Buddhist Peace Fellowship
C/o SF Zen Center
San Francisco, CA
(415) 863-3761
www.bpf.org
The Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF), San Francisco, CA, serves as a beacon for Dharma activists committed to transforming the world and themselves. Through BPF, Buddhists of many traditions are invited to explore personal and group responses to political, social, and ecological suffering in the world. They will use their grant to conduct grassroots organizing around Death Penalty vigils, which currently take place at San Quentin State Prison, and reach out to more grassroots Buddhists, who traditionally do not get involved in “political” issues.
Criminal Justice Consortium
1515 Webster Street
Oakland,CA 94612
(510) 836-6065
www.bapd.org/gcrium-1.html
Criminal Justice Consortium, Oakland, CA, is an organization whose mission is to change public policies that result in an over-reliance on incarceration and to promote the least restrictive, most humane alternatives to imprisonment. They will use the grant to support development of a strong network of organizations and individuals in Southern California.
Each One Reach One
PO Box 1098
Pacifica, CA 94044
(650) 738-3023
www.each1reach1.org
Each One Reach One (EORO), Pacifica, CA, is dedicated to building a societal commitment to value education over incarceration, and to trust, care for, and mentor all youth. Each One Reach One will use their Agape grant to support their artist mentoring program in San Mateo County, which will engage 50 high-risk youth in writing individual plays with professional theater artists.
Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
http://www.freedomarchives.org
Freedom Archives, San Francisco, CA, contains over 5,000 hours of tapes including original source materials, live reports, interviews and produced radio programs. These materials date from the late 60’s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area and the U.S. They will use their Agape grant to organize the audio archives that relate to the modern origins and recent history of the prisoner rights movement to empower the ongoing work against the brutality and violence of the criminal injustice system, and produce a report that summarizes their resources and develop a database to reference and create public/community access to their materials.
Mothers Against Murder and Assault (MAMA)
1811 – 11th Avenue
Oakland, CA 94606
(510) 261-0800
mama4life_2000@yahoo.com
Mothers Against Murder and Assault (MAMA), Oakland, CA, provides rehabilitative services to high risk young males who have been part of the juvenile justice system and connect them back into the community. MAMA will use their Agape grant to fund their curriculum, materials, special projects, and community events.