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The following organizations were
grantees of the Fall 2003 cycle.
AFRICAN ANCESTRAL LESBIANS
UNITED FOR SOCIETAL CHANGE
New York, New York -
$750
AALUSC provides services to lesbians of the African
Diaspora.Having just hired their first staff person, they
hope to increase outreach, participation from members and
programming.
CENTER FOR ARTISTIC REVOLUTION
Little Rock, Arkansas - $1000
The
"Kind of Women I Am" project serves to bring together a
diverse group of women for a series of seven
participatory sessions culminating in an educational
community event. Women
will explore sameness and differences while working to
dismantle stereotypes and myths about one another.
Exploration of identity and its impact on the relationships
among the women will include hands on creative
expression.
CENTRO
LEGAL DE LA RAZA
Oakland, California - $1000
Funding
will support Jornaleras Unidas
(United Women Workers) a program founded, led, and
staffed by volunteers from the low-wage worker community.
Georgia Asc.
of Black Women Attorneys
Decatur, Georgia - $1000
GABWA
and the Georgia Access to Justice Project created the
Civil Pro Bono Project to focus solely on the needs of
incarcerated mothers and their children. Funding will support
seminars on family law and other legal topics.
GIRLSMARTS
Corning, NY - $750
GirlSmarts is a series of
workshops and retreats for teenage girls in the Southern
Finger Lakes region of New York offering the
opportunity to use two- and three- dimensional artwork,
improvisational movement, creative writing, storytelling,
and other arts-based activities to discover and affirm
their own beliefs and abilities.
Funding will in part support creation of e-newsletter and
message board to facilitate ongoing communication between
participants and with the facilitator.
INSITITUTE OF WOMEN & ETHNIC
STUDIES
New
Orleans, Louisiana - $1000
Founded by two African-American female
physicians, IWES develops culturally proficient,
multidisciplinary and holistic health programs,
activities, and research models that promote health and
quality of life through social change, public policy, and
collaboration.
The LYDIA PINK PROJECT
Providence, Rhode Island - $1000
Funding
will go towards submitting two short movies about young
queer women of color to film festivals and distribution
to queer- and diversity- themed groups in high schools
and youth-focused nonprofits.
MADRES LESBIANAS de PUERTO RICO
San
Juan, Puerto Rico - $1000
Funding will support activities for
lesbian mothers and their children.
MAINE WOMEN's POLICY CENTER
Hallowell, Maine - $750
Seventh
and eighth grade girls from across Maine spend the day
learning how the state government works, the important
role women play in shaping public policy, and how young
women can have a voice on issues they care about.
MERCY FAMILY
VIOLENCE RESPONSE PROGRAM
Baltimore, Maryland - $1000
This
program addresses family violence in a hospital setting
and provides outreach and advocacy in the community.
Programs include weekly support groups to challenge adolescent
girls to examine and change their belief systems that
lead them to use violence in their relationships and a
drop-in center for women involved with prostitution.
NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN‚S FORUM
Washington, DC - $500
NAPA
WF‚s mission is to forge a progressive
movement for the social and economic justice and
political empowerment of Asian Pacific American women and
girls. Funding
will support a two-day „Building a National APA
Women‚s Movement: Economic Justice and the Promise
of Democracy‰ conference in March 2004.
The Network/lA
Red
Boston, Massachusetts - $600
The Network/La Red serves as a local
and national model for battered women‚s programs,
GLBT health care and service providers, and other GLBT
domestic violence groups.
Funding will go towards printing and distribution of the next
two editions of their free bilingual newsletter.
PEOPLE
AND POSSIBILITIES, INC.
Niagara Falls, New York - $750
Funding will support "Let's Talk," a
program to provide cultural awareness during Black
History Month for girls 12-16. Participants will learn
about African American culture through the art of
storytelling and through an education field trip of the
Underground Railroad.
RURAL
MEDIA ARTS AND EDUCATION CENTER
Mariposa, California ˆ $500
"Reel
Women" is a curated film series
focusing on the lives of women from diverse cultural
backgrounds who breached personal and societal boundaries
to change their lives or the lives of those around them.
Rural Media Arts serves the isolated rural community of
Mariposa in the Sierra-Nevada foothills.
RURAL
WOMEN‚S ENVIRONMENT NETWORK
Gokana
Rivers State, Nigeria -
$500
Formed
in 2001 to address various environmental and human rights
problems facing women, campaigns include community
protests against violence, anti-AIDS, anti-cult and
against the use of agro-chemicals and explosives to
harvest fish stock.
SOLUTIONS
PROGRAM
San Francisco, California - $750
Solutions is an expressive arts and health
education program for girls aged 12-18 inside San
Francisco's Youth Guidance Center. Funding will support
printing Keeping it Real, a publication for girls
inside and outside juvenile hall.
Squeaky
Wheel/Buffalo media resources
Phoenix, Arizona - $500
A center for independent film, video,
computer, digital and audio art, the TechARTS
for Girls program helps girls become confident computer
users and artists. Working with media
professionals from different fields, girls learn
graphics, art, web and design software. Advanced sessions include
video and Flash.
STUDENTS TAKE
ACTION FOR NEW DIRECTIONS
Atlanta, Georgia - $750
A
program of Women‚s Action for New Directions, STAND‚s
mission is to empower young women to act politically, to
promote peace, equality and progressive social change.
Federal budget priorities is a
specific focus. Funding
will support participation in conferences, workshops and
trainings.
SUCCESSFUL
COMEBACKS INC.
Phoenix, Arizona - $100
Funding
will support Successful Comebacks collaboration with
Women Living Free to go into the Arizona Department of
Corrections women‚s prison/Perryville, weekly to
deliver self esteem, motivational, job readiness training
and to provide follow up after release.
UGANDA WOMEN RIGHTS AWARENESS
Mbale, Uganda -
$500
UWRA
Project‚s goal is to reach beyond ethnic, cultural,
and religious boundaries that provide loophole exploiting
the women-girlchild rights in Bugisu/Teso
and Kapchorwa communities.
The project will offer direct technical aid and seek to extend
sensitization, education, training and counseling
services on women‚s rights awareness.
A WINDOW
BETWEEN WORLDS
Venice, California - $1000
The
Women‚s Windows Program provides weekly two-hour art
workshops for battered women living in domestic violence
shelters. Funding
will be used to provide initial training, support and art
supplies to two leaders at new shelter so that they can
offer the weekly workshops.
The
Ellen Dougherty Activist Fund for Young Women grantees:
GIRLS ACTION
INITIATIVE
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - $1000
GAI
facilitates all-girl spaces to encourage the
self-expression, social action, and leadership of young
women in Philadelphia. Funding will support
development of the youth board and youth-led projects.
REFLECT
& STRENGTHEN
Dorchester, Massachusetts - $1000
Funding
will provide start-up funds to establish a youth
organizing component as a natural expansion of political
education programming, to develop the organizing skills,
leadership capacity, and political analyses of under-19
members.
The Susan F. Eastman Fund for
Environmental Activism grantee:
CONCERN KENYA
Nairobi, Kenya - $1000
Funding
will support a women's dairy farming project - where they
had to change their environment in order to start the
project - a model project that could be duplicated in Africa.
The
Jeanne Meurer Indigenous
Women's Fund grantees:
ASSOCIACION MAYALAN
Queltzaltenango,
Guatemala - $798
Funding
will support a voter empowerment and democratic
participation project for the Quiche, Katchiquel
and Mam women of the Guatemalan
Highlands.
HOOPA EVEN
START PROGRAM
Hoopa, California -
$1000
This
program serves Native American women, girls and teenage
moms. Funding will support the
women‚s role as advocates in their community,
leadership, entrepreneurship, job and life skills.
The
PatsyLu Fund for Women's Music grantees:
WOMEN'S
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
PROJECT
East Point, Georgia - $500
The
"Positive Messages Youth Program" for girls includes
technical training in a recording studio, voice training,
choreography, and song-writing workshops.
QUEER
CULTURAL CENTER
San Francisco, California - $500
Funding
will support the "Third Lesbian
Music Series" to be held in June 2004.
MEDICINE SHOW
THEATER
New York, New York - $1500
Funding
will support a workshop production of a comic opera about
female societies called "Queen Bee-ing, The Bee Opera."
IPACE
Austin, Texas - $500
Funding
will support the "Recollections of African-American Jazz
Musicians" oral documentary of 3 African American Women
Jazz Musicians in Austin.
CALLIOPE
WOMEN'S CHORUS
Minneapolis, Minnesota - $1500
Funding
will support a winter concert: "Women of the Pacific Rim" with music
written by women from that area.
ST. CLOUD
AREA AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER
St. Cloud, Minnesota - $ 500
Funding
will support the "Daughters of Nations Drum Group."
The
Edie Windsor Fund for Old Lesbians grantee:
WOMEN'S
PROJECT
Little
Rock, Arkansas - $750
Funding
will support transportation of older, rural lesbians to
attend Womyn's retreat.
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