,
Georgia, and adjoining neighborhoods; to continue developing effective
collaborations with other grassroots organizations to promote leadership
skills among youth and to reach diverse cultures.
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$5,000
Interprogram |
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The Philanthropic Collaborative, Inc.
Funders' Working Group on Emerging Technologies" New York, NY |
To support the Funders' Working Group on Emerging Technologies
conference, Living with the Genie, a joint project with the Blue Mountain
Center and Columbia University. The conference will be held at Columbia
University on March 5-7, 2002.
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$10,000
Environment |
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Snitow/Kaufman Productions Inc.
Secrets of Silicon Valley Berkeley, CA |
To support the distribution of a documentary film entitled
Secrets of Silicon Valley, which focuses on health, safety,
and environmental issues facing low income communities and working people,
particularly the large number of temporary and immigrant workers in the
United States.
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$10,000
Interprogram |
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The Southwest Research and Information Center
Campaign to Stop Uranium Mining on Navajo Lands Albuquerque, NM |
To support a joint project of the Southwest Research
and Information Center (SRIC), the applicant, and a Navajo community-based
group, Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM), designed
to stop new uranium solution mines in the sole source of drinking water
for an estimated 15,000 people living in the Eastern Navajo Agency in
northwestern New Mexico.
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$10,000
Environment |
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Tides Center/Institute for Organizational Evolution
TransparentCommerce.org San Francisco, CA |
To support a web-based system designed to deliver to
consumers and investors the best information available about the social
and environmental performances of companies and the impact of their products
and services.
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$10,000
Environment |
