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Asociación
de Madres Demandantes de la Cuota
Alimenticia
San
Salvador, El
Salvador - $1,000
The Association of Mothers Suing
for Child Support is the only women's organization in
Central and Latin America that
defends the rights of women and children by demand that
the State assume its regulatory role in enforcing the law
by establishing fair and just child support.
California
Coalition Against Sexual Assault
Oakland,
CA -
$1,000
CalCASA
is a membership organization representing 92 rape
crisis/rape prevention programs. Funding will support the
expenses associated with the Women of Color North and
South Caucus work and representation on the CalCASA
council.
Center For
Creative Education
West Palm
Beach, FL
- $300
Project LEAP links professional
educators and artists to use visual arts, dance, music,
writing, and theatre to develop and implement new and
exciting ways to teach and learn. Funding will be used to
establish artist collaborations at the PACE
Center for Girls of Palm
Beach County. PACE is a Second Chance school which serves
50 young women.
Centro Mujeres
de la Esperanza
El Paso,
TX -
$1,000
CME programs offer a means of
empowerment to women living with the effects of economic
poverty at the U.S./Mexican border. Through holding
listening sessions, bringing programs to places women
live and gather, and using informal adult education
methods, CME assists women to assume responsibility for
their personal growth. CME points out that programs that
offer material benefits are funded at a much higher level
than programs that address the inner needs and gifts of
women.
Chinese Staff and Workers
Association
New
York, NY
- $500
CSWA organizes women workers of the
Chinatown community to fight for better
working conditions. The grant will help support the
Women's Project as a less formal space for woman of all
ages, ranging from grandmothers to high school students,
to get to know each other outside the context of the
fighting campaigns.
Doula
Program
Denver,
CO -
$1,000
Clinica Campesina
and St. Anthony
Hospitals cooperate to provide Spanish
speaking trained birth assistants to women during labor
and delivery. These women serve as a bridge between the
mother and the medical team. Doula
is a Greek word meaning one woman in service of another.
Dreadlocks - Film Arts
Foundation
Oakland,
CA -
$700
Funding will go towards the
creation of the narrative short film, Dreadlocks that addresses
the subject of diversity in popular culture. According to
the filmmakers, the film "...is a story much like its
history. Just as dreadlocks take time to mature and grow,
so do the two main characters...in their quest to achieve
their dream and remain true individuals."
Dyke Action Machine!
New
York, NY
- $1,000
Since 1991, this lesbian public art
project has waged a "culture-jamming public art
campaign." This grant will support their latest project,
GYNADOME: A Separate Paradise. Through an interactive web
site and lower Manhattan
mural, DAM! will revisit the separatist women's land movement
of the 1970s.
The Gender Project
New
York, NY
- $500
The Gender Project offers a forum
for dancers to examine gender issues in their creative
work, their workplace and in their lives. The Project
focuses on gender disparities in the dance field with the
goal of helping women create new paradigms for career
success and effective and satisfying mechanisms for
coping in the dance profession. The grant will support
promotion and interview transcription.
Girl Trouble - Film Arts
Foundation
San
Francisco, CA
- $1,000
The grant will go toward final
production of Girl Trouble a documentary film featuring
the stories of a handful of young women who have been in
and out of the revolving door of Juvenile Hall. Their
authentic voices allow the film to explore a complex and
contradictory world, where children raise children, where
the pull of street life is powerful, and where choices
for a different life are increasingly hard to see.
Global Action
Project, Inc.
New
York, NY
- $500
The grant will help support webShop
for girls, a multimedia program for young women of color.
The girls will produce a website on an issue that they
decide under te
broad theme of Young Women's Bodies and Minds: Sites of
Struggle and Resistance.
Jon
Sims Center
for the Performing Arts
San
Francisco, CA
- $1,000
The grant will help support the Wuornos
Opera Project and efforts to develop and execute an
outreach plan to marginalized women (victims of abuse and
sex workers) and the community of activists who oppose
the death penalty, as these are the issues addressed by
this groundbreaking opera. JSC is a multidisciplinary
performing arts center whose programs address the
artistic, educational and social needs of the
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender communities.
JusticeWorks
Community
Brooklyn,
NY -
$500
Women of
Substance is a drug abuse education project. JusticeWorks
holds education forums at colleges, community centers,
libraries, museums, churches and other venues to open up
a dialogue between women who have experienced addiction
and incarceration and the public they seek to educate and
mobilize.
La Peña
Cultural Center
Berkeley,
CA -
$700
The grant helped to support La
Lesbian at La Peña: A
Lesbian Performance and Film Series, featuring
performance art, music, visual art, and a lesbian film
festival highlighting local lesbians of color artists and
filmmakers. Last year's series was attended by 1,300
lesbians.
National Latina
Health Organization
Oakland,
CA -
$1,000
The grant will help support the
establishment of an office in New
York City for the
Intergenerational Latina Health Leadership Project.
Through this project, a university level course
"Redefining Latina Health: Body, Mind and Spirit" was
offered at Hunter College in Spring of 2000 and an
Intergenerational Conference on Latina Adolescents and
Sex, Sexuality and Reproductive Health was held.
Network for Women's Services
Bronx,
NY -
$1,000
NWS provides pro bono and pro se
legal representation for indigent and working-poor women
in the Bronx. In recognition that
women's energies are too frequently sapped by family
crises, NWS is developing PEACE, a new program to offer
Bronx residents, particularly young women and girls,
clinics and information programs that emphasize
prevention and empowerment rather than short-term rescue.
PROMISE
Resource
Center
for Prostituted Women and Girls
San
Francisco, CA
- $1,000
The grant will help support a new
outreach and prevention program for girls at-risk to
prostitution currently residing in juvenile hall and who
have identified sexual abuse as one of their reasons for
leaving home. The goal of the program is prevention -
understanding, awareness and of the sex industry and
street prostitution.
Rape Crisis Center, Inc.
Asheville,
NC -
$500
The Rape
Crisis Center plans to
develop a pamphlet on woman to woman sexual violence to
inform staff, provide programming options and offer
suggestions for effective outreach to potential
survivors. Funds will be used for production and free
distribution of the pamphlet to rape crisis and domestic
violence agencies nationwide.
Red Regional Lesbica
San
José, Costa
Rica - $750
Thirteen organizations united to
promote the visibility of lesbian and bisexual woman in Central
America. The funding will go towards computer
equipment.
Sista
II Sista
Brooklyn,
NY -
$1,000
Sista II Sista
is a collective of women in their twenties and early
thirties who work with teenage women of color in East
Williamsburg/Bushwick in
personal and political development through an exploration
of cultural identity, community organizing, and long term
relationship building. The grant will help support the
hiring of eight young women.
St. Johnsbury
Ballet Studio Junior Company
Danville,
VT -
$1,000
The grant will help support the
cost of the Junior Company to travel to Costa
Rica to perform in the X
Festival Internacional de Coreógrafos.
West 181
Street Beautification Project, Inc.
New
York, NY
- $700
The funding will help to support
the Girls Leadership Program allowing the project to
increase the number of girls actively participating in
the program and provide for more opportunities to develop
self-esteem and confidence, to enhance leadership skills,
and to find new possibilities for the future.
Whirlwind Women - Film Arts
Foundation
San
Francisco, CA
- $700
The grant will help support
completion of a one-hour documentary, filmed in Kenya
and Uganda,
following the stories of three African women who learn
how to build their own wheelchairs in a training led by
American women who are also wheelchair builders and
riders.
Women's Network of the Red
River Valley
Moorhead,
MN -
$2,000
One of the two abortion providers
that serve the three state area surrounding Moorhead
and Fargo is
being sued by anti-abortion groups for contradicting the
latter's advertisement campaign claiming that abortions
cause breast cancer. The grant will be used for a
pro-choice billboard and print advertisements.
YWCA of Greater Portland
Portland,
ME -
$700
Project Leap connects girls with
disabilities with independent women with disabilities who
act as positive mentors and role models. The program is
governed by a community advisory board made up of women
and young women with differing disabilities.
The Ellen Dougherty Activist
Fund grantees:
Casa Atabex
Aché
Bronx,
NY -
$1,000
Fuerza/Power
is an adolescent peer education program for young womyn
12 through 18. The grant will fund two Fuerza
participants to join a delegation of healers on a trip to
work with women cancer survivors in Vieques,
Puerto Rico.
Girls International Forum
St.
Paul, MN
- $1,500
The grant will help support the
"Girls for a Change" program to bring together a diverse
group of 100 girls to be part of the preparation,
participation and follow-up to an international girls'
conference that culminates in group projects created to
address the major problems girls experience.
Sisters in Action for Power
Portland,
OR -
$1,000
Sisters in Action
for Power identifies ways to address the erosion
of individual girls' self concept as well as structures
that enable the oppression of women and girls. Their
mission is to develop the leadership of their members.
The grant will go towards leadership retreats for girls.
Youth Communications
New
York, NY
- $900
Youth Communications will print and
distribute Girl to Girl, a powerful anthology of articles
written by girls attending New York
City public high schools.
The Jeanne Meurer
Indigenous Women's Fund grantees:
Casa Atabex
Aché
Bronx,
NY -
$1,500
Casa Atabex
Aché seeks to help womyn
of color reconnect with their individual and collective
powers of healing and action. The grant will help support
the Vieques Sister Project, an
effort to enable cancer survivors to obtain important
healing information and techniques to support wellness
within an African/Caribbean/Indigenous context.
Peta
Wakan Tipi
St.
Paul, MN
- $1,500
Dream of Wild Health Network is a
traditional American Indian gardening project whose
mission is to become the seed saver of indigenous plants
in the Upper Midwest. The grant
will support transportation and stipend costs for elderly
women to travel to gardens and drying areas to help with
the harvest of our Summer 2000
garden.
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