Founded in 1992 in Hempstead, NY, as one of the first worker centers in the country, the Workplace Project (Norman grantee 1994–2003) was established to help end the exploitation of Latino immigrant workers — mostly Salvadoran refugees who had fled…
Founded in 1978, Communities for a Better Environment (CBE, Norman grantee 1995–2001, 2007) combines community organizing, scientific research, and legal advocacy to fight industrial pollution in low-income communities of color across California. CBE and concerned residents of Southeast Los Angeles…
Southern Echo (Norman grantee 1992–2001, 2007) was co-founded in 1989 by Leroy Johnson, Mike Sayer, and Hollis Watkins — a civil rights leader who organized some of the first Woolworth sit-ins in Mississippi in 1961 and registered Black voters during…