Economic Development & Justice Fund 2002–2003 Grant Partners
| Building Futures with Women and Children |
$25,000 |
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San Leandro. Funding to develop and implement a life skills curriculum for homeless and battered women in shelters. The curriculum educates, supports and empowers women to move from economic crisis to economic stability and self-reliance.
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| California Budget Project |
$25,000 |
Sacramento. To fund an assessment of how recent wage and income trends impact California women, and to launch a public education effort to inform policy debates on issues that affect the social and economic well-being of families.
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| Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth |
$25,000 |
San Francisco. To support the training and skill building of twenty-five local leaders in child care to organize and lead advocacy campaigns.
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| Creating Economic Opportunities for Women |
$10,000 |
Oakland. To fund organizational capacity building activities including the creation of a strategic development plan and the completion of a training curriculum.
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| Equal Rights Advocates (ERA) |
$25,000 |
San Francisco. Funding to support an equal opportunity public service campaign promoting the hiring, training, advancement and fair compensation of the retail industry’s female workforce.
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| Just Economics |
$5,000 |
Berkeley. To support the publication and distribution of an economic education manual for economic justice activists.
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| LIFETIME (Low Income Families’ Empowerment through Education) |
$25,000 |
Oakland. To support Education Works!, a campaign to improve policies on access to post-secondary education for mothers on welfare.
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| National Economic Development Law Center |
$25,000 |
Oakland. To support educational workshops on collective bargaining and Living Wage campaign advocacy for local unions and labor representatives.
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| OpNet Community Ventures |
$25,000 |
San Francisco. To support a program designed to increase the participation of young women in the technology industry through outreach, training and support services.
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| Tradeswomen, Inc. |
$25,000 |
Oakland. To support board development and organizational strategic planning.
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| Women’s Initiative for Self Employment (WISE) |
$25,000 |
San Francisco. To fund workshops on business plan assessment and entrepreneurial readiness for women in San Francisco County.
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| Working Partnerships USA |
$20,000 |
San Jose. To support a women-centered research project that explores the recession’s impact on women in Santa Clara County and to develop strategies to increase the representation of women in higher paying non-traditional jobs.
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