Founded in 1989 by ten regional religious, labor and community organizations, Merrimack Valley Project (MVP, Norman grantee 2004–2008) was created to address the devastating economic decline of the Merrimack River valley in Massachusetts, one of the oldest industrial regions in…
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…
Founded in 1980, Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment (CAFE, Norman grantee 1992–2004) organized low-wage workers across South Carolina, a state with dismal national rankings in the early aughts — ranked 43rd in per capita income, 49th in high school graduation…