1996 GRANT RECIPIENTS

The Drug Policy Foundation distributed over $1 million in grant awards in 1996. This marked the second consecutive year that the grant program reached this level of giving. For more information on any of the grantees listed here, please contact the New York office.

HARM REDUCTION GRANTS

AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts — Boston, MA harm reduction drop-in center in Roxbury

Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition — Atlanta, GA harm reduction outreach

INDRO — Munster, Germany production of international guide to methadone clinics for methadone users

Osborne Association — New York, NY harm reduction with ex-offenders

Positive Health Project — New York, NY general accounting and financing support

Center for Young Women's Development — San Francisco, CAharm reduction outreach and research conducted by young women in Street Survival Project

Progressive Solutions — Seattle, WA harm reduction counseling

NEEDLE EXCHANGE GRANTS

Alameda County Exchange of HEPCAP — Oakland, CA

Aris Risk Reduction Project — San Jose, CA

Austin Harm Reduction Coalition — Austin, TX

Coast Exchange Collaborative — Santa Cruz, CA

Free Clinic of Greater Cleveland — Cleveland, OH

Iniciativa Comunitaria de Investigacion — San Juan, PR

Koba Human Services Foundation — Washington, DC

Needle Exchange Emergency Distribution — Berkeley, CA

North American Syringe Exchange Network Tacoma, WA
general operating support for the organization's activities

Points North — Sebastopol, CA

Prevention Point Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh, PA

Safe Works AIDS Project — Minneapolis, MN

San Joaquin Valley Exchange Works — Merced, CA

Southeast Wisconsin AIDS Project — Kenosha, WI

Topeka AIDS Project — Topeka, KS

ADVOCACY GRANTS

Note: Advocacy grants often contain a public education component.

Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy — Ottawa, Canada satellite conference on harm reduction at the 1996 International AIDS Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia

Correctional Association of New York — New York, NY advocacy for the reform of the Rockefeller Drug Laws

Drug Reform Coordination Network — Washington, DC on-line public education activities and advocacy for drug policy reform

Exponents Inc. — New York, NY creation of educational advocacy program headed by former substance users

Fortune Society — New York, NY public speaking training for ex-offenders with addiction histories

Justice Works Community — Brooklyn, NY public education and advocacy on alternatives to incarceration for female drug offenders

Legal Action Center — New York, NY joint policy reform project with AIDS Action Center in Washington, D. C.

Marijuana Policy Project — Washington, DC public education and advocacy on marijuana law reform

New York Needle Exchange Network — New York, NY public education and advocacy on needle exchange and syringe deregulation in New York state

National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws— Washington, DC staff support and membership drive

Washington Office on Latin America — Washington, DC advocacy on drug policy in Latin America

PUBLIC EDUCATION GRANTS

Association of the Bar of the City of New York — New York, NY expenses related to October 1996 medical marijuana hearings

New York County Lawyers' Association — New York, NY printing and distribution of association's study, "Drug Policy Task Force Report"

Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition — Atlanta, GA Southeast Harm Reduction Conference in March 1996

Bronx Health & Human Services Development Corp. Inc. — Bronx, NY one-day forum on drug policy in June 1996

Calyx Internet — New York, NY Internet access for drug policy reform groups

Civil Liberties Monitoring Project — Redway, CA public education on drug law enforcement in Northern California

Connecticut Law Revision Commission — Hartford, CT support for state-mandated review of Connecticut drug policies

Detroit Organizational Needs in Treatment — Davison, MI publication of the newsletter, Methadone Today

Dogwood Center — Princeton, NJ reproduction of the HIV/AIDS report, "Health Emergency 1997"

Drug Policy Forum of Texas — Houston, TX public education on drug policy

DPF Washington State — Seattle, WA project coordinator for methadone reform project

Efficacy — Hartford, CT public education on drug policy

Family Council on Drug Awareness — El Cerrito, CA production and distribution of drug education literature

Human Rights '95 — El Cerrito, CA visual exhibit on victims of the war on drugs

International Coalition for Addicts' Resources and Enlightenment — New York, NY travel to the Harm Reduction Coalition's conference in Oakland to help establish a Users' Union

Methadone as a Legitimate Treatment Alternative — Marysville, CA public education on methadone provision and reform

Media Awareness Project — Porterville, CA Internet drug policy public education and letter writing campaign

National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS — New York, NY harm reduction promotion in African-American communities

ReconsiDer — Syracuse, NY public education on drug policy in upstate New York

RESEARCH GRANTS

American University School of Public Affairs Washington, DC research into the development of a drug policy research center

Hebrew University of Jerusalem —Jerusalem, Israel publication of papers presented at Israeli drug policy reform conference in February 1996

National Association of Ethnography and Social Policy — Oakland, CA research on medical marijuana provision in the Bay Area

Sentencing Project — Washington, DC research on the incarceration of drug offenders

Yale University School of Medicine — New Haven, CT advanced research and evaluation of needle exchange

Grant Program Update

The grant program is accepting proposals for the following projects:
 

Harm Reduction Programs
Funds will be awarded to organizations seeking to: work with drug abusers to reduce the harms of substance abuse and improve their welfare; alleviate their physical, social, or mental health problems; or encourage noncoercive alternatives to incarceration.
 

Advocacy Efforts
DPF will assist new or existing organizations looking to broaden the policy debate and amplify the voices of those advocating reform.

Drug Policy Education
Funds will be awarded to assist organizations in educating the public, professions, community groups, and others on drug policy reform issues. Priority will be given to education efforts targeted at strategically important groups who have not previously been involved in the drug policy debate.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Harm Reduction proposals are reviewed two times a year. To be reviewed in the Winter Round, proposals must be postmarked by October I .
Advocacy and drug policy education proposals are reviewed on an open basis. In general, applicants will be informed of funding determinations within 60-120 days of receiving the proposal.

Send email to DPF's autoresponder, guidelines@dpforg, to receive the most recent grant guidelines, or contact DPF's New York office at (212) 307-5630. Grant guidelines also can be viewed on DPF's web site at: www4pf.orglhtml/grant,program.html.