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The Edward W. Hazen Foundation, a private foundation established in 1925, is committed to supporting organizing and leadership of young people and communities of color in dismantling structural inequity based on race and class.

THE HAZEN FOUNDATION NO LONGER ACCEPTS UNSOLICITED PROPOSALS OR LETTERS OF INQUIRY; INSTEAD THE FOUNDATION WILL BI-ANNUALLY ISSUE REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS AND CALLS FOR LETTERS OF INQUIRY

The Edward W. Hazen Foundation has a new mission and a new 2010 -2014 strategic plan, focused on community organizing and racial justice. Please visit our Resources page, or download the summary of our new grantmaking strategy here, to learn more.

In this WNYC.org broadcast, Mark Warren, co-author of A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform, argues that community organizing is key to address the persistent failure of public schooling in low-income communities.

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NYC parents fight against Bloomberg's school cuts

Thursday January 12, 2012

As the saga continues over public school closures across the city, parents and students at one school in Brooklyn, like several others in the borough, aren't giving in to closure without a fight.

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Youth Organizers March on City Hall Calls for End to 'Stop and Frisk'

Wednesday October 12, 2011

The marchers, organized by Make the Road New York, an advocacy group for immigrants and low-income people, and joined by several City Council members, were demanding changes in the police’s stop-and-frisk policy, which critics say singles out black and Latino young people, most of whom are never charged.

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Study Finds Minority Students Get Harsher Punishments

Wednesday October 05, 2011

Black and Hispanic students are far more likely to be kicked out of school when they break the rules, including some that often have nothing to do with keeping students safe, according to a new report from a civil rights research and advocacy group.