Mission: Use organic gardening as a way to engage students,
teachers and community members in issues of ecology, local food economies,
sustainability, nutrition, health and environmental literacy.
Funding
Purpose:Fund a 7-month extension program, Spread Your Roots, so motivated,
experienced BUGS students expand their knowledge, share their passion for
sustainable agriculture, become leaders, teachers, and builders of new gardens
and share a new way of looking at our food. These young leaders will
increasingly impact our community as they take on more ownership of the BUGS mission.
Mission: Provide a voice for Idahoans committed to progressive
social change, empower disenfranchised people and develop new leadership in Idaho.
Funding Purpose: Support the Idaho Manufactured/Mobile Home Owners Association, ICAN's
newest project, which will educate and organize residents of mobile home parks
to promote policies that respect their rights as homeowners.
Mission: Promote the
social welfare of the Latino community through research and education about
social justice issues that affect the social well-being of Idaho’s Latinos.
Funding
Purpose:
Increase IHCIRE's capacity to work on a range of issues, including Census 2010,
redistricting, the continued need to create an Office of Minority Health and
address nonpartisan civic engagement issues in the Latino Community during a
year of statewide elections.
Mission: Preserve the economic
well-being of Idaho’s
family farms and rural communities; build a more sustainable society to secure
positive economic and social choices for present and future generations; and
achieve good stewardship of humanity, land, air, and water.
Funding Purpose: Support IRC's community organizing by grassroots members in rural areas
though their "Fighting Factory
Farms" and "Paving the Way for Renewable Energy" campaigns.
Mission: Use community organizing, advocacy and education to unite
the voices of Idaho
women, families, and communities to strengthen democracy and promote human
rights.
Funding Purpose: Continue human rights work with the main areas of focus to include
reproductive justice and LGBTQ equality. To achieve this, we will use
grassroots organizing, education, public forums, leadership development and
advocacy to work for improved conditions for all Idahoans.
Mission: Offer
a mainstream, faith-based agenda committed to the pursuit of individual dignity
and the importance of community; and promote the positive, healing role of
religion in public life through fostering civic participation, facilitating
inclusive community activism, and challenging religious political extremism.
Funding Purpose: Expand Democracy Circle: Building
Beloved Community, a grassroots organizing program to increase membership
in TIA and build a broader base of informed, civically active, people of faith
and good will statewide.
Mission:
Work cooperatively to develop a local food system that: increases local fresh
produce donations, plays a role in reducing greenhouse gasses, promotes healthy
eating habits, engages citizens in sustainable food practices, and strengthens
our community.
Funding
Purpose: Fund the "Community Roots" Project to create a small
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) on a demonstrations farm near Coeur
d'Alene, ID. Half the CSA subscriptions are targeted to low-income families, so
this project both feeds people and brings them out of hardship. This model
creates a network of people around vulnerable citizens to share the experience,
risks, and rewards of a CSA.
MAS (Movimiento
Activista Social): Matching Grant - $1000
Mission: Build equal and just communities in Idaho that appreciate the worth and
value of all humans. Build leadership within our membership and take action on
social justice issues affecting our
low-income minority communities and families, such as immigrant rights, racial
equity, gender equity, cultural awareness, and fair access to education.
Funding Purpose: Send members
to CSTI (August 2010) to gain leadership and organizing skills and learn about
social justice work being done around the region. Participants will bring back
important knowledge that will allow them to develop programs and events that
promote their mission and create significant social change in their communities
across Idaho.
Mission: Bring Idaho Latinas
together to examine and take action on issues affecting their communities; develop
new Latina
leaders and ensure that each new leader takes an active role in society; and
value the power of every woman.
Funding Purpose:Send 3 "new" Latinas to CSTI; work on
reproductive justice in Wilder, ID; continue "Parent Power"
mini-conferences; increase civic participation among Latinos and low-income
Idahoans in Canyon County through work with the ICAN coalition; engage Amigas
in board-run monthly trainings and community projects; enhance the importance
of the MUI Annual Conference through relevant high-quality workshops focused on
community issues; and recognize prominent local Latinas at the Mujer del Ano
event.
Mission: Use advocacy, research, support and education to improve
the quality of life of seriously mentally ill persons and their families. Raise
awareness of the connection between
mental illness and homelessness, discrimination, victimization and the stigma
experienced by the mentally ill. Protect their human rights while advocating
for effective treatment; thereby empowering them to become productive citizens.
Funding Purpose:Decrease stigma, teach tolerance and respect, create
understanding of symptoms and behaviors, and encourage recovery and re-entry
through educating families of those living with severe mental illness, the
mentally ill themselves, the community at large, and the public service workers
who are the first responders in the event of mental illness crises.
