GRANTS APPROVED JANUARY APRIL 2017

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1 GRANTS APPROVED JANUARY APRIL 2017 CORPORATE AND POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY Center for Political Accountability To support the Center for Political Accountability in its work to bring transparency and accountability to corporate political spending and to establish corporate political disclosure as a mainstream practice. World Resources Institute Total Award: $300,000 over 24 Months Climate Caucus To support the World Resources Institute in its efforts to bring together, support and scale the positive impact of companies that are seeking to have their voice represented positively within the broader industry voice on climate and a clean economy

2 INCLUSIVE CLEAN ECONOMY 350.org (Brooklyn, NY) To support 350.org for its efforts to mobilize constituencies into a cross-movement resistance that engages in bold action to challenge the fossil fuel industry, accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to 100% renewable energy, and solve the climate crisis. Public Policy and Education Fund of New York (Albany, NY) Total Award: $150,000 over 12 Months New York Renews To support a multi-sector coalition, New York Renews, in its work to accelerate New York State s transition to a 100% clean energy economy, rooted in racial justice, and environmental and economic equity. Rocky Mountain Institute (Boulder, CO) Total Award: $200,000 over 12 Months Shine and Leap To support Rocky Mountain Institute for its work delivering equity-centered clean energy solutions to low and moderate income communities through its Shine and Leap programs.

3 RACIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE Advancement Project Free and Safe Campaign To support Advancement Project s Free and Safe Campaign, which will enable frontline communities to lead efforts to reform the criminal justice system. The campaign will provide alternative models of community led efforts focused on guaranteeing safety for all while advancing policies and practices that restore political voice to formally incarcerated families. Duke University (Durham, NC) Total Award: $150,000 over 12 Months Cook Center To support the Cook Center's groundbreaking research providing an intersectional, gendered and racial analysis related to economic security, assessments of the stratified wealth gap and innovative solutions to close it. Economic Policy Institute Addressing Economic Inequality with a Focus on Women of Color To support the Economic Policy Institute s cutting-edge research related to economic stratification at the intersection of race, class and gender, with a strong focus on the true drivers of the income and wage gap as well as alternatives to close it. JustLeadershipUSA Inc Leading with Conviction To support the expansion of JustLeadership USA s national advocacy and leadership model, focused on centralizing and developing the voice of formerly incarcerated people by connecting them to a national advocacy strategy that will more effectively address criminal justice reform.

4 VOICE, CREATIVITY AND CULTURE ARTS & CULTURE Alternate ROOTS, Inc. (Atlanta, GA) Total Award: $400,000 over 24 Months Renewed funding to Alternate ROOTS, the primary support network in the American South for artscentered work that addresses social justice issues. Using a partnership-based model, it seeks to increase the efficacy of cultural organizing by providing community-based artists, arts organizations, and strategic allies with financial and technical resources, professional/leadership development, and networking opportunities. Fractured Atlas Productions, Inc. Total Award: $125,000 over 12 Months Working Narratives Renewed funding to Working Narratives (WN), an organization that collaborates with grassroots groups on story-driven communications campaigns for social, economic and racial justice. WN offers offline and online movement-building support through communications and leadership training, digital platforms, original artistic productions, community radio, collaborative initiatives, and networking.

5 VOICE, CREATIVITY AND CULTURE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS & CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE Ayni Institute, Inc (East Boston, MA) Total Award: $75,000 over 12 Months Momentum Training Program To support Momentum in their efforts to offer their training on civil resistance methods to movement leaders across the United States in Their training curriculum is based on the rigorous academic study of civil resistance, or coordinated, massive nonviolent action. Church World Service, Inc. Coalition Capacity Building: Sanctuary Movement and Protection Networks To support Church World Service's Coalition Capacity Building: Sanctuary Movement and Protection Networks project. This project is working to build the capacity of coalitions working together to collaborate across issue areas in pursuit of building a Sanctuary movement in support of immigrant and refugee rights in the United States. Dream Corps (Oakland, CA) #LoveArmy To support #LoveArmy which will use narrative and faith strategies to build a new, needed populist agenda banding Americans across difference to heal the divisions inherent in the 2016 election cycle and strengthen a more holistic electorate. The Pillars Fund (Chicago, IL) To support The Pillars Fund, a not-for-profit, social investment fund that offers forward looking Americans the opportunity to build a more just society. They develop and invest in programs that elevate and amplify the talents and leadership of American Muslims.

6 INFRASTRUTURE Council on Foundations, Inc. (Arlington, VA) Total Award: $23,100 over 10 Months Renewed funding to provide the opportunity, leadership, and tools needed by philanthropic organizations to expand, enhance, and sustain their ability to advance the common good. Philanthropy New York Inc. Total Award: $18,100 over 10 Months Renewed funding to Philanthropy New York Inc., a nonprofit membership organization created by the New York philanthropic sector to support the practice of philanthropy in the region. Philanthropy New York offers annual programs and a broad range of related resources that support effective, strategic grantmaking, facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing among its members and between foundations and policymakers, and communicate the value of the philanthropic sector in society. Jewish Funders Network Total Award: $3,600 over 9 Months Renewed funding to the Jewish Funders Network, an international organization that provides leadership, programs and services to help Jewish grantmakers be more effective and strategic in their philanthropy. Jewish Funders Network Total Award: $18,000 over 3 Months 2017 Conference Sponsorship Renewed funding to the Jewish Funders Network (JFN) Conference 2017 in Atlanta, GA. NEO Philanthropy, Inc. Total Award: $5,000 over 9 Months Funders' Committee for Civic Participation To support the Funders Committee for Civic Participation, an affinity group that brings together funders and institutional members working to ensure traditionally marginalized communities have equal access to participation and decision-making in the democratic process. The organization includes working groups on voter education and engagement, money in politics, redistricting and state-based civic engagement infrastructure.