Grants Awarded
To search for grants, select year and Program Area:
2007- 2008 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights
2006- 2007 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights
2005- 2006 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights
2004- 2005 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights
2003- 2004 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights
2002- 2003 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights | Evelyn Frank Fund
2001- 2002 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights
Grants Awarded: July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2003
Poverty
Memisovski v. Garner (Supplemental grant)
Applicant: National Center on Poverty Law, Chicago, IL
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to Illinois' failure to ensure that poor women and children have adequate obstetrical and pediatric care as required by Federal Medicaid Act
Asylum Hill NRZ v. King
Applicant: Connecticut Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Hartford, CT
Amount: $7,500
Challenge to the state housing finance agency's failure to adopt low-income housing site selection that would limit racial segregation
Felipe de Jesus de Luna-Guerrero v. North Carolina Grower's Association
Applicant: North Carolina Justice and Community Development Cente
Amount: $12,000
Suit on behalf of Mexican agricultural H2A guest workers denied minimum wages and contract rights
Michael Dubois v. Rhonda Medows
Applicant: Southern Legal Counsel, Inc., Gainesville, FL.
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to the State of Florida's failure to provide sufficient home and community based services through Medicaid to meet the needs of low-income persons with disabilities
Human & Civil Rights
In re: State Voting Rights Act
Applicant: Joaquin Avila, Compton, CA
Amount: $5,000
An examination of the Latino community's access to the political process and the potentially discriminatory at-large election systems in Tulane County
Bennett v. City of Eastpointe
Applicant: ACLU Fund of Michigan, Detroit, CA
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to a predominantly white community's "bicycling while black" police stop policy
Ngwanyia v. Ashcroft
Applicant: American Immigration Law
Amount: $10,000
Nationwide class action on behalf of asylees granted asylum in the United States, but denied permanent resident status due to failure of INS to properly administer adjustment program
Bowoto v. Chevron(supplemental grant)
Applicant: Human, Economic & Environmental Defense, Los Angeles, CA
Amount: $15,000
Alien Tort Claims Act case charging Chevron with complicity in human rights violations in Nigeria
Immigrant Detention Litigation Applicant: Constitutional Litigation Clinic
Amount: $5,000
Investigation into a potential class action lawsuit brought under Alient Tort Claims Act seeking injunctive relief to prohibit INS from commingling detained immigrants with prison inmates
Serventi v. Bucks County Technical High School and the Pennsylvania Department of Education
Applicant: Education Law Center
Amount: $10,000
Action challenging a technical high school's refusal to admit students with learning disabilities from 6 school districts to the school and to its full range of vocational programs
Jane Doe v. Lakireddy Bali Reddy
Applicant: Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain
Amount: $7,500
Lawsuit against a Berkeley landlord, his family members, and their web of family-owned companies, alleging they engaged in a multi-year conspiracy to bring Indian nationals into the United States under fraudulent visas for purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation
Janis Harris v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Applicant: Greater Boston Legal Services, Boston, MA
Amount: $12,500
Challenge on behalf of people with disabilities against the MBTA for failure to provide readily accessible and usable transportation as required by the ADA
Rosie D. v. Swift
Applicant: Center for Public Representation, Northampton, MA
Amount: $15,000
Lawsuit brought on behalf of more than 3,000 children with psychiatric disabilities who need intensive home-based mental health services
Bowoto v. Chevron
Applicant: Human, Economic & Environmental Defense
Amount: $5,000
Alien Tort Claims Act case charging Chevron with complicity in human rights violations in Nigeria
Frank v. County of Los Angeles Applicant: Law Offices of John L. O'Donnell, Jr., APC, Los Angeles, CA
Amount: $10,000
Class action challenging the gross disparities in wages and benefits paid to minority County Police officers
Montana Fair Housing v. Lloyd A. Twite Family Partnership
Applicant: Montana Fair Housing
Amount: $5,000
Challenge to lack of disability access to large apartment complex
Labor/Community Strategy Center & Bus Riders Union v. The Los Angeles MTA
Applicant: Labor/Community Strategy Center
Amount: $10,000
Enforcement of historic "Bus Rider" Consent Decree which has put thousands of natural gas buses in place, kept fees from rising for 9 years, and reduced overcrowding
ILWU Local 10 v. City of Oakland
Applicant: National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Amount: $7,500
Challenge to Oakland Police's use of excessive force to break up a demonstration
NAACP v. A.A Arms
Applicant: Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence
Amount: $7,500
Suit against handgun manufacturers' marketing and distribution practices, which facilitate easy access to guns by criminals and underage youth
Residents of Shoreview Apartments v. AIMCO
Applicant: The Marquez Law Group, LLP
Amount: $7,500
Challenge to mold and mildew infested rental units at San Francisco's Hunters' Point.
Eric Williams v. Countrywide Home Loans
Applicant: Toledo Fair Housing Center
Amount: $5,000
Challenge to lender's policy of refusing to consider income of women on maternity leave when evaluating loan applications
Stanley v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
Applicant: Prison Reform Advocacy Center
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to Ohio prison's failure to treat prisoners with hepatitis C
Environmental Justice
Lucero v. Detroit Public Schools (supplemental grant)
Applicant: NLG/ Maurice and Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, Detroit, MI
Amount: $5,000
An action on behalf of Detroit school children, challenging site of elementary school
Kivalina Relocation Planning Committee v. Teck Cominco Alaska, Inc. Applicant: Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, San Francisco, CA
Amount: $15,000
Clean Water Act case against the world's largest zinc mine by Imupiat village in rural Alaska
NYC Coalition to End Lead Poisoning v. Bloomberg
Applicant: Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, New York, NY
Amount: $5,000
This is a class-action against the city of New York's failure to enforce federal, city and state childhood lead poisoning prevention methods
Hartford Park Tenants Association v. Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management
Applicant: Rhode Island Legal Services, Inc.
Amount: $5,000
Challenge to placement of school on former hazardous waste dump
Northern Cheyenne Tribe v. Martinez
Applicant: Defenders of the Black Hills
Amount: $4,000
Action to stop placement of rifle shooting range at Bear Battle, a sacred Native American site
Families Concerned About Nerve Gas Incineration v. Department of Army
Applicant: Kentucky Environmental Foundation
Amount: $5,000
Challenges to the incineration of nerve gas and other chemical weapons near the predominantly minority town of Anniston, Alabama
John Doe v. Unocal
Applicant: EarthRights International
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to Unocal's complicity in human rights violations in Burma
Evelyn Frank Fund
Western Center's 2002 Health Policy Summit
Applicant: Western Center on Law & Poverty, Los Angeles, CA
Amount: $7,397.92
Family Advocates and Services Team
Applicant: East Bay Community Law Center, Berkeley, CA
Amount: $7,937.92
Family Advocacy and Services Team Collaborative approach to welfare issues