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Advocacy Grants
Center for Children’s Advocacy
Medical Legal Partnership Project
$25,000 to fund the positions of the Medical-Legal Partnership attorneys and allow them to engage in health care advocacy on the individual and systemic levels.
Connecticut Association for Human Services
Connecting CAHS Network to the Universal Health Care Campaign
$50,000 to connect the campaign for universal health in Connecticut with networks of community-based social services providers and providers of early care and education.
Connecticut Center for a New Economy
Campaign 2006
$99,088 for community organizing and leadership development efforts and advocacy for the right of health security, as well as to identify key faith leadership to participate in a health care strategy group.
Connecticut Citizens Research Group
Health Care for All
$200,000 to create a field organizing structure that will provide outreach, training and mobilization in communities throughout the state.
Connecticut Health Policy Project
Consumer Health Action Network
$75,000 to continue to expand its Consumer Health Action Network and provide policy analysis and comparison of alternative universal health care proposals.
Connecticut Oral Health Initiative
Oral Health for All
$15,000 to mobilize the members of the dental profession to participate in the campaign for universal health care.
Connecticut Parent Power
Connecticut Parent Power Action Project
$100,000 to educate and mobilize the parents of 15 communities statewide around access to health care, and to train and develop 30 parent delegates representing 500 members in these 15 communities to act as local leaders of the universal health care campaign and recruit parent advocates.
Connecticut Primary Care Association
Community Health Centers
$125,000 to mobilize the Community Health Centers’ Statewide Advocacy Network and engage clinicians as advocates to advance health care policies at the community and state levels.
Democracy Works Inc.
HealthMatters: A Community Education, Outreach and Mobilizing Initiative
$115,748 to promote education, outreach, skill building and mobilization of African Americans, Latinos, and immigrants in New London/Willimantic, Stamford, Danbury, New Haven, Hartford, and Waterbury.
Greater Hartford Interfaith Coalition for Equity and Justice
GHICEJ Health Care Project
$50,000 to support the work of the GHICEJ Health Care Task Force, mobilizing members of Hartford area congregations to work on health care access.
Grow Jobs Connecticut
GrowJobsCT Care Initiatives Action Plan
$83,150 to educate and mobilize CT AFL-CIO affiliated union members about universal health care, do outreach, education and mobilization of business interests about advantages of universal health care, and expand understanding of the economic development aspect of universal health care.
Hispanic Health Council
Latino Policy Institute
$100,000 to integrate policy objectives into all aspects of the Council's work and allow Hispanic Health Council to advance Latino health policy issues in local and state decision-making processes.
Legal Assistance Resource Center of Connecticut
Campaign Advocacy
$45,000 to educate consumers and providers on existing health care rights, policy alternatives, and opportunities to participate in policy discussions as well as to advocate on public policy and implement public strategy.
National Association of Social Workers, Connecticut Chapter
Social Work Mobilization Project
$75,000 to fund an education project to organize around universal health care among social workers and other social services workers, and their clients, with an emphasis on mental health within universal health care.
One Connecticut
Organizing Advocacy for Universal Health Care
$100,000 to identify health care concerns and educate constituents through 30 regional events statewide and identify 30-60 leaders for universal health care.
Online Journalism Project
Connecticut Online Health Care Journalism Project
$50,000 to support statewide health care breaking-news and in-depth analytical reporting, with a focus on affordability of care and efforts towards reform.
Organizing Grants
Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition
Mobilizing the Community for Health Care Access
$100,000 to build a base of informed Bridgeport constituents supporting universal health care: hold 15-20 house meetings, develop a cadre of 4-6 parent leaders prepared to mobilize others for action, and organize community-wide, gubernatorial, and legislative forums.
Christian Community Action
HAVENNetwork Initiative
$81,834.00 to expand the HAVENetwork Initiative, working with uninsured, homeless and otherwise disenfranchised members of the New Haven Community.
Citizens for Economic Opportunity
Citizens for Economic Opportunity and Connecticut Alliance for Retired Americans
$130,000 to mobilize workers and retirees of 4-5 major unions on employee-sponsored health insurance and universal health care.
Grand Avenue Village Association
GAVA-Community Organizing on Universal Healthcare
$84,506 to educate diverse small businesses on Grand Avenue in New Haven and develop community leaders and individuals committed to the universal health care campaign.
John J. Driscoll United Labor Agency
Health Information Program
$5,000 to help union members and retirees make better use of existing health services, better understand the present healthcare system, and advocate effectively for changes to improve health care access.
Meriden Children’s First Initiative
Healthy Meriden Action project
$50,000 to strengthen parent-school leadership on health issues, outreach to build family, school and community leadership partnerships, develop community leadership and mobilize consumers and connect local efforts to the overall health care system.
Progressive America Fund
Working Families Healthcare Organizing Project
$5,000 to build a broader and more effective base of support for systematic change leading to universal health care coverage specifically focused on employee health care issues.
United Action Connecticut
Universal Health Care – Everyone, Right Now
$100,000 to organize the faith-based communities in Eastern and Central Connecticut around health care access and health disparities by training 150-200 leaders to reach out to 2000 individuals and mobilize them for public actions totaling at least 2000 supporters.
United Connecticut Action for Neighborhoods
Caring Family Coalition
$100,000 to expand the base of the Caring Families Coalition working for universal health care: maintain participation among seniors, and expand number of uninsured and underinsured participating in the coalition.
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Organized Labor Grants
American Federation of Teachers – Connecticut
Labor for Universal Health Care
$25,000 to organize their members in the healthcare4every1 campaign.
Communication Workers of America
Labor For Universal Health Care
$25,000 to educate members and retirees on the need for universal health care.
CSEA SEIU - Local 2001
Labor For Universal Health Care
$25,000 to organize state-subsidized family-licensed and license-exempt day care providers around the issue of health care in Connecticut.
International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers – District 26
Labor For Universal Health Care
$25,000 to educate, organize and mobilize members on universal health care.
New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199
Labor for Universal Health Care
$25,000 for a campaign to educate members on health care issues and mobilizes its membership for universal health care
SEIU – Connecticut State Council
Labor for Universal Health Care
$25,000 to develop an educational and motivational program for its members regarding universal health care.
SEIU – Local 32BJ
Labor for Universal Health Care
$25,000 to mobilize labor in the healthcare4every1 campaign.
Teamsters Local 559
Labor for Universal Health Care
$25,000 to advance the universal health care issue in Connecticut.
United Auto Workers - UAW Region 9A
Labor for Universal Health Care
$25,000 to educate and mobilize UAW active and retired members about universal health care.
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 371
Labor for Universal Health Care
$25,000 to mobilize labor in the healthcare4every1 campaign.
Small Business Health Care Network
Bridgeport Regional Business Council
Health Care Council
$15,000 to empower a business-based collaborative that will work towards universal access to health care and will participate in the Campaign for universal health care.
Business Council of Fairfield County
Small Business Health Care Network BCFC
$15,000 to develop and refine the understanding of small business members’ needs as they relate to health care access, to educate these members about health care access, and build linkages between small business leaders.
Business Council of Fairfield County
Feasibility Assessment: Formation of Network of Association Networks
$5,000 to explore the feasibility of establishing a network of business networks that will explore health care access options, examine wellness programs and foster linkages between small and larger business leaders.
Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut
Health Care Educational Outreach Program
$15,000 to educate the region's business community about health care access and community health care needs and to ascertain the health care needs of this community.
Chamber of Commerce of Northwest CT
Northwest Access Initiative
$10,000 to initiate the Chamber Health Council Northwest Access Initiative which will establish and train speakers on the topic of increased access to health care, conduct a needs analysis, develop a resource directory, and participate in the Small Business Health Care Network.
Community Economic Development Fund
Microenterprise Resource Group
$30,000 to facilitate the participation of the Micro-Enterprise Resource group in the Foundation’s Small Business Health Care Network,
Greater Bristol Chamber of Commerce
Community Needs Assessment for Health Care
$15,000 to coordinate monthly meetings for the Health Services Committee, to coordinate forums, and surveys/mailings to business partners.
Greater New Haven Business and Professional Association
Small Business Health Care Network: Health Care Advocacy
$30,000 to increase community outreach efforts on behalf of the Small Business Health Care Network and the healthcare4every1 Campaign.
Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce
Health Care and Business
$15,000 to expand the ability of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce's Health Care Council to promote broader healthcare access and provide health care education to the business community.
Greater Waterbury Black Business Association
Community Organization Project
$40,000 to engage Greater Waterbury Black-owned and micro-businesses in learning about and informing short-term and long-term solutions to the health insurance crisis for small businesses.
Greater Waterbury Chamber of Commerce Foundation
Health Care Council Advocacy Project
$15,000 to work with the Metro Chambers of Commerce and the Foundation to educate the business community on health care access issues that affect the business environment.
Meriden Chamber of Commerce
Meriden Chamber Health Care Council --$2,000 to create and support the work of a Health Care Council.
MetroChambers of Commerce
Metro Chamber Universal Health Care Research Project
$20,000 to this consortium of chambers of commerce promote the involvement of business in the discussion of universal health care.
National Association of Women Business Owners – CT
2006-2007 Health Care Small Business Network
$40,000 to expand outreach and partnership with the business community and to educate their business leaders about the issues connected with universal health care.
President's Grants
Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition
$1,000 to support printing of the report, “The Cost of Prescription Drugs: It Matters Where You Live.”
Capitol Region Conference of Churches
$7,500 to The Capitol Region Conference of Churches to support the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance’s Rev. Martin Luther King Program on Monday, January 15, 2007.
Connecticut AIDS Bike Tour
$10,000 to raise awareness about AIDS/HIV in Connecticut and fund supportive services, case management, prevention education and housing for people with AIDS and their families.
Connecticut Association of Directors of Health
$5,000 to support pre-testing of the Health Equity Index as a way to measure and address health inequities throughout the state.
Connecticut Center for a New Economy
$5,000 to support a meeting on faith, social action and health care, to mobilize the faith-based community to get involved in the universal health care issue.
Connecticut Center for Patient Safety
$10,000 to support the effort to require reporting of hospital acquired infections and make this information easily accessible to the public.
Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Inc.
$5,000 to support a public education campaign to promote children’s healthy growth and development.
Hispanic Professional Network, Inc.
$7,500 to educate Hispanic Professional Network members about universal health care and encourage their involvement in the campaign.
Meriden Children’s First Initiative
$4,500 to support organizing in the Meriden faith-based community around the issue of universal health care.
National Medical Association/IMHOTEP
$5,000 to IMHOTEP, the Connecticut Chapter of the National Medical Association, to convene African American, Latino and other minority physicians at two events in Hartford and New Haven, to address the issue of universal health care.
Grantmaking Organization Support
National Network of Grantmakers
$5,000 to support the production of a DVD that features the stories of people of color in the philanthropy community, to promote constructive change and the advancement of People of Color in the field of philanthropy.
University of Connecticut Foundation
$3,150 to fund a presentation and dialogue at the Hispanic Health Council on HIV/AIDS and universal health care attended by UCONN School of Social Work students and HIV/AIDS patients and service providers.
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