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2005 Bamboo Fund Grants
The Bamboo Fund announces its second
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: $9,500 |
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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 |
| El Centro AMISTAD: $8,000 |
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El Centro Amistad is a Boulder County grassroots organization
founded to promote structural, social and political change
for the benefit of immigrants; dedicated to the development
of leaders within the immigrant community; and committed
to bringing immigrants’ voices into the public discourse
at local, state and national levels.
www.elcentroamistad.org |
| Colorado ACORN: $9,500 |
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Colorado ACORN organizes sustainable grassroots
neighborhood chapters—led by low- and moderate-income
community leaders—to wage projects and campaigns
that address systemic social, political and economic problems
at their roots. Their campaigns strive to achieve neighborhood,
city, state and national reforms.
www.acorn.org
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| Colorado Criminal Justice Reform
Coalition: $12,000; $4000 technical assistance |
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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:
$12,000 |
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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 |
| 9 to 5 Colorado: $8,000 |
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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):
$8,500; $4,000 technical assistance |
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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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| Padres Unidos/Jovenes Unidos: $8,000 |
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Padres Unidos works for equality and racial justice
in the Latino community. Rooted in the struggle for educational
equality, Padres has evolved into a multi-issue organization
whose work includes fighting for student rights, healthcare,
and justice for immigrant people.
www.padresunidos.org |
| Rights for All People: $9,500; $4,000
technical assistance. |
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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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