Grant Awards - November 2008
 
     
  Note: In addition to grants listed, board members may make discretionary grants which do not meet the guidelines.  
 
     
  Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ventura County Inc.
    $36,000 for One Step A La Vez, a youth committee to expand the voice for social change in Fillmore and Piru through grassroots activism, leadership and community organizing.
www.myonestep.org
  Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) – Arts for Action
    $20,000 for Arts for Action to support operating expenses, program costs, and salary for a community organizer and program coordinator. www.artsforaction.org
 

Coalition for Sustainable Transportation (COAST)

    $15,000/yr. for two years for capacity building through hiring of a part-time development director to secure new donors and new board members.
www.coast-santabarbara.org
 

Coalition for Sustainable Transportation (COAST)

    $30,000 for Alliance for Sustainable and Equitable Regional Transportation (ASERT) to provide operating support for a regional transportation alliance to promote public transportation and organize public activism among a diverse constituency of transit users.
www.coast-santabarbara.org
 

La Hermandad Hank Lacayo Youth & Family Center

    $46,000 for operating expenses for grassroots organizing and organizational leadership activities among working-class immigrants in Ventura County.
 

Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project

    $35,000/yr. for two years for operating expenses, including staffing, to support community organizing work among indigenous Oaxacan farm workers in Ventura County.
www.mixteco.org
 

Santa Barbara Council on Research & Education

    $35,000/yr. for two years for operating and program expenses to support community organizing around social justice and environmental issues throughout Santa Barbara County.
www.sbcan.org/sb-core
 

Trinity Episcopal Church

    $15,000/yr. for two years for Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), Santa Barbara, to fund operating support of a grassroots interfaith association working to build partnerships to expand its scope in responding to issues of economic justice.
www.cluesb.org
 

Ventura County Community Foundation - Social Justice Fund for Ventura County

    $25,000 for capacity building for the Social Justice Fund for Ventura County, including an endowment drive for the Social Justice Fund and educational outreach to grassroots groups and donors.
www.vccf.org/dlsjf/sjfindex.html
 
Second year funding of grants awarded in November 2007:
 
 

Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE)

    $50,000 for general operating support for economic and social justice programs, with emphasis on development of a regional power organization of allied community, labor, faith and environmental organizations.
www.coastalalliance.com
 

The Foundation for Educational & Employment Resources Development, Inc.

    (FEERD/Café on A) - Community Café Organizing for Empowerment and Equity (CORE) $30,000 for expanded grassroots organizing efforts for community action and civic engagement by neighborhood groups in the Oxnard area.
www.cafeona.2givenow.org
 

Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueño – Naa Xini: Community Health and Civic Participation of Indigenous Migrants

    $25,000 to promote the civic participation and empowerment of the Oaxacan community in Santa Maria and create a sustainable group of leaders.
www.centrobinacional.org
 
 
 
 
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