Grantees
2010 Grantees |
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Field Building Grants |
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| Arab American Action Network (AAAN) To support Arab Action Network’s Community Organizing and Advocacy Program |
$60,000 |
| Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) To support Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) to strengthen the National Network of Arab American Communities (“NNAAC”) and facilitate coordinated policy advocacy by its members |
$75,000 |
| Asian Law Caucus To support Asian Law Caucus’ National Security and Civil Rights Program to expand and deepen engagement with “AAMEMSA”: African, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian communities through outreach, legal clinics, trainings and advocacy projects on racial profiling and discrimination |
$75,000 |
| Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) To support DRUM - Desis Rising Up & Moving’s End Racial Profiling Campaign |
$60,000 |
| Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) To support Inner-City Muslim Action Network’s Project to Advance the National Security and Human Rights Agenda and increase mobilization and engagement with inner-city Chicago-based Muslim communities on racial profiling and surveillance through dissemination and action around a human rights policy guide, forums and workshops, and engagement through new media |
$60,000 |
| The Sikh Coalition To provide support to increase and enhance the Sikh Coalition’s development and fundraising capacity |
$75,000 |
| South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) To support South Asian Americans Leading Together’s Policy Program, including ongoing activities related to the NSHR campaign, enhanced strategic communications capacity, and increased participation with allies and partner organizations |
$70,000 |
| South Asian Network To support South Asian Network’s Southern California-based policy advocacy, leadership development, and media efforts that challenge racial profiling and surveillance |
$60,000 |
| Unity Productions Foundation To support Unity Productions Foundation’s screenings & discussions of Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think with policymakers |
$50,000 |
Field Building Total |
$545,000 |
Communications Grants |
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| ReThink Media To support ReThink Media’s provision of a centralized set of tools, resources and services to national security and human rights organizations with the goals of building communications capacity, rapid response capacity and collaborative messaging opportunities |
$374,116 |
Communications Total |
$669,060 |
Rapid Response Grants |
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The Constitution Project |
$25,000 |
| National Campaign to Close Guantanamo and Defend American Values This rapid response grant is to support its rapid response communications efforts before and after the January 22, 2010 deadline for closing Guantanamo |
$25,000 |
Rapid Response Total |
$50,000 |
2010 TOTAL TO DATE |
$969,116 |
2009 Grantees |
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Field Building Grants |
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| AltMuslim.com General Support |
$60,000 |
| American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Research Institute (ADC) To support the Diversity Education and Law Enforcement Outreach Program |
$70,000 |
| Arab American Action Network (AAAN) To support the Community Organizing and Advocacy Program |
$67,500 |
| Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) To support the National Network of Arab American Communities |
$85,000 |
| Asian Law Caucus To support the National Security and Civil Rights Program to expand and deepen their work with AMEMSA communities |
$50,000 |
| Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) To support development of DRUM's membership infrastructure and technology capacity |
$70,000 |
| The Focus Project To support targeted outreach to Muslim and Tamil American charities in eight regions to gain their input on Charity Security Network policy reform proposals |
$15,000 |
| Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) To support the Comprehensive Communications Enhancement Project |
$67,500 |
| Muslim Advocates To support the development of a network of lawyers and community leaders for collective advocacy |
$75,000 |
| Rockwood Leadership Program To support the launch of a pilot year of the Rockwood Fellowship for National Security and Human Rights Leaders, to work with 24 leaders over one year to dramatically increase their capacity to lead and foster their organizations and networks more effectively and to collaborate across the boundaries of issue area, race and ethnicity, organizational size and resources and geography |
$185,000 |
| The Sikh Coalition To support increasing the organization's development capacity |
$85,000 |
| South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) To support policy advocacy efforts, collaborative participation, and strategic planning, and a planning grant to develop a proposal from the National Coalition of South Asian Organizations |
$85,000 |
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To support the National Coalition of South Asian Organizations’ collaborative effort of seven South Asian grassroots organizations in New York City to document and challenge the ongoing impact of racial and religious profiling on South Asian communities through a coordinated research, communications, and policy advocacy effort
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$100,000 |
| South Asian Network To support the Challenging National Security Policies and Promoting Human Rights Project |
$70,000 |
| University of Southern California To support the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute’s 2009-2010 retreat program and follow-up activities designed to educate forty Muslim organizational leaders on national security and human rights issues and advocacy strategies |
$60,000 |
Field Building Total |
$1,145,000 |
Communications Grants |
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| ReThink Media To support a web-based hub to build the communications capacity of organizations in the National Security and Human Rights campaign and to provide communications rapid response capacity |
$256,390 |
| U.S. in the World Initiative To support the development of National Security and Human Rights messaging |
$173,600 |
| To research and test common National Security and Human Rights messaging strategies, engaging the field in the process, leading to training and a written message guide |
$157,500 |
| To support a national convening of the National Security and Human Rights field for a two day training on effective messaging strategies and media skills |
$81,570 |
Communications Total |
$669,060 |
Rapid Response Grants |
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| Human Rights First To support the Restoring Human Rights to U.S. Detention and Interrogation Policies: How to Evaluate the Obama Administration's First 100 Days Project |
$25,000 |
| Physicians for Human Rights To support the Afghan Mass Grave Media Project to leverage an imminent front-page New York Times story on human rights atrocities, by targeting media activities that will link the Afghan mass grave to the broader issues of detainee abuse and torture in order to strengthen support for accountability efforts |
$10,000 |
Rapid Response Total |
$35,000 |
2009 TOTAL |
$1,849,060 |