Community Futures Collective
221 Idora Avenue, Vallejo, CA 94591
Community Futures Collective (CFC) was founded in
2002 to provide
fiscal sponsorship, infrastructure development and
support for advocacy and service organizations.
CFC encourages
funding agencies and contributors to take risks in funding new projects
and programs
and takes great pride in sponsoring projects committed
to positive social change
and a more equitable distribution of wealth,
resources and power.
Funders and contributors of CFC projects and
programs are investing in the future of communities
by supporting
projects that seek out the root causes of social problems and pose
new solutions.
Fiscal Sponsorship Program | | Board of Directors | | IRS 501(c)3 documentation
Marina Drummer email 707/644-6575 fax (866) 644-7616
Or through PayPal
The National Coalition to Free the Angola 3 has been working together since 1998 specifically to raise consciousness about the case of the Angola 3, prisoners who have been held in solitary confinement in Angola prison for 34 years, as well as general information about prison issues in Louisiana and nationally.
The Coalition raises funds for the legal defense of the Angola 3's post-conviction and civil cases and to support the important communications efforts of Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace from their cells in Angola. . Robert King Wilkerson, the freed member of the Angola 3 travels the world speaking about his comrades in Angola and making candy to raise funds for his efforts,
Infoshop News: fifty Dollars and a Dream: Angola 3 & Common Ground Collective
Seventh Native American Generation (SNAG) is a volunteer-based San Francisco organization. We publish a magazine with art, essays, poetry, photos from young Natives across the Americas. We also put out a music CD featuring Native musicians from across the country. We are currently holding three types of multimedia workshops: Indigenous Media for youth 11-18 where they learn video filming and editing, music production, photography, writing, screen-printing and design; Audio Media for youth 19-25 who learn how to make audio collages with the Freedom Archives Alcatraz project; and Rez Eyez, a collaboration with Robinson Rancheria that teaches youth on the reservation photography. Contact us at SNAGMAGAZINE@YAHOO.COM to be involved.
The Real Cost of Prisons Project seeks to broaden and
deepen the organizing capacity of prison/justice activists working
to end mass incarceration. Organized in 2001, the RCPP brings together
justice activists, artists, justice policy researchers and people directly
experiencing the impact of mass incarceration to create comic books,
a website and daily
news blog and
other materials and resources which explore the immediate and long-term
costs of incarceration on the individual, her/his family, community
and the nation.
More than 115,000 copies of RCPP comic books ---"Prisoners of the
War on Drugs," "Prison Town---Paying the Price" and "Prisoners
of a Hard Life" --have been sent to organizers and activists in
prison and in the "free world." In 2008, PM Press published
The
Real Cost of Prisons Comix, an anthology of the comic books which
includes responses from activists around the country who use the comic
books in their work.
The URL is http://solitarywatch.wordpress.com/. People can sign up to receive posts by email or rss feed.
Posts can also be followed on Twitter: http://twitter.com/solitarywatch
Injunuity: The Show
Injunuity will be divided into nine three-minute episodes
or segments. Each episode will cover one topic and will play like a music
video. The end result will be a swirl of words, animation and music,
a mix of poignant stories, factual histories and humor. While the real
audio of each segment tells one story, the animation will be used to
either support that story or provide juxtaposition or irony, depending
on the overall message we’re
trying to communicate. Needless to say, there will be more than one layer
of storytelling in each episode.
The segments will be shown in a chronological timeline of themes, beginning
at the beginning (Creation Myth) and ending with thoughts about where
we are headed in the future - as Native Americans as well as an entire
race (Future Natives). In between we will explore a variety of topics
and ideas that shape our lives and minds: first contact, the warrior,
the environment, language preservation, two-spirits. And while we will
explore topics that deal with our shared past, the goal of the show is
not simply to re-visit our history, but to help define the future, to
focus on where we’re going as well as where we’ve been.