At its February 6, 2009 meeting, the Public Welfare Foundation’s Board of Directors approved more than $4.8 million in grants to 38 organizations. These included more than $1.5 million in grants through the Foundation’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program, $950,000 in grants through its Health Reform Program, and more than $2.1 million in grants through its Workers’ Rights Program. Under the Special Opportunities Program, a one-year $125,000 grant was made to the Educational Broadcasting Corporation to support the PBS television program, Bill Moyers’ Journal.
A complete list of grants approved at the meeting follows:
Workers’ Rights
The American Prospect– Washington, DC ($75,000 – 1 year)
Support for “Doing Right by American Workers,” a year-long series of feature articles on workers' rights.
American Rights at Work Education Fund – Washington, DC ($400,000 – 1 year)
General support.
Center for Community Change – Washington, DC ($100,000 – 1 year)
Support for grassroots engagement in efforts to improve labor laws.
The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy –
San Francisco, CA
($200,000 – 1 year)
Support to conduct opinion research on deregulation and mandatory arbitration.
Farmworker Justice Fund – Washington, DC ($75,000 – 1 year)
General support.
In These Times
– Chicago, IL ($160,000 – 2 years)
Support to establish a blog devoted to original news coverage and commentary on workers' rights issues.
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund – Washington, DC ($75,000 – 1 year)
Support to mobilize the civil rights community to improve labor laws.
The Nashville Movement, A Coalition for Economic and Racial Justice – Nashville, TN ($200,000 – 2 years)
Support to advocate for state policies to improve workplace health and safety and to improve workers' access to justice.
National Employment Law Project – New York, NY ($500,000 – 2 years)
General support.
Nebraska
Appleseed
Center for Law in the Public Interest – Lincoln, NE ($75,000 – 1 year)
Support to improve health and safety policies for meatpacking workers in Nebraska.
New Hampshire
Women's Alliance– Concord, NH ($40,000 – 1 year)
Support to educate people in New Hampshire about the need for paid sick days.
Partnership for Working Families –Denver, CO ($150,000 -1 year)
General support.
Progressive America Fund – Brooklyn, NY ($40,000 – 1 year)
Support for Connecticut Working Families to educate people about the need for paid sick days.
The Regents of the University of California– Berkeley, CA ($50,000 – 1 year)
Support for a research project, Union Avoidance Industry and Its Impact on the Right to Organize.
Criminal and Juvenile Justice
Coalition for Juvenile Justice – Washington, DC ($50,000 – 1 year)
Support to survey states’ compliance with the core requirements of the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.
Correctional Association of New York– New York, NY ($40,000 – 1 year)
Support for the Drop the Rock Campaign to Repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws.
Council of StateGovernmentsJusticeCenter – New York, NY ($200,000 – 1 year)
Support to help state and local government leaders and non-profit organizations implement the Second Chance Act.
Family Justice – New York, NY ($150,000 – 1 year)
General support.
Justice Policy Institute –Washington, DC ($50,000 – 1 year)
Support for an analysis of policies and practices in Alabama’s criminal justice system targeting sentencing policies for women offenders.
National Alliance of Faith and Justice –
Washington, DC
($150,000 – 1 year)
Support to organize and mobilize African-American church leaders committed to progressive reform of the nation's criminal justice system.
National Bureau of Economic Research –Cambridge, MA ($100,000 – 1 year)
Support to commission a series of papers by leading economists addressing criminal justice issues from an economic perspective, to host a conference to discuss the findings, and to publish the papers.
National
Center for Youth Law –Oakland, CA ($150,000 – 1 year)
Support to assist in reform of juvenile justice systems in Arkansas and Wyoming by providing expert consultation and technical assistance to state government leaders.
National Health Law Program –Los Angeles, CA ($206,000 – 2 years)
Support for an initiative to train juvenile justice practitioners to access Medicaid-funded community-based mental health services for youth in the juvenile justice system as alternatives to incarceration.
Texas
Public Policy Foundation –Austin, TX ($75,000 – 1 year)
Support for The Center for Effective Justice's Juvenile Justice Project.
Urban Institute – Washington, DC ($50,000 – 1 year)
Support for a conference and white paper compiling probation and parole reform efforts around the country.
Vera Institute of Justice –Washington, DC ($100,000 -1 year)
Project support to assist Washington, D.C. government leaders in reforming the system of providing services for inmates leaving the Washington, D.C. jail and reentering society.
Vera Institute of Justice – Washington, DC ($200,000 – 1 year)
Support for the Prosecution and Racial Justice Project, which helps district attorneys in three U.S. cities track decision-making in their offices that may suggest race or ethnicity bias.
Health Reform
Center for Rural Affairs – Lyons, NE ($100,000 – 1 year)
Support to bring the voices of rural consumers and stakeholders to the process of federal health care reform, with special attention to the needs of impoverished rural people, particularly minorities.
Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe – El Paso, TX ($60,000 – 1 year)
Support for a project to monitor and review state and federal health policies in an effort to increase the number of Latinos in Texas who have health insurance and who receive appropriate health care.
Colorado
Consumer Health Initiative – Denver, CO ($40,000 – 1 year)
Support to help organize an Intermountain Regional Gathering of advocates in five states working on health care reform.
Community Partners, Inc. –Amherst, MA ($50,000 – 1 year)
General support.
Georgians for a Healthy Future – Atlanta, GA ($200,000 – 2 years)
General support.
Health Care for All – Boston, MA ($50,000 – 1 year)
Support for the Health Reform and Cost Control Initiative.
The Herndon Alliance– Seattle, WA ($100,000 – 1 year)
General support.
Louisiana
Consumer Healthcare Coalition – Breaux Bridge, LA ($200,000 – 2 years)
General support.
Medicare
Rights
Center
–New York, NY ($100,000 – 1 year)
Support to increase the enrollment of low-income elderly and disabled people in Medicare programs that save them money and to help improve efficiency in those programs in three states.
Texas
Impact Education Fund – Austin, TX ($50,000 – 1 year)
Support for the Texas Health Justice Project.
Special Opportunities
Educational Broadcasting Corporation – New York, NY ($125,000 – 1 year)
Support for the PBS television program Bill Moyers’ Journal.
Freedom Network Training Institute – Washington, DC ($100,000 – 1 year)
General support.
