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SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT (SWOP)
Southwest Community Resources, Inc.
(505) 247-8832
211 10th Street SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102-2919, New Mexico
Jeane Gauna Executive Director
swop@swop.net
(505) 247-8832
www.swop.net
Size: $20,000
2000
Youth Development Grants
Since 1999 the Southwest Organizing Project has engaged young people from low income communities in direct action campaigns designed to address youth and community issues of concern to them. Our one-year renewal grant of $20,000 will help SWOP engage 50-75 young people, ages 13-18, in a series of campaigns focused on achieving racial justice in the Los Lunas and Rio Rancho school districts, and ending harassment of young people in the local malls in Albuquerque.
Southwest Workers Union
210-299-2666
PO Box 830706
San Antonio,, Texas 78283
Genaro Rendon Director
210-299-2666
http://www.swunion.org
Size: $30,000
2007
Youth Development Grants
The Southwest Workers' Union (SWU) is reaching its 20-year anniversary as a non-profit organization of independent grassroots groups of low-wage workers, families and youth united in one organizational struggle for environmental justice, worker rights and community empowerment. SWU’s Youth Leadership Organization (YLO) was launched in 1997 by young relatives of SWU members. Today, the YLO has over 250 members. In San Antonio, Texas, almost every high school has an ROTC office and several middle schools have Junior ROTC programs targeting low-income students to enlist into the military. The YLO is developing a campaign that promotes district-wide policies that provide alternatives for young people including college preparation classes in high schools and college prep counselors. Hazen’s $30,000 grant to SWU will support the expansion of the Youth Leadership Organization program as it works to build a base of youth leaders within public schools and the community for systemic change in education.
SOUTHWEST WORKERS UNION
CENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA
210-299-2666
P.O. Box 830706
San Antonio, Texas 78283
Genaro Rendon, Director
210-299-2666
http://www.swunion.org/
Size: $30,000
2008
Youth Development Grants
Celebrating their 20th year anniversary, the Southwest Workers Union (SWU) is an organization of independent grassroots groups of low-wage workers, community residents, families and youth, united in one struggle for environmental justice, worker rights and community empowerment. In 1997, SWU formed the Youth Leadership Organization (YLO) and now has over 500 youth members, including its first high school chapter. YLO joined SWU’s first major civic engagement effort, Nuestra Voz, to demonstrate the political power of low-income families and increased the number of low-income voters at local city council elections in Hondo, TX. The YLO also played a critical role in SWU’s Energy and Climate Justice campaign to mobilize public opposition to building the first new nuclear reactors in the country in 30 years. With a renewal grant of $30,000 from Hazen, SWU will continue supporting the expansion of YLO, building a base of youth leaders in public schools working for systemic change in education and the community.
