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2009 RESIST Grantees
Since 1967, RESIST has awarded grants to radical and progressive groups engaged in activism for social change. Each year we fund groups to develop leadership, work on innovative grassroots campaigns, hire organizers, distribute literature and videos related to those campaigns, and demand justice on a variety of issues. Information about 2009 grantees is listed below and is available for download as a PDF here. Find our past grantees here.
Click here to see photos of 2009 grantees. In 2009, RESIST awarded $277,000 to 134 organizations around the country. These grants can be broken down into 14 categories, which are somewhat arbitrary since RESIST prefers to fund groups that work across issues, as most of our grantees do. Categorizing the grants can be helpful, however, for tracking trends in funding across years. (Read more about grant guidelines.) Download the 2009 list as a PDF.
Arise for Social Justice. Springfield, Massachusetts. $3,000 for an economic justice organization run by and for low-income people. Economic Justice Coalition. Athens, Georgia. $3,000 to educate the community about economic disparities and to work towards implementing living wage and health benefit policies. Multi-year Grant. Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees. New York, New York. $3,000 to organize and educate working class Haitian immigrants around economic justice issues and immigrant rights. Homeless Empowerment Project. Cambridge, Massachusetts. $1,250 to give voice to homeless and low-income people as a means of eliminating poverty and reducing stereotypes about low-income people. Low-Income Self-Help Center. San Jose, California. $1,500 to empower, educate and organize the diverse low-income communities of Silicon Valley to fight for economic rights and justice. Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending. Worcester, Massachusetts. $1,200 to address the sub-prime foreclosure crisis affecting homeowners and tenants in Massachusetts through legislation, organizing and education. Mothers for Justice. New Haven, Connecticut. $1,000 to promote change in programs and policies that affect the lives of low-income families. Nashville Homeless Power Project. Nashville, Tennessee. $1,500 to organize current and formerly homeless people and their allies to eradicate homelessness and poverty in Nashville. Peace Through Interamerican Community Action. Bangor, Maine. $1,500 to engage in anti-sweatshop, labor rights and solidarity organizing. Save Our Section 8 Colorado. Denver, Colorado. $1,500 for a coalition of low-income and Section 8 tenants working together to preserve and expand safe and accessible public housing. VOICES. Spokane, Washington. $3,000 to empower low-income individuals and families to develop leadership on economic justice issues and fight for solutions to poverty. Welfare Warriors. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. $1,900 to create a voice for mothers and children in poverty to work for social and economic justice. Worcester Homeless Action Committee. Worcester, Massachusetts. $1,000 to increase city-wide awareness about, and a response to, the critical condition of homeless people in Worcester. Working for Equality and Economic Liberation. Helena, Montana. $3,000 to ensure that those most affected by poverty are engaged in eradicating stereotypes and are involved in working for change in policies and practices that affect them. Environmental Justice Bring Urban Recycling to Nashville Today (BURNT). Nashville, Tennessee. $2,500 to work for environmental justice campaigns including the reform of solid waste disposal and opposition to governmental use of pesticides. Citizens Awareness Network. Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. $1,500 to re-direct energy policy towards sustainable, efficient and renewable options and away from nuclear power. Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger. Merrimac, Wisconsin. $3,000 to organize clean up of toxic waste at Badger Army Ammunition Plant and create sustainable re-use plans. Multi-year grant. Embudo Valley Environmental Monitoring Group. Dixon, New Mexico. $3,000 to monitor the health effects of weapons research, development and production on communities downwind of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Multi-year Grant. Oregon Toxics Alliance. Eugene, Oregon. $3,000 to expose the root causes of toxic pollution and to help Oregon communities find solutions that protect human and environmental health. Multi-year Grant. People Organized in Defense of Earth and Her Resources (PODER). Austin, Texas. $2,500 to organize for environmental justice in East Austin. Sand Mountain Concerned Citizens. Ider, Alabama. $2,700 to organize against the growth of the corporate swine industry in the densely populated areas of Alabama and the surrounding states. Silver Valley Community Resource Center. Kellogg, Idaho. $1,900 to educate local residents about the toxic waste found at the Bunker Hill Superfund site and counter the misinformation generated by those opposing clean-up. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Rights GLBT Youth in Iowa Schools Task Force. Des Moines, Iowa. $2,000 to educate Iowa’s education staff on issues affecting GLBT youth and to develop solutions to end discrimination, bullying and harassment. Human Dignity Coalition. Bend, Oregon. $3,000 to build a progressive movement for social change in Central Oregon and to address issues of disability rights, sexism and homophobia. Human Dignity Coalition. Bend, Oregon. $500 to engage in a strategic planning process to strengthen organizational capacity and function. Technical Assistance Grant. Iowa Pride Network. Des Moines, Iowa. $1,900 to empower students to fight homophobia and trans-phobia in high schools and colleges by training leaders and organizing for social justice. National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance. Jackson Heights, New York. $3,000 to enable representatives of small grassroots groups serving LGBT, intersex and queer Asians, South Asians and Pacific Islanders to attend a national conference. Accessibility grant. OUTreach Resource Center. Ogden, Utah. $1,500 to build community and empower LGBTQ youth in a very homophobic area. Shades of Yellow. St. Paul, Minnesota. $2,800 to provide support and a safe space for Hmong LGBTQ people and to educate and advocate for LGBTQ rights with elders and community members. Ken Hale Tribute Grant. Health, AIDS and Disability Rights ADAPT-Colorado. Denver, Colorado. $2,700 to enable people with disabilities to participate in organizing for full and equal access into all parts of society. Accessibility grant. Civilian Medical Resources Network. Taos, New Mexico. $2,000 to organize around the unmet medical and psychological needs of GIs as a means of working towards peace and the reduction of militarism. Freedom Center. Northampton, Massachusetts. $3,000 to unite people with severe mental illness to organize against psychiatric abuse and oppression and to promote alternatives to mainstream care. NARAL Pro-Choice South Dakota. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. $3,000 to improve access to reproductive services for all women in South Dakota. NARAL Pro-Choice Texas. Austin, Texas. $3,000 to ensure that women have the right to a full range of reproductive choices, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children and choosing legal abortion. NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin. $2,000 to ensure that women have the right to a full range of reproductive choices in Wisconsin. New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. Albuquerque, New Mexico. $2,300 to provide a faith-based approach to counter the religious right’s attack on reproductive justice. Labor Rights Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center. Cincinnati, Ohio. $2,700 to organize low-wage and immigrant workers to confront economic injustice in the workplace. Fuerza Laboral - Power of Workers. Central Falls, Rhode Island. $3,000 to empower immigrant and low-income workers to achieve fair, equal and dignified working conditions. Multi-year grant. Interfaith Center for Worker Justice. Minneapolis, Minnesota. $1,000 to enable low-wage workers to organize for better wages and working conditions. Jobs with Justice - Kentucky. Louisville, Kentucky. $3,000 to campaign for economic justice and workers’ rights. Multi-year grant. Jobs with Justice - Middle Tennessee. Nashville, Tennessee. $1,500 to organize the labor, faith and student communities to achieve workplace justice. Restaurant Opportunities Center of Miami. Miami, Florida. $2,800 to organize restaurant workers for improved wages and working conditions. Student/Farmworker Alliance. Immokalee, Florida. $3,000 for a national network of students and youth organizing with farmworkers to eliminate sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery in the fields. Multi-year Grant. Vermont Workers’ Center. Montpelier, Vermont. $3,000 for a group organizing for economic justice, including livable wages, affordable health care and humane workplaces. Multi-year Grant. Worker Center for Economic Justice. Lynn, Massachusetts. $2,700 to address the problems of low-wage, non-union immigrant worker exploitation and abuse. Media and Culture Arlington West Film and Speakers Program. Los Angeles, California. $2,000 to bring people with personal experience in the Iraq War together with youth targeted by military recruiters. HONK! Cambridge, Massachusetts. $1,000 to support activist street bands that utilize the potential of music to spread awareness of peace and justice issues. Thin Air Community Radio. Spokane, Washington. $3,000 to produce radio programming with a social justice focus that provides media access to un-served or under-served communities. Multi-year Grant. Native American / Native Peoples' Rights Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras. Tucson, Arizona. $1,000 to promote respect for Indigenous human and civil rights and organize around sovereignty, border rights and environmental protection of Native lands and sacred sites. Seminole Sovereignty Protection Initiative. Seminole, Oklahoma. $500 to cover the unexpected costs of providing the only human rights training focused on Indigenous Peoples in Oklahoma. Emergency Grant. Peace and Anti-Militarism Appalachian Peace and Justice Network. Athens, Ohio. $1,500 to engage in peace and anti-war organizing in Appalachian Ohio. Brandywine Peace Community. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. $1,000 to organize nonviolent resistance to war and militarism. Central Oregon Peace Network. Bend, Oregon. $1,000 to work for peace and oppose militarism through educational and community organizing activities. Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools. South Pasadena, California. $3,000 to demilitarize schools and transform them into institutions where social justice and conflict resolution are at the center. Multi-year Grant. Courage to Resist. Oakland, California. $3,000 to bring together community members, veterans and military families in support of GI resistance and counter-recruitment efforts. GI Voice. Lakewood, Washington. $3,000 to create a safe space for service members, military families and veterans to discuss the hardships of military life, PTSD and GI rights. Freda Friedman Salzman Tribute Grant. National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth. Bethesda, Maryland. $2,700 to unite national, regional and local organizations to oppose the growing intrusion of the military in young people’s lives. Nebraskans for Peace. Lincoln, Nebraska. $2,000 to work nonviolently for peace with justice through community building, education and political action. Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance. Oak Ridge, Tennessee. $2,500 to work for the end of nuclear weapons production in Oak Ridge through education and direct action. Peace Action - New Jersey. Bloomfield, New Jersey. $500 to work for the reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons, money for programs for community needs and nonviolent resolution to international conflict. Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas. Wichita, Kansas. $2,000 to link diverse peace and justice groups in South Central Kansas. Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission. Colorado Springs, Colorado. $1,400 to educate and raise awareness around issues of environmental, social and economic justice. Project on Military Bases. Cambridge, Massachusetts. $1,500 to work for the closure, withdrawal and clean up of U.S. foreign military bases. San Jose Peace and Justice Center. San Jose, California. $1,000 for a community-based organization that works on justice issues through education, advocacy and community organizing. Topeka Center for Peace and Justice. Topeka, Kansas. $2,000 to promote peace and justice by addressing civil and human rights, restorative justice, economic justice, women’s rights and international peace issues. Washington Truth in Recruiting. Bellevue, Washington. $1,000 to address militarization of public schools and to educate youth about realities of military life. WESPAC Foundation. Pleasantville, New York. $1,500 for a multi-issue peace and justice action organization that deals with structural racism in the U.S. peace movement. Western New York Peace Center. Buffalo, New York. $1,500 to promote peace through justice at home and abroad. Whatcom Peace & Justice Center. Bellingham, Washington. $1,000 to oppose U.S. military action in the Middle East and change foreign policy through protest, advocacy and education. Prisoners' Rights Albany Political Prisoner Support Committee. Albany, New York. $2,000 to strengthen networking among state prison justice organizations to mount a more effective challenge to unjust criminal justice and prison policies. Coalition for Prisoners’ Rights. Santa Fe, New Mexico. $3,000 to work for systemic change by challenging the social and economic injustice in the U.S. punishment system. Multi-year Grant. Fight for Lifers. West. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. $2,000 to advocate for more humane and effective laws for state prisoners serving life sentences. Justice Committee. New York, New York. $3,000 to build a movement against police violence and systemic racism through community education and direct action. Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty. Lanett, Alabama. $3,000 to work with prisoners, advocates and allies to abolish the death penalty in Alabama. Mike Riegle Tribute Grant. Tamms Year 10. Chicago, Illinois. $2,700 to publicize and protest the inhumane conditions at the Tamms SuperMax Maximum Security Prison. Texas Moratorium Network. Austin, Texas. $2,000 to fight for a statewide moratorium on executions in Texas and for an end to the death penalty. The Steering Committee for the Honor Program. Lancaster, California. $2,500 to organize prisoners and their allies to end reliance on life without parole and to work for rehabilitation strategies. Women's Rights 9 to 5 Atlanta. Atlanta, Georgia. $3,000 to work for economic justice for women through advocacy, public education, leadership development and direct action campaigns. Multi-year Grant. 9 to 5 Atlanta. Atlanta, Georgia. $500 to begin a strategic planning process to enhance work for economic justice for women through advocacy, public education, leadership development, and direct action campaigns. Technical Assistance Grant. Sharon Kurtz Memorial Grant. Brazilian Women’s Group. Allston, Massachusetts. $2,000 to promote political and cultural awareness to develop leadership, empowerment and solidarity among Brazilian women. Fuerza Unida. San Antonio, Texas. $3,000 to empower women workers and their families to achieve social, economic and environmental justice. Multi-year Grant. Mujeres Unidas de Idaho. Boise, Idaho. $1,350 to bring Latinas together to examine and take action on social justice issues affecting their community. U.S. Women and Cuba Collaboration. Seattle, Washington. $1,000 to build a strong women’s movement dedicated to effecting change in U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba. Youth 3rd Eye Youth Empowerment. New Bedford, Massachusetts. $2,700 to develop youth leadership through mentoring, skill building and social justice organizing campaigns. BAY-Peace: Better Alternatives for Youth. Oakland, California. $3,000 to empower youth to resist aggressive military recruiting. Peaceful Vocations. Fort Worth, Texas. $2,000 to provide a counter-balance to the military’s significant presence in area public schools and community. Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts (PHENOM). Amherst, Massachusetts. $500 for a rally and demonstration in opposition to recent fee increases and budget cuts at public colleges that disproportionately affect lower income students and students of color. Emergency Grant. Reflect and Strengthen. Dorchester, Massachusetts. $3,000 to develop the organizing skills, leadership capacity and political analysis of young low-income women in Boston. Multi-year Grant. Seattle Young People’s Project. Seattle, Washington. $2,000 to empower youth to organize for social justice by building their capacity as agents of change. Second Chance. Lexington, Mississippi. $500 to help develop organizational capacity in areas including fundraising, mission development, outreach and recruitment. Technical Assistance Grant. Student Immigrant Movement. Boston, Massachusetts. $2,700 to build the power of immigrant students by identifying, recruiting and developing leaders to address problems in their own communities. 2009 Special Awards
RESIST awards several Tribute and Memorial Grants each year. Named for organizers and social change workers, these awards keep the spirits of their namesakes alive and encourage us all to carry on their work for a more just world. Read more about RESIST's Memorial and Tribute Grants.
2009 Grantees by Category
While useful, the divisions below do not paint a complete picture of RESIST grantees. RESIST does not fund organizations by category and prefers to fund groups that organize across issue areas. Categorizing the grants, however, can be helpful for tracking trends in funding across years.
2009 Grantees by Region
RESIST works to distribute funds broadly throughout the country, including trying to give special consideration to rural groups.
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