October 24, 2018
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
Who Is Anita Earls…and Why Does Her Election Present a Real Danger
to Jurisprudence?
Friends,
In a previous installment in the MY CORNER series, October 19,
2018, “Who Should We Support in the November 6, 2018, Elections?” [https://boydcatheyreviewofbooks.blogspot.com/2018/10/october-19-2018-my-corner-by-boyd.html], I offered
a list of candidates I endorse running for political office in North Carolina, for
General Assembly—State House and State Senate, and for Court of Appeals, and,
perhaps most importantly, to the North Carolina Supreme Court. That list was
compiled from several other lists: from Grass Roots North Carolina, from the
North Carolina Values Coalition, gun rights groups, and from the NC Heritage
PAC (which defends the monuments and symbols of our veterans, especially our
Confederate veterans).
Today I wish to turn specifically to the race for the
contested seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court.
There are three candidates: incumbent Associate Justice
Barbara Jackson, Chris Anglin, and Anita Earls. What is very intriguing about
this race is that while Justice Jackson is the conservative Republican
candidate, Chris Anglin—who only a short time prior to the election was a
Democrat—is also running as a Republican. Part of the problem is due to
Republicans in the NC General Assembly, who anticipating the possibility of
multiple Democrat candidates, did away with the primary. However, state
Democrats turned the table, and in response got Democrat attorney Anglin to
quickly register as a Republican and then file under the deadline as a Supreme
Court candidate:
Enter Chris
Anglin, a little-known Raleigh attorney. Shortly after the primary was
canceled, the registered Democrat became a registered Republican. He filed to
run for Supreme Court a few weeks later, with help from longtime Democratic
consultant Perry Woods. [https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article220316565.html]
Thus on the ballot for November 6 two GOP candidates
appear: Associate Justice Jackson and Democrat interloper, Chris Anglin—a faux Republican! And, thus, the chances
of conservatives retaining that pivotal seat on the state’s highest court are
greatly lessened.
But, just who is Anita Earls, the highly-touted Democratic
candidate who could well become the critical swing vote on the Court?
Ms. Earls, daughter of a biracial mixed marriage, is the
founder of a “community organizing” pressure group, the Southern Coalition for
Social Justice [SCSJ] and was its executive director from 2007 until 2017 [https://earls4justice.com/about-anita-2/].
From 2000 until 2003 she served as the director of the Voting Rights Project
for the group Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law, which was founded back in 1963 and included various
Socialist and pro-Communist organizers.
In short, she is a “social justice warrior attorney” who has
been deeply immersed in community organizing, and, specifically legal action on
such issues as redistricting (to leverage support for Democrat-leaning areas)
and voter identification (she opposed voter ID regulations, even the most reasonable).
In 2011 she received the NAACP Civil Rights Champion Award [https://earls4justice.com/about-anita-2/].
Until 2017 Earls served as executive director of the SCSJ.
Here are their stated goals:
The Southern
Coalition for Social Justice promotes justice by empowering minority and
low-income communities to defend and advance their political, social and
economic rights. We view local social
justice struggles from a global, international and human rights perspective,
and believe it takes a holistic, collective and interdisciplinary approach to
address issues at their core, bring sustained structural change, and alter power relations. We use the combined
skills of lawyers, social scientists, community organizers and media experts to
help underrepresented people develop strategies to achieve their visions for
themselves and their communities. Our five main program areas are voting rights, environmental
justice, criminal justice, and youth justice. [https://www.southerncoalition.org/program-areas/]
And, of course, she favors strict gun control and believes
that our courts must vigorously combat “white supremacy” and “racism” (which is
just about anything any Republican advocates).
In other words, her views and platform—whether she admits it or not—are distinctly
Marxist in origin, and come almost directly out of the post-Marxist playbook
(and by that I mean views which go well beyond, much farther to the political
and social Left of older Socialists and Communists).
Ms.
Earls is running slick television ads, but what she doesn’t tell us is about
her background and the history of the organization, the Southern Coalition for
Social Justice, that she founded and ran for ten years. Nor does she inform us
of the nearly $500,000 that her group received as a pass-through funding from globalist
billionaire and Marxist George Soros and his Foundation to Promote Open Society.
The election of Anita Earls would be disastrous for North
Carolina jurisprudence and the traditional rule of law in this state. But too many Tar Heels—too many of our fellow
citizens—know only what they know about this critical election from short
television ads. And that could well spell disaster.
It is time our fellow citizens understood what was at stake in
this election—and just who is Anita Earls.
Here is a comprehensive breakdown of financial support given
to the SCSJ and its projects. For regular, hard-working citizens of North
Carolina, this should be shocking,
but how many know of it?
Please help get the word out.
MAPPING THE LEFT
Southern Coalition for Social Justice
Group
Southern
Coalition for Social Justice is an extreme radical left-wing group that
promotes “community organizing” to effect economic, social and political
change. Anita Earl, Executive Director of the SCSJ, was a member of the State
Board of Elections before resigning to sue the state over the 2010
redistricting maps. Over fifteen percent
of the group’s grant money comes from two extreme liberal political groups –
Foundation to Promote Open Society (George Soros group) and the Z Smith
Reynolds Foundation. SCSJ belongs to the following networks: Democracy NC,
Moral Mondays and Blueprint NC. Blueprint
NC is the group that gained infamy with their strategy memo that directed their
members to “eviscerate, mitigate, litigate, cogitate and agitate” the state’s
leadership in 2013.
The SCSJ has taken a prominent
role in the fight against voter photo ID and other needed and commonsense
reforms to our election laws. They have also
taken a leading role in lawsuits to stop the most recent redistricting maps
ultimately upheld by the U.S. Justice Department and the North Carolina Supreme
Court.
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Financials:
Source IRS 990s
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Year
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Revenue
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Expenditures
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Net Assets
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2016
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$2,440,198
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$2,419,420
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$1,842,697
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2015
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$2,918,692
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$1,785,917
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$1,821,929
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2014
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$1,420,540
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$1,274,788
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$689,144
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Scroll down to view People Connections and
Funders
People
Connections:
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Person
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Position
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Time
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Board Treasurer
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Current
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Senior Staff Attorney, Voting Rights
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Current
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Staff Attorney - Criminal Justice
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Current
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Board Member
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Current
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Executive Director, Founder
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Current
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Board Member
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Current
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community Organizer
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Current
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Board Member
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Current
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Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow
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Current
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Deputy Director
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Current
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Senior Staff Attorney
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Current
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Senior Staff Attorney - Criminal Justice
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Current
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Board Member
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Current
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Communications Director
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Current
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Staff Attorney - Voting Rights
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Current
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Board Chair
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Current
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Staff Attorney
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Current
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Staff Attorney - Criminal Justice
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Current
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Staff Attorney - Voting Rights
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Current
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Board Member
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Current
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Fellow
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Current
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Board Member
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Current
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Staff Attorney - Criminal Justice
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Current
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Board Member
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Current
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Youth Justice Project Co-Director
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Current
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Youth Justice Project Co-Director
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Current
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Community Organizer
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Current
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Office Manager
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Current
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Board Vice Chair
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Current
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Staff Attorney - Criminal Justice
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Current
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Staff
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Former
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Board Member
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Former
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Office Manager
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Former
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Policy Analyst/Researcher
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Former
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Attorney
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Former
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Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow
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Former
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Communications
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Former
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Attorney
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Former
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Legal Fellow
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Former
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Board Member
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Former
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Senior Policy Analyst
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Former
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Soros Justice Fellow
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Former
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Equal Justice Works/AmeriCorps Legal Fellow
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Former
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Researcher
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Former
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Deputy Director
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Former
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Community Organizer
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Former
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Equal Justice/AmeriCorps Legal Fellow
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Former
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This
group funded by:
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Funder
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Year
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Amount
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Description
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2017
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$300.00
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General support
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2016
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$842.00
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General support
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2016
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$32,000.00
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Mass incarceration
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2016
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$66,550.00
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Pass-through grants from Americorps/CNCS
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2016
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$20,000.00
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General support/ social justice
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2016
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$100,000.00
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For Youth Justice Project
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2016
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$200,000.00
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For general support
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2016
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$15,000.00
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2016
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$5,000.00
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General support
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2016
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$15,000.00
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Civil/social justice
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2016
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$5,000.00
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2016
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$225,000.00
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For general operating support
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2015
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$300,000.00
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for general support
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2015
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$178,000.00
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For program development
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2015
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$20,000.00
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For program development
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2015
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$25,000.00
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For policy, advocacy and systems reform
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2015
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$5,000.00
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2015
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$300,000.00
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For policy, advocacy and systems reform
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2015
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$15,000.00
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For policy, advocacy and systems reform
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2015
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$10,000.00
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For policy, advocacy and systems reform
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2015
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$100,000.00
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For general support
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2015
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$3,000.00
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For policy, advocacy and systems reform
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2015
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$20,000.00
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For general support
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2015
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$8,000.00
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For policy, advocacy and systems reform
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2015
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$15,000.00
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2015
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$375.00
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2015
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$3,000.00
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2015
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$20,000.00
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2015
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$50,000.00
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For policy, advocacy and systems reform
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2015
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$50,000.00
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For policy, advocacy and systems reform
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2015
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$11,750.00
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2015
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$18,000.00
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2015
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$625,000.00
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For general operating support
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2014
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$700,000.00
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General support
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2014
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$10,000.00
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2014
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$20,000.00
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For general support
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2014
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$3,000.00
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For policy, advocacy and systems reform
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2014
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$2,500.00
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2014
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$30,000.00
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2014
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$30,000.00
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2014
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$187,500.00
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For general opperating support
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2014
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$125,000.00
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For general operating support
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2013
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$5,000.00
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2013
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$5,000.00
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2013
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$20,000.00
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For general support
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2013
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$60,000.00
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Program development For SCSJ to fight the NC
General Assembly omnibus voter suppression bill by filing two state court
cases: one will challenge the photo ID requirement to vote and the second
will challenge the shortening of early voting elimination of same-day
registration and ending out-of-precinct provisional voting
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2013
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$10,000.00
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2013
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$30,000.00
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2013
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$35,000.00
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Program development For NC Voting Rights
Litigation Project
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2012
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$700,000.00
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General/operating support; Continuing support;
Program development For general support to promote justice by empowering
minority and low-income communities and for redistricting litigation and
election administration efforts
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2012
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$175,000.00
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General/operating support; Continuing support
For core support
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2012
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$15,000.00
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2012
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$23,500.00
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General/operating support
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2012
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$350,000.00
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Program development To improve policymaking for
vulnerable and at-risk children at all levels of government through
community-based support and litigation that ensures fair representation in
redistricting
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2012
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$200,000.00
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General/operating support For general operating
support
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2011
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$400,000.00
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General/operating support; Continuing support;
Program development For general support to promote justice by empowering
minority and low-income communities to defend and advance their political
social and economic rights
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2011
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$480,000.00
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Program development For the Fair Redistricting
Collaborative a project of three organizations -- Southern Coalition for Social
Justice Southern Echo and One Voice -- to protect the voting strength of
black immigrant citizen and marginalized voters through non-partisan efforts
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2011
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$100,000.00
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General/operating support; Continuing support;
Program development For general in the amount of $5000000 and project support
in the amount of $5000000 to support the community organizing project
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2011
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$60,000.00
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Program development For The Fair Redistricting
North Carolina project to seek to achieve the fair representation of
African-American low-income and other traditionally under-represented voters
This request is to support additional legal staff needed to pursue a legal
challenge to the unconstitutional legislative and congressional redistricting
plans enacted by the NC General Assembly
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2011
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$25,000.00
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Program development For Promoting Energy
Efficiency in North Carolina Project
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2010
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$500,000.00
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General/operating support For general support
to promote justice by empowering minority and low-income communities to
advance their political social and economic rights and for racial equity and
economic human rights project
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2010
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$432,500.00
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Seed money For start-up support for Community
Census and Redistricting Institute to develop pool of redistricting experts
and train community organizations to participate effectively in the
redistricting process
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2010
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$100,000.00
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Continuing support; Program development To
provide small grants to local community-based organizations in Florida and
North Carolina to conduct census outreach to ensure full participation in
2010 Census
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2010
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$150,000.00
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Research For the Why We Count Census Outreach
Project to minimize the undercount of traditionally hard to count populations
in targeted Southern states to ensure accurate 2010 Census
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2010
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$75,000.00
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General/operating support For general operating
support
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2010
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$31,500.00
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General/operating support For general operating
expenses
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2009
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$150,000.00
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Program development; Research To develop
research agenda for 2010 census and implications for marginalized populations
and design training for cadre of experts to help communities engage in the
redistricting process
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2009
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$10,000.00
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2008
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$400,000.00
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General/operating support For general support
to bring innovative and highly successful model of community lawyering to
South to effect social economic and political change
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2008
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$260,000.00
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Program development; Research To engage
community organizations and social justice advocates in efforts to ensure
that low-income and minority communities in South are fully and accurately
counted in 2010 Census
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2008
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$100,000.00
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General/operating support For general support
to promote justice by empowering minority and low-income communities to
defend and advance their political social and economic rights
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