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Program: Public Education Grants Year: 2007
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Program: Public Education Grants
For Year: 2007
ACORN Institute
718-246-7900 ext. 201
2-4 Nevins Street, Brooklyn
New York, New York 11217
Pat McCoy Director
718-246-7900 ext. 201
http://www.acorninstitute.org
Size: $40,000
2007
Public Education Grants
Founded in 1970, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), is a national network of local grassroots organizations with over 350,000 low and moderate income members in 110 cities and 39 states. ACORN chapters in California, New York, Illinois and Philadelphia have led successful campaigns to engage lower income parents and community members in education reform efforts to increase resources for schools, improve teacher recruitment and retention, provide professional development for new teachers, and increase access to rigorous coursework for all students. Through the national office, ACORN has developed formal mechanisms for training affiliate chapters and engaging them in addressing educational inequities in their communities. Hazen’s grant of $40,000 will enable ACORN to utilize the skills and knowledge dispersed throughout the network to increase the capacity to undertake successful education campaigns in other cities, including Miami/Dade County, FL; St. Louis, MO; Hartford, CT; and Houston, TX.
Center for Immigrant Families (CIF)
212-531-3011
20 West 104th Street, Basement
New York, New York 10025
Priscilla Gonzalez
212-531-3011
http://www.c4if.org
Size: $35,000
2007
Public Education Grants
The Center for Immigrant Families is an intergenerational collective that has been building the collective power, leadership, and capacity of low-income Manhattan Valley residents of color to organize around issues of social, economic and racial justice since 1997. In the last two-years, with support from the Edward W. Hazen Foundation, CIF has expanded its membership, improved the leadership of its membership through a new Leadership Development program, increased the visibility of its work in schools and in the community and has actively monitored the first two years of its victory to implement a lottery process for equitable admission in District 3 elementary schools. Hazen’s renewed support of $35,000 over the next year will allow CIF to continue to desegregate District 3 schools ensuring the implementation of equitable admission policies for non-catchment students, eventually eliminating catchment lines and Gifted and Talented programs and to hold the schools accountable for providing adequate language services.
COMMUNITY ASSET DEVELOPMENT RE-DEFINING EDUCATION (CADRE)
Community Partners
8510 ½ South Broadway
Los Angeles,, California 90003
Maisie Chin Director
http://www.cadre-la.org
Size: $40,000
2007
Public Education Grants
CADRE is a multi-ethnic parent led organization in South Los Angeles founded in 2002. CADRE utilizes a human rights framework for their work on education, driven by their understanding that insufficient resources, low expectations, alienation of parents and “zero tolerance” practices combine to drive students out of school. Their organizing resulted in the District’s adoption of a revised discipline policy emphasizing supports for positive behavior and early intervention rather than suspensions and expulsions and provides specific roles for parents. Hazen’s renewal grant of $40,000 will support CADRE in ensuring that the new policy is enacted and can be a basis for changing conditions and culture to emphasize quality teaching and learning over punitive practices.
