Allocations for 2018 Adelphi Living Peace Grants (Non-Quaker Organizations)
Submitted by the Peace and Social Concerns Committee

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Criteria for reviewing grants: organization is stable, well run; Adelphi involvement; likely to address the issue identified; fit between community served and activity; money requested appropriate; possibility of positive outcomes; plan for implementation.

Emphasis for 2018 allocations: Prince Georges County; direct services to people in extreme need.

Organization	Mission	Organization Contact	Adelphi Liaison	Address	2017 Grant	2018 Grant
Acupuncturists Without Borders of the National Capitol Area	Offers acupuncture and integrative medical care to restore vitality and renew the spirit of people suffering from traumatic stress arising from their migration history, refugee status, or exposure to racial bigotry. We create peace for one family, one community, one world – one person at a time.	Alaine Duncan, Jamie Buss	Elaine Duncan, Jamie Buss	PO Box 204, Hyattsville, MD 20781	$0	$1,100
The Asylum Seeker Assistance Project (ASAP)	Supports the safety, stability, and economic security of asylum seekers and their families.	Joan Hodges-Wu	Linda Rabben	3920 Alton Place, NW, Washington, D.C. 20016	$0	$1,100
CHEARS—Chesapeake Education, Arts and Research Society	Promotes the health of all life in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed through arts, education, research, and action projects organized and implemented by community volunteers.	Kate Prager	Kate Prager	P.O. Box 1841, Greenbelt, MD 20768	$750	$500
St. Camillus Food Pantry	Provides nutritious and culturally appropriate food to those in need, most of whom live in Montgomery and Price George’s counties.	ShaAvhree Buckman-Garner, Jean Guevara, Kris Leary	Molly Parrish	1600 St. Camillus Drive, Silver Spring, Md 20903	$3,500	$3,500
Gandhi Brigade Youth Media	A pioneering afterschool program that empowers young people in the Washington, DC region to use multimedia as tools to promote community building, multicultural understanding and the common good.	Evan Glass	Verite Igiraneza, GabeHoekman, Pacifique Vyizigiro	P.O. Box 7381, Silver Spring, MD 20907	$0	$1,250
Jubilee Jobs, Inc.	Provides professional and compassionate job preparation, job placement and job retention services to men and women with gaps in their work history and barriers to employment. The supportive community of Jubilee Jobs includes former program participants and an array of community volunteers. The energy of belief in each person’s “core of goodness” helps applicants move forward with newly stirred confidence.	Erin Glenn-Hash,	Carol Nezzo	2712 Ontario Road, NW Washington, DC 20009	$2,400	$1,900
Maryland United for Peace and Justice (MUPJ)	Connects Peace, Justice and Environmental activist groups in Maryland with one another to foster greater communication, cooperation and collaboration on activities in which common cause can be found	Tony Langbehn, Paulette Hammond	Will Kastens	327 E 25th St, Baltimore, MD 21218	$350	$350
Prince Georges Leadership Action Network (PLAN)	Creating an organization capable of addressing both the immediate and long-rang issues that threaten the families, religious institutions, commercial center and neighborhoods of Prince Georges County, Maryland. It achieves this purpose though relationship building and though the careful identification and selection of grassroots leaders and by providing them training in building capacity to act collectively in the resolution of the aforementioned issues.	Coleman Milling, Rev.Harold L. Dugger	Sharon Stout, Michael Newheart	10111 Martin Luther King Jr. Highway Suit 200A Bowie, Maryland 20720	$0	$600
Peace Camp (through By Peaceful Means)	A summer day camp for young people in Baltimore City that is oriented around the core principles “Educate, Empower, Employ.” Serves 110 campers per summer at two locations in central Baltimore. Campers practice conflict resolution, study the tradition of peace making, learn about peace heroes, and get special guidance in areas like activism, anger management, and racial justice.	Nawal Rajeh,	Kate Titford	By Peaceful Means c/o Strong City Baltimore, 3503 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218	$3,500	$3,500
Prince Georges Plaza Day Center (through Congregations United for Compassion and Empowerment–CUCE)	Create a community in which all people have opportunity to move toward wholeness by assessing and mobilizing personal and community resources. CUCE works with University Christian Church to provide program for the homeless and economically needy in the community, employ a part-time professional coordinator to assess their needs, guide them to appropriate community resources, administer the work of volunteers, and other activities the center conducts.	Marcia Mityga	Mosi Harrington, Sharon Stout		$2,500	$3,500
Prince George’s County Peace and Justice Coalition	Promotes cooperation within Prince George’s County in pursuing broad goals of peace and social justice. Our members form a network addressing varied progressive causes involving federal, state or county policies, coordinating educational, legislative and other projects	Donna Hoffmeister	Alexander Barnes	6N Plateau Place, Greenbelt, MD 20770	$1,000	$700
Wider Circle	Helps one individual and one family after another to rise out of poverty. We work in partnership with those we serve and with those seeking to help to ensure that every child and adult has the chance to succeed and the opportunity to live well.	Erin Anderson	Lisa Agogliati	4808 Moorland Lane, Suite 802, Bethesda MD 20814	$0	$1,500
Total						$19,500