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Grants Awarded - 2005

•FOSTERING AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE NEW YORK CITY

Added Value$10,000
Brooklyn, NY (www.added-value.org)
General support to strengthen the skills and leadership of African American and Latino youth in Red Hook, Brooklyn, to shape a more sustainable food system.

Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development$15,000
New York, NY (www.anhd.org)
Program support for the Initiative for Neighborhood and City-Wide Organizing, which strengthens the capacity of 15 community-based groups to engage in local organizing, and carry out citywide policy campaigns that link environmental justice and affordable housing needs.

Chinese Progressive Association$20,000
New York, NY (http://www.aafny.org/directory/search.asp?agencyid=23)
Program support to improve living and working conditions for Chinese in New York City by educating them about environmental health hazards.

East New York Farms!$20,000
613 New Lots Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11207

Program support for a collaborative project that organizes youth and adults to promote local and regional sustainable agriculture and community-based development in a predominantly African American and Latino neighborhood.

Lower East Side Ecology Center$17,500
New York, NY (www.lesecologycenter.org)
General support to expand community-based recycling services, inform the public about waste reduction and recycling, participate in related policy debates and provide youth with hands-on educational experience about the Hudson River Estuary.

Make The Road By Walking, Inc.$10,000
Brooklyn, NY (www.maketheroad.org)
Program support to build the long-term viability of the Environmental and Housing Justice Program.

Mothers on the Move$20,000
Bronx, NY (www.mothersonthemove.org)
Program support for leadership development and organizing on environmental justice issues in the South Bronx, strategic alliances around broader campaigns, and policy work to address the root causes of environmental racism and injustice.

New Farmer Development Project$15,000
New York, NY (www.cenyc.org)
General support to build a sustainable regional agriculture and community food security by helping Latino immigrants with farming backgrounds re-enter farming and market their crops.

Real World Foundation - Asthma Free School Zone$20,000
New York, NY (www.afsz.org)
General support to address environmental problems in and around public schools located in environmental justice communities.

Sustainable South Bronx$40,000 over two years
Bronx, NY (www.ssbx.org)
General support for organizing, advocacy and development work to advance a community vision for an environmentally just and socially sustainable South Bronx.

UPROSE$40,000 over two years
Brooklyn, NY (www.uprose.org)
General support to educate and organize the multi-ethnic residents of Sunset Park, particularly the youth, to exert power in planning and creating a more environmentally just neighborhood and city.

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