Grant Awards - May 2006
 
     
  Note: In addition to grants listed, board members may make discretionary grants which do not meet the guidelines above.  
 
     
  Coalition for Sustainable Transportation (COAST) – Measure D Renewal Education (Santa Barbara County, CA)
    $12,000 for operating and program support for Coalition for a Fair Measure D’s voter education project.
 

Turning Point Foundation – River Haven Community
(Ventura, CA)

    $30,000 operating support for second year of self-governed, intentional, tent community for up to 30 homeless persons.
 

Pueblo Education Fund – Operating support
(Santa Barbara County, CA)

    $35,000/year for 2 years general support, particularly for expansion of neighborhood committees, voter mobilization, issue campaigns, etc. in North S.B. County.
 

SYV People Helping People – Organization de Familias Latinas (OFL) (Santa Ynez, CA)

    $23,693 for staff support for grassroots organization of Spanish-speaking parents of students at Santa Ynez Valley Union High School.
 

SYV People Helping People – Los Alamos Parent Empowerment
(Los Alamos, CA)

    $18,000 operating support for parent organization for Spanish-speaking parents of students in the Los Alamos School District.
  Tri Counties Labor Foundation – Ventura County Working People’s Alliance (Ventura County, CA)
    $30,000 for organizer/coordinator for alliance of community, labor and interfaith year-round non-partisan voter engagement effort and other alliance building activities.
 

Ventura Co. Community Foundation Ventura Co. Women’s Leadership Conference (Ventura County, CA)

    $7,000 to underwrite costs of “A Changing Economy,” first in annual series of leadership conferences for women in Ventura County, organized by a collaborative of women’s organizations.
 

St. Barbara Parish – Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) (Santa Barbara, CA)

    $17,500 for staff to begin linking social action committees of member congregations and build partnerships with unions and community organizations to advocate for social and economic justice.
 
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Ojai Valley Youth Foundation – Generation Communications
(Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, CA)

    $25,000 to provide free technical assistance in social marketing to other grassroots organizations.
 
 
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