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Quixote Foundation

The Quixote Foundation wants to see:

Free people in fair societies

on a healthy planet.

Our priorities evolve with current events.

{2004 Grants

 

Environmental protection

Friends of Troy Gardens, Madison, Wisconsin

$10,000, to create a fundraising plan

 

Midwest Environmental Advocates, Madison, Wisconsin

$45,000, general operating support (second installment of

a three year commitment totaling $135,000)

 

Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, New York

$50,000, for a state outreach campaign

 

PCC Farmland Fund, Seattle, Washington

$15,000, program support to save Bennington Place

 

Sierra Club Foundation, San Francisco, California

$25,000, program support for “Building Environmental Community”

in the state of Oregon

 

Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Massachusetts

$5,000, program support for the “Restoring Scientific Integrity” campaign

 

The Wilderness Society, Washington, D.C.

$50,000, for defending Western wildlands

 

Reproductive rights

NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation, Washington, D.C.

$100,000, general operating support

 

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, New York, New York

$102,000, general operating support

 

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

$25,000, general operating support

 

Population Communications International, New York, New York

$25,000, for the “Loma Luna” educational radio serial drama

 

Economic justice

Boys & Girls Club of Dane County, Madison, Wisconsin

$2,000, general operating support, presented by Helen G. Vukelich

in honor of Sadie Mae Pearson

 

Project Vote/Voting for America, Inc., Brooklyn, New York

$25,000, general operating support

 

Tides Foundation, San Francisco, California

$85,000, for the National Voice “November 2” media campaign

 

Center for Community Change, Washington D.C.

$25,000, general operating support

 

CARE USA, Washington, D.C.

$25,000, program support for “Victories Over Poverty”

 

East Isthmus Neighborhood Planning Council, Madison, Wisconsin

$25,000, program support for Grassroots Leadership Council

 

US Fund for UNICEF, New York, New York

$25,000, for a campaign to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus (third installment of a four year commitment totaling $100,000)

 

Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

$25,000, program support for the “Campaign for Civic Participation”

 

Wisconsin Apprentice Organizers Project, Madison, Wisconsin

$30,000, for training Wisconsin organizers

 

Women’s Leadership Fund

$10,000, seed funding for Washington State’s “Vote Run Lead” project

 

Election integrity

National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Washington, D.C.

$75,000, general operating support

 

Weithorn & Ehrmann Families Foundation, New York, New York

$5,000, support for the “Democracy Media Project” and “Votergate” documentary

 

Support for the Election Verification Network included these grants:

 

ACLU of Florida Foundation, Miami, Florida

  $3,500, program support for Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition

 

California Voter Foundation, Davis, California

  $65,000, program support to reform voting technology

 

Campaign for Fresh Air and Clean Politics, Takoma Park, Maryland

  $2,500, litigation support

 

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, Palo Alto, California

  $39,000, program support for election incident reporting

 

Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California

  $71,000, general operating funds and support for legal purposes, 

  election verification and Verified Voting Foundation

 

Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington, D.C.

  $35,000, program support for Freedom of Information Act and

  state-by state reviews of election law

 

True Majority, Burlington, Vermont

  $5,000, program support for the “Computer Ate My Vote” campaign

 

Media reform

Free Press, Northampton, Massachusetts

$50,000 general operating support

 

Wisconsin Democracy Campaign

$15,000, for education project

 

Director initiated grants in other areas

 

Hospice Care, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin

$25,000, Sub-Saharan African Hospice Partnership

Don says:

 

2004 Grants totaled $1,120,000. 

 

In the 2004 election year we wanted people to understand issues

like environmental protection and reproductive rights, to express their opinions by voting, and to be confident their votes would be counted the way they were cast. 

(I would have voted myself except I’m a Spanish citizen and

my voter registration expired about

350 years ago.)

 

Don’t forget, there

are many local and statewide elections

each year, so vote

every time you can.

It’s your chance

to be heard!

 

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