Kendra Alexander Foundation
The Kendra Alexander Foundation is a sponsorship non-profit organization that funds and organizes the Center for Political Education in Berkeley, California.
Its mission statement says it "provides opportunities for new and veteran activists for social change to educate, develop and train themselves and thereby to enable them to better organize and educate others to support equal rights; an end to racism, sexism, homophobia and discrimination based on age; national and international economic, social and environmental justice; and a peaceful world free of imperialism."[1]
Board of Directors
- Eric Quezada, President of the Board
- Steven C. Willett, Secretary
- Phyllis C. Willett, Treasurer
- Mary Fromer
- Earl Martin Price
- Jack Kurzweil
- Holly Fincke
- Carl Bloice
Fiscal sponsors
The Kendra Alexander Foundation is a fiscal sponsor for the following organizations:
- Nobel Prize for Pete Campaign[2]
- Center for Political Education
- People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)
- People Organizing to Demand Environmental Rights (PODER) (a project of the Tides Center)
- St. Peter's Housing Committee (a project of the Tides Center)[3]
- Committees of Correspondence in NYC
- Committees of Correspondence of Northern California
- War Times[4]
Sponsored CCDS convention
The CCDS 6th National Convention was held July 2009[5]in San Francisco.
Friday evening featured a special "Welcome Reception and Tribute to Charlene Mitchell." The Tribute to Charlene Mitchell drew participants from wider circles than the convention itself, due to her decades of work in a variety of movements as well as founding CCDS. Recently disabled by a stroke, from which she is steadily recovering, she followed the entire convention closely, her smile beaming encouragement to each speaker.
The event was chaired by CCDS Chicago leader Mildred Williamson and was sponsored by the Kendra Alexander Foundation, represented by Eric Quezada. Angela Davis, Hon. Claudia Morcom, Giuliana Milanese, and Carl Bloice recalled in loving and glowing terms how Charlene had mentored them and encouraged them through various battles, personal and political.
External links
- Center for Political Education website
- Kendra Alexander Foundation 2008 990 form
- Kendra Alexander Foundation on Guidestar
References
- ↑ Kendra Alexander Foundation on Guidestar
- ↑ Donation form for Nobel Prize for Pete Seeger Campaign
- ↑ Guidestar, Kendra Alexander Foundation 2007 990 Form
- ↑ Guidestar, Kendra Alexander Foundation 2006 990 Form
- ↑ http://www.cc-ds.org/convention_2009/Socialism_and_the_Emerging_Progressive_Majority.pdf