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ALBANY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
773-583-1387
4419 N. Kedzie, 3rd Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60625
Kirk Noden Executive Director
albanypark@sbcglobal.net
773-583-1387
Size: $30,000
2003
Youth Development Grants
In 2001, the Albany Park Neighborhood Council began Project Y, a youth-led organizing project that engaged local youth in organizing campaigns around specific issues. Since then Project Y has developed a core of 25 youth leaders and a membership base of 125 youth, successfully organized their base to press for the adoption of Youth Bill of Rights by the local police commander emphasizing the freedom from police harassment due to immigrant status, secured commitments from the Chicago Public School system for improved safety measures at a local high school and joining with a statewide organizing initiative that won the passage of legislation enabling undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at local public colleges and universities. Albany Park Neighborhood Council received a renewal grant of $30,000 to enable Project Y to involve 250 youth in local projects to increase school safety, improve community police relations and expand access to higher education for immigrant students.
Alliance for Quality Education
Public Policy and Education Fund (PPEF)
718-222-1089
88 Third Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11217
Christine Marinoni Coordinator
christinem@aqeny.org
718-222-1089
http://www.aqeny.org
2003
Public Education Grants
Founded in 2000, the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) is a coalition of parent, labor, service, advocacy and youth organizations from across New York State, dedicated to securing increased funding for public education at the state and local level. Through its base of 250 member organizations, AQE has mobilized thousands of individuals to participate in actions that have helped fight cuts in the state and local education budgets. Focusing on a five point agenda that includes class size reduction, school construction, recruitment and retention of qualified teachers and school leaders, universal pre-k, and schools that are accountable to parents and the community, AQE will work to gain support for long-term education funding policy that will provide equitable and adequate resources for all New York's children. Our three-year renewal grant of $135,000 will support AQE's organizing efforts in New York City.
American Institute for Social Justice (AISJ)
718-246-7900
739 8th Street SE
Washington, District of Columbia
Steve Kest National Coordinator
skest@acron.org
718-246-7900
http://www.acorn.org
Size: $30,000
2003
Public Education Grants
For more than a decade, community groups affiliated with ACORN have prioritized education organizing in their local work. As a national network, ACORN realizes that there is enormous potential for replication of successful education organizing strategies across sites, as well as to conduct joint research and action campaigns. With the Foundation's renewal grant of $30,000, AISJ will continue to provide training and technical assistance to education organizers and leaders of ACORN affiliate organizations in order to increase their capacity to effectively address education reform issues focusing on teacher quality, and the recently enacted No Child Left Behind Legislation.
