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Celebrate Equality for All with A Night of Equality at the Theatre
Thursday, February 25, 2010 • 7:30 pm
Join us for the West Coast Premiere of The Marriage Bed: First comes love, then comes same-sex marriage – a timely comedy! at the Diversionary Theatre, 4545 Park Blvd, San Diego, California 92116
The Marriage Bed, Jeni loves Val and Val loves Jeni. But is that enough reason to get married, especially when you're not sure your girlfriend is over her ex, and one of you is not out to your family? Diversionary's production will be directed by Rosina Reynolds, and feature Dana Hooley and Dré Slaman. In the story, Jeni, is an Indian woman who was once married to a man, but is now contemplating tying the knot with her lover Val, a gal with a firecracker personality and feminist outlook. Val has always fought for equal rights, but since the Civil Partnership Act was passed in London, she's been struggling with the idea of a legal commitment. That irony creates a comedic undertone throughout the play, drawing out the all-too-common issues couples face before being pronounced husband and wife – or, in their case, wife and wife.
A portion of the proceeds benefit the work of the Foundation for Change and is tax deductible. All tickets will be held at the door the night of the event.
This will be a sold out event so purchase your tickets soon.
Tickets: only $30 per person
MORE INFORMATION: nancy@tochtliangel.com
ABOUT DIVERSIONARY THEATRE: www.diversionary.org
MAKE YOURSELF COUNT / HAGASE CONTAR
A training program and organizing campaign for organizations and advocates serving San Diego’s hard-to-reach populations
The Spring of 2010 will bring two developments with lasting impact on San Diego’s under-served populations: the launch of the 2010 Census and the passage of healthcare reform legislation. In response the San Diego-based Foundation for Change, in partnership with The California Endowment, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants & Refugees, and the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium, has launched a six-month program of training and mobilization to organizations serving marginalized communities within the greater San Diego region.
Registrations for the FEBRUARY 20 TRAINING / MOBILIZATION ONLY can be made at $50/individual by contacting Jill Holsin at jill@foundation4change.org or 619-692-0527. Space is limited.
As part of this program, the Foundation for Change will convene a major training and mobilization on Saturday, February 20, 2010. Participants will learn how to advocate effectively for participation in the 2010 census and how to prepare their communities for the changes that healthcare reform legislation will bring. Training will be provided by experts from organizations working these issues statewide, including the National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights and the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network and the California Immigrant Policy Center, as well as Partnership Specialists from the U.S. Census. See below for more information.
Saturday, Feb 20, 2010, 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
TRAINING/MOBILIZATION FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCATES (limit 7 per organization)
LOCATION: Hoover High School, 4474 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92115
AGENDA:
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration/Networking
9:00 – 9:20 a.m. Welcome/Orientation
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
HEALTHCARE REFORM (English) -- Implications of HealthCare Reform Legislation (California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, California Immigrant Policy Center)
EL CENSO de 2010 (Español) – Como Abogar Para Participación en el Censo de 2010 (Census Partnership Specialists, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials)
11:15 – 12:45
REFORMA del SEGURO MEDICO (Español) -- Impactos de la Reforma del Seguro Medico (California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, California Immigrant Policy Center)
CENSUS 2010 (English) – How to Advocate for Participation in the 2010 Census (Census Partnership Specialists, National Network for Immigrant Rights)
12:45 – 1:45 Lunch. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch Plenary (Keynote Speaker TBA)
1:45 – 3:00 p.m. Regional Clusters w/ Action Agenda
Meet Our Newest Grantees
The Foundation for Change is pleased to announce the award of grants totaling $106,596 to twelve grassroots organizations or projects from three “Focus Funds”:
- Four grants totaling $35,036 from our Fund for Immigrant Worker & Workplace Health Justice (funding partner: The California Wellness Foundation
- Four grants totaling $35,560 from our Fund for Media Justice (funding partner: The Funding Exchange)
- Four grants totaling $36,000 from our Fund for Reproductive Justice (funding partner: Planned Parenthood of San Diego, Riverside and ImperialCounties)
All grantees from the 2009 Focus Funds are being incorporated into a Social Justice Network for Immigrant and Border Communities. Learn more about NETWORKS.
Fund for Immigrant Worker & Workplace Health Justice
| Organization/Project |
Amount |
American Friends Service Committee / “Farmworker Outreach Program” |
$9,000 |
Asociación de Jornaleros de San Diego / “San Diego Day Laborers Association” |
$7,000 |
Bienestar Human Services / “Bienestar Agents of Change – San Diego” (James Cua Award) |
$10,036 |
Centro Binancional para el Desarrollo Indegena Oazaqueño, Inc. (CBDIO, Inc.) / “Derecho a Saber” (San Diego) |
$9,000 |
Media Justice for Border & Immigrant Communities
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Organization/Project |
Amount |
Environmental Health Coalition – Colectivo Chilpancingo Pro Justicia Ambiental / “Tijuana Youth Media for Environmental Justice” |
$9,230 |
International Rescue Committee / To create a youth-led blog dedicated to holding mainstream media accountable |
$7,800 |
Nile Sisters Development Initiative / “Refugee Phone Access Project” |
$9,230 |
Proyecto de Casa Saludables / Proyecto de Casa Saludables |
$9,230 |
Reproductive Justice for Border & Immigrant Communities
|
Organization/Project |
Amount |
Center for Social Advocacy – “Inspiring Justice: Sexual and Reproductive health for Marginalized Immigrant Communities” |
$10,000 |
Familia Indígena Unida / “Living Healthy Lives through Mixteco Leadership Development” |
$10,000 |
Fronteras Unidas Pro Salud, A.C. / “Tell a Friend (“Dile a una Amiga”): Early Treatment & Detection of Cervical Cancer in Migrant Communities of Tijuana |
$8,500 |
Somali Youth United / “East African Women Reproductive Health Coalition” |
$7,500 |
STRATEGIC FOCUS: IMMIGRANT & BORDER COMMUNITIES
The Foundation for Change has completed an 18-month program of strategic planning, underwritten by the California Endowment. As part of our new Strategic Plan, we are committed to building networks for social justice in the immigrant and border communities of the San Diego/Tijuana region.
This new focus is not unrelated to our earlier work. In fact the Foundation for Change has a proud history of supporting emerging leaders and organizations working in San Diego’s under-resourced immigrant communities. Across many years the Foundation for Change has also granted monies to groups working on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
What’s new is our commitment to prioritize this work in everything we do. While remaining flexible to seize extraordinary opportunities in other areas as these may present themselves, the Foundation will be concentrating its principal resources and energies in the coming years on this particular “patch” of the bi-national garden that we are committed to cultivate.
This exercise in strategic planning also brought us to several other new self-understandings:
- To accomplish our mission of nurturing movements for social justice we need to partner effectively with other “Changemakers” who share our values -- progressive donors (both individual and institutional), risk-taking leaders and innovative organizations
- Grants are not the primary focus of our work, but just one of four “programs” we offer. We also organize DONORS, develop LEADERS (while building the capacity of the organizations they lead) and engage in ADVOCACY for the causes we believe in.
As part of developing this strategic plan, we also reaffirmed a number of historic commitments. We remain committed to the principle of “Change, Not Charity,” which means we will continue to value strategies of community organizing, advocacy and leadership development over strategies that focus on the provision of direct services. We also remain committed to our core practice of community-based grant-making which enables us to support grassroots efforts in the earliest stages of their development, long before these efforts may reach the benchmarks for organizational development that are required by more established philanthropic organizations. In fact we identified the work of our Grant Making Committee as the “competitive advantage” we enjoy over other philanthropic institutions.
Download a copy of the Foundation for Change’s new STRATEGIC PLAN
If you would like to learn more about this new direction, please contact Executive Director John Fanestil at john@foundation4change.org or 619-692-0527. |
