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The Peace Education Project is part of Peace Action Wisconsin, which encourages education and activism against violence. This grant will be used to purchase a custom-activities-computer system for the office that will improve PEP's performance and capacity to organize for peace and justice. The updated networked system will greatly enhance efficiency and organizing outreach

Based in Madison, this organization works to improve communities throughout Dane County by developing strong leaders and lasting relationships. Funds will be used to develop and implement a Spanish language aspect of the grassroots leadership training programs.

Comprised of a coalition of individuals, interfaith bodies, labor unions, religious congregations and community organizations, Interfaith works to educate workers about their rights while building relationships among these groups throughout South Central Wisconsin. Funds will be used to help cover salary and benefit expenses for the staff and to help launch the Madison Interpreters' Collective to increase access for non-English speakers and assist organizations to reach out to non-English speakers.

TAPIT/new works to make connections among people of different backgrounds through the arts. This grant will go towards several art residencies based on collaboration with community groups and schools to explore key social, political and economic issues.

By increasing the numbers, diversity and abilities of community leaders, this organization works to create and strengthen community relationships. Funds will be used to help with the salary for an apprentice to be placed with a group working for social change and social justice in either Madison or Milwaukee.

This project partners Madison with a sister city in El Salvador, creating bonds and support in the fight for peace, justice and democracy. The grant will be used to cover six months salary for the part time staff/main organizer.

Through family strengthening programs and a youth program, the Hmong American Women's Association works to develop and strengthen leadership in the Hmong American community. Funding will be used to add a community organizer component to an existing half-time outreach coordinator to continue the work with Hmong refugees. The bulk of this funding will be used as salary to create a full-time community organizer.

(September 2005) Funding went towards helping out with printing and advertising and film costs for the film festival to be held in conjunction with "Coming Out Day" last October. The LGBT Resource Center is a relatively new organization and the idea for the film festival was developed after the year had been planned. In order to hold down costs, the films were shown at UW-LaCrosse and there was no charge for attendance. In conjunction with the film festival, the Resource Center brought "Love Makes a Family," a photo-text exhibit developed by the Family Diversity Project, to LaCrosse.

(October 2005)    The Peace Education Project, a part of Peace Action Wisconsin, has a history of innovative initiatives around peace in the Milwaukee area. This grant went for the initial startup costs of a PEP television program on Milwaukee Area Television Access (MATA) Community Media station.

(February 2006) Funds helped pay for application for 501 (c)3 status. "Timebanking" is an innovative way for low-income families to help meet each other's needs. For each hour spent helping some­one else, a person can get an hour of someone else's time. This process is used across the country.

(February 2006)  WISPIRG  (Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group) works to uncover threats to public health through investigation, media exposition and litigation. Funds went to help pay for travel of trainers for the Midwest Student Energy Conference, which brings together students from across the Midwest to build a network of activists focused on energy issues and technologies used by universities and colleges. This is the first such conference in the Midwest.

(April 2006) WNPJ is currently involved in the production and distribution of a Statewide Fair Trade Directory, which serves as a valuable resource to all who support fair trade practices in Wis­consin. The grant helped supplement the costs incurred by production and distribution of the Directory, including work study that brings youth and diversity to the WNPJ office.

(April 2006) Funding was used to help pay for travel costs for the film crew of Break Borders, a film about break dancing and how it creates international communities that transcend racial, ethnic, religious and geographical boundaries. Screening the film is part of the Stop the Rail to Jail Conference, a day long youth-run conference, which targets Wisconsin high school students on building community and breaking isolation through hip hop and leadership.

This group, created in 1999 works to reacquire and preserve the land of the Red Cliff Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa in Northern Wisconsin through education, planning and conservation. Portions of the grant go towards the creation of this land trust. The Red Cliff Band is the second poorest Chippewa Tribe in Wisconsin. The Tribe's land was signed away to the federal government in the 1850's, the primary reason for the poverty now engulfing the reservation (49% unemployment during winter months). The current grant will be used to transition the project into a land trust.

(November 2005)  WAOP recruits, selects, places, trains and supports apprentices in the community organizing with groups working for social justice in Madison and Milwaukee.

(April 2006)  WAOP recruits, selects, places, trains and supports apprentices in the community organizing with groups working for social justice in Madison and Milwaukee.

(January 2006) Peace Action seeks to educate and inform about working for peace in local neighborhoods, the nation and the world.

Founded in 1986 by activist teachers, Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit, independent pub¬lisher of educational materials. The group advocateds the reform of elementary and sedond-ary education with a strong emphasis on issuesof equity and social justice.

Action Wisconsin aims to provide educational resources on legal matters and other issues for Wisconsin's LGBT citizens and their families. 

2004-2005 Donor Advised Grants Total: 

Grand Total

$ 157,663.13

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