2008 Victor & Lorraine Honig Fund Grants
In 2008, the Victor & Lorraine Hong Fund awarded 72 grants totaling $406,000.Alliance of Forest Workers and Harvesters • Willow Creek, CA
A renewal grant for this multicultural organization of forest workers in the Pacific Northwest that promotes social, environmental and economic justice for its members.
American Jewish World Service • San Francisco, CA
A renewal grant to support this organization's efforts to build civil society, foster sustainable development and promote human dignity for all people.
Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) • San Francisco, CA
To support civil rights and community empowerment for Arab Americans and Arab Immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice • Oakland, CA
To support community organizing in Asian American and Asian Immigrant communities to advance reproductive justice.
Asian Pacific Environmental Network • Oakland, CA
To empower low-income Asian Pacific Islanders to demand environmental and social justice for their communities in Richmond and Oakland, California.
Black Alliance for Just Immigration • Berkeley, CA
In support of the organization's efforts to inform black immigrants and African Americans about current and proposed immigration policy and to involve them in the immigrant rights movement.
Brit Tzedek V'Shalom (Jewish Alliance for Justice & Peace) • Chicago, IL
To support the national and international civil and human rights organizing efforts of the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace.
Center for Media Justice (formerly Youth Media Council) • Oakland, CA
To amplify the public voice of the youth movement and develop the leadership of marginalized youth to organize for media accountability and progressive media change.
Center for Popular Economics • Amherst, MA
For scholarships for low-income participants in the Center's trainings on just economies.
Center for Young Women's Development • San Francisco, CA
To support this community based youth-driven organization working with low-income young women in the juvenile justice system and underground economy.
Coal River Mountain Watch • Whitesville, WV
For this Appalachian grassroots organization fighting mountain top removal coal mining in order to protect the health of communities and the environment in West Virginia.
Coalition Against Militarism in our Schools (CAMS) • South Pasadena, CA
To support youth education on the realities of military service, and to address the disproportionate targeting of low-income youth and youth of color for military service.
CODEPINK, Women for Peace • San Francisco, CA
For this women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect the United States' resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities.
Common Counsel Foundation Grassroots Exchange Fund • Oakland, CA
To support capacity building, networking and collaboration between grassroots social change and environmental justice organizations accross the nation.
Communities for a Better Environment • Huntington Park, CA
To support efforts toward achieving environmental health and justice in California by building grassroots power in working class communities.
CorpWatch • Oakland, CA
To expand coverage of corporate war and disaster profiteers, and to increase the capacity to investigate corporate malfeasance and support activism for greater transparency and accountability.
Courage to Resist • Oakland, CA
For organizing to support the rights of military resisters and conscientious objectors.
Death Penalty Focus • San Francisco, CA
To educate the public about the inherent inequities and flaws of the death penalty system.
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights • Oakland, CA
To support youth to push California legislators to move budget priorities away from incarceration and towards stronger investment in public education.
FACTS Education Fund (Families to Amend California's Three Strikes) • Los Angeles, CA
To support organizing among families that have been impacted by California's Three Strikes Law and to end the mass incarceration of communities of color.
Free Battered Women • San Francisco, CA
To support this organization's work to end the re-victimization of incarcerated survivors of domestic violence.
Gay Straight Alliance Network • San Francisco, CA
For the Central Valley Safe Schools Project, a youth-led grassroots organizing project that seeks to create safer schools for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered youth in the Central Valley.
Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training • Oakland, CA
To support the Raising Change conference on grassroots fundraising for social justice.
H.O.M.E.Y. • San Francisco, CA
To support youth empowerment for at-risk and low-income Latino/a youth in the San Francisco Mission District.
Institute for Public Accuracy • San Francisco, CA
To gain wide media access for progressive researchers, activists and analysts from the public policy field focusing on peace and security, environmental protection, civil liberties, federal budget priorities and economic justice.
Jewish Voice for Peace • Oakland, CA
To support solidarity organizing within Jewish communities in the San Francisco Bay Area to promote a lasting peace in the Middle East that recognizes the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians for security and self-determination.
Just Cause Oakland • Oakland, CA
For general support to organize and empower low-income tenants in Oakland to fight for strong neighborhoods, affordable and safe housing, and tenant protections.
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, Inc. • New York, NY
For analysis of and advocacy around nuclear weapons policies in the United States and globally.
Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) • Los Angeles, CA
To address civil rights, violence, housing, food access, and other economic issues for low-income people in central Los Angeles.
Military Families Speak Out Education Fund Inc. • Jamaica Plain, MA
To support the efforts of military families to organize for an end to war and adequate services for service personnel and veterans.
Our Family Coalition • San Francisco, CA
To promote the civil rights and well-being of San Francisco Bay Area families with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members.
Parent Voices - San Francisco • San Francisco, CA
To support this organization's efforts to make quality child care available to all families who need it.
PODER (People Organized to Demand Economic & Environmental Rights) • San Francisco, CA
To organize residents of San Francisco's Mission District to build leadership among immigrant communities, and youth in particular, to protect their neighborhood from economic and environmental inequities.
POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights) • San Francisco, CA
To support this multiracial organization which works to build the power and voice of no- and low-wage workers in San Francisco.
Progressive Jewish Alliance • El Cerrito, CA
General support for this organization's work to bring a progressive Jewish voice to civil rights, worker's rights and social justice campaigns in the Bay Area.
Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (Project YANO) • Encinitas, CA
To support youth education on the realities of military service, and to address the disproportionate targeting of low-income youth and youth of color for military service.
PUEBLO Education Fund • Santa Barbara, CA
To advocate for policies that foster social and economic justice, and build power and leadership among low-income Santa Barbara residents, especially new immigrants.
San Francisco Day Labor Program / Colectiva de Mujeres (Women's Collective) • San Francisco, CA
To support immigrant women organizing for economic and social justice in the Bay Area.
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival • San Francisco, CA
In support of this organization's work to utilize media arts to foster cultural understanding.
San Francisco Senior Action Network • San Francisco, CA
For grassroots organizing to improve the lives of senior citizens in San Francisco.
South of Market Community Action Network • San Francisco, CA
To organize and advocate for social justice and equity for low income people in San Francisco's South Of Market neighborhood.
Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action (TIGRA) • Oakland, CA
To support TIGRA’s Campaign for Remittance Fairness and Community Reinvestment, which convenes multiple immigrant communities in a nationally-coordinated corporate accountability campaign on the funds-remittance industry.
Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) • Livermore, CA
To help prevent the further development of nuclear weapons and the planned increase of highly radioactive plutonium amounts at the US Department of Energy facility in Livermore, California.
Young Workers United • San Francisco, CA
To organize young people in San Francisco to demand rights as workers, students and consumers to hold corporations and policymakers accountable, and to unite the youth and labor movements to raise standards in non-union, low-wage jobs.
Western Regional Advocacy Project • San Francisco, CA
In support of advocacy and public policy efforts aimed at making the ending of homelessness a national priority.
Western States Legal Foundation • Oakland, CA
For general support to connect the anti-nuclear and anti-war movements by producing educational materials and action ideas to abolish nuclear weapons in a new partnership with anti-war organizations.
Women of Color Resource Center • Oakland, CA
For this community action and resource center which builds leadership in the community and works on social justice issues that affect women of color.
