** Indicates an economic development project.

** Indicates an economic development project.

ALABAMA
Diocese of Birmingham
Bethel-Ensley Action Task, Inc. $20,000
Community organizing and advocacy training for residents leading an economic redevelopment project at an abandoned industrial site.

Diocese of Mobile
Ecumenical Ministries, Inc./Community Organizing Expansion $25,000
Expanding community organizing to involve thirteen additional communities in the direct service and organizing aspects of the organization.

ALASKA
Archiocese of Anchorage
St. Mary's Church/ALMA Immigrant Women Empowerment Project $30,000
Community organizing among Latina immigrant women to encourage civic participation and advocacy on issues that impact their lives.

Diocese of Juneau
Chilkoot Indian Association $9,500**
Conducting a feasibility study to assess the purchase of an existing fish processing business that would be owned and managed by the tribe.

ARIZONA
Diocese of Phoenix
Justice for Roofers $45,000
Community organizing and leadership training to address issues of wage gouging, cheating on hours, and the inconsistent enforcement of workplace rules.

Northern Arizona Interfaith/Sponsoring Committee $44,000
Community organizing and leadership development to empower low-income people to create institutional change and improve their quality of life.

Native American Community Organizing Project, Inc. $45,000
Expanding community organizing and leadership development to empower urban Indian communities to address such issues as health, education, economic development, housing, and political representation.

Diocese of Tucson
Yuma County Interfaith Sponsoring Committee/Yuma County Organizing Initiative $45,000
Community organizing and farm worker and immigrant outreach to create a political voice for dignity, respect, and human development.

ARKANSAS
Diocese of Little Rock
Arkansas Public Policy Panel/Building Grassroots Power and Participation $30,000
Community building and advocacy to assist low-income residents in addressing issues of common concern, such as toxic clean-ups, legal protections for victims of domestic violence, and consumer protections in deregulation legislation.

Beacons and Bridges, Inc. $35,000**
Fostering small businesses and creating jobs that improve the standard of living for low-income neighborhood residents, and further developing a business incubator and entrepreneurship training program.

King Solomon Community Development, Inc. $10,000**
Conducting a feasibility study to explore development of a business incubator to nurture business start-ups, issue low-interest loans for improving or expanding businesses, provide one-on-one mentoring, and assist in the development of a business plan.

Pulaski County ACORN/Central Arkansas Tenant Organizing Project $20,000
Community organizing to bring neighborhood and media attention to local housing issues and improve living conditions for low-income residents.

CALIFORNIA
Diocese of Fresno
Fresno Area Congregations Together/Leadership Education Advocacy $20,000
Expanding community organizing to influence public policymaking and gain access to federal and state funding for community needs.

La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE)/Community Organizing Project $25,000
Community organizing and leadership development among low-income rural workers to address such issues as pesticide saturation, employment discrimination, and water contamination.

Organizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas, Inc./Leadership Development for Farm Worker Women $25,000
Community organizing targeted at immigrant women to address such issues as child labor, sexual harassment, wage and hour infractions, sanitation violations, housing, family violence, sexual assault, and health care.

Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles/Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network $30,000
Community organizing to respond to unjust immigration laws and address such issues as employer sanctions, lack of workplace protections, and the need for a new broad-based legalization program for immigrants.

Figueroa Corridor Coalition for Economic Justice/Better Neighborhoods, Same Neighborhoods $35,000
Community organizing and leadership development to fight neighborhood gentrification and displacement by combating unjust evictions, housing discrimination, and poor living conditions.

Filipino Workers Center/Association of Filipino Workers $25,000
Worker organizing and leadership development among immigrant workers to promote a new legalization program, increase workplace protections, and end employer sanctions.

Greater Long Beach Interfaith Community Organization $40,000
Community organizing and leadership development to identify and address needs among low-income and minority communities.

Hollywood Interfaith Sponsoring Committee $20,000
Expanded community organizing and leadership development to address such local issues as affordable housing.

Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California $15,000**
Strategic planning to develop education, job and business plans for low-income groups and individual participants.

Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates/Market Workers Justice Campaign $25,000
Mobilizing primarily immigrant Korean and Latino workers in the supermarket industry to improve job security, health benefits, opportunities for raises and advancements, and the ability to participate in grievance procedures.

Proyecto Pastoral at Delores Mission/Comunidad en Movimiento $40,000
Community organizing in predominantly Latino communities to address education, training, community service, safety, and other quality of life issues.

Diocese of Monterey
Catholic Charities, Diocese of Monterey/Lay Leadership Development Project $35,000
Direct aid, mental health counseling, immigration services, and community organizing to address justice issues affecting low-income residents and improve the lives of community members.

The Citizenship Project $35,000
Community organizing and leadership development to address such issues as amnesty for immigrants, citizenship for all, and voter rights.

Diocese of Oakland
Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action (BOCA) $25,000
Expanding community organizing and leadership development to close the achievement gap at a local high school and address homelessness and issues of immigrant concern.

Congregations Organizing for Renewal/Grassroots Leaders for Affordable Housing $30,000
Leadership training and development and community organizing to change local public housing policies, increase funding for affordable housing, and collaborate on housing development plans.

LIFETIME/Parent Leadership on TANF Reauthorization $35,000
Community organizing to mobilize low-income parents affected by welfare reform to improve federal welfare policies and increase access to education and job training.

Manos Cooperative/Manos Service Associates $40,000**
Reorganizing a collection of home services businesses into a cooperative owned by low-income workers and operated via the Internet and a phone service.

The New America Foundation/Virtual Business Incubator $40,000**
Providing support and training to aspiring low-income microbusiness entrepreneurs who participate in the incubator program and then establish their own businesses.

Diocese of Orange
Orange County Congregation Community Organization/Project FAITH $30,000
Community organizing to promote quality health care for working families by improving access to quality health care and affordable insurance, and by increasing funding for local clinics.

Diocese of Sacramento
Sacramento ACORN $30,000
Community organizing and leadership development to address such issues as tenant rights, living wages, and regional equity.

Sacramento Valley Organizing Community/North County Project $25,000
Community organizing and leadership development to address such issues as immigration, housing, and economic development.

Sacramento Valley Organizing Community $20,000**
Providing job training to low-income workers, placing workers in living wage jobs, providing training for underemployed non-welfare recipients, fostering creation of small businesses, and promoting worker-owned cooperatives.

The PICO California Project/Working Family Agenda for California $35,000
Statewide organizing to unburden families from economic hardship, help close the gap between rich and poor, and address problems that working families face, such as low incomes, dual-income or single-parent households, failing public education, lack of health insurance, and escalating housing costs.

Diocese of San Bernardino
Inland Congregations United for Change/Together For Families $30,000
Community organizing among low- and moderate-income families to improve the public school system and access to health care services in underserved areas.

Diocese of San Diego
Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice $25,000
Expanded community organizing among low-wage workers to improve wages, benefits, and working conditions.

RCNO Training Center/MCI Initiative $25,000
Advocacy and community outreach to pass legislation reducing the phone rates being charged to the families of offenders.

San Diego ACORN $32,500
Community organizing and leadership development to win improvements in city services and address policy issues such as housing, education, and neighborhood safety.

Archdiocese of San Francisco
Bay Area Organizing Committee/Healthcare Strategy $20,000
Community organizing and outreach to extend a recently passed local ordinance providing healthcare coverage for certain uninsured low-wage workers to the remaining eligible workers in the area.

CAMINOS/Pathways Learning Center $40,000**
Providing job training and apprenticeships in computer repair and support to low-income women, as well as providing non-profit organizations and low-income families computer access and low-cost or free computer repair services.

Coalition on Homelessness/Shelter Outreach Project $30,000
Community organizing and advocacy to involve homeless people in the programs and policies that affect their lives.

Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights/Immigrant Leadership Project $25,000
Leadership development and community organizing around immigrant rights and benefits, and to address such issues as education and health care.

POOR Magazine, Inc. $30,000**
Supporting on-the-job training for program people transitioning from public assistance who have received intensive occupational training in basic literacy; computer literacy; investigative, broadcast, and Internet journalism; web design; graphic arts: data entry; and office skills

San Francisco ACORN/Neighborhood Empowerment Project $40,000
Community development and leadership development to win improvements in city services, advocate for youth programs and facilities, improve access to living wage jobs, and preserve and develop affordable housing.

Diocese of San Jose
Downtown College Preparatory/Parents for Educational Excellence $30,000
Parent organizing and leadership training to improve education in their communities by involving them in policymaking and decision-making on education.

Learning & Loving Education Center $15,000**
Expanding current services in English and technological literacy to include small business and job creation initiatives for low-income minority women.

People Acting in Community Together (PACT)/Housing Justice Project $35,000
Community organizing and advocacy to protect low-income renters and immigrants by advocating for a just-cause eviction ordinance, improving enforcement of current rent-control policies, and prosecuting negligent property owners.

Women's Action to Gain Economic Security $40,000**
Replicating and expanding environmentally sound cleaning cooperatives, and establishing an association of cooperatives to provide support and share expenses and expertise.

Working Partnerships USA $40,000**
Expanding a non-profit temporary employment business that promotes placement of workers into jobs that pay a living wage and offer portable benefits.

Diocese of Santa Rosa
Sonoma-Napa Action Project (SNAP)/SNAP Revitalization Project $35,000
Community organizing and coalition-building to address such quality of life issues for low- and moderate-income people as affordable housing, living wages, and legalization.

Diocese of Stockton
PACT for Stockton/Health Family Organizing Network $25,000
Community organizing to improve health services for the poor by expanding services to low-income families and shifting social and health services to neighborhood centers.

COLORADO
Diocese of Colorado Springs
Coalition for Child Support Enforcement $25,000
Community organizing, advocacy, and direct service to ensure compliance with current child support laws, educate parents about their rights and the resources available to them, and win more effective child support enforcement laws.

Archdiocese of Denver
Congregations Building Community/Regional Empowerment and Mexicano Dignity Project $35,000
Community organizing and leadership development in the area's Mexicano(a) community on issues such as affordable housing and education.

Denver ACORN/Westside Organization Project $35,000
Expanding community organizing to prevent closing of a local library, win funds for an expanded community center, and improve city services to low-income areas.

Diocese of Pueblo
Colorado Cross Disability Coalition/Organizing Expansion $25,000
Community organizing and advocacy to influence policy decisions on issues affecting low-income residents and to improve access opportunities for people with all types of disabilities.

San Juan Citizens Alliance/Companeros $25,000
Community organizing to engage the local Latino immigrant community on issues that improve their quality of life and to increase their knowledge of their rights.

CONNECTICUT
Diocese of Bridgeport
Connecticut ACORN/Bridgeport Economic Justice Organizing Project $25,000
Community organizing and leadership development to enact a living wage campaign and improve education and affordable housing opportunities.

Greater Bridgeport Interfaith Action/Citywide Action & Leadership Development Project $35,000
Community organizing and leadership development to organize low-income residents around such issues as public safety, crime, neighborhood blight, education, environmental justice, and racial issues.

West Side Neighborhood Circle/Neighborhood Circle Initiative $20,000
Development of a Parent-Teacher-Association based community board to improve education and implement youth development programs.

Archdiocese of Hartford
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice/Connecticut Diesel Campaign $20,000
Community organizing to reduce diesel bus emissions in two low-income communities.

Elm City Congregations Organized $40,000
Community organizing and development of high-quality neighborhood homes to provide affordable housing for low- and moderate-income community residents.

Greater Hartford Faith-Based Coalition for Equity and Justice $45,000
Community organizing and leadership development to address issues related to housing, education, and transportation.

Mutual Housing Association of South Central Connecticut, Inc. $15,000**
Creating strategic work plans for creation of small businesses and worker-owned companies; programs for education, job training, small business ownership, and first-time home ownership; and workforce training opportunities.

United Action Connecticut/Waterbury Good Jobs!/United Action $25,000
Community organizing and leadership development to implement an living-wage ordinance, skills training, and other job-related programs.

DELAWARE
Diocese of Wilmington
Delaware Statewide Association of Tenants/Housing Preservation and Development Initiative $25,000
Community organizing to develop and manage resident-owned and -operated housing and to empower tenants to manage, own, and develop housing.

Delmarva Poultry Justice Alliance $25,000
Organizing, public education, and outreach to improve working conditions for the region's low-wage poultry workers.

Nehemiah Gateway Community Development Corporation $20,000**
Fostering aspiring entrepreneurs in establishing and growing their businesses, creating jobs, improving access to commercial credit, increasing business activity, and better organizing of business interests in area chambers of commerce.

St. Paul's Parish/Voces Sin Fronteras $30,000
Community organizing and outreach designed to foster relationships of accountability between public officials and local low-income and immigrant residents.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Archdiocese of Washington
Action in Montgomery/Build Power in Silver Spring $25,000
Community organizing and leadership development around such education issues as safety, academic achievement, and the need for after-school programs.

Maryland ACORN/Prince George's County Expansion $25,000
Community organizing to extend ACORN's advocacy into a new county and continue to press for systemic reforms, particularly within the banking and housing industries, and to work for neighborhood improvements.

Maryland Stand for Children/Grassroots Organizing in Prince George's County $25,000
Community organizing to improve school funding and the quality of public schools by addressing such issues as large class sizes, school overcrowding, teacher shortages, and deteriorating building conditions.

Progressive Maryland Education Fund/The Maryland Living Wage Campaign $30,000
Community education and advocacy to extend recently passed living wage legislation in Montgomery County to other counties.

FLORIDA
Archdiocese of Miami
Justice For All in Broward/The Youth Project $35,000
Youth organizing to empower and train youth leaders to address issues such as employment, education, and housing, and to create lasting institutional change.

Miami Workers' Center $35,000
Community organizing and leadership development to build resident participation in public housing decision-making, broaden welfare benefits, increase the accountability of the welfare system to recipients, and implement a grievance procedure for recipients encountering systemic abuse.

People Acting for Community Together (PACT)/Youth Organizing Project $35,000
Community organizing and leadership training to empower local youth to address issues of concern in their communities.

Diocese of Orlando
Fighting Against Injustice Towards Harmony (FAITH)/West Side Organizing Project $35,000
Community organizing and leadership development to address injustice and inequity on issues of concern for low- and moderate-income community members.

Orlando Area Interfaith/Constituency/Capacity Expansion $35,000
Community organizing and leadership development to engage minority and immigrant community members on issues of local and national concern.

Polk Ecumenical Action Council for Empowerment (PEACE) $35,000
Community organizing to engage more minority, youth, and low-income residents and empower them to create change on issues of concern to the community.

Diocese of Palm Beach
Organization of Maya Peoples in Exile $25,000
Expanding community organizing and education about issues that affect Maya people in Florida, including broadcast of a weekly radio program for the Mayan community.

People Engaged in Active Community Efforts, Inc. (PEACE)/Project Expansion $35,000
Expanding community organizing to improve the quality of life for all low-income residents through community development, voter education, and affordable housing.

Diocese of Pensacola and Tallahassee
Greater Pensacola Community Organization/South Escambia Organizing $20,000
Community organizing to give voice to impoverished people and influence public decision-making to change policies, institutions, and laws that will improve the quality of life for working-class families.

Diocese of St. Augustine
Interchurch Coalition for Action, Reconciliation, & Empowerment (ICARE)/Parent Organizing Project $30,000
Community organizing to hold public officials and the education system accountable by training parents at predominantly low-income schools to research, negotiate, and bring about changes on local issues affecting education.

The Action Network $30,000
Community organizing in both the city and rural areas to improve quality of life for all residents and address issues such as education, transportation, and neighborhood beautification.

Diocese of Venice
Coalition of Immokalee Workers $30,000
Worker and community organizing to fight unjust labor practices, improve labor relations, and establish a code of conduct for the treatment of farm workers and other laborers by suppliers.

Sarasota United for Responsibility & Equity, Inc. (SURE) $20,000
Community organizing, leadership development, and fundraising to identify and mobilize low- and moderate-income community residents on issues that affect their lives.

GEORGIA
Archdiocese of Atlanta
Athens Land Trust/People of Hope/People of Hope Mobile Home Park $25,000
Community organizing and outreach to develop a resident-owned and -managed mobile home park, form a neighborhood watch program, and conduct research and education on affordable housing.

Sagal Somali Radio Service/Outreach Radio Programming $30,000
Community education and outreach through weekly radio broadcasts that include health and safety messages, local and international news, community announcements, job openings, and housing information.

Shut-In Outreach Ministry, Inc./West End Intergenerational Garden $20,000**
Developing a year-round produce stand, cannery, craft market, landscaping service, and e-commerce business from a cooperative gardens project that began as part of a neighborhood revitalization effort.

HAWAII
Diocese of Honolulu
Faith Action for Community Equity/FACE Jobs Project $40,000
Community organizing among unemployed and working poor people to implement a statewide living wage policy, create jobs for residents, and identify opportunities for job creation, job linkage, and training.

IDAHO
Diocese of Boise
Idaho Community Action Network (ICAN)/ICAN Campaign for Food Security $20,000
Community organizing and outreach and leadership development to combat hunger by improving access to resources and helping low-income residents provide for their families' basic needs.

ILLINOIS
Archdiocese of Chicago
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council/Brighton Park Immigrant Rights Project $30,000
Community organizing and leadership development to address such quality of life issues as bilingual education, immigration laws, workplace conditions, educational opportunities, and the need for a local immigrant rights council.

Community Services West/Academy Bakery Project $10,000**
Marketing, resource development, and public relations to support a professional kitchen that provides lunches to schools and day-care programs and supplies a retail bakery outlet.

Community Services West/Academy Bakery Project $40,000**
Relocating and operating a professional kitchen to provide lunches to schools and day-care programs and supply a retail bakery outlet, as well as creating additional storage space and purchasing equipment.

Developing Communities Project/DCP Area Wide Task Force Initiative $20,000
Community organizing and leadership training to develop a safer community, create more job and business opportunities for community residents, strengthen community engagement in education, and create better access to youth services.

The Enterprising Kitchen $10,000**
Developing a business plan to support continued growth of a business operated by disadvantaged women that manufactures and sells natural soaps and bath salts.

Greater Washington Park Community Development Corporation/Trade Institute Collaborative $15,000**
Strategic planning to create a job training program that will employ and train low-income workers in construction trades, providing apprenticeships and a living wage for neighborhood residents, linking existing community services, and capitalizing on a local high school as a vocational training center.

HealthReach Incorporated/Healthcare Access By Language Advocacy $10,000**
Development of a medical interpreter service program to create jobs for community-based healthcare providers, programs to educate healthcare providers about culturally and linguistically tailored healthcare services, and improve access to healthcare services for non-English speaking residents.

Illinois ACORN/Englewood Organizing Project $30,000
Community organizing to reverse years of decline by initiating a revitalization movement to preserve affordable housing, gain public investment in neighborhood infrastructures, and attract private investment.

Northwest Neighborhood Federation/Belmont-Cragin Youth Resources Campaign $30,000
Community organizing to reduce youth involvement in gang and criminal activity by providing after-school programs and quality neighborhood youth programs, and by facilitating relationships between residents and city officials that increase public participation in the decision-making process.

Organization of the Northeast Work, Welfare, and Immigration Strategy Team $30,000
Community organizing and leadership development to improve welfare service delivery and create a system of mutual accountability between welfare systems, clients, and the community.

Partnership for a South Side Community Development Credit Union $40,000
Funding for a credit union composed primarily of poor and low-income African-American women to provide microenterprise and nonprofit loans for entrepreneurs.

Southwest Organizing Project/Southwest Cease-Fire Task Force $35,000
Community organizing to offer alternatives to violence for gang members and other at-risk youth, and to organize law enforcement and community members to reduce the number of shooting incidents in the community.

Diocese of Joliet
Exodus World Service/Exodus Advocacy Network $20,000
Community organizing and advocacy to impact policies and legislation that affect refugees and improve their lives.

Illinois Hunger Coalition/Latinos Organized for Justice $30,000
Leadership development and training to mobilize low-income Latinos on such issues as drivers' licenses for immigrant workers.

Diocese of Peoria
Central Illinois Organizing Project/Predatory Lending Project $30,000
Community organizing and advocacy to address predatory lending, implement an affordable loan program for victims of abusive lending, work toward bank reinvestment, create policy changes to prevent unfair lending practices, educate working families and the elderly about predatory lending, and target specific abusive lenders for justice.

Diocese of Rockford
Council of Neighborhood Organizations $25,000
Community organizing and leadership development to improve neighborhoods and revitalize the community.

Diocese of Springfield
The Springfield Project/Mather Welles Neighborhood Revitalization $32,000
Community organizing and leadership development to address such community concerns as trash removal, environmental health, housing codes, and resident access to city resources.

United Congregations of Metro-East $35,000
Expanding community organizing and leadership development to address urban sprawl, transportation, drugs, and youth education issues.

INDIANA
Diocese of Evansville
Evansville CBCO Sponsoring Committee $30,000
Community organizing and fundraising to address issues of common concern, particularly those affecting low- and moderate-income people.

Archdiocese of Indianapolis
Citizens Action Coalition Education Fund, Inc./The Campaign for Economic Justice $20,000
Community organizing and education of rural residents to advocate for federal policies that strengthen the economic viability of family farms, foster collaboration among farm associations, and help to establish active regional groups of farmers.

Organization for a New Eastside $33,000
Community organizing and leadership development to identify local issues of concern and demand effective solutions to neighborhood problems such as trash removal, neighborhood abandonment, and absentee property owners.

IOWA
Diocese of Davenport
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement/Southeast Iowa CCI Chapter Building and Community Organizing Project $28,500
Community organizing and leadership development to address such issues as corporate concentration in agriculture and increased drug use.

Quad Cities Interfaith/Building Community Leaders for Social Change $35,000
Leadership development and community organizing to identify and address social justice issues of common concern to the community.

Diocese of Des Moines
AMOS Sponsoring Committee $35,000
Expanding community organizing and leadership development to mobilize residents to take action on issues ranging from public infrastructure improvements to education funding.

Diocese of Dubuque
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement/CCI Marshalltown Latino Chapter $30,000
Community organizing and leadership development among Latinos to engage them identifying and addressing issues of community concern.

KANSAS
Diocese of Salina
Speak United/Fair Wages Project $35,000
Community organizing among workers to improve low wages and bring about living wage policies, hiring agreements, and expanded capabilities of a community hiring center.

Diocese of Wichita
Hope Street Youth Development/Youth Organizing Project $25,000
Community organizing and leadership development to help young people make positive educational, career, and life choices and to establish relationships with local residents, community police, and leaders in workforce investment and school safety.

Sunflower Community Action, Inc./Organize Kansas $32,000
Expanding community organizing and leadership development into other cities to mobilize low-income immigrant residents to take action on such issues as predatory lending and the accessibility of identification cards and driver's licenses.

KENTUCKY
Archdiocese of Louisville
Citizens of Louisville Organized and United Together (CLOUT)/Expansion & Community Policing $35,000
Community organizing to strengthen police-community relations and improve the safety of all residents, and to expand membership into additional minority communities.

Kentucky Coalition/Grassroots Leadership Development Project $25,000
Creation of a statewide grassroots leadership training program that includes skill development in organizing, communication, issue education, anti-discrimination, and political history.

Diocese of Lexington
BUILD, Inc. $20,000
Community organizing, institutional capacity building, and leadership training to address social, economic, and political issues in the local area.

Community Farm Alliance/Creating Urban-Rural Connections $35,000
Creating a local market for tobacco farmers who have diversified their crops by expanding the base of consumers who care about local, sustainable food production.

Community Ventures Corporation/The Center for Entrepreneurs $30,000**
Funding a microenterprise loan program and incubator that offers affordable office space, business training and technical assistance, and support services to the community's lower-income small businesses.

LOUISIANA
Diocese of Alexandria
Caddo Adai of Louisiana/Tribal Enrollment and Archival Library Development $25,000
Research, collection, and archiving of oral histories and genealogy of the Native American Caddo Adai Tribe, as well as filing for federal recognition.

Knights of Peter Claver/Intergenerational Daycare Center $10,000**
The members of the Bishop D.F. Desmond #91 Council will conduct a feasibility study on the development of a daycare center that serves children and elderly adults and provides mentorship for the young children.

Diocese of Baton Rouge
Working Interfaith Network/Expanding Diversity $35,000
Expanded community organizing to address such issues as public education, public safety, environmental improvement, and employment and recreational opportunities for youth.

Diocese of Lafayette
Congregations Organizing People for Equality (COPE)/COPE Moves Forward $30,000
Expanding community organizing and leadership development to give voice to low- and moderate-income residents on issues affecting their quality of life.

Diocese of Lake Charles
Louisiana ACORN/Imperial Calcasieu Organizing Project $20,000
Community organizing to improve living conditions in very low-income public housing developments throughout the city and in rural communities surrounding the city.

Archdiocese of New Orleans
New Orleans Interfaith Sponsoring Committee/ACT Education Initiative $25,000
Community organizing and leadership development to improve the education system and hold public officials accountable for children's educational needs.

The Jeremiah Group/Job Training Initiative $20,000
Community organizing to develop job training programs using public and private resources, and to facilitate the recruitment of new businesses to the community.

Diocese of Shreveport
Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb, Inc./Community Participation – Final Enrollment $30,000
Community organizing and outreach to preserve and reclaim the tribe's heritage and to enroll members.

MAINE
Diocese of Portland
Maine People's Alliance/Low Income Health Access Project $35,000
Community organizing in low-income neighborhoods to create a more just healthcare system through improved access to healthcare coverage and better services.

Maine Rural Workers Coalition $30,000
Community organizing of farm, fishery, and forestry workers to ensure employer compliance with labor laws, safety regulations, fair wages, and safe housing.

Preble Street Resource Center/Consumer Advocacy Project $35,000
Community organizing and leadership development to increase membership, education, and social action within the homeless community.

MARYLAND
Archdiocese of Baltimore
Citizens' Planning and Housing Association/Transit Riders League of Metropolitan Baltimore $35,000
Community organizing around such transit issues as improved driver accountability, more responsive management of customer service, improved commuter rail service, improved wheelchair access on buses, and bus system restructuring for reduced overcrowding and better connectivity.

Faith Fund, Inc. $50,000**
Providing capital for a loan fund to finance community development initiatives such as affordable housing, microenterprise, and community facilities.

Faith Fund, Inc. $25,000**
Providing loans and technical assistance to low-income people who are starting or expanding microenterprises

Herring Run Watershed Association $25,000
Community organizing, leadership development, job training, and environmental stewardship to improve quality of life and the natural environment of local neighborhoods.

Immigration Action Service Committee $20,000
Community organizing and leadership development through an Immigrant Institute and Outreach Service Center that provides counseling, referrals, education and training resources, and limited legal representation to the local immigrant community.

The Tri-State REuse Center $20,000
Community organizing and leadership development to support individual and community efforts at self-sufficiency through economic development and education.

MASSACHUSETTS
Archdiocese of Boston
Brockton Interfaith Community Organizing and Leadership/New Immigrant Coalition $35,000
Community organizing and leadership development to expand and improve services for low-income immigrants, including ESL programs, job opportunities, living wages, affordable housing, and voter registration.

Chelsea Public Housing Organizing Committee $30,000
Community organizing to improve safety and tenant relations for public housing residents, including elimination of unfair rent collection and maintenance policies, intimidation of tenants participating in organizing, and unfair rent levels for rent subsidies.

Nuestra Comunidad Development Corp./Village Pushcarts and Kitchen Incubator Initiative $20,000**
Expansion of the food pushcart initiative that has provided business opportunities to low-income community members, and the creation of a kitchen incubator to develop food-oriented businesses.

Organizing and Leadership Training Center $35,000
Statewide organizing campaign on job training and adult education through advocacy related to state appropriations and businesses development initiatives.

Diocese of Springfield
Massachusetts Senior Action Council, Inc./Western Massachusetts Organizing Project $30,000
Community organizing, advocacy, and leadership development among low-income senior citizens on such issues as access to healthcare programs, income security, and universal healthcare reform.

Northern Berkshire Community Coalition/Neighborhood Net $15,000
Community organizing and leadership development in low-income neighborhoods on such issues as community and youth development, and improved collaboration between divergent community groups.

Pioneer Valley Project $10,000**
Exploring the feasibility of creating a worker-owned manual demolition business, which uses manual labor, reduces adverse environmental effects, and produces products for resale and reuse on other construction projects.

Pioneer Valley Project/Neighborhood Empowerment Project $40,000
Community organizing to empower area residents by helping to bring resources to neighborhoods, build collaboration among community groups, and enable low-income residents to access jobs and housing.

The Anti-Displacement Project $20,000**
Implementing a job-training and education program, organizing contingent workers, creating a workers' center, and developing a long-term employment strategy for low- and moderate-income workers.

Diocese of Worcester
Twin Cities CDC/Plymouth Street & Community Organizing Initiatives $25,000
Community organizing in low-income, predominantly minority neighborhoods around revitalization, affordable housing, crime reduction, and improved quality of life.

MICHIGAN
Archdiocese of Detroit
Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength (Moses)/Village Builders Metro Equality $55,000
Youth organizing designed to develop after-school programs in low-and moderate-income neighborhoods, and community organizing around issues of race or class injustice such as transportation.

Michigan ACORN/Turning the Tide: Increasing Homeownership Among Low- and Moderate-Income Detroit Families $30,000
Community organizing to increase financial literacy among potential homeowners, expand programs that turn vacant buildings into family homes, fight predatory mortgage lending practices, and expand programs that provide access to fair loans.

Transportation Riders United $30,000
Community organizing, leadership development, public education, and outreach to improve transit quality and options in the metropolitan area.

Diocese of Grand Rapids
Michigan Organizing Project/Statewide Power $40,000
Statewide organizing campaign around education, health care, job training, drivers' licensing, education funding, and immigration.

Diocese of Lansing
Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living/Disability Business Initiative $30,000
Community organizing to create more equitable entrepreneurial opportunities for people with disabilities and to empower them to change the state laws and policies that perpetuate poverty.

Greater Lansing Association for Development and Empowerment (GLADE) $28,000
Community organizing and leadership development to engage low- and moderate-income people in addressing issues of concern to the community.

Diocese of Marquette
Sawyer Community Development Association $40,000
Community organizing to provide leadership development, coordinate and utilize area resources, improve outreach, and support entrepreneurial activity by residents of a community located on a former military base.

Diocese of Saginaw
Gateway Farmers' Market Co-op, Inc. $10,000**
Development of a business plan to create a cooperative farmers' market, a hay auction facility, a kitchen incubator, and a restaurant.

Hard Times Cafe, Inc./Automotive Training Program $30,000
Providing automotive repair training, repaired autos, and low-cost auto repair services to low-income community residents so that they can gain and maintain regular employment.

Saginaw Family Child Care Network $10,000**
Strategic planning to transition a childcare business operated by low-income entrepreneurs from university control to a self-sustaining community-based organization.

The Ezekiel Project/Ezekiel Deep & Wide $30,000
Community organizing and direct action to expand membership, and identify and change adverse or unjust conditions within the community.

MINNESOTA
Diocese of Crookston
Anishinaabe Center/Web Site Operation $40,000
Internet-based advocacy and community organizing on human rights issues affecting the indigenous people who live and work in the region.

White Earth Land Recovery Project $25,000**
Fostering microenterprises and home-based businesses of Native American producers of locally grown food and art products, and expanding Internet sales of the products.

Diocese of Duluth
Action Through Churches Together/Regional Organizing for Economic Justice $30,000
Community organizing to achieve living wage policies and ensure economic justice at the local and regional level.

Churches United in Ministry/Gabriel Project $30,000
Community organizing to address systemic barriers that prevent low-income people from achieving stability and moving out of poverty.

Diocese of St. Cloud
Great River Interfaith Partnership Assembly $15,000
Community organizing and outreach and leadership development to identify and address quality of life issues for area residents.

La Semilla/Liderazgo Latino $15,000
Community organizing and leadership development within a targeted Hispanic community to improve such quality of life issues as access to housing and translators for the local medical clinic.

Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis
Advocating Change Together, Inc./Common Vision $30,000
Community organizing to address issues related to disability, employment, and poverty by connecting people to the disability rights and civil rights movements.

Family & Children's Service/Job and Affordable Housing Campaign $25,000
Leadership development and building neighborhood-based membership chapters to address issues of economic and racial injustice.

ISAIAH/Campaign to Preserve Immigrant Families $43,000
Community organizing and leadership development within the Hispanic community to address barriers to economic self-sufficiency as well as regional issues such as housing.

Minnesota ACORN/Affordable Housing Organizing $33,000
Community organizing of low- and moderate-income and minority families to win access to high-quality, affordable rental housing and provide homeownership opportunities.

Diocese of Winona
Centro Campesino, Inc./Organizing for Change $34,000
Expanded community organizing and leadership development to improve wages and housing conditions and provide for the legalization and safety of undocumented workers.

Land Stewardship Project/Citizens Organizing for Family Farms, Democracy, and Social Justice $35,000
Community organizing to stop the growth of factory farms and promote democracy and family farms.

PastureLand $10,000**
Development of a business plan for a dairy farm cooperative that supports family dairy farms by marketing value-added dairy products such as gouda and cheddar cheeses and butter.

MISSISSIPPI
Diocese of Jackson
Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights $25,000
Providing training, advocacy, and organization support for organized formations of non-union workers as well as for members of labor unions to educate in the areas of safety, health, and unfair labor practices.

The Amos Network/Rural Areas Investment Campaign $36,000
Expanding community organizing around affordable housing, after-school program development, and community technology centers in low-income areas.

MISSOURI
Diocese of Jefferson City
Grassroots Organizing $42,250
Community organizing and leadership development to create action teams to address issues such as income support, food stamps, tenant rights, access to health care, and utility relief.

Missouri Farmers Union/Campaign to Restore Dignity & Opportunity $45,000
Community organizing and leadership development to reshape the food and agricultural system to ensure dignity, opportunity, and economic vitality to all local residents.

Diocese of Kansas City - St. Joseph
Center for New Community/Friends in Faith Serving Emporia $20,000
Community organizing to address issues of common concern, such as improved access to healthcare services for immigrants working in the local meatpacking industries.

Kansas City Church Community Organization/Opportunities for Working Families $30,000
Community organizing to address housing reinvestment, interest rate caps for payday lenders, and business development in the urban core.

Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau
Whole Kids Outreach/Community Organizer Project $10,000
Community organizing to address quality of life issues for low-income people such as inadequate access to healthcare services.

Archdiocese of St. Louis
Metropolitan Congregations United (MCU)/Transportation Equity Project $40,000
Community organizing to increase employment opportunities for poor and working class people by improving public transportation infrastructure and accessibility.

MONTANA
Diocese of Great Falls-Billings
Baahpuuo Ashtaahile (Pryor Tipis) $6,000**
Developing a business plan to create the only Indian-owned tipi and tent manufacturing company on the Northern Plains, including producing related canvas items and Crow Indian arts and crafts such as beadwork.

Emerging Native American Business Lending, Inc. $32,000**
Funding small business lending and technical assistance to support existing and potential small business entrepreneurs and encourage community development.

Fort Belknap Arts and Crafts Cooperative $5,000**
Conducting a feasibility study to assess the viability of an arts and crafts cooperative operated by local tribes.

Northern Plains Resource Council/Safe to Harvest, Safe to Eat $20,000
Community organizing, leadership development, and public education to promote food safety and foster economic stability for family-owned agriculture.

Diocese of Helena
Wakina Sky Learning Circle/Further Widening the Circle $30,000
Community organizing and program development to ensure that students learn a respectful and positive history of Native Americans by placing advisors on key school committees and working to create an Indian advisory position on the school board.

Rocky Mountain Center for Economic Democracy $9,800**
Conducting a feasibility study of a temporary labor services cooperative that would be owned and controlled by low-income workers.

NEBRASKA
Archdiocese of Omaha
Community Organizing In Nebraska $42,000
Community organizing in the rural southeast portion of the state to address such issues as the closing of small-town businesses, the influx of large hog-farming operations and packing plants, and the increasing number of immigrants in local communities.

Omaha Together One Community $30,000
Organizing among minority communities and low-wage workers from meat-packing and other industries to improve living and working conditions for residents.

Diocese of Grand Island
People First of Nebraska, Inc./Peer Review $30,250
Organization capacity building to implement new strategies for influencing decisions about services for people with developmental disabilities.

NEVADA
Diocese of Las Vegas
Nevada Interfaith Council for Worker Justice/Dolores Huerta Center For Worker Rights $40,000
Organizing and leadership development to raise wages and working standards for low-wage and immigrant workers and to educate workers about laws regarding wages, hours, discrimination, labor relations, and workplace safety.

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Diocese of Manchester
Communities Actively United for Social Equality (CAUSE) $35,000
Community organizing and leadership development to improve education access and outcomes for students with disabilities and reduce the number of individuals waiting for disability services.

Granite State Organizing Project Sponsoring Committee $40,000
Community organizing and leadership development to act on housing, jobs, and immigrant issues affecting low-income community members.

Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network $15,000**
Expansion of a retail store and development of a commercial kitchen and catering company to provide job and business opportunities to low-income residents.

NEW JERSEY
Diocese of Camden
Camden Churches Organized for People/Camden PRIDE $30,000
Community organizing to improve safety, housing, economic development, education, and social services by advocating for change and holding public officials accountable.

Hopeworks 'n Camden $32,000**
Training young high-school dropouts to provide valuable Internet services such as web site design, maintenance, and management, and placing them in jobs or helping them develop small businesses.

Archdiocese of Newark
Jubilee Interfaith Organization/Metropolitan Organizing Project of Northern New Jersey $35,000
Community organizing among low-income residents to change regional and state policies that create, promote, or perpetuate concentrated poverty; racial and economic segregation; and inequities in housing, education, employment, and opportunity.

New Jersey Immigration Policy Network/Grassroots Immigration Empowerment Project $20,000
Community organizing and leadership development among low-income union and immigrant rights groups to improve access to decent jobs, social services, and income supports.

New Jersey ACORN $30,000
Community organizing to ensure enforcement of state policies to fund affordable housing, involve low- and moderate-income residents in the housing development process, and market the new housing units to eligible residents.

St. James Community Development Corporation/Community Organizing $30,000
Community organizing to address school overcrowding and the quality of education in the city's public schools.

Diocese of Paterson
Saint Agnes Parish/Family Advocacy Project $25,000
Youth organizing and outreach to improve family relationships, encourage family participation in communities, strengthen family bonds, and build family and community responsibility.

NEW MEXICO
Diocese of Gallup
Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment $10,000
Community education and organizing to address the health and environmental effects of radioactive contamination in the community.

New Mexico Organizing Strategy $30,000
Community organizing to win use of public funds for job training for childcare workers and Head Start teachers.

Diocese of Las Cruces
Colonias Development Council/Child Care and Economic Development Initiative $15,000**
Conducting a feasibility study, completing a business plan and training members to establish and operate several cooperative childcare centers.

Luz en el Desierto: Guarderia Comunitaria de Chaparral $50,000**
Creation of a nonprofit childcare center to serve colonia residents, provide a living wage as well as benefits for childcare providers, and offer space for parent education, training, after-school programs, and community meetings.

Archdiocese of Santa Fe
Enlace Comunitario/Immigrant Leadership and Organizing Project $36,000
Community organizing on priority issues for the immigrant community, including immigrant rights and domestic violence.

Mujeres en Accion $10,000**
Developing a business plan for a collectively owned and operated commercial kitchen that assist low-income women in operating a successful microenterprise.

New Mexico ACORN/New Mexico Predatory Lending Project $35,000
Expanded community organizing to win reforms on predatory lending practices, restore federal anti-poverty programs for immigrants, and work for better treatment of immigrants at INS.

Somos Un Pueblo Unido $45,000
Community organizing and leadership development to educate the community about immigrant rights, initiate alternative economic ventures, and provide job training for immigrant women.

Southwest Creations Collaborative/Community Outreach Project $30,000**
Developing a training program to assist other organizations in replicating the collaborative's business model, which employs low-income women to perform sewing, embroidery, and crocheting.

Welfare Action $10,000
Community organizing and education conducted by welfare mothers to provide accurate information about welfare reform and to empower welfare recipients to use the program's work incentives, education component, and training opportunities to achieve a sustainable living.

NEW YORK
Diocese of Albany
Allegany Community Development Services, Inc. $25,000**
Providing additional funds for a loan program that offers auto, business, and housing loans to rural, low-income residents in Allegany and Cattaraugus counties.

ARISE for Social Justice $40,000
Multi-county organizing project to build a regional coalition of white and minority faith communities and empower low-income residents to address such issues as health care, community justice, and poverty.

Diocese of Brooklyn
Centro Hispano "Cuzcatlan" $25,000
Community organizing and leadership development among local tenant associations and community residents to address issues related to immigration, healthcare, and local recreational facilities.

Community Action Project $20,000
Community organizing in immigrant and minority neighborhoods to achieve major policy changes in the city on education, housing, and police-community relations.

Make the Road by Walking/Economic Justice & Democracy Project $30,000
Community organizing and leadership development among immigrant welfare recipients to impact issues such as public benefits and healthcare accessibility and affordability.

Pratt Area Community Council/Community Organizing Project $25,000
Community organizing and leadership development to address issues that keep communities in poverty, such as lack of affordable housing and tenant displacement.

St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corporation/Williamsburg/Greenpoint Co-op Network $30,000
Community organizing to ensure that existing limited-equity housing cooperatives in the area remain viable for low-and moderate-income residents and that residents can create new limited-equity cooperatives in neglected or abandoned rentals.

The Maura Clarke - Ita Ford Center $25,000**
Expanding contract work in such areas as commercial sewing and catering to provide employment for women participating in the Center's language, literacy, and job-training program, MCIF WORKS, as well as women who want to develop their own microenterprises.

Workers' Awaaz/It's about Time! Joint Initiative for Workers' Health & Safety $60,000
Worker organizing and leadership development to change the poor working conditions that low-income women, immigrants, and minorities face in the garment, manual labor, home attendant, construction, and domestic service industries.

Diocese of Buffalo
Eastside Pride/Eastside Safe Streets Initiative $20,000
Community organizing to develop a coalition to improve crime prevention efforts and resident-police relations.

VOICE - Buffalo $40,000
Community organizing to give residents a voice in the policymaking process and to address such issues as unemployment and underemployment, declining property values, an under-funded school system, and rising crime rates.

Archdiocese of New York
Centro Independiente de Trabajadores Agricolas/The Hudson Valley Project $30,000
Organizing farm workers in the eastern portion of the state to win collective agreements that improve their wages and safety and the safety of food and the environment.

Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled/Adult Home Resident Advocacy Project $35,000
Community organizing and advocacy to reverse years of substandard care for mentally ill residents in adult homes, involve residents in the inspection of adult homes and mental health providers, create mental health services that support recovery and empowerment, and increase entitlements for poor adult home residents.

Credit Where Credit Is Due, Inc./Microenterprise Development Project $40,000**
Microenterprise development through expanded training and technical assistance, new loan products, and an entrepreneur network for peer support and continuing training.

New Settlement Apartments/Parent Action Committee $35,000
Community organizing to improve the quality of education for area children and youth by creating immediate changes as well as addressing the systemic changes needed to create a school environment that fosters success.

Philippine Forum/Filipino Workers Center – New York/New Jersey $25,000
Organizing and empowering Filipino workers – particularly women domestic workers – to address social and economic justice issues such as fair labor practices and to provide amnesty for undocumented immigrants within the community.

Public Housing Residents of the Lower East Side $28,000
Providing opportunities for public housing residents to train and work on public housing construction and rehabilitation projects.

Urban Homesteading Assistance Board/Community Building From Within $30,000
Community organizing and leadership development to expand opportunities for affordable cooperative homeownership, develop associations, and create new city housing programs.

Diocese of Rochester
Centro Independiente de Trabajadores Agricolas/Western New York Project $25,000
Organizing farm workers in western New York to win collective agreements that improve their wages and safety and the safety of food and the environment.

Interfaith Action/Raise a Roof! Initiative $39,000
Community organizing and leadership development to empower low- and moderate-income people to improve the quality of life for their families and communities.

Diocese of Rockville Center
Long Beach Latino Civic Association/Parental Awareness and Involvement $35,000
Empowering Latino families to improve the education system, making it more responsive to their children's needs, and to reverse underachievement and low graduation rates by Latino children.

Diocese of Syracuse
Alliance of Communities Transforming Syracuse/ACTS Community Organizing Project $40,000
Community organizing and leadership development to identify, research, and take action on issues of concern for the community.

American Handicapped Defense Union, Inc./Five & Dime Emporium $10,000**
Conducting a feasibility study on the development of a thrift store that would combine retail sales, job training and placement, and storage.

Huntington Station Enrichment Center/Small Business Incubator $15,000**
Planning for a business incubator to help low-income entrepreneurs develop business plans and receive training on small businesses start-ups.

NORTH CAROLINA
Diocese of Charlotte
Center For Participatory Change/Community Building Project $35,000
Community and economic development to create alternative sources of income and to address cultural, racial, and other issues important to the community.

Center For Participatory Change/The Hands Together/Manos Unidas $10,000**
Conducting a feasibility study to determine whether a craft cooperative established by immigrant women can be turned into a profitable business.

Helping Empower Local People/Latina Organizing Project $35,000
Community organizing to engage residents in improving their quality of life through living wage ordinances, school reform, and neighborhood improvement.

Mountain Microenterprise Fund $40,000**
Creating and sustaining jobs by enabling low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs to start or expand economically viable microbusinesses.

Diocese of Raleigh
Farm Labor Organizing Committee/North Carolina Farm Worker Justice Project $30,000
Community organizing and leadership development to empower farm workers to negotiate contracts, resolve grievances, and improve working conditions.

Good Work, Inc. $10,000**
Development of a cooperatively owned cleaning business led by Latina women.

North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project/Latino Workers Association $30,000
Organizing among Latino workers to protect their workplace rights, improve working conditions and labor law enforcement, and build better relationships between Latino and other workers.

Triangle Sponsoring Committee/Latino Capacity Building Project $35,000
Community organizing and advocacy to fight social and economic injustice and improve the quality of life for all community members.

NORTH DAKOTA
Diocese of Bismarck
Dakota Resource Council/Organizing for Environmental Justice $20,000
Community organizing to address such environmental justice issues as the just and environmentally sound expansion of the state's utility industry and to increase reliance on renewable energy.

OHIO
Archdiocese of Cincinnati
Contact Center/Mobilization Project $30,000
Leadership development initiative to strengthen the ability of low-income constituents to influence state policies on such issues as tenant rights, affordable housing, safer streets, and improved recreational facilities for inner-city children.

Springfield and Clark County Justice-Action-Mercy $25,000
Direct action and community organizing to create systemic change that improves substandard housing, jobs, transportation, education, and crime.

The AMOS Project/Developing a Regional Voice for Justice $30,000
Community organizing to improve the quality of education, reduce urban sprawl, improve housing opportunities, strengthen police/community relations, expand youth programs, and provide local and national training opportunities for leaders.

WIN Action Organizing Project/Cincinnati Predatory Lending & Intervention Project $35,000
Community organizing to improve the city's housing for seniors and low-income people by focusing on abandoned buildings, foreclosures, and predatory lending practices.

Diocese of Cleveland
East Side Organizing Project (ESOP)/Predatory Lender Action Committee $30,000
Community organizing and direct action to address predatory lending practices by educating the community, forcing changes in lending practices, increasing state and federal regulation of lenders, and creating alternative loan programs with area banks.

Ohio Catholic Rural Life Conference/We Gather & Stand Together $55,000
Community organizing to address immigrant issues such as language and cultural barriers, racial profiling and bias, and to provide legal assistance.

Women's Hope Cooperative $10,000**
Expansion of the cooperative, which teaches low-income women the skills of clothing and floral design, sewing, machine embroidery, painting, and jewelry making, to include a retail operation.

Diocese of Columbus
B.R.E.A.D. Organization/Expanding the Vision $25,000
Community organizing to expand membership to poor neighborhoods outside the central city and begin addressing such community concerns as public transportation, crime prevention and neighborhood safety, education, jobs, and housing.

Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio/Youth Empowerment Program $40,000
Youth leadership development, community organizing, and advocacy to break the cycle of homelessness for youth by engaging them in such issues as housing, education, and service delivery.

Diocese of Toledo
Farm Labor Organizing Committee/Eszfuerzos Unidos $30,000
Organizing migrant farm workers in the cucumber and mushroom industries to improve job opportunities, wages, benefits, on-the-job safety, and job security, and to support the rights of workers.

Lagrange Development Corporation/Toledo ACORN Joint Organizing Project $35,000
Community organizing to create citywide institutional change, impact the budget allocation process, and improve education and area infrastructures.

Diocese of Youngstown
Common Wealth Inc./Building Regional Equity Project $35,000
Community organizing and direct action to improve local government, education, and jobs.

OREGON
Diocese of Baker
Oregon Rural Action $25,000
Community organizing and leadership development around such issues as safe food, renewable energy, and economic and social justice.

Archdiocese of Portland
Centro Cultural/Adelante Mujeres Holistic Education and Entrepreneurship Project $35,000**
Providing training, education, and entrepreneurship support for Latina women.

Farmworker Housing Development Corporation/Tenant Organizing $25,000
Organizing farm workers to engage in property management, policy decisions, and community and city affairs.

Neighborhood Pride Team/Trillium Artisans Program $30,000**
Developing a member-owned cooperative to market arts and crafts created by low-income people from reclaimed and recycled materials.

Northwest Federation of Community Organizations/Homeland Security Campaign $40,000
Community organizing to promote the economic security of low-income families by improving the implementation of public benefits programs, making prescription drugs more affordable, protecting and expanding the Medicaid program, and restoring the eligibility of immigrants for state and federal benefits.

Oregon ACORN/Predatory Lending Outreach and Education Project $27,500
Community organizing and advocacy to prevent predatory lending by offering credit counseling and legal and financial assistance to at-risk individuals.

Oregon Action/Anti-Poverty Leadership Project $30,000
Community organizing and leadership development among low-income residents to achieve greater food security, affordable housing, and living wages.

Oregon Stand for Children/Organizing in Corvallis and Lane Counties $25,000
Community organizing and leadership development among childcare providers to improve financial support for teacher training and secure wage supplements.

PENNSYLVANIA
Diocese of Allentown
Congregations United for Neighborhood Action (CUNA)/Organizing Expansion $25,000
Community organizing and leadership development to empower city residents and impact public policy on such issues as community policing, recreation, the enforcement of local ordinances, and economic development in distressed parts of the city.

El Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agricolas (CATA)/Campaign to Organize Migrant and Immigrant Workers $35,000
Community organizing among low-wage migrant and immigrant workers to improve health and safety conditions in their communities and workplaces, and give them a voice in public policy issues affecting them.

Diocese of Erie
Congregational Action to Lift with Love/Regional Equity $30,000
Community organizing to improve living and working conditions in the central city by directing state resources toward eliminating blighted areas, addressing infrastructure and transportation needs, and instituting sound economic development practices.

Diocese of Harrisburg
The Joshua Group $23,000
Community organizing to address serious deficiencies in the public school system for at-risk youth, particularly for young truant or drop-out students.

Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Childspace Cooperative Development, Inc./Childcare Leadership Development and Organizing $20,000
Organizing in the childcare industry focused on workers' rights, economic literacy, increased city and state funding for subsidized child care, and improved care for low-income children.

Eastern Pennsylvania Organizing Project $35,000
Community organizing, leadership development, and public policy reform research to address such issues as local school authority, state funding for education, and urban sprawl.

Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty/Moratorium Mobtilization Project $30,000
Community organizing to provide training and leadership development, nurture social networks for advocacy, and educate the community to achieve a moratorium on executions.

Philadelphia ACORN $30,000
Community organization to improve education and the quality of teachers in the school system, combat predatory lending practices, and provide access to adequate funds for home repair.

Pittsburgh Interfaith Impact Network $35,000
Community organizing and leadership development in poor, predominantly African American areas of the city to address issues related to poverty and racism.

Senior Advocacy Team $30,000
Community organizing, leadership development, and training for senior groups, senior residences, and faith-based institutions to advocate for mental health and aging funds and confront restrictive insurance practices at the local, state, and national levels.

The Empowerment Group $10,000**
Expansion of a painting business that provides jobs to low-income, unemployed residents, as well as transitioning the business to worker ownership.

Youth United for Change/Student Organizing Project $30,000
Community organizing to improve the quality of education by involving low-income students in school-reform decision-making.

Diocese of Pittsburgh
Mon Valley Unemployed Committee/Assuring Family Income & Support $25,000
Community organizing among families making the transition from welfare to work to eliminate waiting lists for subsidized child care and expand access to health care and health insurance.

Pennsylvania Low-Income Housing Corporation/Southwestern Pennsylvania Alliance of HUD Tenants $25,000
Tenant organizing designed to preserve, revitalize, or replace all HUD-assisted, multi-family housing in the area and to hold HUD, state, and local housing officials and private owners/managers accountable for providing safe, decent, accessible, and affordable housing.

Diocese of Scranton
Best Milk Producers Cooperative $30,000**
Start-up and operational support for three businesses: bulk raw milk marketing, raw milk processing, and milk product retailing.

PUERTO RICO
Asociacion de Corporaciones Especiales/Propiedad de Trabajadores $20,000
Community organizing and leadership development to promote the development of worker-owned corporations in low-income communities.

Consejo Vecinal Pro Desarrollo de la Peninsula de Cantera, Inc. $30,000
Organizing and empowering residents to actively participate in community development and preservation activities.

RHODE ISLAND
Diocese of Providence
CleanScape, Inc. $10,000**
Training and transition support as this recycling and land remediation company is transitioned to ownership and management by its low-income workers.

CleanScape, Inc. $30,000**
Equipment purchase and working capital to support this recycling and land remediation company as it is expanded.

Day Care Justice Co-op Inc./Cost of Care Campaign $35,000
Organizing campaign on behalf of low-income childcare workers to address such issues as inadequate state wages, insufficient support services, and excessively long working hours.

Progreso Latino, Inc./United Workers Committee $25,000
Community organizing, labor and civil rights education, and leadership development to improve access to good jobs and government services.

SOUTH CAROLINA
Diocese of Charleston
Eastern Carolina Community Development Corporation $10,000**
Planning and development of a job training and social asset building program to create construction jobs and offers supportive services such as parenting and life skills classes.

SOUTH DAKOTA
Diocese of Rapid City
Teton Coalition, Inc./Lakotas for Fair Credit $30,000
Organizing American Indians and other low-income community members to change credit policies, improve access to credit and default-prevention strategies, and recognize American Indian cultural concepts and beliefs in state money-management courses.

Diocese of Sioux Falls
Dakota Rural Action (DRA) $25,000
Community organizing to challenge the state's closed-meeting system, advocate for safe energy, promote food safety by demanding country-of-origin consumer labeling, and promote the viability of wind energy.

TENNESSEE
Diocese of Knoxville
Economic Justice Center of Knoxville/Legal Aid of Eastern Tennessee $25,700**
Fostering community economic development through legal support and training for community-based economic development organizations.

Solutions to Issues of Concern to Knoxvillians/Welfare Rights $35,000
Community organizing and leadership development to bring change to the state's childcare policies and increase public funding for childcare.

Southern Empowerment Project/CADRE $32,000
Leadership development to train organizers for long-term development projects designed to solve community problems in Appalachia and the South.

Diocese of Nashville
Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network/Nashville Living Wage Campaign $35,000
Community organizing to foster relationships among poor and working people's organizations and implement collaborative policies to increase their wages.

TEXAS
Diocese of Austin
Austin Interfaith Sponsoring Committee/Alliance School Network Strategy $35,000
Community organizing to reform public schools and improve academic achievement by building relationships among parents, teachers, and administrators; building a voting constituency to hold public officials accountable for quality education; and addressing such issues as bilingual education and transitions between elementary school and middle school.

Diocese of Beaumont
Triangle Interfaith Project/Liberty-Chambers County Organizing $41,000
Expanded community organizing to improve the quality of life for low- and moderate-income families.

Diocese of Brownsville
Valley Interfaith/Workers' Association $50,000
Community organizing and advocacy to enact living wage policies and improve the quality of life for working families.

Diocese of Dallas
Dallas ACORN/Latino Neighborhood Organizing Project $30,000
Community organizing and leadership development in low-income Latino neighborhoods to help them gain access to basic municipal services, increase voter participation, and bring about policy changes regarding the status of undocumented immigrants.

Maple-Lemmon Corridor Neighborhood Outreach $30,000
Community outreach and education around such issues as immigration, citizenship, ESL, community-police relations, jobs, parenting skills, and education.

South Dallas Fair Park Innercity Community Development Corporation $35,000**
Development of a daycare facility, police storefront, youth-run Laundromat, training and computer resource center, high-tech satellite and communications system, beauty and barber shop, business assistance center, and other retail outlets that will create more than 100 jobs.

Diocese of El Paso
Asociación de Trabajadores Fronterizos $25,000
Community organizing to address systemic discrimination against Spanish-speaking workers by mobilizing workers to seek living wage jobs, political representation, and participation in public life.

El Paso Interreligious Sponsoring Organization (EPISO)/Sign-Up, Take Charge $50,000
Community organizing and leadership development to address economic issues that affect the community, and to make local government and educational institutions accountable to the concerns of residents.

El Puente Community Development Corporation $30,000**
Funding a Community Enterprise Center, which supports incubation of small businesses by providing affordable rent with flexible leases, access to shared services, and technical, marketing, and financial management assistance.

Diocese of Ft. Worth
Allied Communities of Tarrant/Metro Organizing Strategy $29,000
Community organizing and outreach to identify and address issues of common concern for residents.

Diocese of Galveston and Houston
Metro Houston Interfaith/Houston Region Organizing $50,000
Institutional development and expanded community organizing to create a regional coalition to improve the quality of life for immigrants, working class people, and poor families.

Diocese of Las Cruces
Colonias Development Council $45,000
Expanded community development to bring together area colonia communities to address such issues as health education, and housing and infrastructure development.

Diocese of Lubbock
The West Texas Organizing Strategy/West Texas Sign Up and Take Charge $50,000
Community organizing around a family agenda to address such issues as health care, job training, housing, education, and economic development.

Archdiocese of San Antonio
Fuerza Unida/Fuerza Unida Youth Project $10,000
Leadership development and community organizing among young people of color to educate and engage them on economic policymaking and racial and sexual injustice.

UTAH
Diocese of Salt Lake City
Association for Independent Living of Utah/Disability Issues Systems Change (DISC) $25,000
Community organizing to eliminate legislative, regulatory, and administrative barriers to the full participation of people with disabilities in society.

VERMONT
Diocese of Burlington
Interfaith Coalition for a Just Society $10,000
Community organizing and leadership development to identify and address issues of concern to low-income community members.

Peace & Justice Center/Vermont Economic Justice Project $40,000
Community organizing on economic justice issues such as increasing the state's minimum wage, supporting the rights of low-wage childcare workers, and promoting creation of living wage jobs.

VIRGINIA
Diocese of Arlington
Progreso Hispano, Inc./Enculturation $25,000
Community organizing, leadership development, and education around parenting and enculturation to empower the community to become more self-sufficient.

Tenants' and Workers' Support Committee/Northern Virginia Expansion Project $30,000
Community organizing to expand access to health care and affordable housing, control community resources, and involve poor and low-wage workers in the decisions that affect their lives.

Virginia Organizing Project/Criminal Justice Reform Project $25,000
Community organizing, leadership development, and advocacy to address racial profiling, the restoration of voting rights for felons, indigent defense, and the need for more community programs for offenders.

Diocese of Richmond
Faith Works in the Roanoke Valley/Upon This Rock: Uniting Congregations for Empowerment and Change $30,000
Community organizing to address such issues as youth violence, substandard housing, affordable healthcare, and recreation opportunities for low-income residents.

Richmond Interfaith Sponsoring Committee $30,000
Community organizing and leadership development to address issues affecting low- and moderate-income people.

WASHINGTON
Archdiocese of Seattle
Comite pro Amnistia General y Justicia Social $20,000
Community organizing, leadership development, and advocacy around immigrant rights.

Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center/Justice for Women $25,000
Community organizing and leadership development to empower low-income women to address justice issues and create social change in their communities.

Washington ACORN $25,000
Expanded community organizing and leadership development to mobilize tenants to take action on substandard housing, unfair lending practices, and rising utility rates.

Diocese of Spokane
Justice Alliance Education Fund $30,000
Community organizing and leadership development to promote clean energy jobs and education reform.

North Central Community Development Organizing Committee/Okanogan Communities Development Council $25,000**
Conducting a feasibility and business planning study for a small-diameter wood utilization business that would manufacture and market products from this wood resource and provide living wage jobs.

VOICES $20,000
Leadership development and advocacy to influence public policies that affect low-income people and welfare recipients.

WEST VIRGINIA
Diocese of Wheeling and Charleston
Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition/Coal Field Justice Project $25,000
Community organizing to rein in destructive mining methods, bring about enforcement of existing mining laws, and demand better flood control measures at currently operating mountaintop removal sites.

The Hopeful City $30,000
Expanding community organizing and leadership development to foster change and community improvement.

WISCONSIN
Diocese of Green Bay
Fort Howard-Jefferson Neighborhood Family Resource Center/Hmong Voices $25,000
Community organizing and advocacy to make the welfare system more accessible for non-English speaking residents and more effective in moving people from poverty.

Diocese of Lacrosse
CAP Services, Inc./Community Assets for People (CAPF) $50,000**
Providing funding for loans to low-income households to facilitate business start-ups, home ownership, and housing rehabilitation.

Family Farm Defenders, Inc. $35,000
Community organizing to create and support healthy rural communities by educating the public on the rural crisis, food safety and security, and by seeking fair prices for the fluid milk produced by members.

Diocese of Madison
Dane County Sponsors, Inc./Greater Dane Organizing Project $35,000
Community organizing and leadership development to identify issues of concern to the community and create changes in policies, resource distribution, and systems in the community.

Family Farm Defenders, Inc. $10,000**
Market analysis and distribution of cooperative-produced cheese products to low-income communities.

The Enterprise People $20,000**
Expanding a business incubator that helps individuals with a history of mental illness develop and launch businesses.

Archdiocese of Milwaukee
Esperanza Unida, Inc./Community Union $30,000
Community organizing, leadership development, and direct action to address such issues as wage lien reform and community-service alternatives to the current drivers' license recovery requirements.

WISDOM/Regional Equity $60,000
Community organizing and leadership development to prevent elimination of services for vulnerable citizens and to maintain funds for cities with a low tax base.

Diocese of Superior
Catholic Community Services, Inc./Superior Housing Alliance $28,000
Community organizing and advocacy to address housing and community development issues such as tenant-landlord relations, homeownership, and foreclosure prevention.

North Star Community Development Corporation $50,000**
Providing training opportunities, technical assistance, and loan funds to low- and moderate-income microbusiness entrepreneurs.

WYOMING
Diocese of Cheyenne
Goshen Faith Community Concerns $34,000
Organization capacity building, community organizing, and leadership development to identify issues of primary concern for city residents.

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS
Diocese of St. Thomas, VI
New Image Foundation Corporation/Database Management Project $30,000
Organization development and database management to track individuals participating in the organization's career development programs.

New Image Foundation Corporation $30,000**
Business training and counseling, loan mentoring, and networking sessions to foster success for women-owned businesses.

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