Economic Development & Justice Fund (EDJe) 2003-2004 Grant Partners

 
California Budget Project $25,000
For general operating support, specifically to diversify their funding base and to further develop a business plan to market a micro-enterprise curriculum.
Creating Economic Opportunities for Women $25,000
For general operating support, specifically to diversify their funding base and to further develop a business plan to market a micro-enterprise curriculum.
Equal Rights Advocates (ERA) $25,000
To support Tradeswomen Legal Advocacy Project and it's two components: developing and prosecuting impact litigation; and coalition building. The two components of the project are preliminary steps to developing impact litigation aimed at eradicating the discriminatory practices that hinder women's full participation in the trades. Successful resolution of impact litigation should result in injunctive relief and a monitoring mechanism, which would strengthen the position of women in the industry, as well as punitive damages aimed at deterring future industry misconduct.
LIFETIME (Low Income Families’ Empowerment through Education) $25,000
To support the Education Works! Leadership Project, which will empower CalWORKs mothers to lead a statewide campaign to shape public opinion and win policy changes that expand low-income parents' opportunities for higher education and training for living wage jobs; to involve low-income parents in the state budget process, reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, reauthorization of TANF and its state implementation and win policy changes that will expand education and training opportunities for low-income parents in 2004–2005.
National Economic Development Law Center $25,000
To support CFESS’s work towards redefining poverty in the state of California, building on the lessons learned in piloting the Self-Sufficiency Standard in the California labor movement for the purposes of bargaining, organizing and working for local policy change. This grant will fund tailored trainings on using the Self-Sufficiency Standard for women labor leaders as well as advocacy for systemic use of the Standard within the California Labor Federation and at state and local level to create policies that benefit low-wage working women.
OpNet Community Ventures $25,000

To support Women’s Net, designed to empower low-income young women by creating access to well-paid jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities in technology through training, career development and support services.
San Francisco Works $25,000

To provide low-income women with remedial the academic training, skills training, professional coaching and hands-on experience they need to secure and retain jobs in the growing biotechnology industry or to enter the Biotechnology Certificate Program at City College of San Francisco.
Tradeswomen, Inc. $25,000

For general operating support, specifically for technical assistance in resource development and strategic planning to enable the organization to build capacity for future growth in order to increase the number of women in skilled trades.