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FAMILY
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Somerville, MA - $1,200
Women's
Supported Housing and Empowerment program works with
women and children who
are homeless due to poverty and domestic
violence. Funds will be used
to support the Child/Family advocate
position at WSHE.
ALEXANDER
BELLER
New
York,
New
York
- $350
Choreographer
Alexander Beller will present
"It‚s Not You, It‚s Me,"
an
evening of dance using
women with diverse body types, and of all ages
and races. The project
incorporates community involvement including
residences at schools and
movement/text workshops about body issues
for young women.
ASOCIACIÓN
TEPEYAC DE NEW YORK
New
York,
New
York
- $1,000
As
part of its mission to promote the human and civil rights
of Hispanic
immigrants in New York, Asociación
Tepeyac is helping families affected
by the World Trade Center attack.
ECONOMIC
RESOURCE COUNCIL
Palm
Beach,
Florida - $1,000
The
Women‚s Life Planning Institute is a program
specifically for older
women, primarily women of
color, who are at risk for poverty because
they do not have
financial working knowledge. The volunteer program
helps women become
financially literate.
FLORIDA A & M UNIVERSITY
Tallahassee, Florida - $600
Funding
will support self-esteem and cultural enrichment
workshops for
African
American girls in grades 7-9.
"INSIDE
OUT: STORIES OF BULIMIA" - FILM ARTS FOUNDATION
San
Francisco,
CA - $500
Now
in post-production, the film by San Franciscan Michelle
Blair tells
the story of 5 people
struggling with the emotional and physical trauma
of their secret
disease.
LA
LESBIAN AT LA PEÑA
Berkeley, California - $700
The
grant will help to support this ongoing film and
performance series.
MIDWEST BRAIN INJURY
CLUBHOUSE
Park
Ridge,
Illinois - $550
This
community center serves adults that have suffered some
type of
brain injury. Funding
will be used to provide education seminars on
dating and sexuality
issues.
PLEIADES
THEATRE COMPANY
Louisville, Kentucky - $500
Pleiades
produces theatre about women, by women, for everyone and
provides opportunities for
women and girls in theatre to practice their
craft for compensation.
The grant will go toward their program to train
young women from local
schools in technical theatre and design.
PUBLIC
POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND
New
York,
NY - $750
The
Women‚s Rights at Work is a sexual harassment and
sex
discrimination outreach and
education project. They provide counseling,
education, information and
referrals for women struggling with the
devastating impacts of
workplace sexual harassment.
RED
HEN PRODUCTIONS
Cleveland, Ohio - $500
The
theatre is dedicated to producing plays with feminist
ideals especial-ly
those that show that
feminists do have a sense of humor.
THE
QUEEN‚S COMPANY
Brooklyn, New York - $500
This
all-female, multi-racial, classical theatre company is
dedicated to
telling great stories by
classical and contemporary playwrights.
The
grant will go towards their Spring
2002 production of Aphra Behn‚s
The
Lucky Chance in
repertory with a new play.
SHE
WANTS TO TALK TO YOU - FILM ARTS FOUNDATION
San
Francisco,
CA - $750
Funding
will support distribution of this film featuring three
13-year old
Nepali
girls who share their ideas on being girls in Nepal,
marriage,
friendship, love, loneliness,
their dreams and God. The film continues
with three Nepali women
living in the U.S. reflecting on their
own
struggle, exile and quest
for liberation.
SISTER
OUTSIDER
Brooklyn, New York - $1000
Part
of the Young Women‚s Work Project, this group is run
by women of
color between the ages of
14 and 22 and works to reduce recidivism for
incarcerated girls.
THE
STOCKYARDS THEATRE PROJECT
Chicago, Illinois - $500
Stockyards
is dedicated exclusively to producing feminist theatre
that
makes women theatre
artists a viable force. The grant will go towards
the Spring 2002
production of The Rape of Nanking…According to
Winnie
by
Margaret G. Waterstreet.
SUGARLAND
- FILM ARTS FOUNDATION
San
Francisco,
California - $1,000
This
documentary film is about the struggle of 90-year old
Margaret
Carranza and her daughter
Juanita have waged for nearly a decade to
get their family‚s
land back. An official USDA investigation found that
Carranza had been the victim
of discrimination by her local Federal Farm
Service
Agency.
Despite this finding, the Montana U.S. Attorney‚s
office
evicted her from her farm
and sold it off.
THE
WOMEN‚S DESK
Oakland, CA - $750
A
dynamic production, editorial and training unit within
the National Radio
Project,
Women‚s Desk will use their funding for training
workshops for
low-income activists and
journalists. Their goal is to provide affordable
and supportive training
opportunities for women to learn to create media.
The
Women‚s Desk provides training for women who are
dedicated to
collaborating with women‚s
groups and who are often themselves part of
social change
organizations.
THE
WOMEN‚S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND (WEDF)
Washington, D.C. - $500
WEDF
is an affiliated project of Women Empowered Against
Violence
(WEAVE).
WEDF is a new D.C. based volunteer directed investment
and ser-vice
project dedicated to
promoting battered women‚s economic security. The
project includes economic
empowerment, economic
education and safety planning
workshops, grants to match participants‚ savings,
and small loans to
support women survivors in achieving their economic
goals.
WOMEN‚S
PROJECT, ASSOCIATION FOR UNION DEMOCRACY
Brooklyn, New York - $1,000
AUD
is an advocate for women in trade unions. Their new
initiative,
Operation
Punch List, has been designed to bring together experts,
advocates and skilled
blue-collar women to collectively implement
strategies for securing equal
opportunity for women. The grant will
support publication of the
coalition newsletter Punch List.
THE
ELLEN DOUGHERTY ACTIVIST FUND GRANTEES:
SHE
ROCKS! YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Santa
Cruz,
CA - $500
Funding
will be used for leadership development. The program will
provide education and
critical thinking skills, and raise awareness around
health, violence
prevention and human rights issues. Leadership and
organizing opportunities will
enable young women to become peer
leaders and advocates for
positive change.
WINGSPAN
- $500
Two
young LBT activists from the Youth Leadership Development
Program
will attend Creating Change to learn about issues facing
the
LGBT
community and to learn how to organize for change.
FIRST
OPTIONS FOR ELDERS
Protland, Oregon - $500
Lesbian
community education project.
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