EIA Exclusive: NEA Gave $12 Million to Advocacy Groups. If you ran a liberal political, advocacy or research organization and you went to the National Education Association last year with your hand out, chances are good you came away with a fistful of dollars. An Education Intelligence Agency analysis of NEA's financial disclosure report for the 2006-07 fiscal year reveals the national union contributed $12 million to a wide variety of advocacy groups. The total nearly tripled its contributions from the previous fiscal year.
The expenditures include a host of payments connected with ballot initiatives in both November 2006 and the first eight months of 2007. They range from $2.3 million to Citizens for Education, who campaigned in favor of a school funding initiative in Michigan, down to several smaller grants to groups such as Rainbow/PUSH, FairTest, Amnesty International, Sierra Club and Human Rights Campaign.
Here is an alphabetic list of the recipients of NEA's largesse, with relevant web links:
ACORN - $218,452
American Council on Education - $10,000
American Library Association - $5,000
American Rights at Work - $5,000
Americans United for Change - $350,000
Amnesty International - $7,500
Arizona Minimum Wage Coalition - $28,000
Arizona State University Office for Research & Sponsored Projects Administration - $250,000
Asian American Justice Center - $5,000
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund - $6,000
Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies - $5,000
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance - $5,000
Bloggerpower.org - $10,000
Business and Professional Women/USA - $5,000
Campaign for America's Future - $40,000
CAP Charitable Foundation - $5,000
Celebrate ME - $50,000
Center for Community Change - $25,000
Center for Equity and Biliteracy Education Research - $8,000
Center for Law and Education - $50,000
Center for Policy Alternatives - $10,000
Center for Teaching Quality - $277,485
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association - $81,500
Children's Defense Fund - $10,000
The Citizenship Project - $25,000
Citizens for Education - $2,316,000
Citizens United to Protect Our Public Safety, Schools and Communities - $550,000
Citizens Who Support Maine's Public Schools - $195,000
Coloradans for Excellent Schools - $792,000
Coloradans for a Fair Minimum Wage - $20,000
Coloradans for Responsible Reform - $50,000
Committee for Education Funding - $18,902
Committee to Protect Our Children's Legacy - $560,000
Communities for Quality Education - $273,000
Communities United to Strengthen America - $150,000
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. - $40,000
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute - $90,825
Conserving Arizona's Future - $50,000
Creating Arizona's Future - $425,000
Democratic GAIN - $10,000
Democratic Leadership Council - $40,150
East Meadow Jewish Center - $5,000
Economic Policy Institute - $150,000
Educational Testing Service - $21,134
Everybody Wins DC - $8,000
FairTest - $35,000
Ford's Theatre - $10,000
Funniest Celebrity in Washington - $10,000
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation - $6,000
Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network - $130,000
Give Missourians A Raise - $200,000
Give Nevada A Raise - $25,000
Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice - $300,000
Harvard Labor and Worklife Program - $5,000
Harvard University Office for Sponsored Research - $50,000
Healthy Schools Network - $5,000
Human Rights Campaign - $15,000
Invest In Our Kids' Education - $720,000
James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy - $15,000
Japanese American Citizens League - $5,000
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies - $15,000
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement - $15,000
Latina Initiative - $25,000
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights - $15,000
League of Rural Voters - $15,000
League of United Latin American Citizens - $5,000
Learning First Alliance - $54,240
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund - $15,300
NAACP - $56,500
National Alliance of Black School Educators - $11,000
National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education - $5,500
National Association for Bilingual Education - $5,000
National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans - $5,000
National Association of Hispanic Journalists - $5,000
National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Education Fund - $10,000
National Association of Legislative and Political Specialists for Education - $14,021
National Baptist Voice - $15,450
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards - $8,000
National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training - $10,000
National Coalition on Black Civic Participation - $10,000
National Conference of Black Mayors - $10,000
National Conference of State Legislatures - $42,275
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education - $348,585
National Council of La Raza - $14,700
National Hispanic Media Coalition - $5,000
National League of Cities - $40,000
National Partnership for Women and Families - $5,000
National Parent Teachers Association - $5,000
National Public Pension Coalition - $135,000
National Staff Development Council - $70,500
National Urban League - $10,180
National Women's Law Center - $10,000
Nebraskans Against 423 - $500,000
Nebraskans for the Good Life - $250,000
Not In Montana - $310,000
Ohioans for a Fair Minimum Wage - $680,000
Organizations Concerned About Rural Education - $5,000
Partnership for 21st Century Skills - $55,803
People for the American Way - $275,000
Project New West - $86,000
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition - $10,000
Rebuild America's Schools - $20,000
Second District Religious, Educational Charitable Development Project - $5,000
SEIU - $15,000
Sierra Club - $50,000
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center - $5,000
Southern Christian Leadership Conference - $12,771
Task Force Foundation - $10,000
Teachers Count - $50,000
U.S. Action - $100,000
U.S. Fund for UNICEF - $7,500
Vote Early Denver - $25,000
Women's Campaign Forum - $15,000
Women's Voices Women Vote - $75,000
Workers Independent News Service - $5,000
Working America - $150,000
EIA will have further revelations from NEA's disclosure report in the weeks to come.
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