Founded in 2002 by young workers in low-wage jobs, Young Workers United (YWU, Norman grantee 2003–2011) set out to organize the workers juggling school and jobs in the service and retail sectors, who were not reached by unions nor youth…
The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE, Norman grantee 1996–2002) was created in 1993 by community, religious and labor leaders who recognized that Los Angeles’s celebrated economic recovery of the 1990s was bypassing its poorest residents, with seventy…
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC, Norman grantee 1993–2002) is a membership-based grassroots organization with deep roots in eastern Kentucky’s coal fields. Norman supported its predecessor organization, the Kentucky Fair Tax Coalition, in the early 1980s, which at the time focused…