Grants for 2011

Association for Rural and Urban Needy / Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA)

$15,000 For ARUN's project, in collaboration with Safai Karmachari Andolan, to conduct human rights awareness campaigns, educate civil society, and file public interest litigation cases to promote Dalit rights and enforcement of the national ban on manual scavenging

Astha/Association of Strong Women Alone (ASTHA/ASWA)

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include social services, legal aid, and grassroots organizing to support the rights of "women alone" in Rajasthan, and supporting the creation and development of "women alone" groups in other states in India

Bindrai Institute for Research Study & Action (BIRSA)

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include protecting indigenous, tribal, and Dalit rights to their land, forest, and natural resources through fact-finding and investigation, building and strengthening of community organizations, developing leadership within affected communities, and monitoring and advocacy

Centre for Rural Studies and Development (CRSD)

$25,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include grassroots organizing to promote Dalits' rights to land, health, education, and livelihoods and monitoring the Andhra Pradesh state government's implementation of policies intended to promote economic and social rights

Centre for Workers' Management (CWM)

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include labor rights education, research and documentation, and policy campaigns to promote the right to association and collective bargaining rights

Community Awareness and Research Education Trust (CARE-T)

$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include organizing fisherfolk in Tamil Nadu to demand their economic and social rights, including proper implementation of social security and housing programs

Developing Initiatives in Social and Human Action (DISHA)

$40,000 – $30,000 in general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights training, grassroots organizing, and policy advocacy and $10,000 for its project in collaboration with Anusandhan to perform research, analysis, and advocacy to compel the state to fulfill its economic and social rights obligations with regard to Dalits, tribals, women, children, and the disabled

Elgar Pratishthan

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include grassroots organizing, human rights education, and legal aid to promote the land, water, and labor rights of tribals in Maharashtra

Jan Sahas Social Development Society (Jan Sahas)

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include legal and human rights education, grassroots organizing, legal aid, and campaigns to promote the human rights of Dalits, particularly women, in Madhya Pradesh

Jana Sanghati Kendra (JSK) / Solidarity Center

$30,000 For JSK's project, in collaboration with Solidarity Center, to organize fellowships and training for promising activists to promote labor rights for the poor and to support grassroots organizing for informal sector workers, especially waste pickers

Jana Sanghati Kendra (JSK) / Shramajivee Mahila Samity (SMS)

$35,000 – $30,000 to support JSK's project, in collaboration with Shramajivee Mahila Samity, to organize poor communities to defend and claim their labor rights and land rights, promote access to justice, and provide legal aid to domestic violence survivors in West Bengal and $5,000 for its project to strengthen the movement of workers in the informal sector

Magic Lantern Foundation (MLF) / Dynamic Action Group (DAG)

$20,000 For MLF's project, in collaboration with Dynamic Action Group, to provide legal and human rights training, document human rights violations, strengthen women’s participation and leadership, and promote Dalit rights in Uttar Pradesh

Mahila Jagran Kendra (MJK)

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal aid, conducting advocacy and public campaigns, and grassroots organizing to promote the political, economic, and social rights of women in Bihar

Mahila Shram Sewa Nyas (MSSN) / Self-Employed Women’s Association Madhya Pradesh (SEWA MP)

$30,000 For MSSN's project, in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women's Association Madhya Pradesh, to organize policy campaigns for the rights of rural women workers in the informal sector in Madhya Pradesh

National Alliance of Street Vendors of India (NASVI)

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include challenging violence and harassment against street vendors through legislative and media campaigns, grassroots organizing, and litigation

Samarthan

$22,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights training and education, media advocacy, and policy campaigns to challenge corruption, foster police reform, and promote the enforcement of economic and social rights protections for the poor, including women, children, laborers, tribals, Dalits and nomadic tribes in Maharashtra

Sampada Grameen Mahila Sanstha (SANGRAM)

$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include HIV/AIDS education and services; grassroots organizing of sex workers, migrant workers and sexual minorities in Maharashtra; and campaigning to challenge discrimination that fuels harassment and violence against sex workers and sexual minorities

Sangama

$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include crisis intervention, HIV/AIDS education and services, human rights campaigns, and mentoring emerging rights groups in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh

Sangama / Salaam Initiative

$35,000 For Sangama's project in collaboration with Salaam Initiative: 1) to train and support emerging sexuality rights and sex workers' groups, hold consultative meetings, conduct research, and form networks--$25,000 , and 2)  to provide fellowships to promising sexuality rights activists to foster collaboration and strategic human rights activism across the country--$10,000

Sangama / Samatha

$35,000 – $30,000 to support Sangama's project, in collaboration with Samatha, to undertake human rights education, grassroots organizing, crisis intervention, and policy campaigns to promote the human rights of Dalits, particularly women, as well as tribals, Muslims, and other marginalized minorities and $5,000 to support Samatha's project with KDMV to promote the rights of Dalit women in Karnataka

Sanhita / Pratyay

$15,000 For Sanhita's project, in collaboration with Pratyay Gender Trust, to provide sexual minorities with human rights education, crisis intervention, and safe shelter and to organize campaigns to challenge harrassment, discrimination, and violence against sexual minorities in West Bengal

Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

$15,000 For SEWA Trust's project, in collaboration with SEWA, to promote grassroots organizing of poor, self-employed women in Gujarat to promote their rights to work, education, and health care

Society For Social Uplift Through Rural Action (SUTRA)

$30,000 For SUTRA's project, in collaboration with Ekal Nari Shakhti Sangathan (Association of Strong Women Alone), to promote the property, land, and labor rights of widows and single women in Himachal Pradesh and to challenge gender-based violence and harassment

Vidhayak Sansad 

$40,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include grassroots organizing, human rights training, legal action, and public campaigns for the rights of poor, rural, tribal communities in Maharashta, and for its project to mentor emerging labor rights groups

Vikalp Women's Group (Vikalp)

$16,000 For general support of this organization based in Gujarat, whose activities include grassroots campaigns to secure access to government health, social, and poverty alleviation programs for poor women and sexual minorities and legal interventions to promote women's land rights and to stop domestic violence

Yakshi

$40,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include human rights training and civic education for tribal youth and women to foster networks of community human rights groups at the local and state levels in Andhra Pradesh and to promote tribal rights to land and livelihoods