Sustainability & Social Justice Fund - Grants Awarded

Engage Network, Albany, California

The Engage Network is working to create a world where people are part of strong and vibrant communities, have a personal sense of purpose, and are having fun while making a difference. It operates through small purpose-driven groups of people taking action together in their communities and plans to link these small groups. AEPOCH has supported the "What's Your Tree" program to develop and build small groups that inspire individual and community action. www.whatsyourtree.blogspot.com

Miami Workers Center, Miami, Florida

The Miami Workers Center helps working class people build grassroots organizations and develop their leadership capacity through community organizing campaigns and education programs. The Center also actively builds coalitions and enters alliances to amplify progressive power and win racial, community, social, and economic justice. AEPOCH supported the launch of the Liberty City Green Dream, a project to bring community controlled and environmentally sustainable economic development to the Miami neighborhood of Liberty City. www.miamiworkerscenter.org

Movement Generation, Oakland, California

The purpose of Movement Generation (MG) is to develop the strategic movement capacity of young organizational leaders 35-years old and under in the Bay Area social justice community, especially young women, LGBT people and people of color. In its first two years MG convened more than 70 young movement leaders from more than 30 organizations into two cycles of ten-month movement strategy discussions. AEPOCH supports MG's Crossroads Project, which links environmental issues and activists with economic and racial justice movements. Fiscal Sponsor: Movement Strategy Center www.movementgeneration.org

Movement Strategy Center, Oakland, California

The Movement Strategy Center (MSC) works to support emerging social justice organizations to be more strategic, collaborative and sustainable. Work is focused on organizations led by young women, people of color and low-income people in the Bay Area, state-wide organizations, and national organizations. AEPOCH has provided general support for MSC's work in leadership development and capacity building with social justice organizations. www.movementstrategy.org

Other Worlds Are Possible, Albuquerque, New Mexico

The Other Worlds Are Possible Collective is a multi-national, multi-media, multi-lingual education and organizing collaborative generating awareness of political, economic, cultural, social and gender alternatives throughout the world. Other Worlds is: documenting six major areas of thriving, large-scale, just economies; creating a book and a photo book; organizing national speaking tours and photo exhibits; producing a documentary series, a magazine series, a radio series, and a popular education curriculum. All of these are for broad dissemination to popular audiences throughout the Americas, in English and Spanish. Working in partnership with movements and citizens' groups Other Worlds plans to help viewers/readers/listeners become active in their own communities and sectors and to work for more just national and international policy. AEPOCH has provided early stage general support. Fiscal sponsor: Institute for Policy Studies www.otherworldsarepossible.org

People's Grocery, Oakland, California

People's Grocery develops solutions to the health problems in the low-income community of West Oakland that stem from a lack of access to, and knowledge about, healthy, fresh foods. They work to increase the community's capacity to achieve self-reliance in meeting its food and nutrition needs, as well as provide meaningful employment and training opportunities for residents. AEPOCH has supported the development of a business plan and real estate acquisition strategy to increase access to healthy food and food justice in West Oakland. www.peoplesgrocery.org

United States Social Forum, Atlanta, Georgia

The first United States Social Forum, held in Atlanta, GA in 2007 is the US-based counterpart to the annual World Social Forum. Under the banner of 'Another World is Possible,' tens of thousands of community organizers, trade unionists, students/youth, NGO representatives, elected officials and social movements gather for a weeklong conference filled with dialogues, workshops, debates, marches, rallies, and cultural events. The US Social Forum creates a space for social change agents to build relationships, learn from each other's experiences, share analysis of the problems their communities face, and bring renewed insight and inspiration. It helps develop leadership and develop consciousness, vision, and strategy needed to realize another world. AEPOCH provided organizational sponsorship of the US Social Forum to fund participation of low-income, young and displaced people from across the country. Fiscal sponsor: Project South www.projectsouth.org www.ussf2007.org

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