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Grants Awarded - 2006

•FOSTERING AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE NEW YORK CITY

Added Value$20,000
Brooklyn, NY
General support to strengthen the skills and leadership of youth in Red Hook, Brooklyn, to shape a more sustainable food system.

Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development$30,000 over two years
New York, NY
Program support for the Initiative for Neighborhood and City-Wide Organizing, which strengthens the capacity of 17 community-based groups to engage in local organizing, and carry out citywide policy campaigns that link environmental justice and affordable housing needs.

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

Program support for East New York Farms!, a collaborative project that organizes youth and adults to promote local and regional sustainable agriculture and community-based development.

El Puente$20,000
Brooklyn, NY
Project support for a community-based peace and environmental justice organization for the youth of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, enabling the organization to finish its campaign to close down Radiac, New York City's only hazardous chemical and radioactive storage facility.

Families United for Racial and Economic Equality$20,000
Brooklyn, NY
General support for grassroots organizing and to build the collective power of low-income families and people of color in Brooklyn to make systemic changes for a more environmentally just and socially sustainable New York.

Just Food$15,000
New York, NY
Program support for community supported agriculture initiatives, and efforts to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region.

Morningside Heights/West Harlem Sanitation Coalition$10,000
100 LaSalle Street, No. 19F
New York, NY 10027

General support to improve the rate of recycling in the largest public housing development in New York City, build the environmental movement, diminish air pollution and decrease the city's dependence on landfills.

New Farmer Development Project$40,000 over two years
New York, NY
Project support to build a sustainable regional agriculture and community food security by helping New York City Latino immigrants with farming backgrounds re-enter farming and market their crops.

Outstanding Renewal Enterprises Inc.$15,000
New York, NY
General support to promote a more sustainable city through recycling and composting programs, environmental education, leadership development and policy advocacy.

Pratt Center for Community Development$15,000
Brooklyn, NY
Program support for a sustainability and environmental justice initiative that promotes community-based leadership for equitable and sustainable development of low-income neighborhoods in the South Bronx and Brooklyn.

Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice$20,000
1384 Stratford Avenue
Bronx, NY 10472

General support to serve and organize Latino and other youth of color and their families with the goal of promoting environmentally and socially just redevelopment of the Soundview, Bruckner and Bronx River communities of the South Bronx.

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