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Program Grants: NOVEMBER, 2004

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Homelessness
 
Chicago Continuum of Care* (Chicago, IL) $15,000

To support the Laying the Foundation Project, training providers on models
that support the city’s Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness.

     
Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers and Chicago Coalition for the Homeless* (Chicago, IL) $45,000

For Part II of a joint grant to prevent homelessness stemming from the
incarceration of mothers, particularly prostitutes.

     
Coalition on Homelessness* (San Francisco, CA) $15,000

General support for housing work.

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

To support housing initiatives for returning prisoners.

     
Corporation for Supportive Housing* (National, based in NY) $20,000

For advocacy work at the national level.

     
DC Central Kitchen (Washington, DC) $15,000

For the culinary-jobs training program.

     
Legal Action Center (National, based in NY) $25,000

For a program to increase housing opportunities for people
with criminal records.

     
National Alliance to End Homelessness (National, based in DC) $20,000

To promote and implement the Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness.

     
National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness* (National, based in MA) $10,000

For general support.

     
Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern CA* (San Francisco, CA) $20,000

For general support.

     
Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern CA (San Francisco, CA) $15,000

To support the Inclusionary Housing Initiative, a San Francisco Funders’ Collaborative.

     
Our Place, DC* (Washington, DC) $20,000

To support work on housing initiatives for returning women prisoners in Washington, DC.

     
Philadelphia Association of CDCs* (Philadelphia, PA) $25,000

To support the city-wide Housing Trust Fund Campaign.

     
Project H.O.M.E.* (Philadelphia, PA) $15,000

To support advocacy, public policy, and education programs.

     
San Francisco Organizing Project (San Francisco, CA) $15,000

For the Yes in My Backyard Campaign, advocacy to build affordable housing.

     
Subtotal Homelessness:   $295,000
     
     
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM
     
Death Penalty Reform    
     
Arts Engine, Inc. (National, based in NY) $20,000

For the distribution of the documentary film, Deadline (about the Illinois death penalty moratorium), and for supporting curriculum to use in high schools.

     
Carolina Justice Policy Center (North Carolina) $10,000

General support for advocacy around the injustices of the death penalty in North Carolina.

     
Equal Justice Initiative (Alabama) $30,000

General support for advocacy against the death penalty.

     
New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty (New York) $25,000

General support for advocacy to end the death penalty in New York State.

     
Quixote Center* (National, based in MD) $15,000

To support Equal Justice, USA’s Death Penalty Assessment Training Project.

     
Juvenile Justice Reform    
     
Center for Court Innovation* (New York, NY) $20,000

To support the Harlem Community Justice Center’s Youth Court Programs.

     
Juvenile Justice Initiative of Illinois* (Illinois) $15,000

For general support.

     
Wisconsin Council on Children and Families* (Wisconsin) $20,000

To support statewide juvenile justice advocacy.

     
Drug Policy Reform    
     
Families Against Mandatory Minimums* (National, based in DC) $20,000

To support the Smart on Crime Campaign, working to reform
mandatory sentencing policies.

     
Drug Policy Alliance* (California, based in DC) $20,000

For the creation and distribution of a publication to support the
reauthorization of Proposition 36, requiring treatment over incarceration.

     
Subtotal Criminal Justice Reform:   $195,000
     
TOTAL PROGRAM GRANTS (NOVEMBER 2004):   $490,000
     
*Indicates renewed funding for the organization, but not necessarily the project.
     
The Butler Family Fund does not accept unsolicited proposals.