| Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores:
$8,000 |
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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.
www.centrohumanitario.org/ |
| El Centro AMISTAD: $10,000 |
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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 Criminal Justice Reform
Coalition: $11,000 |
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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 Cross Disability Coalition:
$10,000 |
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CCDC promotes social justice and equal treatment for
people with disabilities and is a central voice in health
care policy for the disability community. CCDC helps affiliated
groups throughout Colorado develop community organizing
skills by providing training and support to help them
identify and then address pressing local or regional issues.
www.ccdconline.org |
| Colorado Progressive Coalition:
$10,000; $700 technical assistance |
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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:
$11,000 |
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CBC currently has several dues-paying member institutions
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: $11,000 |
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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 |
| Padres Unidos/Jovenes Unidos: $11,000; $500 technical assistance |
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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: $11,000 |
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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 |
Additional Social Justice Grants
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| Chinook Fund: $23,000 |
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Chinook is an alternative community foundation that
provides grants and technical assistance to Colorado grassroots
organizations working for progressive social change.
www.chinookfund.org |
| Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition: $3,500 |
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CIRC (formerly Grassroots Movement for Immigrant
Justice) is a collaboration of organizations working to
shift public opinion away from anti-immigrant hatred and
fear and toward justice, fairness and inclusiveness.
www.coloradoimmigrant.org/ |
Denver ADAPT: $3,000.
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| Front Range Economic Strategy Center: $500. |
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www.fresc.org/ |
| Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Community
Center: $2,500. |
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| Intercambio de Comunidades Español/Inglés:
$1,000. |
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www.intercambioweb.org/ |
| Mothers Acting Up: $1,000. |
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www.mothersactingup.org/ |
| Open Door Fund: $1,000. |
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www.opendoorfund.org |
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