Center for Community Change Grant

Organization - Center for Community Change
Grant Amount - $85,000
Foundation - Mott Foundation
Grant Purpose - The purpose of this project is to create a historical record and a system for documenting the history of community organizing in the United States. Through research and interviews, the Center for Community Change will collect and organize data and stories, publish the results, and also post the results on the Internet for use by other researchers and writers.


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