SPRING 2006 AGAPE FOUNDATION GRANT RECIPIENTS

The Edge of Each Other’s Battles Project Military Out of Our Schools-Bay Area San Francisco Freedom School   FACES Next Generation Youth Peace Campaign Sunbula: Arab Feminists for Change   Insight Garden Program at San Quentin North Coast Action United Genders of the Universe!   Men’s Community Action Project radioActive sanDiego

The Edge of Each Other’s Battles Project Oakland, CA // The Agape Foundation Board of Trustees Grant $1,000   Support for the development of a donor base and enhanced fundraising capacity; to prepare and distribute a newsletter to supporters; and to create, print and distribute a brochure. This grant will expand the organization’s outreach to academic scholars and social justice activists in order to strengthen alliance-building across those communities. Top

Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solutions (FACES) Oakland, CA www.facessolidarity.org // David R. Stern Fund Grant $2,000   Support for the organization in the initial stages of an advocacy campaign on Chevron’s Corporate Social Environmental Responsibility practices, in and around communities in California and the Philippines. Through postcard campaigns, political education, and peaceful demonstration, FACES hopes to push Chevron to meet with fence line communities to develop solutions to the environmental injustices caused by Chevron refineries. Top

Insight Garden Program at San Quentin Berkeley, CA // The Agape Foundation Board of Trustees Grant $1,000   General operating support, including possible website development. The Insight Garden Program rehabilitates prisoners through the process of organic gardening, and participants learn vocational and life skills to be used both inside and outside prison. Top

Men’s Community Action Project San Francisco, CA www.generationdfive.org // The Agape Foundation Board of Trustees Grant $1,800 Support to educate the public about child sexual abuse and its relationship to other forms of violence and oppression, and increase the number of men in the Bay Area engaged in the movement to end child sexual abuse. This will be accomplished mainly through the distribution and facilitated screenings of a DVD compilation of personal stories. Top

Military Out of Our Schools-Bay Area Oakland, CA www.objector.org/moos-bay.html // David R. Stern Fund Grant $2,000 Support for student organizing on four different high school campuses where participants in the ON THE FRONTLINES conference attend. ON THE FRONTLINES was a successful conference held in October of 2005 where students and adults came together to focus on counter-recruitment strategies. During the spring semester, the participants will reach more than 2000 students through counter-recruitment events and actions on the campuses. Top

Next Generation Youth Peace Campaign San Anselmo, CA www.gonextgeneration.org // David R. Stern Fund Grant $2,000 Support to help young people learn about U.S. foreign policy and military spending, gain activist skills, and organize and work for peace. Currently, they are working to create a youth movement that can help end the war on Iraq and prevent future wars. Top

North Coast Action Fort Bragg, CA www.northcoastacion.org // The Agape Foundation Board of Trustees Grant $1,500 // The Wayne R. Hultgren Memorial Fund for Peace and Social Justice $500 Support to educate the North Coast community about toxins and clean-up issues related to the now closed Georgia Pacific mill site. North Coast Action uses nonviolent communication and a cooperative, interactive approach to mobilize citizens to act as environmental stewards in the remediation and restoration of the 434-acre coastal property. Top

radioActive sanDiego San Diego, CA http://radioactiveradio.org // The Agape Foundation Board of Trustees Grant $2,000 Support to help provide space for a locally produced “Communities of San Diego” radio show. The group will launch an educational outreach campaign with the goal of building a network of resistance movements in San Diego and the larger Southern California region, and to provide a forum to promote the growth and development of individual progressive movements. Top

San Francisco Freedom School San Francisco, CA www.educationanddemocracy.org // David R. Stern Fund Grant $2,000 Support to purchase curriculum materials, pay for guest speaker honorariums, and for operating expenses for their summer 2006 program. The Freedom School is a series of summer classes that provide activists, educators, students and adults with an opportunity to analyze how social movements happen. Participants study how everyday people, not just famous leaders, created and sustained the Civil Rights Movement. Top

Sunbula: Arab Feminists for Change San Francisco, CA www.sunbulawomen.org // The Agape Foundation Board of Trustees Grant $2,000 Support for a weekend art exhibition, Prologue and Epilogue: Arab Feminism Past and Present, an extravaganza night of spoken word and art performance. A touring exhibition will bring the theme of Arab feminism and its impact on Arab women artists to a number of California communities. Top

United Genders of the Universe! San Francisco, CA www.unitedgenders.org // The Emmy Lefson Memorial Fund for Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights $2,000   Support to to cover the cost of running and maintaining the Gender Education and Advocacy Speakers Bureau Project. The Speakers Bureau provides bi-weekly free or low-cost educational presentations to medical professionals, students, nonprofit organizations and businesses in the Bay Area. Speakers explain gender identity and language, and raise awareness about the ongoing violence, employment discrimination, lack of legal rights, and daily harassment faced by genderqueer, intersex and transgender people. Top

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