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2004 Bamboo Fund Grants
The Bamboo Fund announces its first
round of grants. Established as a fund of The Community Foundation
Serving Boulder County in 2004, the Bamboo Fund supports the
work of Denver/Boulder metro organizations working for social,
economic, educational, racial and environmental justice. Bamboo
focuses particularly on community organizing efforts in low-income,
minority, disabled and other under-represented or marginalized
communities.
For further information, please contact Brad Armstrong at
720-353-8455.
Core Social Justice Grants
| ADAPT: $8,000 |
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ADAPT is a grassroots, disability rights
organization that uses direct action—pickets, protests,
and guerilla theatre—and non-violent civil disobedience
to confront the barriers and institutions that stand against
people with disabilities.
www.adapt.org |
| Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores:
$12,000 |
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El Centro Humanitario is an immigrant day laborer organization
that defends the rights of temporary and casual workers
in Denver, providing them with a safe and dignified gathering
place—out of the elements and off the streets—from
which to seek employment. Day workers are principally
responsible for the running of the center, thereby developing
a sense of community, self-sufficiency and workers’ ownership over the center.
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| Colorado Criminal Justice Reform
Coalition: $12,000 |
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CCJRC is an effective network of 100 organizations and
faith communities and 1000 individuals engaged in broad
grassroots efforts to reverse the trend of mass incarceration.
Their objectives are focused on halting the construction
of additional prisons and advocating for state-level reform
of major policies that are driving prison expansion—particularly
the war on drugs and ineffective parole law and practices.
www.ccjrc.org |
| Colorado Progressive Coalition:
$10,000 |
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CPC is a statewide, multi-issue, and multiracial
coalition of 40 organizational members and 4000 community
members united for racial, economic, educational, and
environmental justice. CPC conducts community and issue
organizing campaigns, confronts systemic and community
race and privilege issues, develops new community leaders,
and builds increased political power to advance a more
progressive agenda for Colorado.
www.progressivecoalition.org |
| Congregations Building Communities:
$10,000 |
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CBC currently has 9 active dues-paying member institutions—8
churches and 1 mobile home park—in Larimer and Weld
counties. CBC builds and implements community organizing
efforts among low- to moderate- income people to address
systemic problems—lack of health care, school reform,
economic development, bank redlining and affordable housing—identified
by residents of their constituent cities and towns.
www.cbcpico.info |
| Metropolitan Organizations for People:
$8000 |
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M.O.P. is a multi-ethnic community organization, consisting
of 28 member congregations, schools, youth groups and
neighborhood associations. M.O.P.’s current organizing
issues include: school reform, health care, illegal dumping,
affordable housing, Earned Income Tax Credits, and a wide
array of local neighborhood concerns. They are making
an aggressive push to expand from a primarily local community
organization to one concentrating on regional and statewide
issues affecting low-income people.
www.mopdenver.org |
| 9 to 5 Colorado: $12,000 |
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9 to 5, with 900 dues-paying members, is a grassroots
organization that strengthens the ability of low-income
Colorado women to win economic justice by continuing to
organize around welfare, low-income child care, good livable-wage
jobs, contingent work, unemployment, discrimination and
work/family issues. www.9to5colorado.org |
| O-N-E (One Nation Enlightened):
$8000 |
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O-N-E was founded by youth and young adults in communities
of color to build a direct-action, grassroots organizing
group to train leaders and organizers in traditionally
overlooked communities—African-American, Mexican/Chicano/Latino,
American Indian, and Asian/Pacific Islander—to build
power for racial justice in public education, law enforcement,
and in the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
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| Rights for All People: $10,000 |
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RAP is a grassroots immigrant rights group that organizes
immigrants and their allies to achieve justice, dignity,
and human rights for immigrants in Denver and throughout
Colorado. They build a base of immigrant leaders and members
to advocate for themselves in the political process concerning
immigration policy, and educate the public in order to
change the discourse on immigration.
www.rap-dpt.org |
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