2007 Grants

Civic Engagement

Brennan Center for Justice

$65,000
To research and develop a comprehensive set of legislative options to counteract abuses of federal executive privilege during the last six years. An effective law would define and limit executive privilege, clarify what communications it applies to and specify when Congress can supersede it.

Civic Engagement Fund

$100,000
To train and support nonprofit organizations interested in participating in nonpartisan civic engagement and issue education work.

Demos

$25,000
To increase the number of low-income and disenfranchised individuals registered to vote throughout the country by pressing states to fully implement the National Voter Registration Act.

Maine Civic Engagement Project

$200,000
To build an integrated, permanent progressive infrastructure comprised of research, new tools for common use, issue framing and message discipline, and policy and leadership development programs that are of sufficient scale and ability to influence policy outcomes in Maine.

Maine People's Resource Center        

$90,000

To implement an organizing campaign that brings together key Maine nonprofit and community leaders to rebuild the power of progressive social change organizations in the state.  The project will develop a jointly conceived and executed long-term plan, operations strategy, and fundraising approach that enable local, regional and national funders to invest in progressive social change in Maine.

 

Maine People's Resource Center      

$25,000
To implement an organizing campaign that brings together key Maine nonprofit and community leaders to rebuild the power of progressive social change organizations in the state. The project will develop a jointly conceived and executed long-term plan, operations strategy, and fundraising approach that enable local, regional and national funders to invest in progressive social change in Maine.

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits

$60,000
To assist nonprofit organizations in select states in participating in nonpartisan civic engagement.

Project Vote

$100,000
To conduct nonpartisan voter registration among under-represented constituencies.

Project Vote

$25,000
To increase states' compliance with the National Voter Registration Act that calls for public assistance agencies to provide low-income or disabled citizens with voter registration forms and assistance completing the forms.

VoteTrustUSA           

$25,000

To provide support services, information resources, collaborative tools and a national voice for election reform groups in states across the country.

 

Women's Voices, Women Vote

$50,000

To use research-based methods of increasing the number of unmarried women and men who participate as voters.

Working for Good Jobs in America Fund

$100,000
To educate middle-income working people nationwide about progressive economic issues relevant to them, their legal rights, and methods of advocacy in order to improve their standard of living.

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Defense of the Public Interest

Human Rights First

$70,000

To investigate, describe and provide policy recommendations to remedy the problem of lack of accountability for private military contractors accused of abuse in detention, interrogation and security operations

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