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FACT non-profit TA providers 1994-2011 Strategic Press Info Network (SPIN) Research Institute for Social & Economic Policy (RISEP) Progressive Technology Project (PTP) Partnership for Working Families (PWF) NM Environmental Law Center (NMELC) National Employment Law Project (NELP) Grassroots Policy Project (GPP) Environmental Research Foundation (ERF) DataCenter Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) Center for Civic Policy (CCP) Campaign for Contingent Work (CCW) Applied Research Center (ARC) Alliance for Justice (AFJ) Here are examples of two non-profit TA providers that FACT supported: DataCenter democratizes knowledge, builds power and creates change. A seven year FACT grantee, the DataCenter helped the Latina Immigrant members of Mujeres Unidas y Activas to design research questions to survey peers regarding their experiences as domestic workers. Once MUA's members completed the survey, the DataCenter helped them to analyze the responses, to write up a report that powerfully presented the data, hold a press conference and infuse their advocacy for a domestic worker protection act with State legislators and first hand accounts with data to demonstrate that their individual stories were not isolated or unique cases. The New Mexico Environmental Law Center (NMELC) provides free and low-cost legal services on environmental matters to organized residents in low-income and people of color communities. NMELC worked with the Southwest Organizing Project to win a statewide environmental justice executive order that requires all NM State agencies to take the disproportionate impact of polluting industries in low-income and people of color communities into account in decision making. This created a point of leverage for highly impacted communities to intervene on their own behalf in agency processes. Building on this, together SWOP and NMELC won solid waste regulations that complied with the executive order and included restrictions on how close to a low-income community a waste incinerator can be located. This added a tool in the fight to stop additional pollution in a community where SWOP had a strong base of members. |
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