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9 TO 5 COLORADO
Denver,
Colorado - $600
Funding will support printing materials for leadership
development workshops for low-wage/low-income
women.
AKONYA WOMEN
GROUP
Xisumu,
Kenya - $500
Akonya is a community based
network organization in rural Kenya
committed to fighting HIV/AIDS and to improving the
plight of orphans resulting from HIV/AIDS deaths.
Funding will support workshops on HIV/AIDS prevention and
caring for people living with HIV/AIDS.
ARMID
THEATRE CO
West
Islip, New York
- $500
Funding will support the translation of La traicion
en la amistad or The Betrayal of Friendship by
Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor by Caridad Svich.
ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS ALLIANCE
Brooklyn, NY -
$500
The mission of the Asian American Women Artists Alliance
is to support and promote Asian American Women artists in
the visual, literary and performing arts.
Funding will support efforts to expand their board of
directors.
BLACK
REPERTORY GROUP, INC
Berkeley, California - $1000
Black Repertory Group performs skits and plays on HIV
prevention to educate at-risk young women in places where
they gather including beauty parlors, schools, shopping
malls, churches and other community settings.
BRIDGING
ASSISTANCE BUILDING ADVOCACY & EMPOWERMENT
New York, New
York - $1000
BABAE is a start-up organization responding to the
specific needs of Filipinas who have been subjected to
violence, including sex trafficking and domestic abuse,
and to help end their exploitation.
Funding will support two Community Outreach Forums.
THE CENTER FOR ANTI-VIOLENCE
EDUCATION
Brooklyn, New York - $1000
Funding supported Effective Action Workshops to train
protesters in how to exercise their constitutional rights
to protest while maintaining their personal safety.
COLONIZE THIS! THE MOVIE C/O
THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL
Brooklyn,
NY $1000
Funding will go towards a collective video adaptation of
compelling shorts from the anthology Colonize
This! in which women of
color share their perspectives on feminism through
personal stories.
CONGREGATION
OF THE SISTERS IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
Scranton, Pennsylvania - $750
The Sisters of IMHM run a boarding house in Sicuani, Peru for 16 girls from remote villages
in the Andes Mountains
to attend secondary school.
Funding will provide food and materials for the sewing center.
DAYSTAR, INC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin -
$700
Daystar provides housing and support services to battered
women while they establish living wages by pursuing
education or on-the-job training. Funding will support group
activities focused on building practical life skills as
well as self-esteem building, anger management, and
parenting skills.
EUROPA
DONNA
Legnica, Poland
- $1000
The All-Polish Association of Women's Movement for Fight Against
Breast Cancer will provide advocates with scientific
training to prepare them to participate in the research
and medical peer review process.
THE GARDNER GROUP, INC
New York, New
York - $750
Funding will support outreach for the documentary
Siberian Dreams, the story of Irina Pantaeva who
overcame alcoholism and domestic violence in Nuryatia to
become a model/actor in New
York. The film, featuring a cast of
strong Buryat-Mongol women, follows her and her
son‚s trip back to celebrate their endangered
culture.
GLOBAL HEALTH THROUGH EDUCATION, TRAINING AND
SERVICES, INC.
Attleboro,
Massachusetts - $1000
Global Health Through Education
and Services promotes strategies for improving health in
developing countries.
A matching grant will support the travel stipends for
community leaders and grassroots women's advocates in an Americas
regional meeting of the Women and Health Taskforce to be
held in Mexico City.
LIFE/LINK
ROGERS COUNTY, INC
Claremore,
Ok - $700
Life Link rescues girls off the streets of Abidjan,
Ivory Coast
providing them with a home and training in sewing both by
hand and machine. Funding
will goes towards the purchase of sewing machines.
NANKA JUDO YUDANSHAKAI
Torrance, California
- $700
The Joshi Shorai (Women of the Future) is a program that
develops adolescents and young women as coaches and judo
teachers for girls.
SAN
DIEGO WOMEN FILM FOUNDATION
San
Diego, California - $750
Funding will support the Film Screening Program to
educate the general public on social issues, local and
world topics, and issues which address women.
THE
SISTER POWER ORGANIZATION
New York, New
York - $1000
Sister
Power Organization
Resource Center
unites, empowers and supports women, girls, and children
through education, preventative programs and community
service. Funding
will go towards the Girl Power Leadership Club and the Mentor Match Up Program.
YELLOW
GRRRLS PRODUCTIONS
Los Angeles,
California - $1000
Yellow Grrrls is completing a documentary about Asian
American women in the U.S.
who came of age after the lifting of anti-Asian,
anti-female immigration laws in 1965.
Funding will go towards travel to New
York to interview a Filipina
magician and for music for the film by Asian-American
women.
The Ellen
Dougherty Activist Fund for Young Women
grantee:
SISTAS
ON THE RISE
Bronx,
New York - $500 Ellen Dougherty, $500
General
Sistas on the Rise works towards the personal and
political development of low-income mothers of color ages
13-21 in the South Bronx. Funding will support general
operations.
The Susan F. Eastman Fund for
Environment Activism grantee:
WIDOWS
AND DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT SERVICES
Ikeja,
Nigeria - $1500
Grant for support of the establishment of a fish farm for
a group of widows as a local cooperative economic
program.
The India Fund
grantees:
RURAL
DEVELOPMENT WELFARE SOCIETY
Vizianagarem District, Andhra Pradesh, India - $1500
Grant for support of an educational and vocational
training in leaf plate making for 120 adolescent girls
from 8 tribal villages.
CREATIVE
ACTION FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India -
$1500
Grant for support of training project for 250 women from
the ages of 15 - 40 in the income generating production
of leather goods and footwear
WOMEN
AND AGRICULTURAL LAND RIGHTS
Gujurat,
India - $2000
The Hindu Succession Act does not allow women to own
land. This grant supports organizing workshops and
documentation of strategies for the process of getting
land owned in the name of women.
The Jeanne Meurer
Indigeneous Women's Fund grantee:
FORTALEZA DE LA MUJER MAYA
Mexicanos, San Cristobal, Chiapas - $500 Jeanne Meurer, $250
general fund
"Los nuevos caminos de las mujeres indigenas" is a
theater and bilingual education project sponsored by
Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (FOMMA) that seeks to educate
indigenous women from rural areas who have migrated to
the city through the medium of theater.
The project will focus on problems such as discrimination and
domestic violence and will teach Spanish literacy and
math to increase the women‚s skills for the job
market.
The PatsyLu Fund
for Women's Music grantees:
CONSTRUCTION
COMPANY
New
York,
NY - $1000
Grant will go toward composer and performers fees for
the (re)mix/(re)sound
music series.
NORTHWIND
QUINTET
Granada
Hills, CA - $2000
Funding will support the editing of private papers,
photographs, music scores, and documents of Zenobia
Powell Perry, an African-American composer/musician.
DYRArts
Austin,
Texas - $500
Funding for the support of the Women in Gospel Workshop
and Showcase Series.
PURPLE
MOON DANCE PROJECTS
San Francisco, CA -
$750
Funding for the support of an Asian-American lesbian,
Renee Arakaki, to compose the music for MAHINA, a
collaborative interdisciplinary work of music, dance, and
visual arts installation.
ATHENA
FESTIVAL
Murray,
KY - $1500
Funding for the support of a week-long celebration of
women composers, focusing mainly on vocal/choral and
keyboard music.
REAL
LIFE, REAL WOMEN, REAL STORIES
Austin,
Texas - $500
Funding for the support of Donna Dugone's
composing/arranging the music for a live performance and
tape
THEIA
COOPERATIVE MUSIC EXCHANGE
Milford,
Connecticut - $1950
Grant for the purchase of a set of hand bells to create a
music community of women and girls of diverse backgrounds
WOMEN'S
AUDIO MISSION
San
Francisco, California
- $1500
Funding for the completion of an interactive visual
tool: "Looking at Sounds: An Introduction to the
Recording Arts for Women and Girls" that shows women
learning about and working with the techniques in the
recording arts.
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