2008 Grant History
- Twelve grants totaling $35,500 from our General Fund.
- two grants totaling $10,000 from our Fires – Fund for Change.
- five grants totaling $27,450 from our FEX/Media Justice Fund.
- seven grants totaling $27,000 from our San Diego LGBT Pride Fund.
General Fund
| Organization/Project |
Amount |
|
Association of Raza Educators / “Empowering Our Communities for Social Change” |
$1,700 |
|
BACU, Barrios con arte y cultura, Tijuana / (Danzig Award) |
$3,850 |
|
BAME Renaissance Community Development Corp. / The Central City Community Collaboration (C4) Project |
$2,000 |
|
Centro de Informacion para Trabajadoras y Trabajodores (CITTAC), TIJUANA |
$4,500 |
|
Chicano Youth Leadership Camp / Promoting social justice through the lives of youth (FEX RACIAL JUSTICE AWARD) |
$6,000 |
|
Colectiva Feminista Binacional, TIJUANA |
$2,750 |
|
Colectiva Kumaiai Spapoman, TECATE |
$3,650 |
|
EVE’s Project / “Education, Vision and Empowerment through Micro Credit” |
$1,400 |
|
Comite De Mujeres Lluvia Del Sur, TECATE |
|
|
Family Health Centers of San Diego / “BASTA! Breaking a Silence to Advance” |
$2,000 |
|
Fundacion de Esperanza de Mexico, TIJUANA / “El Placer de Ser Padres” – Parenting Workshops and network in the marginalized communities of Tijuana |
$2,500 |
|
Girls Inc.® of SD County / “Latinas Y Que Diversity Project” |
$2,500 |
FIRES – Fund for Change
| Mission/Project |
Amount |
|
Center for Social Advocacy is continuing its work to directly assist hard-to-reach populations affected by the San Diego fires of 2007. |
$5,000 |
|
Justice Overcoming Boundaries is continuing its organizing work with affected communities to ensure the fair distribution of fire relief services. |
$5,000 |
Funding Exchange (FEX) Media Justice Fund Grantees
| Organization/Description |
Website |
Amount |
|
Activist San Diego will continue to work towards establishing two new FM community radio stations and to strengthen ASD’s internet capacity as a leader in cyber activisim. |
$7,000 |
|
|
Arte de Vivir – Voz de la Diversidad will continue to give a voice to the issues of the GLBT community on both sides of the border through expansion of this monthly Tijuana-based newspaper. |
None |
$2,850 |
|
Café en Calle (project of Casa Familiar) will use their youth’s network of ties to family, friends and local businesses as a starting point to create and develop a self-sustaining, community-embedded media system |
$6,140 |
|
|
Heartland Foundation (through Project Destination) will provide community education and organizing, local news, and address progressive issues in East County and border region through East County’s first online community magazine, East County Magazine. |
www.heartlandfdn.org |
$4,460 |
|
Street Light is reorganizing to resume publication of the newspaper to serve as both an informational and organizational tool for social and economic change with circulation to the general public through an active vendor program. |
None |
$7,000 |
|
Total |
$27,450 |
|
San Diego LGBT Pride Grantees
| Organization/Description |
Website |
Amount |
|
Family Health Centers of San Diego will provide transgender (TG) workshop activities to advance social justice by working to afford TG persons fair treatment and address the broader healthcare disparities transgenders experience throughout the healthcare system |
$6,000 |
|
|
Fellowship of Associated Gay Students (FAGS) will promote a Marriage Equality Event, a Safe Sex Exposition and expand outreach. |
Under construction |
$1,850 |
|
Lambda Archives of San Diego Funding will help support a part-time archivist who has been central in running and expanding the internship program with SDSU students, which draws more than 100 student volunteers yearly. |
$6,000 |
|
|
LGBTQ Pride Center – Associated Students, Inc. will work to expand educational resources for LGBTQ youth and young adults in North County striving to create safe, inclusive, and affirming learning environments for LGBTQ youth. |
$6,510 |
|
|
PREVENCASA, AC “Project Safe” will address the needs of a high risk group that has not been reached effectively due to the lack of available resources and the ever growing needs in the Red Light district of Tijuana (“Zona de Tolerancia”) |
None |
$1,700 |
|
The Border Meetup Group will host “Border Pride/Orgullo Fronterizo” to bring people together at the U.S./Mexico border to know one another across cultural, sexual, and other societal barriers; to provide an educational opportunity; and to provide a sense of safety, validity and pride in being an LGBT person. |
$2,670 |
|
|
Tijuana GLBT Pride Funds will be used for the Tijuana Pride Marches GLBT which focuses on information and education to marginalized communities in the fringes of society. |
$2,270 |
|
|
Total |
$27,000 |
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