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Program Grants: June, 2003

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Homelessness
 
Center for Community Change* (Washington, DC; National)

$25,000

To support a planning process for a national campaign on affordable housing.

     
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities* (Washington, DC; National) $25,000

For Part I of a two year grant to support work on the intersection of housing and welfare policy.

     
Center on Policy Initiatives* (San Diego, CA) $25,000

For a campaign on affordable housing.

     
Chattanooga Homeless Coalition (Chattanooga, TN) $20,000

To support the development of a blueprint to end homelessness in Chattanooga.

     
Common Ground* (New York, NY; National) $20,000

To support a Replication Unit to formalize Common Ground’s model to end homelessness.

     
Corporation for Supportive Housing* (New York, NY; National) $25,000

For the national advocacy program.

     
Homeless Advocacy Project* (Philadelphia, PA) $20,000

For the Children and Families Project.

     
Make the Road by Walking* (New York, NY) $15,000

For the Brooklyn Food and Housing Solutions Project.

     
National Center on Poverty Law* (Chicago, IL) $20,000

For advocacy and litigation on housing and homelessness.

     
National Housing Law Project* (Oakland, CA; National) $20,000

For general support (work on public housing).

     
National Low Income Housing Coalition* (Washington, DC; National) $35,000

For Part I of a two year grant to support a campaign for a federal housing trust fund.

     
New York State Tenants & Neighbors Information Service (New York city and state) $5,000

For an education and media campaign around rent control in New York.

     
Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California* (San Francisco, CA) $25,000

For advocacy, public policy and education on affordable housing.

     
San Diego Organizing Project (San Diego, CA) $20,000

For a campaign focusing on affordable housing.

     
Shelter* (London and the U.K.) $20,000

To provide housing advice for prisoners and ex-offenders.

     
  Subtotal: $320,000
     
     
Criminal Justice Reform
     
Juvenile Justice    
     
Center for Court Innovation: Harlem Community Justice Center* (New York, NY) $20,000

For the youth court programs.

     
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth (San Francisco, CA) $20,000

For the “Youth Making a Change” juvenile justice campaign.

     
Grassroots Leadership Charlotte, NC; across south) $20,000

For the Southern Juvenile Justice Project (curbing construction of private juvenile prisons).

     
Juvenile Death Penalty Initiative* (Washington, DC; National) $25,000

For general support.

     
Penal Reform International (Washington, DC; InterNational) $20,000

General support for U.S. office focusing on bringing human rights standards to juvenile justice in U.S.

     
Death Penalty    
     
ACLU Capital Punishment Project (Washington, DC; National) $10,000

For work to implement the Supreme Court decision barring execution of the mentally retarded.

     
The Constitution Project* (Washington, DC; National) $15,000

For the death penalty initiative.

     
PA Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty (Philadelphia, PA) $20,000

For general support.

     
Quixote Center (Hyattsville, MD; National) $20,000

For Equal Justice USA’s work on advocating for death penalty moratoria.

     
Texas Defender Service (Houston, TX) $25,000

For Part I of a two year grant to support public education about the death penalty in Texas.

     
University of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA) $16,000

For an Alameda County Death Penalty Study.

     
Drug Policy Reform    
     
ACLU Drug Policy Litigation Project (New Haven, CT; National) $20,000

To support litigation seeking drug policy reform.

     
Families Against Mandatory Minimums* (Washington, DC; National) $20,000

For the Smart on Crime Campaign.

     
Justice Policy Institute (Washington, DC; National) $20,000

To support a drug policy reform campaign in New Jersey.

     
  Subtotal: $271,000
     
     
Global Warming    
     
Sierra Club Foundation (San Francisco, CA) $100,000

For the fuel economy campaign.

     
     
  Total All Program Grants: $691,000
     
*Indicates renewed funding for the organization, but not necessarily the project.
     
The Butler Family Fund does not accept unsolicited proposals.