Infinite Imagination Flow Fund - Grants Awarded

Commission of Women Victim-to-Victim (KOFAVIV) Haiti

Grant to provide necessities for KOFAVIV members, all of whom are living on the streets without food, water, or medical care since the earthquake. KOFAVIV is a Port-au-Prince-based network of several thousand women, all survivors of violence, sexual abuse and child slavery. The network helps the women reclaim their lives and fight together for a nation without slavery.

Cooperativa de Trabajo 18 de Diciembre Ltda. (Workers' Cooperative of Brukman Recuperated Factory), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Grant to support the worker-owned Brukman recuperated factory in Buenos Aires. Brukman is one of over 200 such operations in Argentina and is the only women-led recuperada. This grant will help the cooperative replace a necessary machine for its production of clothes and bags, so that the factory can continue to work and provide inspiration to the worker-controlled enterprise movement.

Consejo de Organizaciones Populares y Indígenas de Honduras (COPINH), Honduras

Grant to support COPINH's movement-building work to assure indigenous lands and resource rights, to fight destructive free trade policy in Honduras, and to sustain an autonomous peace zone.

Frente de Defensa del Agua of the Junin Region (FREDEAJUN), El Tambo-Huancayo-Junin, Peru

Grant to support this grassroots group's fight against privatization of water services and to gain cheap and reliable access to their water. FREDEAJUN, a collaborative coalition of grassroots groups, developed a public-public partnership as an alternative to the privatization of their water.

Hacienda Profesor Luiz David Macedo, Landless Workers Movement, Brazil

Grant to support the infrastructure and systems of a new land reform settlement created by the Landless Workers Movement. The settlement is in the process of creating alternative agriculture, collective marketing and production, libratory education, restorative justice, and cultural empowerment.

Kebetkache Women Development & Resource Centre, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Grant to support Kebetkache's work with indigenous women and resource rights in thirty communities in the Niger Delta. The Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre works to create peaceful alternatives in the midst of oil conflict, to defend the resource rights of indigenous local people of the Niger Delta, and to promote the rights of women and develop their leadership potential.

Lambi Fund of Haiti Washington, D.C.

This grant to Lambi Fund will support Haitian grassroots organizations as they recover ad rebuild from the recent earthquake. Lambi Fund works to help strengthen civil society in Haiti as a necessary foundation for democracy and development. They have provided financial and technical support to organizations at the forefront of the movement for alternatives since 1994.

The São Paulo State Agroecology University of the Landless Workers Movement, Itabaré, Brazil

Grant to support the construction of a school in São Paulo that will train thousands of farmers throughout the state how to switch from pesticide-based and/or mono-cultural production to sustainable agro-ecology. Agro-ecology is a model based on family agriculture, environmental conservation, the preservation and reproduction of the riches of knowledge and cultures, and food sovereignty.

Second Hemispheric Gathering against Militarization (organized by COPINH), Honduras

Grant to support the organizing and travel expenses for an international anti-militarization gathering so that those whose lives and lands are devastated by national or U.S. militaries, and who are often excluded from spaces of alliance and strategy development due to lack of funds, may be included.

Via Campesina, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

Grant to support the 2nd International Encounter of Sustainable Agriculture, the Campesino-a-Campesino Agroecological Movement meeting, and the International Working Commission on Sustainable Peasant Agriculture meeting. These three meetings are an opportunity for networking and strategizing to advance the movement for alternatives in land, food, and agriculture. Via Campesina is at the forefront of building an indigenous landless farming movement that advocates land reform, promotion of women farmers, and food and seed sovereignty for a new global model of agriculture.

« back to Grants