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Program: Public Education Grants Year: 2000
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Program: Public Education Grants
For Year: 2000
EDWARD W. HAZEN FOUNDATION
(212) 889-3034
309 Fifth Ave., Suite 200-3
New York, New York 10016
Barbara A. Taveras President
hazen@hazenfoundation.org
(212) 889-3034
http://www.hazenfoundation.org
Size: $20,000
2000
Public Education Grants
Throughout the country, a growing number of social action and community-based organizations are organizing parents and community members to address inequities in policies and practices that negatively affect the education of children in low-income communities. In collaboration with other funders, the Hazen Foundation will develop and implement a series of training institutes for education organizers and parent leaders in an effort to increase the effectiveness of education organizing to impact teaching and learning at the school and system levels. A direct-charitable grant of $20,000 was approved to support the planning phase of the first institute, "Organizing for Educational Excellence," which is being planned for fall 2001.
FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE (FAC)
(718) 857-2990
141 Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11217
Brad Lander Executive Director
(718) 857-2990
http://www.fifthave.org
Size: $20,000
2000
Public Education Grants
Through the South Brooklyn Organizing for Public Eduction (SOPE) project, the Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC) seeks to create better educational opportunities for low-income and minority children in South Brooklyn. The project combines parent organizing around school-level issues with the development of a community-based education campus at the 14th Street Armory in Park Slope. The campus will serve as a vehicle for high quality, equitable education, as well as to engage the broader public in a dialogue about quality public education. FAC was awarded a one-year grant of $30,000 in support of this initiative.
FLORIDA ACORN
American Institute for Social Justice
(305) 438-9061
3050 Biscayne Blvd, Suite 101
Miami, Florida 33137
Eric Thompson Lead Organizer
flacorn@acorn.org
(305) 438-9061
http://www.acorn.org
Size: $30,000
2000
Public Education Grants
Through the Florida Parent Organizing Project, Florida Acorn is organizing parents and community residents in the neighborhoods of Little Haiti and Buena Vista in an effort to promote open communications between parents, teachers and administrators, as well as to increase parent involvement in school decision-making. An equally important goal of the project is to reform the Juvenile Assessment Center policy, which allows school principals, security guards, and the police to place students under arrest without parental notification. Florida Acorn received a $30,000 grant in support of this project.
