The following organizations were awarded grants in the Fall 2000 cycle.

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 PACECenter 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 the broad theme of Young Women's Bodies and Minds: Sites of Struggle and Resistance. Jon Sims Center for the Performing Art 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 antiabortion 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: 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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