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IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR GRANTSEEKERS February 17, 2004Requests for funding are no longer being accepted.As a result of an extensive planning and restructuring process, the Greenville Foundation has ended its grantmaking operations. The Greenville office in Sonoma, Ca., managed by Virginia Hubbell Associates, closed permanently on December 31st, 2003. This website (www.greenville-foundation.org) will remain active for an indefinite period of time. Greenville profusely thanks all of the organizations that have applied for funding during the last 55 years. It has been a rewarding process of learning, involvement, and support. Many of the organizations that we funded have websites, listed on these pages: Education, Environment, Human & Social Issues, International, Religion, Other. Visit them and learn about their work. |
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The Foundation has chosen to respond to the overwhelming need in the realm of human and social issues with an emphasis on three fundamental building blocks for a more functional and promising society. While admittedly only scratching the surface of, or altogether missing, many social issues facing our communities, the Foundation tries to target its resources at some of the most strategic elements of our social fabric --inalienable civil rights and liberties, families as a primary agent of socialization and change, and hope (community development). Funding will emphasize prevention, advocacy, public policy, and community involvement approaches aimed at the root causes of societal problems.
The Foundation seeks to strengthen our civil liberties and civil rights. Greater understanding of and respect for these basic rights will enhance the ability of individuals and groups to realize their full potential. The Foundation funds programs that address issues involving free speech, censorship, freedom of information, equal opportunity, privacy, due process, equal protection, equal justice and racism. (This area does not include disability or reproductive rights issues.)
The Foundation seeks to help to break the cycle of urban poverty and hopelessness by expanding economic opportunity. Specifically, the Foundation focuses on organizing and advocacy strategies to improve wages and the overall quality and availability of employment in low-income communities. Ideally, programs supported by the Foundation will also work to develop the leadership and organizational strength necessary to address issues of economic and social justice on a lasting basis in their communities.
The Foundation seeks to strengthen families by improving parenting capacities and commitment among impoverished adolescent parents in an effort to break the cycle of poverty and to encourage the development of a caring and productive family life. The Foundation supports programs that assist young mothers and fathers to become more self-sufficient, responsible and effective as parents. Emphasis is on equipping teen parents with the parenting knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to develop nurturing relationships with their children, to provide experiences and environments necessary for healthy child development, and to ensure positive and involved fathering.
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East Bay
Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, Oakland, CA -- $20,000
To support the Emeryville Fair Growth Campaign, to make economic development
more equitable and promote local government accountability to low-income workers
and communities in Emeryville.
Labor/Community
Strategy Center, Los Angeles,
CA -- $16,600
To support the Bus Riders Union's Billions for Buses Campaign to implement
the civil rights consent decree against the LA Metro Transportation Authority
to ensure required bus improvements are made.
Perinatal Treatment Services, Seattle, WA -- $11,480
To support the parenting education component of the Teen Moms Program, a residential
drug treatment program for pregnant and/or parenting women aged 12-17 in
Seattle, WA.
Southwest
Center for Economic Integrity, Tucson,
AZ -- $20,000
For a new program to promote public policy and business strategies that
improve earnings and working conditions for homeless day laborers in New
Mexico.
Western
States Center, Portland, OR -- $20,000
To support the Criminal Justice Project, an organizing and advocacy project
aimed at meaningful reform of the criminal justice system.
Anti-Racism
Training Institute of the Southwest,
Albuquerque, NM - $20,000
To support a training program that will provide people of color, financial
institutions, and community development advocates with the knowledge and skills
needed to end racial disparities in access to credit.
Center for Constitutional
Rights, New York, NY - $15,000
To support the "Civil Liberties Defense & Education Project," a
program that defends basic constitutional protections in the wake of the anti-terrorism
campaign, using legal analysis, public education and strategic litigation efforts.
Insights
Teen Parent Program, Portland, OR - $15,000
To support enhanced case management services for pregnant and parening teens
in Multnomah County, OR at-risk of abusing their children.
South Asian
Network, Artesia, CA - $20,000
To support the "Post 9-11 Civil Rights Project," a victim assistance,
community education and outreach, and coalition-building project addressing
hate crime, bias incidents and civil rights/liberties violations against South
Asians in Southern California.
Sweatshop
Watch, Oakland, CA - $15,000
To support research, networking, advocacy and organizing among California's
garment workers to improve workplace and living conditions and to ensure that
workers who lose their jobs due to the pressures of globalization can transition
into living wage jobs with security.
Center for Young Women's
Development, San Francisco, CA - $14,000
To support the "Girls in Charge Project," a holistic employment
training program with a focus on community advocacy for low income young women
involved in the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable
Economy, Ventura, CA - $10,000
To support the Women's Economic Justice Project, a regional policy planning,
leadership development and organizing project serving low-wage working women
in the Ventura and Santa Barbara County region.
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, Oakland,
CA - $15,000
To support the "Emeryville Accountability Campaign" a project of EBASE
to create a new organization, "Emeryville Residents for Jobs and Justice,"
that will address living wage issues, subsidy accountability policies, and local
hiring requirements created by rapid development.
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Foundation, Washington DC - $25,000
To support a project to expand communication and organizing
efforts on the West Coast to gain support for the elimination and prevention
of state and federal mandatory minimum sentencing policies.
Hate Free Zone Campaign
of Washington FA Tides Center, Seattle, WA - $15,000
To support the hate crime and harassment help-line to victims of backlash since
9/11 and to educate the community on civil rights and cultural sensitivity in
the Seattle area.
New Mexico Voices for Children, Albuquerque, NM
- $25,000
To support the expansion of the "Support, Empowerment, Advocacy, Doulas
Program" that provides doula services to Albuquerque's low-income, limited
English speaking pregnant/parenting teen population.
Oregon State Public Interest
Group Foundation, Inc., Portland, OR - $15,000
To support the "Privacy Rights Oregon Program," a project that documents
issues around the erosion of consumer privacy, educates consumers and policy
makers, and provides Oregonians with the knowledge and tools to protect their
personal private information.
Sacramento ACORN FA American Institute for Social
Justice, Inc., Sacramento, CA - $15,200
To support the "High Road Economic Development Campaign," a project
designed to involve marginalized constituencies in the development of regional
policy in the Sacramento Metro Area.
Safe Haven, Inc., Phoenix AZ - $20,000
To support Growing Together/Cresciendo Unidos, an six month training program
working with 15-17 Spanish speaking, low-income families to develop relationships,
communication, life-skills and a commitment to personal positive change for
families in the Murphy School District of Phoenix.
Western States
Center, Inc., Portland OR - $20,000
To provide general support for the WSC to combat a variety of racial and social
injustices in the West.
Women's Opportunity and
Resource Development, Inc., Missoula, MT - $16,000
To support the expansion of services for young fathers enrolled in the Futures
Program, a comprehensive family support program for young parents in Missoula
County.
Arriba Juntos,
San Francisco, CA - $25,000
To support a 17-week intensive training program designed to give currently and
formerly homeless staff and volunteers at homeless service agencies, in San
Francisco, the skills to advance in positions of higher responsibility.
Arizona Center for Law
in the Public Interest, Phoenix, AZ - $20,000
To support litigation challenging that the school system in Arizona does not
provide adequate resources for low-income minority students to meet state proscribed
educational standards.
Californians for
Justice Education Fund, Oakland, CA - $20,000
To support youth and parent leadership development for educational equity
in San Diego, Long Beach, San Jose, the East Bay, and through statewide alliances,
focusing on low-income youth and parents of color.
Center on Juvenile and
Criminal Justice, San Francisco, CA — $10,000
To support JPI in its efforts to analyze the political activities of California's
prison lobby. The project will promote greater scrutiny of California criminal
justice policies and contribute the call for campaign finance reform.
Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility, Palo Alto, CA — $10,000
To support the Civil Society Democracy Project with the goal of protecting
civil liberties in cyberspace. Project location is global, but is most focused
in Marina del Rey, CA, home of the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN).
Correct HELP,
San Francisco, CA — $20,000
To support CorrectHELP, a project that will address issues of inadequate medical
care and inappropriate treatment of inmates with HIV across the U.S.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance,
Washington, DC – $15,000
To support the Pacific Northwest Deconstruction Initiative to provide technical
and business development assistance to citizens, officials, and entrepreneurs
hoping to develop at least two deconstruction and related enterprises in the
Pacific Northwest.
Lawyer's
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of Texas, San Antonio, TX -
$19,500
To support a coordinated response to abuse of authority by INS/Border Patrol
agents against low income citizens of Mexican descent and immigrants living
in El Paso, TX.
Parent Aid Child
Abuse Prevention Center, Inc., Tucson, AZ - $19,750
To support the Parent Aid Family Facilitator Project, a collaborative project
to provide in-home family support services to 35 Tucson families with juvenile
offenders between ages 8-12 that have completed a 16 hour parenting workshop.
Parents Organized for Westside Renewal, Santa Monica,
CA - $17,500
To support Parents Organized for Westside Renewal (POWER) develop parent leaders
to advocate for educational reforms in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Primavera Services,
Inc., Tucson, AZ - $15,000
To support Central Arizona Shelter Services Works (CASS Works), providing
homeless and low-income workers in Maricopa County with a non-profit staffing
agency to serve as an alternative to exploitative day labor halls.
Project Alchemy
FA Western States Center, Inc., Seattle, WA - $21,750
To support and build technology capacity for grassroots civil rights organizations
in the Pacific Northwest.
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Applied Research Center,
Oakland, CA - $20,000
Support to provide technical assistance to 10 community organizations in seven
Western states to enable them to promote racial equity in their schools.
Asian Pacific Environmental
Network, Oakland, CA - $10,000
To support the expansion of the Laotian Organizing Project, a community organizing
and leadership development project with the vision to unify and strengthen the
Laotian community of West Contra Costa County to work for social change.
Center for Third World
Organizing, Oakland, CA - $15,000
To support the pilot phase of the Strategic Alliance for Building Regional Equity
(SABRE), that will develop and facilitate anti-racist movement-building strategies
within a regional context.
Center for Young Women's Development, San Francisco,
CA - $15,000
To support the Girls in Charge (GIC) Advocacy Program, a job and leadership-training
program through which impoverished young women and girls learn the skills necessary
to not only get out and stay out of jail, but to secure legal, full-time employment
that will enable them to take care of themselves, their children, and their
communities.
Chinese for Affirmative
Action, San Francisco, CA - $20,000
The Living Wages for Working Women Project, an innovative outreach, education,
and training program that will create greater economic and employment opportunities
for low-income and immigrant women in San Francisco.
Community Works California, Berkeley, CA - $20,000
To support the Staying Together Through Reading and Writing (STTRAW) project,
which provides family literacy services to incarcerated adults in San Francisco
County jail and their children.
CRADLE Project FAA Eschaton Foundation, Watsonville,
CA - $10,000
To support the CRADLE Project's Skillful Parenting workshops in Santa Cruz County,
that teaches parents and caregivers of young children how to deal with conflict
constructively and to thrive in an increasingly diverse community.
Ella
Baker Center for Human Rights, San Francisco, CA -
$20,000
To expand and document the technical assistance now being provided to community
organizations working on the issue of police misconduct in the Bay Area, as
the first step in creating a national strategy center that would support organizing
efforts in communities throughout the country.
Impact
Fund, Berkeley, CA - $15,000
Support for The Testing Project, an employment testing project, to conduct a
study of the treatment of Latino and Asian applicants to service industry jobs
in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Institute
for Criminal Defense Advocacy, FA California Western School of Law, San
Diego, CA - $21,000
To fund the investigative costs for a law school innocence project dedicated
to obtaining the release of wrongly convicted prisoners in the state of California.
Sweatshop
Watch, Oakland, CA - $15,000
The Sweatshop Accountability Campaign, a program to educate California's 160,000
garment workers in the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas about a new law to
help them collect their unpaid wages from garment manufacturers and retailers.
Utility
Consumers' Action Network, San Diego, CA - $15,000
To support participation of Privacy Rights Clearinghouse in public policy proceedings,
for the purpose of representing consumers' interests and advocating for adequate
privacy protection in laws, regulations and industry practices.
Washington Alliance
for Immigrant and Refugee Justice, Seattle, WA - $15,000
Support for The Raids Resistance Project, which documents and organizes against
civil and human rights abuses during immigration law enforcement operations
in Washington State.
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Center
for Common Concerns, San Francisco CA - $16,000
To support Individual Development Account which promotes a long-term savings
plan for low-income families to prevent them from becoming homeless, in the
San Francisco Bay Area.
Charity Cultural Services Center, San Francisco CA -
$15,000
To support "Western Cooks School," a free job training and placement
program for low-income, unemployed, unskilled newcomers and minorities in San
Francisco.
Juma Ventures, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
To support the Management Internship Program, an expansion of a job-training
program for at-risk youth.
People United
for a Better Oakland FA Center for Third World Organizing, Oakland CA -
$18,000
To support "Campaign for Community Safety and Police Accountability,"
a grassroots organizing, policy reform, and community education project designed
to offer a progressive alternative to overly punitive and ineffective public
safety policies that target and scapegoat communities of color.
Portland Organizing Project, Portland, OR - $15,000
To expand the membership base of this grassroots organization so it can
undertake a campaign to develop jobs and new enterprises in the environmental
goods and services sector.
Service Outreach Motivation Empowerment, Santa Rosa
CA - $10,000
To support "Family Connection", an after care program for families leaving
homeless shelters which provides a system of volunteer support for the families
during the first year after leaving a shelter.
Taller San Jose FA Sisters of
St. Joseph, Orange, CA - $15,000
To provide education, job training, and job placement services to
disadvantaged Latino youth in Orange County.
We Interrupt This
Message FA Applied Research Center, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
To support the continuation and expansion of "Breaking Through the
Bars," a campaign which challenges media coverage that disproportionately
and inaccurately blames people of color and youth for crime, in the San Francisco
Bay Area.
Women's Economic Ventures, Santa Barbara, CA - $15,000
To conduct a strategic process in order to sustain and expand economic development
programs for low-income women in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
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Chicanos Por La Causa/Via de Amistad, Phoenix, AZ - $15,000
To support "PASOS" Footsteps, an educational program which
teaches fathers how to be responsible for their children.
Child
& Family Resources, Inc., Phoenix, AZ - $15,000
Toward expansion of the Young Fathers Program, which assists young fathers
in learning positive parenting skills and assuming parental responsibility for
their children.
Child Crisis Center-East Valley Inc., Mesa, AZ - $15,000
To support a father involvement program for families living in the East
Valley of Maricopa County.
City of Phoenix Human Services Department Head Start,
Phoenix, AZ - $15,000
To increase father involvement and participation at selected Head Start
sites.
City of
Phoenix Young Families CAN, Phoenix, AZ - $15,000
To add a father involvement component to Young Families CAN, a case management
program for teenage mothers and their children.
Parents Anonymous
of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ - $15,000
To expand the number of male volunteers and improve family support services
for fathers.
Pilot Parent Partnerships, Inc., Phoenix, AZ - $15,000
To support the Dads Support Project for fathers of children with special
needs and disabilities living in Maricopa County.
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Alternatives to Violence Project, Holy Faith Episcopal
Church, Inglewood, California - $10,000
Toward a program to develop leadership and conflict resolution skills among
multicultural youth.
TECLA, Arizona Border Rights Coalition, Tucson, AZ -
$10,000
To support the Indigenous Alliance Without Borders Organizing Project which
addresses Indigenous human and civil rights abuses perpetrated by US immigration
and customs officials in the Arizona, Texas and Mexico border region.
California Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
- $10,000
Startup of "Father's Resource Center," a program to encourage male
partners of teenage mothers to share in the responsibility of raising their
children in Central Los Angeles.
Center for Watershed
and Community Health, Portland, OR - $10,000
To support "CDC's Sustainable Communities Capacity Building Program,"
which helps economically distressed rural communities and urban neighborhoods
across the west develop the capacity to institute their own non-subsidized,
self-supporting commercial reuse/recycling/bioproduct enterprises that can be
linked with affordable housing and land and water conservation programs.
Center on Juvenile and
Criminal Justice, San Francisco, CA - $5,000
To support a public education campaign on juvenile and criminal justice issues
in California.
Coalition
on Homelessness, San Francisco, CA - $8,000
To support the Civil Rights Project which works to defend the civil rights of
homeless people who live on the streets and in shelters.
Computer Professionals
for Social Responsibility, Palo Alto, CA - $5,000
To support "One Planet, One Net," a year-long initiative that will
debate and clarify public interest in Internet governance.
Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates, Los Angeles, CA
- $15,000
To support "Koreatown Worker Organizing Project," to improve substandard
wages and working conditions for Korean and Latino restaurant workers in Los
Angeles.
Legal Services
for Prisoners with Children, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
To support the civil rights of incarcerated parents and their relatives.
Liberty
Hill Foundation, Los Angeles, CA - $2,000
To support "Fund for a New Los Angeles," a grantmaking program which
provides funds to grassroots community groups who are increasing the participation
and leadership of low-income and disenfranchised people in addressing problems
of chronic poverty, racial tensions, and urban violence.
Organize Training Center, San Francisco, CA - $5,000
To support "California Project with Evangelicals and Pentecostals,"
an effort to encourage theologically conservative pastors and local congregations
to explore membership in existing congregation-based community organizations.
Southwest Human
Development, Inc., Phoenix, AZ - $50,000
To provide "The Fatherhood Involvement Initiative", a specially-tailored
training and technical assistance program, for seven to ten organizations in
Maricopa County to expand or develop programs that promote responsible father
involvement in the lives of children and families.
St. Anne's,
Los Angeles, CA - $8,000
To support a vocational guidance program for pregnant and parenting teens served
by St. Anne's Residential Program.
Telegraph
Hill Neighborhood Center, San Francisco, CA - $10,000
To support Community Leadership Development Institute, a leadership development
series for low-income residents at North Beach Place public housing development.
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