2003 GRANTS

3rd Eye Youth Empowerment

New Bedford, MA $3,500

Support to build skills, leadership, and awareness among local youth to make a positive change in their communities.

The Crib Collective

Chicago, IL $3,000

Support for Black and Latino youth to build meaningful cross-cultural relationships and to design four small high schools that will serve their segregated communities.

Girls' LEAP

Cambridge, MA $4,500

A self-defense curriculum for girls from underserved communities that focuses on building self-esteem by encouraging self-awareness.

The Grapevine Family and Community Resource Center

Antrim, NH $3,000

The Better Beginnings Summer Program provides parents with resources and support, and children with a healthy play and learning environment.

The Heartwood Institute

Pittsburgh, PA $5,000

Funding for Heartwood to develop an extensive on-line book and video library for teachers, librarians, and parents that supports its literature based multicultural curriculum.

Kids to the Country

(F.A. Plenty International)

Summertown, TN $3,000

The summer program gives at-risk urban young people an opportunity to live on a farm and experience nature.

 

Okanogan County Dispute Resolution Center
Omak, WA $2,500
The Juvenile Restorative Justice Program acknowledges the damaging effects of crime on community and uses mediation and community service to restore positive community values.

One Nation Enlightened

(F.A. Colorado Nonprofit Development Center)

Denver, CO $3,000

Students 4 Justice is a youth-led, direct action organization that trains youth leaders to advocate for educational reform in inner-city schools.

Snake River Alliance

Ketchum, ID $3,000

Funding for Idaho's Water at Risk, a program to education latino communitied in southern Idaho about nuclear contamination in Idaho's waters.

Sunflower County Freedom Project
Sunflower, MS $2,000
Through the Saturday College Program scores of at-risk teens from the Mississippi Delta are provided with academic enrichment and martial arts training in preparation for college.

Youth Action Coalition

Amherst, ME $3,500

Funding to promote youth empowerment and youth activist projects. Thsi group encourges activism through art and supports youth initiatives for social change.

Youthlinks
Rockland, ME $3,000
The Feed the People:FeedYour Mind project places teen volunteers in leadership positions at a local soup kitchen..