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Program Grants: June, 2007

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Homelessness
 
Bethesda Project (Philadelphia, PA) $24,000

General support for comprehensive homeless service provider.

     
Community Voices Heard (New York, NY) $20,000

For the Public Housing Preservation Campaign.

   
     
Corporation for Supportive Housing (National) $20,000

For advocacy to sustain and expand federal funding for permanent supportive housing.

     
Drueding Center/Project Rainbow (Philadelphia, PA) $5,000*

General support for transitional housing program.

     
Housing Action Illinois (Illinois) $20,000*

General support for statewide coalition focused on increasing and preserving the supply of affordable housing, particularly for the lowest income households.

     
Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania) $20,000*

For advocacy around a statewide housing trust fund campaign.

     
Housing First! (New York, NY) $15,000*

General support for broad based coalition advocating for substantial and sustained public investment in affordable housing throughout NY City and State.

     
Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI) $15,000*

For the Milwaukee Housing Trust Fund Coalition.

     
San Diego Organizing Project (San Diego, CA) $15,000*

For organizing work around housing.

     
Shelter Partnership (Los Angeles, CA) $20,000

For the Fair Share Housing Project, to ensure that local jurisdictions plan and permit for the development of housing for extremely low income people.

     
Women's Community Revitalization Project (Philadelphia, PA) $20,000*

General support for community development organization focused on extremely low income women.

     
  Subtotal: $194,000
     

*Indicates renewed funding for the organization, but not necessarily the project.

     
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM    
Juvenile Justice    
     
Center for Court Innovation (New York, NY) $20,000

For the Queens Engagement Strategy for Teens, an alternative to detention.

     
Community Justice for Youth Institute (Chicago, IL) $20,000*

For general support.

     
International Justice Project (UK, USA) $20,000

To help train juvenile justice lawyers to use international law as an advocacy tool.

     
Partnership for Safety and Justice (Portland, OR) $21,000

For the Safety and Sentencing Program, aimed at changing the way youth are treated as adults within the Oregon criminal justice system.

   
     
     
Death Penalty    
     
Amnesty International USA (National) $25,000

For a campaign to ban the execution of the seriously mentally ill.

     
Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (Illinois) $21,000*

For general support.

     
Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (Pennsylvania) $20,000

For general support.

     
     
Drug Policy    
     
Justice Policy Institute (National) $20,000

For drug policy reform work.

   
     
WISDOM (Wisconsin) $13,000*

General support for organization working on Treatment Instead of Prisons campaign.

     
     
  Subtotal: $180,000
     
     
Global Warming    
     
Greenpeace Fund (National) $40,000*

To expand work on Project Hot Seat.

     
IN MEMORIAM: Founding Board Member Laurence Gravin    
     
Environmental Law and Policy Center (Chicago, IL) $7,500

For general support.

     
     
TOTAL ALL GRANTS :   $421,500
     
*Indicates renewed funding for the organization, but not necessarily the project.
     
The Butler Family Fund does not accept unsolicited proposals.