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Workers Interfaith Network 2010 The Interfaith Center for Worker Justice (ICWJ) of the Workers Interfaith Network will continue its organizing efforts against wage theft through the "Clean up the Cleaning Industry" Campaign. Over the past two and a half years, ICWJ has partnered with hundreds of low-wage workers to secure over $450,000 in unpaid wages from employers in different industries. In 2010 ICWJ will deepen this work by organizing a proactive campaign with retail cleaning workers that gets to the roots of worker exploitation and wage theft in retail cleaning.
Women's Network of the Red River Valley 2010 The Women's Network of the Red River Valley (WNRRV), based in Moorhead, MN will focus its work in three phases: (1) Re-Framing Women's Reproductive Health, (2) Choice Women in Movement Building, and (3) Full Participation in Policy Making. This work will also lay the groundwork for future presentations and research that will lead to the improvement and preservation of women's reproductive healthcare and rights.
Wisconsin Tribal Language Consortium 2011 The WI Tribal Language Consortium is an ad-hoc alliance comprised of language teachers, program staff, and community activists throughout Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Indian Education Association 2011 WI Indian Educators and their allies are working for the elimination of race-based Indian nicknames, logos and mascots from WI public schools. Their work includes providing education to k-12 school board members, administrators, social studies and history teachers, and community members providing the rationale for change and assist in complaints that have been filed. They will work to defend Act 250 from constitutional challenges and legislative attempts to amend or appeal the law.
WI Indian Education Association 2012 WI Indian Education Association and their allies work for the elimination of race-based Indian nicknames, logos and mascots from WI public schools.
White Earth Land Recovery Project 2011 The White Earth Land Recovery Project is a multi-issue Native American organization based on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota.
West Side Citizens Organization 2010 The West Side Citizens Organization (WSCO) will continue its research into the underlying environmental realities in their neighborhood. WCSO will build its base of leaders, empowering communities of color, and low-income communities to increase community participation in the decisions that are being made on the West Side of St. Paul. In the end, WSCO will start to focus on a community plan with a vision for a healthy sustainable West Side.
West Side Citizens Organization 2011 The West Side Citizens Organization (WSCO) is a community-based, action oriented organization on the West Side of St. Paul. WSCO's work focuses on the neighborhood system and the many sub-systems that comprise their community, with a current emphasis on building power and resilience around locally sustainable food production, affordable and responsible energy, and representative governments systems. In 2011, WSCO will begin the important work of creating a 10 year West Side Community Plan that will be used to inform public policy, leverage resources, ensure equitable development and build community power.
Welfare Rights Committee 2010 Welfare Rights Committee (WRC) is composed of and led by volunteer, multiracial, low-income women advocating for themselves and their communities. Working at the grassroots level, WRC aims to create a visible presence of low income families where welfare legislation is made, ensure that resources are distributed to them equitably, and reclaim the perception of welfare as fundamental to economic justice.
Welfare Rights Committee 2011 Welfare Rights Committee (WRC) is composed of and led by volunteer, multiracial, low-income women advocating for themselves and their communities. Working at the grassroots level, WRC aims to create a visible presence of low-income families where welfare legislation is made, ensure that resources are distributed to them equitably, and reclaim the perception of welfare as fundamental to economic justice.
Welfare Rights Committee 2012 The Welfare Rights Committee is an all-volunteer group made up of and led by mostly non-white low-income women and welfare recipients, many of whom live with disabilities.
WaterLegacy 2011 WaterLegacy was formed to protect Minnesota's waters and the communities that rely on them from sulfide mining threats. Communities include, environmental groups, fisherman, hunters, those that gather wild rice, and collaboration with Indian tribes. WaterLegacy uses legal and technical expertise to develop citizens' effective voice in environmental review, permitting, and enforcement. WaterLegacy will be using a combined strategy of legal advocacy, outreach, communication, and engagement of citizen experts to prevent mining environmental harms, despite industry, money and power.
Water Legacy 2012 WaterLegacy uses legal and technical expertise to develop an effective citizen voice in environmental review, permitting, and enforcement.
Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion School 2011 Waadookodaading Language Immersion Charter School delivers coursework in Ojibwe k-5th grade. Research shows that students in a language immersion experience have greater success in school and consistent measurable improvements of achievement on local and standardized tests. In the eight years since its inception, the school has created proficiency with dozens of children -a level that has not existed for two generations. The long-term goal is to preserve Ojibwe as an active language and to continue to revitalize the Anishinaabe language used by tribal people.
Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion School 2011 Waadookodaading is in its tenth year of existence, and is moving into the next ten with the motto "Striving to Thrive (not just survive)." They are ready to push beyond working to keep the Ojibwe language alive and push towards ensuring that it will thrive throughout the Ojibwe speaking world. Making this happen means refining the tools they use to asses language acquisition, further expand their outreach efforts to the communities that speak Ojibwe, and increase the professional and organizational capacities of their staff.
Waadookodaading Language Immersion Charter School 2012 An Ojibwe language immersion school for students in kindergarten through the fifth grade.
Twin Cities Community Voice Mail 2010 Twin Cities Community Voice Mail (TCCVM) is organizing a core group of voice mail users who are 50+ years of age, have very low or no incomes, and are homeless or near homeless. TCCVM will address issues related to difficulties with the Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income application and appeals processes, and work to ensure its constituents have a voice in the priorities of major Minnesota public initiatives addressing homelessness.
Trans Youth Support Network 2010 The Transgender Youth Support Network (TYSN) empowers transgender youth through leadership support for social justice organizing and work to transform the systems and institutions they encounter. TYSN will build on existing work to make institutions and organizations transgender-accessible and supportive.
Trans Youth Support Network 2011 The Transgender Youth Support Network (TYSN) works to empower trangender youth by supporting their leadership in social justice organizing and by transforming the systems and institutions they encounter. TYSON will focus on housing, healthcare, education and the law-enforcemnet systems. These systems will become sensitive to the issues facing transgendered-idenified youth with whom they directly interact.
Trans Youth Support Network 2012 Trans Youth Network (TYSN) exists to promote racial, social, and economic justice for trans-youth, with the freedom to self-define gender identity and expression.
TakeAction MN 2010 TakeAction Minnesota's Justice Reform campaign seeks to change the criminal justice system and increase opportunities for people with criminal records and their families. The organization's leadership table of those most affected by the justice system-- ex-offenders, their families, and members of communities of color-- will lead the process of targeting opportunities to make change, framing the issues and challenging dominant perceptions about people with criminal records.
TakeAction MN 2011 TakeAction MN is an alliance of organizations and individuals. TakeAction MN believes tangible change is possible when people who are affected by policy decisions, are included in identifying important issues, developing solutions, and taking steps to win meaningful victories. Leaders will address the intersecting issues of economic and racial justice through a multi-strategy approach by targeting structural changes in both the public and private sectors. The prongs to their approach include: organizing a new economy, health care, Hmong organizing, civic engagement and criminal justice.
Take Action, MN 2012 TakeAction MN works to make change that matters to Minnesotans.
Somali Action Alliance 2010 Somali Action Alliance (SAA) will continue its work in the Whittier neighborhood. SAA has two primary goals: to build on their success of leadership and development of both Somali residents and businesses and to expand their work with Whittier stakeholders in an effort to more fully integrate and build the visibility and voice of the Somali community in that neighborhood.
Phillips Indian Educators (PIE) 2011 Phillips Indians Educators (PIE) is a network of Indian educators based in Minneapolis. PIE's constituents are educators, students, parents and the larger Indian community. They focus primarily on Minneapolis public schools with the aim of making district policies and practices more sensitive to Native American students needs and improving Native American students' educational outcomes. PIE is refining the Memorandum of Agreement to have greater impacts for Native American students over the next five years.