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Guadalupe Cultural Arts & Education Center |
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$25,000/yr. for two years for Mixtecacion: Mixteco Translation and Resource Empowerment Project, which will include a centralized office where Mixteco families can obtain help from indigenous leaders and volunteers and for a translator/organizer to provide translation services and organize the community to improve health care and human services for farmworkers and their families. |
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Conflict Solutions Center |
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$15,000 for the Restorative Justice Partnership Initiative, which would engage a community coalition of young people, parents, and neighborhood leaders in promoting Restorative Justice responses to youth crime in Santa Maria.
www.cscsb.org |
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Families ACT! |
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$10,000 for a community organizing campaign to give voice to Santa Barbara families that seek changes in the mental health and criminal justice systems to better serve their family members suffering from mental illness and substance use.
www.familiesact.org |
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Future Leaders of America |
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$30,000/yr. for two years for operating expenses and the Youth of California Making Change program to develop 100 youth activists in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties to impact the community through civic engagement. www.latinoleaders.org |
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Pacific Pride Foundation |
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$12,500 for Strategic Alliance for Marriage Equality, a project to motivate and promote local activism in support of marriage equality and civil rights for the gay community at the local, state, and national level.
www.pacificpridefoundation.org |
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Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition (Bici Centro) |
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$20,000 for engaging bicycle commuters, including cyclists at Bici Centro, a collectively run, non-profit bike shop, in outreach efforts around cycling issues.
www.bicicentro.org |
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Unitarian Universalist Church of Ventura |
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$19,537 for Yes in Our Backyard, an effort to build a coalition of leaders from faith communities, the homeless community and other Ventura residents to decriminalize homelessness and seek resources to end homelessness in the City of Ventura. |
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Ventura County Rainbow Alliance |
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$5,000 for Organizing Training for Youth Empower Program to engage lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender youth in increasing community dialogue around issues that affect them and in establishing Gay/Straight Alliances in area high schools.
www.lgbtventura.org |
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Second year funding of grants awarded in May 2008: |
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Public Health Foundation Enterprises Inc. (Just Communities) |
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$50,000 for general operating support for development of the Youth Organizers program and expansion of alumni and family networks.
www.justcommunitiescc.org |
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Pueblo Education Fund |
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$50,000 for operating support for the multi-issue grassroots membership organization mobilizing low-income residents of Santa Barbara County to work for social and economic justice.
www.sbpueblo.org |
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Technical Assistance Grants: |
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Alliance for Justice |
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$15,000 for the Nonprofit Advocacy Project to provide advocacy trainings, technical assistance, and other resources to organizations in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
www.afj.org |
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Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project |
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$10,000 for Board and staff development training.
www.mixteco.org |
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