We will train current and former sex-workers and drug users as peer educators to conduct our mobile outreach activities. Tangible barriers, like time constraints and money, prevent community members from having the resources to volunteer during our overnight initiatives. This grant will compensate for such barriers: - $50/person x 6 people for 2 days of training = $300 - $75/person x 6 people for 3 nights of mobile outreach = $450 - $50/person x 5 people for 2 optional nights of mobile outreach = $250 All funds will go directly to our community members and are necessary to compensate for potentially lost wages. Our training session will be compressed to cater to the time constraints and personal experiences of our new peer educators.

My first step is to file for my 510(c)(3), using this money to cover the filing fees. I will also begin to have large amounts of literature printed out to hand them out at local events that I host. I plan on having tee shirts printed, along with stickers and buttons. I want to 'paint the town' with our message. I want to get the communities to understand that this is a huge problem, and our voices will not be silent anymore. I want to sponsor events...get people talking. Take away the shame from being a victim, and turn it into pride that we are survivors. To do this, to spread the word, I have to put money into promotion, brand recognition, and the printing to help me do this. The $1000 would help get this all started.

Since the beginning, Foster The Future has been funded by fans and supporters and we need help to keep the momentum going. In order to manage volunteers and Local Heroes, stay in touch, give support and help with resources -- we need a budget. $1000 would kick off our Local Heroes program and allow our team to focus on the support and resources needed to help build community. This includes: -An interactive website for Local Heroes and supporters -Small stipend for Local Heroes Project Manager/High Fiver -Shipping and postage for materials

$1,000 will help support these efforts by providing educational materials, paint and art materials, artist stipends, food, and other supplies. Most importantly, it is an opportunity to connect Boston community members with one another in a unique and tangible way, united to address human rights violations on a global level, but also those affecting their own neighborhood.

Funds would be used to furnish an outdoor education lab to teach community workshops about urban farming, organic gardening, and nutrition

Literacy levels are extremely low in Sierra Leone, especially for women. OneVillage Partners would like to implement an innovative and participatory adult-literacy and empowerment program for women’s groups in 3 small villages in southeastern Sierra Leone. Women will gain the skills and confidence necessary to better run their businesses, manage their farms, maintain household finances, educate their children, and establish a stronger presence in community affairs. $1,000 will cover all costs of the project: Training of facilitators who will run the Reflect circles ($100) Stipends for facilitators over 6 months ($600) Materials ($200) Monitoring and Evaluation: Pre- and Post-tests ($100)

With an investment from GOOD, PSDY will plan, market, and facilitate several yoga retreats for students, families, and faculty of partner schools in Phila. The retreats will include yoga practice, meditation, healthy fresh meals, yoga-based games, breathing activities, healthy living discussions, and separate forums for children and parents. Certified professionals--including adult yoga instructors, child yoga instructors and nutritional consultants--will be provided by Dana Hot Yoga. The goal of these retreats is for the children, parents, school faculty, and yoga instructors to use yoga as a tool to connect as a community while being empowered to personal practices of non-violence/non-bullying, nutrition, and overall health and wellness.

I have engaged a local business school to provide assistance in creating transforming the blog into a comprehensive site. Students would help me create a website that will become a central repository for information on local support groups, neurologists, epilepsy organizations, and events. The $1000 would be spent to establish the necessary infrastructure to create and launch the new site. The site will engage, connect and inform.

The $1000 would pay for materials to create the interactive mural - finishing materials to smooth out the brick wall, colorful paints, chalkboard paint, and a budget for ongoing chalk replacement. All labor will be done by volunteers in collaboration with the school and the community center. Our umbrella organization, Updayton, will provide additional funds for seating and landscaping.

We’re looking forward to tapping the creativity and hospitality of our community to design this series of parties open to the public and hosted by diverse party planners. Thus far, we’ve generated ideas like transforming a city parking lot into an outdoor party venue, hosting a Kurdish-style barbecue and cruising the S.S. Ruby, a pontoon piloted by River Keepers, a local river advocacy organization. We would invest the $1,000 towards 5 not-to-be-missed opportunities to party in public, translating $200 worth of food, drinks and supplies for each party into new connections, conversations and vision for building and sustaining our common life.

With $1,000, we will place thought-provoking ads in Philadelphia subway lines to spark dialogue on the problem of street harassment and provide practical suggestions for bystander intervention. Since over 65,000 people use the subway system every month, this will allow large scale connection with our community. This effort will familiarize the general public with the term “street harassment,” open dialogue, and connect people with resources. The advertising company is so excited about our project they are working with us to maximize the ad space we are able to purchase for the broadest reach and level of community engagement. This funding will enable our project to expand to a more saturated campaign with widespread impact.

We will use $1,000 to fund the first meet and greet session in Jackson, MS. A small portion of the funds will be used to print fliers and business cards that medical professionals can take away with them. The bulk of the funds will be earmarked for patient use - for use in securing hotel rooms, plane tickets, or train tickets for patients and their families who are referred to the hosting medical facility. This will also serve as a proof of concept model. If the referral rate is significant as a result of this session, we will duplicate it and expand to other facilities in the area. Our budget will be: $100 Meet and Greet event (food and promotion) $100 Fliers/Patient Cards $800 Transportation Fund for sponsoring hospital

For the many youth who grew up in an era where crack cocaine was king in urban areas like Philadelphia I will use $1,000 seed money to do outreach, conduct & publish individual audio interviews, and organize three group sessions where we begin personal, critical, and creative "exercise" with the issues that will emerge. My interest in this work is about restoring relationships with self, family, and neighborhood. Group sessions will draw from memory, breaking open the characters, embodiment, language, and emotions of our experiences. Participation is voluntary and "family-style" setting is key. Thru writing/reading, associative movement, character improv, and meditation, the process aims to restore emotional vulnerability, build, and heal.

Our program will take place in the cities of Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford, with up to 15 per city . Program participants will be trained to facilitate a dialogue with their community using the HCD toolkit. In turn, they will take on a leadership role in their community, empower a local nonprofit organization towards actionable solutions, and expand their personal and professional networks. We currently have no funding to pay stipends for our program participants. With the $1,000, we will be able to pay a small stipend to three of our shining participants - those who go above and beyond their service to truly make an impact in their community. With other hopeful funding sources, we intend to offer additional stipends.

All support from Echoing Green and Good would pay for a Documentarian to help Ann Arbor Geeks inspire and engage the world!

To conclude, I will use this $1,000 towards developing a diverse team of individuals that follow different religions, which place the same unfair restrictions on their women and children. I believe that this will be the best way to make my project scalable and make a difference in as many lives as possible. Once I develop a solid team, we will come together to start a crowd funding campaign and a social media platform for our cause. My ultimate goal is to become a man of value in my community and a role model for future entrepreneurs. I will do so, by focusing on making a difference in the lives of others, rather than making a profit at the expense of others. This alternative way of thinking and $1,000 will turn my idea into a reality!

The 1,000 grant will cover the material costs of the cross-cultural healthy cooking program for K-5th graders. Through recipes that have been passed down for generations, we will learn the unique stories and cultural traditions of where our families. We will celebrate a multicultural learning environment in a hands-on, project based capacity. Last summer, we piloted the program. Esperanza, David's mother, taught 30 students how to make mexican tortillas. The materials cost about $40.00. As a school of 300 students, 12 classrooms, $1,000 will cover 1-2 family members per classroom to be in the chef instructor/ storyteller role. At the end of the experience, we will hold an open market to share the tastes and stories with the rest of school.

With this grant, we will host focus groups in all five boroughs, bringing together real people from NYC streets and real people with mental illnesses. We’ll be able to share and to hear thoughts, prejudices, fears, and experiences. Each focus group will inform our continued work in breaking down the stigma around mental illness – but more importantly it will provide us with new relationships with stakeholders in the New York communities we are serving.

With Feed Jesus, relationship and loving community are foundational. If we were to win this $1,000, our capacity for cultivating relationships would expand beyond our imagination. Essentially, this money would be used to purchase the food and beverages and other necessities that fill our backpacks as we hit the streets of Savannah. Currently, our efforts here and elsewhere have been funded out of pocket. With this grant, the amount of people enabled to live and love with us amongst the homeless for an afternoon and the amount of time and frequency spent on the streets would be enormously increased. Numerous rich and loving relationships will be formed amongst both those seeking to help and us with our homeless friends of Savannah, Georgia.

This $1,000 would finance a 12-hour Chair Yoga workshop to teach five members of underserved communities how to teach yoga to the members of their own communities. Participants in the workshop will receive a manual with six different classes to teach or to mix and match as needed and resources for additional props, ideas on how to find props without spending money, and the business of teaching chair yoga.