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Alice Hamburg
Emergency Fund History In 1991, a group of activists who were Agape Foundation donors opposed to the Gulf War established the Emergency Grant Fund in order to provide small grants to groups who wanted to oppose this global military attack. Over time, Agape's Board of Trustees expanded the Fund’s criteria to include funding for immediate responses to any critical, unexpected event, be it a military mobilization and/or action, an environmen-tal disaster, or a government or corporate action. In 2002, the Board of Trustees renamed the Fund in memory of Alice Hamburg, one of the original creators of the Fund. These are some highlights from the Alice Hamburg Emergency Fund's grant history: In 1996, the Fund supported the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters Forest’s outreach and public education response to logging in the Headwaters Forest. In 1999, the Fund made a grant to Western States Legal Foundation for its nonviolent efforts to oppose the war in Yugoslavia. In 2001, Youth Force Coalition received a grant to cover airfare for five youth activists to travel to San Diego where they successfully demanded that the California Board of Corrections halt funding for the expansion of Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall. Also in 2001, the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors received a grant for training materials for voluntary military counselors answering the increased demand for counseling on the GI Rights Hotline as a result of the events of September 11, 2001, and the US response to these events. In 2002, the Fund gave a grant to Every Mother is a Working Mother to send low-income mothers and caregivers to a Washington DC mobilization during the welfare reform reauthorization process. In that same year, a grant went to Interfaith Communities United for Justice & Peace’s mobilization of people of faith in Los Angeles to oppose the war. In 2003, the Fund made grants to three organizations opposing the war against Iraq: Baring Witness, Pacifica Reporters Against Censorship, and Peace House. |
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