2009 Victor & Lorraine Hong Fund Grants

In 2009, the Victor & Lorraine Hong Fund awarded 68 grants totaling $410,500.

ACLU Foundation of Northern California (ACLU-NC) • San Francisco, CA
To support litigation, public education and community organizing programs in defense of civil liberties, the freedom of expression, the right to privacy, and the right to be free of discrimination.

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) • San Francisco, CA
For the Pacific Mountain region of the AFSC, and its Middle East Program which works to address the root causes of injustice, and war, and advocate for peaceful and just conflict resolution through community organizing and education.

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.

Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network (PLAN) • Oakland, CA
To support community organizing for education justice in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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.

California Coalition for Women Prisoners • San Francisco, CA
For organizing and leadership development among women and transgender prisoners and family members of prisoners and advocate for racial and gender justice.

Center for Constitutional Rights • New York, NY
To support the empowerment of poor communities and communities of color, and to protect and advance the constitutional and human rights of those with the fewest protections and least access to legal resources.

Center for Investigative Reporting • Berkeley, CA
For the work of this news organization that seeks to strengthen democracy by revealing injustice and abuse of power.

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.

Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) • Ventura, CA
To promote economic and social justice in the Central Coast region of California, with an emphasis on community organizing and policy advocacy to expand living wages, health coverage, and accountable development ordinances for working people.

Chinese Progressive Association • San Francisco, CA
To support education and organizing in San Francisco's low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in order to build collective power and demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.

Coalition for Alternatives 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.

Coalition on Homelessness - San Francisco • San Francisco, CA
To support the Coalition's work to unite homeless people and service providers with concerned community members in developing program and policy changes that result in the creation of exits from poverty.

Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth • San Francisco, CA
To support this community organization that works to transform San Francisco's services and policies for children, youth and their families in order to create a more family-friendly community.

Common Counsel Foundation Grassroots Exchange Fund • Oakland, CA
To support capacity building, networking and collaboration for grassroots social change and environmental justice organizations accross the nation.

Communities for a Better Environment • Oakland, CA
To support efforts that advance environmental health and justice in California by building grassroots power in working class communities.

Communities United Against Violence (CUAV) • San Francisco, CA
To support the nation’s first LGBTQ anti-violence organization in efforts to prevent and respond to violence against and within diverse LGBTQ communities.

Community Music Center • San Francisco, CA
To support this San Francisco-based music center that focuses on serving low-income families through its music education programs.

Courage to Resist • Oakland, CA
For organizing to support the rights of military resisters and conscientious objectors.

Critical Resistance • Oakland, CA
To help build a grassroots movement in Oakland to combat the mass incarceration of low income communities and communities of color and develop leadership in affected communities.

Defending Dissent Foundation • Silver Spring, MD
To support programs that expose encroachment by government agencies on the rights of free expression, and that educate audiences about existing threats to the First Amendment.

East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) • Oakland, CA
To support efforts to end low-wage poverty and increase economic equity in the East Bay by creating and supporting strong labor, community, and faith-based coalitions.

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) • New York, NY
For the work of this national media watch group that offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship and advocates for greater diversity in the press.

Filipinos for Affirmative Action • Oakland, CA
To promote civil and human rights in Filipino and other Asian and Pacific Islander communities.

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.

Global Exchange • San Francisco, CA
To support the work of this international human rights organization, dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.

Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training • Oakland, CA
To support training and capacity building for community-based organizations on grassroots fundraising for social justice.

H.O.M.E.Y. - Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth • San Francisco, CA
To support youth empowerment for at-risk and low-income Latino/a youth in the San Francisco Mission District.

Henry Lefferts Scholarship Fund of the City College Fund • New York, NY
To help bridge a gap in areas that are not supported by public funds such as scholarships for needy students and academic programs.

In These Times • Chicago, IL
For general support of this magazine which is dedicated to informing and analyzing popular movements for social, environmental and economic justice.

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) • Minneapolis, MN
For the organization's work to promote resilient family farms, rural communities, and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.

Institute for Policy Studies • Washington, DC
In support of this multi-issue think tank that strengthens and links social movements and transforms ideas into action for peace, justice, and the environment.

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.

Iraq Veterans Against the War • Philadelphia, PA
To support this growing national movement of veterans and active duty troops who are speaking out and taking action to bring immediate withdrawal of US forces from Iraq.

Jewish Music Festival • Berkeley, CA
In support of music that celebrates the Jewish experience and explores what it means to be Jewish in a multicultural world, challenging stereotypes and fostering engagement with the broader community.

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.

KWMR • Point Reyes Station, CA
To support this community radio station, which promotes independent media, and creates and broadcasts local programming that gives voice to the diverse passions and concerns of residents of West Marin in northern California.

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of SF Bay Area • San Francisco, CA
To provide free legal assistance to people of color, poor people, and immigrants and refugees on civil legal matters, and for policy impact cases that focus on important legal rights issues.

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children - All of Us or None • San Francisco, CA
To support organizing and leadership development among formerly incarcerated people in order to advocate for civil and economic rights, and an end to the mass incarceration of low income communities of color.

Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) • Point Reyes Station, CA
For general support of this member-supported nonprofit organization with a mission to permanently preserve Marin County farmlands for agricultural use.

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.

National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (NNIRR) • Oakland, CA
For efforts to promote a just immigration and refugee policy in the United States and to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status.

New Israel Fund • San Francisco, CA
To provide support for this fund which provides legal and practical assistance to Palestinian residents of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and which advocates for changes to abusive policies.

Oakland ACORN • Oakland, CA
To support community organizing for housing justice in response to the forclosure crisis.

Oakland Rising • Oakland, CA
To support civic engagement and political empowerment for marginalized communities in Oakland.

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 (People United for Economic Justice Building Leadership through Organizing) • 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.

Rosenberg Fund for Children • Easthampton, MA
To support children of progressive activists whose parents have been targeted because of their progressive activities, and for youth who are targeted activists themselves.

San Francisco Day Labor Program 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.

Save the Bay • Oakland, CA
To support work to celebrate, protect and restore the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Delta as a healthy and biologically diverse ecosystem.

Service Women's Action Network (SWAN) • New York, NY
For this new network of veteran women and civilian allies that provides wide-ranging support to active duty servicewomen and veterans and to counsel young women who are considering military service.

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition • San Jose, CA
For the work of this grassroots coalition that engages in research, advocacy, and organizing around the environmental and human health problems caused by the rapid growth of the high-tech industry.

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.

St. Peter's Housing Committee • San Francisco, CA
To organize and build power among low-income immigrant tennants in San Francisco and advocate for immigrant rights and housing justice.

The Dance Palace • Point Reyes, CA
For this non-profit community center providing a wide variety of educational, recreational, cultural and community services for people of all ages and backgrounds in West Marin.

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.

Young Workers United • San Francisco, CA
To organize young people in San Francisco to demand rights as workers, and to unite the youth and labor movements to raise standards in non-union, low-wage jobs.

Youth United for Community Action • East Palo Alto, CA
To organize low-income young people of color in East Palo Alto to fight industrial pollution in their neighborhoods and build healthy and empowered communities.

Z Magazine • Woods Hole, MA
To support this independent publication of critical thinking on political, cultural, social and economic life in the U.S., which aims to assist activist efforts for a better future.