2006 - 2007 Grantmaking
FCYO's grantmaking has shifted from a general grantmaking pool to a strategic initiative-based model in order to target, maximize and leverage resources for youth organizing. Our main Grantmaking Program is called ReGenerations. Each of the initiatives under the ReGenerations umbrella focuses on the role that youth leadership and organizing plays in building and sustaining strong social justice movements. This shift allows us to garner resources and learning that will deepen and expand the impact of our grantmaking. Our first initiative under the ReGenerations umbrella is ReGenerations: Leadership Expansion for Environmental Justice (ReGen: EJ).

In addition to ReGenerations grantmaking, FCYO has renewed several grants for emerging youth organizing groups nationally and we administer the New York City Opportunities Fund dedicated to providing small grants to address typically unmet technical assistance needs and/or collaboration projects defined by youth organizing groups in NYC.

ReGen:EJ Grants
Emerging Youth Organizing Groups - Renewals
NYC Opportunities Fund

ReGenerations:
Leadership Expansion for Environmental Justice (ReGen: EJ)
Launched in 2006, ReGen EJ is a multi-year initiative that supports environmental justice organizations’ increased effectiveness in youth leadership development; provides opportunities for strategy and model sharing between organizations; and documents effective models of multi-generational community organizing that contributes to the sustainability of effective leadership in the environmental justice movement.

2006 ReGen: EJ Grants Awarded

TOTAL: $300,000

Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC) - Flagstaff, AZ
To support BMWC's work with Navajo and Hopi reservations around issues of environmental justice and climate justice. This grant also suppors BMWC’s annual youth summit which has three major goals: 1) to provide a space for rejuvenation and motivation of young people, 2) to provide skills for organizing and simply living in a more sustainable world, and 3) to support the development of young leaders.
$30,000

Community Water Center - Vasalia, CA
To support the fulfillment of the following organizational goals for Community Water Center: to build the capacity of residents of disadvantaged communities in California’s San Joaquin Valley; to engage in water policy decision-making; and to act as a catalyst for community-driven solutions to immediate and long-term water challenges for disadvantaged communities in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
$15,000

Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (DWEJ) - Detroit, MI
To support DWEJ to institutionalize environmental justice youth development in Detroit through building leadership capacity, advocacy, education and diversity by strengthening Youth on Patrol Against Pollution (YoPAP). DWEJ will focus on peer training, problem solving, intergenerational leadership mentoring, civic engagement, and community organizing through the development of YoPAP chapters in churches, elementary- high schools, neighborhood block clubs and civic organizations.
$30,000

Little Village Environmental Justice Organizations (LVEJO) - Chicago, IL
To sustain and expand LVEJO’s youth Leadership Campaigns for Clean Air, Clean Land, Transit Justice, El Cilantro Newspaper, Immigrant Rights, Anti-Militarization of Our Youth and Our History Project.
$30,000

Native Movement - Flagstaff, AZ
To support the sustainability of 12 projects within the collective which are organized into three areas: Bioregional Lifeways Network which will conduct three Youth in Sustainability Leadership Programs; the Youth Movement which will develop large scale public art projects that relate to indigenous land struggles, environmental justice, sacred sites and community sustainability; and Free Alaska which will produce educational and presentation materials to provoke dialogue and support solutions that are based in conservation, renewable energy, and sustainability.
$30,000

Nollie's Citizens for Quality Education (CQE) - Lexington, MS
To support the Environment Education & the Arts program to promote the building and sustaining of healthy schools and residential communities. CQE seeks to identify and hold local governance bodies accountable for cleaning up illegal dumpsites and establishing legal places for the citizens in Holmes County rural communities’ to dispose of trash and white goods.
$30,000

Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) - Albuquerque, NM
To support SWOP’s youth organizing component to develop young leaders and members by outreaching to high school and college students on civic participation, the summer internship program, and recruiting participants for curriculum workshops; and to conduct environmental justice tours.
$30,000

Southwest Workers Union (SWU) - San Antonio, TX
To support and foster new youth leadership to expand and sustain SWU and its youth component through the development of an art and culture program and a youth-led campaign for Energy and Climate Justice in Texas and the bi-national Gulf Coast region. SWU is building strategic linkages with organizations in the South following their Gulf Coast Justice & Solidarity Tour post-Katrina and Rita to overcome geographic, racial and political barriers between the south and southwest.
$30,000

UPROSE - Brooklyn, NY
To support organizers' work to heighten community awareness, increase involvement, develop environmental remediation strategies and participatory community planning practices, and promote sustainable development, governmental accountability and environmental justice. The re-development of the Sunset Park waterfront, brownfield remediation, implementation of the community greenway design and alternative energy are the focal points of this year's work.
$30,000

Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans (VAYLA-NO) -
New Orleans, LA
To hire VAYLA-NO staff organizers who will continue to expand and develop membership and coordinate the process for refining their structure and organizing model. VAYLA-NO has been leading organizing efforts to stop the toxic dumping of Hurricane Katrina construction debris in a landfill located less than a mile away from heart of Versailles, historically an African American and Vietnamese American community.
$15,000

Youth United for Community Action - East Palo Alto, CA
To support Higher Learning East Palo Alto (HL EPA), a program which provides East Palo Alto high school aged youth with a space and vehicle to create positive community change and develop productive life skills through community organizing. HL EPA youth are organizing around two campaigns: the Environmental Justice Accountability Campaign and the Anti-Gentrification Campaign.
$30,000

EMERGING YOUTH ORGANIZING GROUPS - RENEWALS

TOTAL: $120,000

2006 Grants Awarded:

Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP) - Baltimore, MD
To expand BAP's successful model of paid tutoring as an organizing platform for student advocacy and activism; to create crucial after school jobs; andto help students become more engaged in learning and undertaking “Freedom Fall” which is Baltimore City's version of Mississippi's 1964 Freedom Summer.
$10,000

Community IMPACT! (CI!) - Nashville, TN
To support Oasis CI! to deepen their advocacy against predatory lending by increasing staff capacity.To support the continued development of CI!'s community-based economics work and increase the scope of their financial education work through organizing for curricular changes to make economics classes more relevant to low-income students.
$10,000

CommunitY Organizing Collective - Philadelphia, PA
To develop the capacity of indigenous youth leadership to fight for social change in immigrant working class sectors of Chinatown.
$10,000

Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) - Jackson Heights, NY
To support DRUM to develop the organizing capacity of low-income South Asian and Muslim immigrant youth to build public action for the “Education not Deportation” campaign in Queens public high schools.
$10,000

Idaho Community Action Network (ICAN) - Boise, ID
To support the development of youth leadership teams across the state and coordinating youth/community in support of immigrant and health care justice campaigns.
$10,000

Lakota Action Network (LAN) - Porcupine, SD
To support LAN in sustainable building and renewable energy education for youth as well as hands-on building of a community house that will be owned by youth and support the continued development of youth leaders. This grant also supports LAN's transition from a network to an intergenerational community-based organization.
$10,000

Padres Unidos/ Jovenes Unidos - Denver, CO
To support Jovenes Unidos to end the racial disparities and harsh and punitive disciplinary codes of Denver Public Schools by creating alternative disciplinary programs, radically lowering issuance of police tickets, and building supportive school cultures; to provide academic support and guidance to youth leaders.
$10,000

Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) - Providence, RI
T o support PrYSM's research and analysis; campaign development; base-building and overall program and operational capacity. To further support the development of Southeast Asian Queers for Empowerment and Leadership.
$10,000

Sistas on the Rise - New York, NY
To support Sistas on the Rise to increase the number of teen mothers in NYC that receive a high school diploma, GED or non-traditional work training; to increase teen mother’s participation in organizing/social justice work; and to bring their perspectives to tables where their voices aren’t heard. Also, to support Sistas on the Rise’s Leadership Development Program; to provide trainings for young mothers to develop leadership skills; and to facilitate political education and critical thinking among 100 young women through workshops, film viewings, readings and events.
$10,000

Urban Underground - Milwaukee, WI
To support the Youth Empowerment Project to increase their outreach capacity and to address issues of: teen pregnancy, the lack of comprehensive study of HIV/AIDS infections of Black teens, Youth Violence, Incarceration and Public Education.
$10,000

Youth Education Alliance (YEA) - Washington, DC
To support youth-driven organizing campaigns that improve the quality of public education in the District of Columbia and to monitor the implementation of two platform victories: improving school bathrooms and lunches.
$10,000

Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) - Los Angeles, CA
To support YJC’s work in building a youth-led movement to challenge race, gender and class inequality in the Los Angeles County juvenile justice system through coalition- building, direct action organizing, advocacy and activist arts to mobilize youth and their allies.
$10,000

NEW YORK CITY OPPORTUNITIES FUND
GRANTMAKING

TOTAL: $27,040

2006 Grants Awarded:

Warrior Womyn/Mujeres Guerreras, Casa Atabaex Ache
Type of Support: Collaboration
To support Casa Atabex Ache to organize a Warrior Womyn/Mujeres Guerreras two-day training retreat for 5 organizations in the NYC area that work directly with young women of color to support their campaigns to end violence in their communities. The groups are: Critical Resistance, Sista II Sista, Sistas on the Rise, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, Center for Immigrant Communities, Sakhi, and Mothers on the Move.
$5,000

Radio Rootz
Type of Support: Technical Assistance & Collaboration
To train current youth staff members in the more advanced skills of media literacy, media analysis and community organizing. The collaborative organizing project will be with the Brotherhood/Sister Sol, Sista II Sista and South Asian Youth Action (SAYA). Rootz youth will share the results of their media activism project and train these organizations in basic media literacy and radio skills.
$5,000

Sistas and Brothas United
Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
Type of Support: Collaboration and Technical Assistance
To support an exchange opportunity with Inner City Struggle (ICS) in Los Angeles, CA. The focus of the visit will be on ICS’s planning process and implementation of their strategic plan.
$5,000

Movement Resource Initiative
Type of Support: Collaboration
To support The Audre Lorde Project, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities; Desis Rising Up & Moving; Domestic Workers United; FIERCE!; FUREE; Mothers on the Move; New York City AIDS/Housing Network; Nodutdol for Korean Community Development in coming together to discuss the need for and feasibility of developing a collaborative project to meet the cross-issue political education and skills training needs of New York City people of color/immigrant/youth organizations, while also providing a venue to develop a long-term (multi-decade) strategy to expand political power for progressive social change.
$5,000

Prison Moratorium Project and FIERCE
Type of Support:Technical Assistance
To support PMP and FIERCE to attend the SOUL National Youth Organizers Training Institute (NYOTI) in Nashville, Tennessee.
PMP - $1050; FIERCE - $990

Social Action Tour
Type of Support: Collaboration
The Social Action Tour seeks to create spaces for the exchange of strategies and tools that will ultimately result in new collaborative models for community organizing. The NYCOF will cover cost of space rental, a/v rental, food, materials and the production of a video as a documentation tool as a resource for youth organizing groups.
$5000