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Grantee Spotlight: East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE)

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The East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy's (EBASE) mission is to advance economic, racial, and social justice in California's East Bay region by building a just economy based on good jobs and healthy communities. In order to support low-income workers and communities of color, and address root causes of economic injustice, EBASE builds power through strategic alliances with labor, community, and faith groups.

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Grantee Spotlight: Baltimore's Safe & Sound Campaign

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Baltimore's Safe & Sound Campaign's Ready By 21 Compact is a new effort that will provide a pathway for young adults aging out of the foster care system or in the state's custody to earn their high school diplomas or GEDs, receive life skills and career training, and be placed in career ladder jobs that pay good wages and benefits. The Campaign will implement a culinary arts workforce development program for a cohort of these young adults.

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Grantee Spotlight: The Center for Labor & Community Research

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The Center for Labor & Community Research (CLCR), a Chicago-based nonprofit, is a partnership of labor, business, government, education and community leaders working together to establish the US as a leader in advanced manufacturing-collaborating to rediscover, reinvent, and rebuild manufacturing in the knowledge economy.

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Grantee Spotlight: WIRE-Net

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Recognizing the vital need to address the impact of plant closings and relocations on struggling manufacturing-dependent cities, WIRE-Net supports more than 200 parts and components manufacturers, with a specialization in the wind industry, and helps link these businesses to valuable community resources, enabling them to embrace innovation to invest in their employees, spur local economic vitality, and improve competitiveness.

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Grantee Spotlight: Associated Black Charities

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Founded in 1985, Associated Black Charities (ABC) is a statewide public foundation that seeks to facilitate the development of measurably healthier and wealthier communities throughout the state of Maryland through responsible leadership and philanthropic investment.

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Grantee Spotlight: JumpStart

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Ever wonder how an idea transforms into a thriving company, or what elements are needed to create a prosperous local economy? JumpStart, a Cleveland-based venture development organization has an insider's scoop.

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Grantee Spotlight: Fairmount Corridor Collaborative

Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the Fairmount/Indigo Line CDC Collaborative is spearheading a nationally recognized smart growth, transit-oriented-development initiative along the 9-mile Fairmount commuter rail line in Boston.

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Grantee Spotlight: Design Corps and Tulane City Center

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Design Corps supports the vital role that design can play in addressing critical issues and needs of communities. Through the Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) initiative, Design Corps provides communities, institutions and design professionals with the tools and services they need to integrate community-engaged processes into design activities, leading to projects that reflect a community's values and cultural identities. Public inclusion as a "best practice" in design is increasingly recognized as a highly effective way to sustain the health and longevity of a place or a community.

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Surdna Announces Transition of Arts Teachers Fellowship Program

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The Surdna Foundation is pleased to announce the transition of its national and longstanding Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship Program (SATF).  As of July 1, 2012, this signature program will be known as the National Arts Teachers Fellowship Program (NATF), and will be under the direction of the Center for Arts Education at the Boston Arts Academy in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Grantee Spotlight: AS220

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Since 1998, AS220 Youth has worked to increase access to the arts among Rhode Island's low-income teens. Its goal is to engage youth in rigorous artmaking that leads to increased skills and self-esteem. The enhanced skills acquired at AS220 contribute to teens' positive social, educational and vocational outcomes.

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