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Grant Making: 2001
Between the summer of 2001 and the Spring of 2001, SEF gave $10,000 in awards ranging from $100 to $2,000. We gave a block of awards to prison book programs across the US and also focused some funding on Philadelphia groups as part of our commitment to being based in Philly.
African-American Images
1909 W. 95TH ST.
Chicago, IL 60643
773-445-0322
AAI publishes and distributes books of an Africentric nature that promote self-esteem, collective values, liberation and skill development.
American Story Project
Young people traveled the US using inexpensive hi-tech equipment to interview a wide cross-section of people about American politics and broadcast the interviews over the internet.
BILALKOR
Pakistan
BILALKOR is a non-govermental organization (NGO) in Pakistan which runs a vocational center and school focused on children who are abused by the realities of child labor.
Black Radical Congress
Philadelphia, PA
On March 31, 2001 the Philly chapter of the BRC, in coalition with the Criminal Justice Program at the American Friends Service Committee and the Brown Collective hosted a day-long conference on "Education Not Incarceration."
Books Through Bars
215-727-8170
A books-to-prisoners group that also does work to educate others about the need for education programs in prisons.
Books through Bars packs books at the A-Space (4722 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA) to send to prisoners every Tuesday from 7:30-10:30pm and every 1st and 3rd Saturday from 11-3pm.
Books to Prisoners
Seattle/Olympia, WA & Portland, OR
Civic Media Center
1021 W. University Ave.
Gainesville, FL
352-373-0010
Community Alternative-Media Center.
Estacion Libre
This program sends North American activists of color to Chiapas, Mexico.
Heterosexual Infected Persons Support
Philadelphia, PA
A support group for men and women living with HIV/AIDS, who did not find the support and community they needed at the many AIDS services operating out of LBBT-oriented community resources.
Inside Books
12th Street Books
827 W. 12th St.
Austin, TX 78701
512-647-4803
brackincita@hotmail.com
The only prison book program that works exclusively with those imprisoned in the state of Texas.
Mothers Organized Against Police Terror
P.O.Box 77
Lincoln University, PA 19352
610-932-5798
MOAPT is an organization made up of "parents who have lost children, one way or another, to police brutality." MOAPT may no longer be active.
Pathfinder Learning Center
Now called North Star Self-Directed Learning Center for Teens
104 Russell Street (Rt 9)
Hadley, MA.01035
413-582-0193 or 413-582-0262
info@northstarteens.org
A community center for teenagers who choose not to go to school.
Pentridge Children's Garden
Philadelphia, PA
info@pentridgechildrensgarden.org
A community-run garden in West Philadelphia open during the summer for neighborhood kids.
Philadelphia Direct Action Group
Philadelphia, PA
This group worked to organize community education and resistance to the Republican National Convention in 2000 and to call attention to the crisis of over-incarceration in the US.
The Philadelphia Student Union
1315 Spruce St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-546-3290
PSU is a youth run organization committed to making real changes in schools, giving young people a voice in the issues that affect them, and teaching young people the leadership skills that they will need to become lifelong community activists.
Prison Activist Resource Center
PO Box 339
Berkley, CA 94701
510-893-4648
An information clearing-house and organizing center for prison activists.
Please note: PARC does not have the resources to answer specific questions for research papers and the like. Please look on the website for answers to your questions.
Prison Literature Project
c/o Bound Together Books
1369 Haight St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
510-893-4648
Projet MOBILIVRE/BOOKMOBILE Project
PO Box 42062
Montreal, PQ
H2W 2T3
CANADA
or
c/o Space 1026
1026 Arch Street
Philadelphia PA 19107
info@mobilivre.org
An exhibition of books designed and made by artists, independently published books and "zines" (magazines) travelling by way of Airstream Trailer throughout North America and Canada.
Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide
National Office
9 Gammon Ave.
Atlanta, Georgia 30315
404-622-0602
general-info@projectsouth.org
A broad-based community-driven membership organization that develops popular political and economic education and action research for organizing and progressive social change.
School Of Unity and Liberation
1357 5th St.
Oakland, CA 94607
510.451.5466
soul@youthec.org
A training center to develop a new multi-racial generation of young organizers -- especially young women, young people of color, working-class youth and queer youth--who will have the skills and the vision they need to struggle for liberation.
Textbooks For Chiapas
Educators in Mexico's Chiapan community, 17 de Noviembre, have designed a reading primer in the indigenous language Tojolobal which provides an excellent introduction to reading and writing. These textbooks can now be printed for a dollar.
Voices in the Wilderness
Box 634, 5315 N Clark St,
Chicago, IL 60640
773-784-8065
info@vitw.org
A nonviolent peace group which conscientiously objects to the sanctions on Iraq.
Whispered Media
PO Box 40130
San Francisco, CA 94140
415-789-8484
wm@videoactivism.org
A collective of self-educated Video/Independent Media Activists who have worked together since 1996 to create documentaries and videos which aim to inspire people to take action.
Women's Prison Book Program
c/o Arise Bookstore
2441 Lyndale Ave South
Minneapolis MN 55405
612-837-1762
wpbp@prisonactivist.org
The only books-to-prisoners project that works exclusively with women prisoners.
Youth United for Change
Philadelphia, PA
YUC organizes high-school students in Philadelphia to work on education reform issues from the inside.
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