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Bushido Judo School ($7,000) - Warriors of Peace Program: Implementation of a youth leadership program that focuses on anti-bullying strategies and helps children find peaceful solutions to violent or aggressive confrontations.
Communities In Schools of Durham County ($10,000) - The Incredible Years: Early intervention delinquency prevention program that involves parents and children at Eastway Elementary School in Durham.
Deep River Mediation ($10,000) - Bridging the Leadership Gap: School-based leadership development program for middle school youth involved in Chatham County's Teen Court.
Durham P.R.O.U.D. Program ($9,500) - Program Expansion Project: Expansion of Work Readiness, Young Men's and Young Women's Groups to serve an additional 6-8 young people in each program. PROUD develops responsible behavior among Durham's youth and to deter court referred youth for becoming repeat offenders.
Learning Assistance, Inc. ($15,000) - Youth Empowerment Program: Program serving 6-8 grade students living in Durham public housing that provides them with the necessary skills, resources, knowledge, and motivation to take responsibility for their life planning through interpersonal skills, education, and career development.
Loaves and Fishes Ministry ($8,000) - Empowerment Through Exposure: After-school enrichment activities including community service projects, sports and recreation, creative writing, healthy eating, gang awareness, and career exploration for young people in Southeast Raleigh.
Read and Feed ($5,000) - Community Partners for Literacy: Materials for Read and Feed's Feed the Reader Show, a mobile program providing books, computers, literacy training, and a healthy dinner to low income families in Wake County.
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic ($10,000) - Expanding Use of Assistive Technology to Improve Academic Success of At-Risk Students: Partnership between RFB&D and the John Avery Boys and Girls Club to identify and assist children who would benefit from RFB&D's audio textbooks and literature program.
SEEDS ($8,000) - SEEDlings Leadership Project: Funding to implement a leadership component for SEEDlings, a free after-school enrichment program to serves low-income elementary school children.
Volunteers for Youth ($5,000) - Youth Vision: Provision of VFY's services to young people currently on waiting list for mentors.
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association ($10,000) - Grassroots Leadership Development for Food Security: Increasing the local sustainable food supply by empowering local farmers to demand institutional change at the local and state levels.
Democracy North Carolina ($15,000) - Having Your Say on the Same Day: Public education and empowerment about Same Day Voter Registration among communities that have a history of low voter participation.
Equality NC Foundation ($7,000) - Community organizing to grow Equality NC's activist base and work to pass anti-bullying legislation at the NC General Assembly.
NC Rural Communities Assistance Project ($15,000) - Hogares Sanos Para Todos: Leadership development program that will equip Chatham County Latino leaders with the tool to address affordable housing needs and local housing policy.
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty ($15,000) - Triangle Grassroots Education and Mobilization: Public education and mobilization program designed to empower Triangle citizens to call for a suspension of executions and significant reforms to the death penalty system.
Preservation Durham ($15,000) - Project RED: Project RED (Revitalize East Durham) will address issues of crime and diminishing affordable housing stock in the East Durham community by working with neighborhood to identify, purchase, stabilize, and resell homes to ensure that they are renovated by owner occupants.
Triangle Lost Generation Taskforce ($10,500) - The Prevention Project: Public education and mobilization of African American and Latino communities about street gang prevention and direct lobbying at the NC General Assembly for effective street gang prevention legislation.
The Augustine Project ($11,450) - Multisensory, Structured Language Training: Training volunteer tutors to conduct long-term work with low-income youth who struggle with reading, writing, and spelling.
Chatham County Together ($15,000) - CCT! One-on-One Mentoring: Mentoring youth in Chatham County who have been to curt or have exhibited other signs of self-destructive behavior.
Communities In Schools of Orange County ($20,000) - Minority Math and Science Education Project: Encouraging math and science education through a summer and school-year project targeting first year high school students who are low-income, struggling academically, or minority students.
Durham County Teen Court and Restitution Program ($15,000) - Fighting Fair: Providing anger management and conflict resolution programming for youth involved in Durham Teen Court.
Durham Striders Track Club ($15,000) - 2007 Season Travel and Housing: Supporting travel and housing costs related to youth track team participation.
El Futuro ($15,000) - Family-Centered Child Treatment Team: Providing family-centered, culturally, and linguistically appropriate mental health and substance abuse treatment for Latino youth in Orange, Chatham, Durham, and Wake counties.
Neighbor to Neighbor Ministries ($15,000) - Youth and Family Development Program: Expanding tutoring, homework assistance, one-on-one mentoring, and leadership development training programs to replace alienation with a sense of positive community by connecting young people with caring, invested adults.
Girls on the Run of the Triangle ($15,000) - Partnership to Serve At-Risk Girls: Partnering with the Boys and Girls Club of Raleigh and Southwest Elementary School in Durham to provide exercise and self-esteem programming to at-risk girls.
John Avery Boys and Girls Club ($15,000) - Youth for Unity: Teaching young people to respectfully live with those who are different than they and benefit from others' experiences and beliefs.
Orange County Rape Crisis Center ($15,000) - Community Education and Prevention Program: Conducting school-based sexual violence education and prevention programming with youth throughout Orange County.
Philharmonic Association ($5,000) - Triangle Youth Orchestra: Providing a first musical ensemble experience and teaching leadership skills to elementary and middle school students.
Training for Success ($15,000) - Constructing Futures: Providing leadership development coaching , entrepreneurial training, and experiential learning opportunities in the construction trades to youth currently serving 365 and long-term suspensions from the Durham Public School System.
StepUP Ministry ($15,000) - Children's Program: Providing year-round, incentive-based, life-skills programming to children living through a time of transition.
Visual Art Exchange ($2,500) - Advancement and Opportunities for Visual Artists: Working with Wake County alternative schools to create a public art installation for Raleigh's City Market.
The Women's Center ($15,000)- Teens Climb High: Providing empowerment and pregnancy prevention programming to middle school girls from low-income families in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina ($9,000) - Grassroots Advocacy Project: Increasing public policy awareness and involvement among North Carolina's community-based adolescent health organizations and the youth they serve.
Agricultural Resources Center / Pesticide Education Project ($15,000) - Ninos Libres de Pesticidas: Advocacy Tools: Developing successful strategies for community organization and advocacy efforts in pesticide-affected Latino communities in the Triangle, particularly among parents of young children.
ARTS North Carolina ($4,000) - Arts Education: More than You Think: Creating and strengthening networks of parents, teachers, arts professionals, and community leaders to increase civic engagement of parental arts supports groups on issues of arts education policy and funding.
Common Cause Educational Fund ($14,000) - Democracy Restored: Engaging HBCU Students: Engaging, educating, and training students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities to become leaders and advocates on pro-democracy reform.
Generation Engage ($10,000) - NC Operations Budget: Salary support for an organization that connects young Americans to political leaders, to other civic organizations, and to meaningful debate through use of interactive technology.
Health Care for All NC ($14,925) - Health Care for All in the Triangle: Expanding two local chapters of Health Care for All in Wake and Durham / Orange Counties to include low-income and minority residents, those most likely to be uninsured.
Journey Institute / Family Center of Northern Durham ($15,000) - Parents with Power: Leadership development, governance activities, and participatory research strategies designed to increase parental involvement in the lives of their children, their children's schools, and the community at-large.
Kids Voting Wake County and Kids Voting Durham County ($15,000) - Responsible Citizenship, Reaching More Kids in Schools: Expanding programming that educates elementary, middle, and high school students about citizenship, civic participation, and the election process through classroom lessons, community civic activities, interaction with public officials, and election experiences.
NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina Foundation ($15,000) - Ensuring Access to Comprehensive Reproductive Health Information and Services: Increasing grassroots mobilization and citizen advocacy to support comprehensive reproductive health services through increasing membership, involving diverse communities, and building an effective well-organized majority.
Neuse River Foundation ($13,500) - Muddy Water Watch Project, Phase 1; Providing community-based citizen training designed to reduce sediment pollution.
North Carolina Conservation Network ($15,000) - Public Alert Project: Protecting North Carolina's air, water, and quality of life through building a public alert system and training activists to impact North Carolina's pressing environmental issues.
North Carolinians Against Gun Violence Education Fund ($15,000) - Engaging North Carolinians to Advocate For and Against Gun-Related Bills: Lobbying and generating grassroots advocacy in support of legislation that reduces gun violence.
Project Compassion ($15,000) - Launching a Public Policy Initiative Around Community-Based Caregiving: Analysis and articulation of a shared visions for community caregiving, public policy change, and clear action plans.
SURGE ($15,000)- SURGE Lilliput Network: Building an effective progressive youth movement for sustainability and social justice through a multi-issued network based in the Triangle and connecting over a thousand progressive student activists in high schools, colleges, community colleges, and universities.
Student Action with Farmworkers ($10,000) - From the Ground Up: Educating local students, people of faith, and consumers about the lives of immigrant farmworkers, the contributions agricultural workers make to our local communities, and how to engage in efforts to improve their living and working conditions.
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