Peace Development Fund - March 08, 2011

The National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement (NLSCA) is the next chapter of the civil rights movement, dedicated solely to the protection of the rights and dignity of Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian peoples. NLSCA is the unifying voice that demands civil rights for those who have been marginalized. They strive to bridge the gap within this diverse community and the community at large in order to boldly advance social justice. The bedrock of NLSCA's mission acts to mobilize and champion social change via legal defense of civil rights, responsible media coverage and depiction of action, proactive collaboration with legislative and political bodies, and education and community outreach.

The mission of TenThousandMeans (TTM) is the generation, organization, and provision of both financial support and volunteer contribution for groups like Saathi Nepal and Action Pour Les Enfants, who have proven track records in the fight against the practice of Human Trafficking and for the furtherance of women's and children's rights. It is also a TTM's subtextual mission to bring more men into direct support of pressing and current women's right issues, both domestically and abroad. Through their promoting projects, soliciting donations (in both private and corporate entities), and coordinating volunteer manpower, TTM seeks to bring beneficial production to all their projects.

The Prison Birth Project is an organization focused on reproductive justice, working to provide education, support and resources about pregnancy, birth and mothering to incarcerated women. Their goal is to provide the tools to help make empowering birth choices and provide continuous care throughout the pregnancy, birth, and postpartum process. Their ultimate goal is abolition of the prison industrial complex and the mobilization of an intersectional movement for reproductive justice for all people.

The mission of Mujer U'wa is to support the leadership development of indigenous U'wa women in Colombia in order to contribute to environmental efforts and play a role in peace building amid a war zone in their land. Mujer U'wa supports grassroots, indigenous U'wa women leaders as they resist oil extraction and the militarization that accompanies it. They support women from the perspective of supporting civil society, women's participation, human rights, community empowerment, peace building, environmental preservation, and strengthening the U'wa traditional culture. From the US, we raise funds, spread awareness and build community.

The community-based Insight Garden Program (IGP) at San Quentin prison was launched in 2002 with the mission of providing prisoners vocational and life skills through the process of organic gardening so they can practice constructive relationships between themselves, their communities and the natural environment and become productive members of society when they leave prison. In 2003, and in close collaboration with the prison administration and staff, program staff and inmates built an organic flower garden on the prison’s medium security prison yard that serves more than 1,000 prisoners. IGP also is also planning to create a continuum of care for the formerly incarcerated to help them find green jobs (including opportunities in landscaping, gardening and sustainable agriculture) when they reenter society. This effort is based on the premise that everyone should be part of the green economy including former prisoners who face greater employment challenges upon reentry than any other population.

Friends of Golden Gateway seeks permanent protection of recreational space, from the current prospective proposals put forward by this developer and others, that deny San Franciscans the kind of neighborhood facilities that make the city a rich and vibrant place for people of all ages and all walks of life.

Development Executives Roundtable (DER) builds thriving organizations and communities by helping nonprofit professionals teach the joy of giving, providing accessible training, and peer support for Bay Area fundraisers at all stages of their careers.

Caring For Our Own's purpose is to bring Sisters' national awareness and lived values that fostering quality of life within convent retirement centers is a service of not only our members, but the broader society. To honor aging and that of the frail, elder members is a countercultural witness to society's negative view of aging, as seen in its stereotypical images and its total institutionalization (typical nursing care and environment) of these "frail elders."

The Cambodian Water Project (CWP)'s goals, as it began, was to create clean sources of water as well as adequate sanitation facilities to prevent the contamination of new water supplies, focusing its efforts on the small villages of Omani, Onk, Pursat, Kaodak, Prey Totand, and Troh Pan Chann. Local villagers carry out much of the work using locally available technology and all donations have gone directly to supporting these efforts. With time, CWP has also begun to broaden the types of projects in each village to reach beyond water and sanitation. New projects and focuses have been proposed by the villagers and endorsed by the project’s Board. These have included projects relating to education, irrigation and food production and economic development. By working to improve the basic infrastructure of villages in Cambodia, CWP of Massachusetts is moving forward a movement for peace and social justice.

BAY-Peace: Better Alternatives for Youth

Oakland, CA

$1,024.60

fiscal sponsorship program support

BAY-Peace empowers Bay Area youth to resist aggressive military recruiting and war. They focus on fighting back against aggressive military recruiting in our schools-- especially the Oakland public schools where low-income youth of color are specifically targeted. They reach out to youth throughout the entire Bay Area to organize for better alternatives.

afghans for Afghans

San Francisco, CA

$322.42

fiscal sponsorship program support

afghans for Afghans is a humanitarian and educational people-to-people project that sends hand-knit and crochet blankets and sweaters, vests, hats, mittens, and socks to the beleaguered people of Afghanistan. To encourage cross-cultural appreciation, they document traditional Afghan knitting designs and create new knitting patterns based on Afghanistan's rich cultural heritage. They hope to develop micro enterprise to leverage our reputation and help the Afghans earn income, within the difficult circumstances of war and security.