Our Grantmaking History – “Change, Not Charity”

In 2007 the Foundation for Change awarded $62,000 in grants to twenty grassroots organizations working for progressive social change:

1. ten grants totaling $25,000 from our General Fund;
2. seven grants totaling $17,000 from our Fires 2007 – Fund for Change;
3. three grants totaling $20,000 from our FEX/Media Justice Fund.

GENERAL FUND

FIRES 2007 – FUND FOR CHANGE

FEX/MEDIA JUSTICE FUND

2006 Grantees

Arte de Vivir—Voz de la Diversidad is a progressive, Spanish-language newspaper that celebrates the growing multiculturalism of the Mexico / U.S. border region, with a focus on giving voice to the LGBT community in Northern Baja California and San Diego County. Funding will help Arte de Vivir to expand coverage of social and economic injustices in Mexican society and to increase circulation in response to the growing demand for this publication, which, unlike any other in the region, advocates for diversity and LGBT acceptance in the Latino and Spanish-speaking border communities. James M. Cua Award: $1,710

Black Storytellers of San Diego, Inc. (BSSD) preserves and passes on stories of African and African-American origin that have been told and retold over generations and maintains a network of individuals to create new stories and pass them on to others. With this grant, BSSD will develop and deliver presentations (based on Jesse B. Semple, a 1930’s Langston Hughes character) and create book clubs to address issues such as war, discrimination, oppression, relationships, and low wages. Through storytelling and workshops, BSSD promotes awareness of diversity and inequality and builds confidence and a sense of identity in its listeners and participants. General Grant: $1,890

Border Angels has been responding to human rights violations caused by Operation Gatekeeper for more than a decade. They also work to empower and educate the immigrant community and to change laws related to immigration. This grant will help Border Angels to expand their campaign to support immigrant rights as they advocate for fairness in the visa application process and for the elimination of deaths related to crossing the U.S. / Mexican border. General Grant: $2,000 - www.borderangels.org

Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN) strives to ensure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity / expression. Funding will support the development of Gay / Straight Alliances in local high schools to reduce homophobia and heterosexism and to enhance the safety and well-being of all students, teachers, and staff. San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Grant: $5,000 - www.glsensd.org

Grrrl Zines A Go-Go creates exposure for zine culture through empowering workshops for those most disenfranchised by institutional media, particularly women and girls. This grant will help the group to expand their workshops, educational efforts, and support for local zine makers. Through zine culture, media can be self-created, without censorship or other interference, in a non-threatening environment. General Grant: $790 - http://gzagg.org

Jubilee Economics Ministries (JEM) is creating and implementing an economic paradigm that cultivates sustainability, community, local ownership, and the common good, with a particular emphasis on affordable housing for people with incomes below the national median. This grant will help JEM to form a Community Land Trust (CLT) Corporation to reduce and prevent homelessness while creating an avenue for home ownership. JEM believes that every individual deserves a decent place to live and that truly affordable housing can be provided in perpetuity. General Grant: $1,890 - www.jubilee4justice.org

Justice Overcoming Boundaries (JOB) in San Diego County works with congregations, schools, local unions, and other community organizations to address policies and practices that create concentrated poverty. JOB will use this grant to empower individuals with leadership skills to better organize their communities in support of national immigration policy reform and affordable housing for all. General Grant: $1,620

O.R.G.A.N.I.C. Collective (Opposing Repression Globally and Nurturing Independent Communities) works to dismantle the policies, beliefs, and physical boundaries that maintain the U.S./ Mexico border. Funding will support an international No-Border Summit in Calexico / Mexicali in December as a response to the rise in border vigilantes and hate crimes against immigrants. General Grant: $3,000 - www.organiccollective.org / www.deletetheborder.org

Ordinary Dharma utilizes spiritual practice to help end oppression and violence in our relationships to each other, our communities, and the earth. This grant will support “Changing Circles”, a dynamic, insightful, and profoundly transformative retreat for transgendered and genderqueer people and those who love and care for them. The program cultivates social change through compassionate and personal healing and by connecting participants to the larger activist community. San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Grant: $3,500 - www.ordinarydharma.org

Parents Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) promotes the health and well-being of LGBT persons and their families and friends through support, to cope with an adverse society; through education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and through advocacy, to end discrimination and secure equal civil rights. This funding will help PFLAG to place advertisements in high school newspapers throughout San Diego County and to enhance outreach efforts in underserved communities. San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Grant: $5,000 - www.pflag.com

Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (YANO) strives to demilitarize our schools and educate young people about the realities of war and military enlistment. Grant funding will be used for intern training, staffing, and materials. Since 1984, YANO’s counter-military work in public schools has provided alternatives for job training and college financial aid while promoting careers in peacemaking and social change. General Grant: $2,160 - www.projectyano.org

San Diego Independent Media Center (SDIMC) is committed to using media production and distribution as a tool for promoting social and economic justice in San Diego County by giving voice to those who are under-represented in mainstream media. Funding will support workshop presenter fees, space rental, video production, wireless networking hardware, and related expenses to strengthen the creation of space for independent media using open and free technology. General Grant: $540 - www.sdimc.org

San Diego Puppet Insurgency (SDPI) utilizes street theatre performances to educate and involve the community in global concerns such as peace, justice, the environment, consumerism, permaculture, and women's issues. This grant will help SDPI create a website, print materials, and purchase production supplies. SDPI helps people become doers rather than watchers and empowers them to research issues, educate others, create accessible performances, and release stress through art. General Grant: $540

Schools for Chiapas: Mother Seeds in Resistance Project provides hands-on education and promotes activist organizing against the dangers of transgenic (GMO) crops, corporate control of agriculture, and NAFTA, with a focus on organizing for indigenous rights. This funding will support a sanctuary for growing GMO-free Zapatista corn, educational programs, and a "North County Harvest Festival for Peace and Justice." General Grant: $3,000 - www.schoolsforchiapas.org

Self Reliance House publishes Street Light, a monthly newspaper covering issues of homelessness, poverty, and social injustice, written, produced, and sold by homeless and near-homeless people. This grant will help fund the "Sales Coordination Project" to increase circulation and the number of businesses, congregations, and organizations that collaborate with Street Light in seeking long-term solutions to homelessness. General Grant: $2,500 - www.StreetLightNews.org

Sun & Moon Vision Productions nurtures a humanitarian vision through documentary, film, and media art productions, events, and education, with a specific focus on women and children. Within the underserved areas of Northern San Diego County, Sun & Moon will use this funding to present “Cine Luna”, a traveling film exhibition using public audience participation as a way to stimulate community dialogue in the areas of art, culture, diversity, social justice, and gender equality. General Grant: $1,620 - www.sunandmoonvision.org

Supportive Parents Information Network (SPIN) is dedicated to helping parents on welfare gain confidence, personal strength, and the information needed to achieve self-sufficiency, to break the isolation of poverty, and to participate in decisions affecting their lives. This grant will help SPIN to develop a movement to respond to negative public policies toward the poor which affect housing, nutrition, health care, jobs, education, and much more. SPIN, which has grown from 12 parents in 1998 to about 1700 families today, empowers parents and children to make their voices heard and to become leaders in their communities. General Grant and Victoria Danzig Award: $2,700 - www.spinsandiego.org

The People’s Tribunal: An Action Team has been organizing for nearly two years to build a community-based coalition to expose, protest, and remedy the continued non-compliance of the San Diego Unified School District under the Federal “No Child Left Behind” Act, insisting on accountability and responsiveness in its impact upon communities of color and the poor. This group will present a “Mock Trial Against the San Diego Unified School District” to demand changes in attitudes, behaviors, policies, and procedures to better reflect the values of inclusion, fairness, diversity, and opportunity for disenfranchised children and their families. General Grant: $1,890

The Serudj Institute of Effective Socialization provides service, education, advocacy, & research to support prisoners and ex-offenders in their struggle to transform themselves into morally grounded, educationally competent, and socially responsible members of society. Funds will support “The Coalition for Life & Justice,” a death penalty abolitionist project to educate, organize, and mobilize the progressive element of San Diego in the struggle against the death penalty and the prison industrial complex. General Grant: $3,500 - www.serudjinstitute.org

Youth Action Network (YAN) is an organization for and by youth that focuses on building leadership skills and creating a social justice movement in low-income communities of color. Funding will help YAN implement an eight-week internship, focusing on youth organizer training, as well as Talking / Support Circles, creating space for emotional well-being and better communication among peers. YAN is one of the first places youth in San Diego get involved in and exposed to community activism and is a key player in nurturing future movement leaders. General Grant: $1,400

Grantmaking History: 1983 – 2005

Total Number of Grants = 317
Total Amount Awarded = $733,583

2005 General Fund Awards
Alternate Focus $1,500
Caminando Unidas $1,000
Cittac (Centro de Informacion para Trabajadoras y Trabajadores) $1,500
Collaborative Effort between 4th District Residents $2,000
Impact $2,500
Justice Overcoming Boundaries (JOB) in San Diego County $500
North County African-American Health Coalition $3,000
radioActive sanDiego $1,500
Sagon Penn San Diego Chapter of CopWatch $1,000
San Diego Military Counseling Project $1,500
The Art Miles Mural Project $500
The O.R.G.A.N.I.C. Collective $1,000
Western Service Workers Association $1,500
James M. Cua Award
Alternative Community Services $5,000
San Diego LGBT Pride Awards
ArcoIris Lounge $5,000
Equality California Institute (San Diego Chapter) $6,895
Family Matters $5,105
Heads on Fire $5,000
Southeast Alano Club $5,000
Victoria Danzig Award
All of Us or None San Diego $3,000
Donor Designated Grant
Activist San Diego $1,000
TOTAL $55,000

2004 General Fund Awards
Alianza "Alliance for Equity & Justice" $2,250
California Coalition Against Poverty (Youth) $900
Centro Binacional de Derechos Humanos (Binational Center for Human Rights) $2,250
Chula Vista ACORN $1,800
Cittac (Centro de Informacion para Trabajadoras y Trabajadores) $4,050
Community Media Access Project (C-MAP) * $2,250
International Socialist Organization of San Diego * $900
Izcalli $2,250
Ja Jan Coalition $2,450
Mental Health Clients for Wellness & Recovery $2,300
MICROBROADCAST AM 1500 - "Media for the Masses" $1,800
Peace and Dignity Journeys $500
Prison Action Project $500
radioActive sanDiego * $500
San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice * $1,800
San Diego Independent Media Center * $1,500
San Diego Oceans Discovery Institute $500
Somali Handicrafts $1,800
The O.R.G.A.N.I.C. Collective $1,800
The Serudj Institute of Effective Socialization $1,800
YouthAction Network $2,700
FEX Rapid Response Grants for Peace & Civil Liberties
Activist San Diego * $600
Arabs Anonymous “No Hay Moros” $800
Community Media Access Project (C-MAP) * $500
Free Radio San Diego $500
International Socialist Organization of San Diego * $600
La Fundacion Guerrero Azteca * $500
Progressive Activists Network (PAN) $500
Project on Youth and Non-military Opportunities (YANO) $500
radioActive sanDiego * $500
Raza Rights Coalition $500
Revolution Summer: SD/TJ Mobilization $1,200
San Diego Bill of Rights Defense Committee $1,000
San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice * $800
San Diego Independent Media Center * $500
The Many Faces of Refugee Women: Consequences of War $500
The San Diego Military Counseling Project $500
San Diego LGBT Pride Awards
Bisexual Forum $2,000
Ebony Pride $3,000
Family Matters $6,000
Nefratitti Network, Inc. $4,000
Victoria Danzig Award
Affordable Housing Coalition of San Diego County $3,600
James M. Cua Award
V.A.G.I.N.A. $6,000
Donor Designated Grants
Activist San Diego * $1,000
La Fundacion Guerrero Azteca * $800
TOTAL $73,000
* Single grantee— recipient of two awards

2003 General Fund Awards
Black Storytellers of San Diego $1,500
Californians for Justice Education Fund $2,500
Diversation $2,500
Excellence and Justice in Education $2,000
Freedom from Exploitation $2,500
Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights $2,000
Los Ninos de Baja California, A.C. $3,500
Prison Action Project $2,000
Self Reliance House $2,000
Southwest Center for Asian Pacific American Law $500
Super Sonic Samba School $1,000
Supportive Parents Information Network (SPIN) $3,000
The Serudj Institute of Effective Socialization $3,500
The Voz Alta Project $1,000
James M. Cua Award
Centro Binacional de Derechos Humanos (Binational Center for Human Rights)* $3,000
San Diego LGBT Pride Awards
Bienestar Human Services $5,000
Centro Binacional de Derechos Humanos (Binational Center for Human Rights)* $2,000
San Diego Bisexual Forum $4,000
San Diego Women's Chorus $1,000
UCSD Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex Association (UCLGBTIA) $3,000
Victoria Danzig Award
The Caring Council $3,500
TOTAL $51,000
* Single grantee - recipient of two awards

2002 General Fund Awards
Center for Parent Involvement in Education (CPIE) $2,000
Eveoke Dance Theatre $2,000
Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice $7,000
Institute for Responsible Behavior $2,500
Neighborhood Council Initiative $3,000
San Diego ACORN $2,000
San Diego Audubon Society $3,000
San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice $2,500
San Diego Independent Media Center $2,500
San Diego Youth Organizing Communities $3,500
Self-Reliance House (Street Light Newspaper) $3,000
Somali Family Services of San Diego $3,500
Southern Sudanese Community Center of San Diego $3,000
Teatro Con Safos $1,500
WorldBeat Center $2,000
James M. Cua Award
The San Diego Lesbian and Gay Funding Partnership* $5,000
San Diego LGBT Pride Awards
GLImmigration (formerly LGIRTF) $3,000
Heartland Human Relations and Fair Housing Association $5,500
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Student Union (SDSU) $3,000
San Diego High School Gay / Straight Alliance $500
Sun & Moon Vision Productions $3,000
Victoria Danzig Award
Developing Unity Through Resident Organizing (DURO) $7,000
Donor Designated Grant
Activist San Diego $1,116
* Matched by a national funder
TOTAL $71,116

2001 General Fund Awards
Arise to Serve $2,000
Barrios Unidos Youth Task Force $2,000
East County Children’s Disability Council $2,000
Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights $2,000
Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice $3,000
Mujeras de Fuerza $3,000
Neighborhood Council Initiative $3,000
Padres Unidos $2,000
San Diego Audubon Society $2,000
San Diego California Coalition for Women Prisoners $2,750
San Diego Californians for Youth $1,750
San Diego Coalition for Peace & Justice (emergency grant) $500
Shakti Rising $2,000
Street Liberation Art Project (SLAP) $2,000
Supportive Parents Information Network (SPIN) $3,000
Teatro Con Safos $3,000
World Beat Center $1,000
James M. Cua Award
Positively Speaking $3,500
San Diego LGBT Pride Award
Community Coalition of North County $3,000
Family Matters $3,000
Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) $2,000
Parents, Friends, & Families of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG) $1,000
San Diego Dyke March $5,000
Transcend, Inc. $6,000
Donor Designated Grants
Activist San Diego $1,000
Prostitution Task Force $1,000
TOTAL $62,500

2000 General Fund Awards
Adaptive Computer Empowerment Services (ACES) $2,000
Activist San Diego $3,000
Californians for Justice $1,000
Eveoke Dance Theatre $4,000
Fourth District Seniors Resource Center $3,500
Fundacion Esperanza de Mexico, A.C. $2,000
Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice of San Diego $4,000
Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (YANO) $3,500
RevArte $1,000
San Diego Californians for Youth $3,000
San Diego Youth Organizing Communities $2,000
World Beat Center $4,000
James M. Cua Award
Sun & Moon Vision Productions $5,000
San Diego LGBT Pride Awards
Heartland Human Relations and Fair Housing Association $5,000
Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG) $5,000
TOTAL $48,000

1999 General Fund Awards
Asian Pacific Islander Community AIDS Project $1,000
Activist San Diego $2,000
Aldea Ecologica $4,000
Chicano Federation (Proyecto Chikuaze Ollin) $4,000
Deaf Women United $4,000
Promocion Y Accion Para El Servicio $3,500
San Diego Education Fund (Employee Rights Center) $3,000
Schools for Chiapas $1,000
Servicios Y Solidaridad $3,500
Street Light $2,000
Supportive Parents Information Network $4,000
Union Del Barrio $4,000
James M. Cua Award
Gay and Lesbian Latinos Con Orgullo (GLLO) $4,000
San Diego LGBT Pride Awards
The Center for Social Services (Speakers' Bureau) $2,000
GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) $4,000
Karibu Center for Social Support and Education $1,000
Sun & Moon Vision Productions $4,000
Voices for Justice $4,000
TOTAL $55,000

1998 General Fund Awards
Alliance for African Assistance $1,500
Centro Cultural de la Raza* $2,077
Chicano Youth Leadership Camp (Chicano Federation) $1,500
Coalition for El Centro Communitario de Los Artes $1,000
Karibu* $2,077
Los Ninos $2,500
Mid-City For Youth* $4,077
Native American Women's Tribal Circle $1,500
Project on Youth & Non Military Opportunities (YANO)* $3,077
San Diegans For Peace in Mexico $1,000
Servicios Y Solidaridad $2,500
Street Light $1,000
Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers* $4,577
James M. Cua Award
GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) $3,100
San Diego LGBT Pride Awards
The Center $2,000
The Institute for Alternative Opportunities $2,400
Queer Players $2,200
Sushi Performance and Visual Arts $2,000
Voices For Justice $2,400
TOTAL $42,485
* Funded partially or fully by a Mila Repa Donor Advised Grant

1997 General Fund Awards
Alliance for African Assistance $2,500
Bethlehem House, Obrero, Inc. $2,500
Center for Parent Involvement in Education (CPIE) $2,000
Centro Cultural de la Raza $1,500
Earth Vision Productions $1,000
Servicios y Solidaridad en Mexico $2,500
US/Mexico Border Program of American Friends Service $1,500
James M. Cua Award
The Collective Voice of San Diego $4,000
San Diego LGBT Pride Awards
Grupo y Que $3,000
Queer Players $4,000
Trans Action $4,000
TOTAL $28,500

1996 General Fund Awards
American Friends Service Committee $2,600
Art & Soul $1,500
Bayside Settlement House $1,250
California Rural Legal Assistance $500
Californians for Disability Rights $2,000
Centro Cultural de la Raza $1,500
Chicano Park Steering Committee $2,500
City Heights Community Development Corporation $2,750
Environmental Health Coalition $3,500
Kalusugan Community Services $1,500
Karibu $3,000
Project on Youth and Non Military Opportunities (YANO) $2,000
San Diego Earth Day $1,500
Support Committee for the Maquiladora Workers $500
Union del Barrio $3,500
United Tribes Education Coalition $3,900
Welfare Rights Organization of San Diego $3,000
James M. Cua Award
LGBT Voices '96 $4,000
San Diego LGBT Pride Awards
Diversionary Theatre $4,000
Lesbian & Gay Men's Community Center $2,000
Lesbian & Gay Historical Society of San Diego $1,360
TOTAL $48,360

1995 General Fund Awards
Groupo Y Que $900
The Lesbian Health Project $1,200
Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers $3,325
Family Photography Project $500
Peace Resource Center $1,500
Fern Street Circus $1,500
African American Training Organizer Project $3,000
U.S. / Mexican Border Program of American Friends $2,000
Union del Barrio $2,325
Asian Pacific Islander Community AIDS Project $2,000
Military Law Task Force $750
Disabled Businesspersons Association $1,000
James M. Cua Award
Spectrum '95 $3,050
TOTAL $23,050

1994 General Fund Awards
Los Ninos $30,000
Barrio Station $500
The Lesbian Health Project $1,500
Project on Youth and Non Military Opportunities (YANO) $1,500
PACTO $1,700
SD National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America $1,500
National Conference of Christians and Jews $900
San Diego Neighbor to Neighbor $1,500
Diversionary Theatre Productions, Inc. $1,000
Neighbors United $2,000
City Heights Community Garden $1,700
Lesbian and Gay Historical Society of San Diego $540
Indian Human Resource Center $2,000
TOTAL $46,340

1993 General Fund Awards
American Friends Service Committee $2,750
Environmental Health Coalition $1,500
Indian Human Resource Center $3,000
Neighbor to Neighbor Education Fund $2,750
Passage Foundation for Children $3,000
Committee Opposed to Militarism & Draft $1,000
San Diego Economic Conversion Council $1,000
TOTAL $15,000

1992 No grants awarded

1991 General Fund Awards
African American Organizing Project $3,000
Comite Civico Popular Mexteco $4,500
Lesbians & Gays of African Descent United $1,500
San Diego Coalition for Peace in Middle East $3,000
Union del Barrio $1,500
Western Region AIDS Education Project $1,500
TOTAL $15,000

1990 General Fund Awards
AIDS Legal Services Project $1,000
Centro de Asuntos Migratorios $4,000
Committee Opposed to Militarism & Draft $1,600
Environmental Health Coalition $2,000
Gay & Lesbian Association of County Employees $750
Indian Human Resource Center $3,000
Latino Summit 2000 $3,950
African American Organizing Project $2,000
TOTAL $18,300

1989 General Fund Awards
Campaign for Parent Involvement $3,400
Central American Information Center $1,380
Center for Social Services $2,000
Lesbian Community Cultural Arts $1,500
Peace Resource Center $1,302
Project on Youth and Non Military Opportunities (YANO) $2,065
San Diego Economic Conversion Council $3,350
San Diego Organizing Project $1,000
TOTAL $15,997

1988 General Fund Awards
Central American Information Center $1,600
CISPES $1,000
Frontiers of Reason $1,500
Chicano Federation of San Diego $2,000
Community Congress of San Diego $1,900
Education Sunday $3,000
San Diego Organizing Project $1,000
Diversionary Theatre Productions $1,000
New Image Teen Theatre $500
San Diego Lesbian Press $700
AIDS Chaplaincy Program $2,500
Welfare Rights Organization $500
Womancare Education and Defense Fund $1,300
TOTAL $18,500

1987 General Fund Awards
Coalition for Law & Justice $4,000
Committee Opposed to Militarism & Draft $1,000
Environmental Health Coalition $2,000
New Image Teen Theatre $1,400
Project on Youth and Non Military Opportunities (YANO) $2,000
San Diego Economic Conversion Council $975
Interfaith Taskforce on Central America $1,000
Transafrica/Free South Africa $575
Union del Barrio $1,000
West Coast Conference by & for Old Lesbians $1,050
TOTAL $15,000

1986 General Fund Awards
Central American Information Center $750
Chicano Federation of San Diego $500
Committee Opposed to Militarism & Draft $500
Grass Roots Cultural Center $500
Interfaith Taskforce on Central America $1,000
March for Justice & Freedom for All American Immigrants & Refugees $500
Peace Resource Center $1,735
San Diego County Draft Resisters Defense Fund $700
TOTAL $6,185

1985 General Fund Awards
Chispa $700
El Salvador Information Center $500
Grass Roots Events $1,000
Interfaith Taskforce on Central America $750
San Diego Public Theatre $1,000
Union del Barrio $1,000
TOTAL $4,950

1984 General Fund Awards
Campaign for Economic Development $1,900
Committee in Solidarity with People/El Salvador $4,500
Grass Roots Cultural Center $4,000
TOTAL $10,400

1983 General Fund Awards
Community Energy Action Network $6,400
Grass Roots Cultural Center $1,000
Peace Resource Center of San Diego $2,500
TOTAL $9,900