The following organizations were grantees of the Fall 2005 cycle.

9to5 POVERTY NETWORK INITIATIVE Milwaukee, Wisconsin - $500 Funding will support Job Survival Skills, Know Your Rights and Leadership Development training for women who are unemployed, in low wage jobs, or transitioning from welfare to the workforce. ANTSETIK (RADIO WOMEN IN TSOTSIL MAYA) Austin, Texas - $1250 Antisetik is a radio station run by a collective of indigenous women in the Zapatistas movement and broadcasts in Mayan.  Grant will support program to train women in radio broadcast. ARAB WOMEN'S GATHERING ORGANIZING COLLECTIVE Oakland, California - $1000 Funding will support organizing for a national gathering of Arab and Arab American women and girls to build community and a movement for social change. BREAKING THE CYCLE: OUTLET FOR HEALING Gadsden, South Carolina - $1000 Funding will support this grassroots intergenerational program to organize and provide support to women dealing with domestic violence, addictions and sexual abuse. CASA ATABEX ACHE Bronx, New York - $1000 A matching grant will support stipends to program leaders for a year round leadership/empowerment after school program for young womyn of color ages 12-18 focused on ending violence in their lives. CINEFEMME San Francisco, California - $800 Funding will support a women-made short films presentation that focuses on audience participation in order to encourage young women to pursue careers in film making. COMMUNITY LITERARY CENTER Fort Collins, Colorado - $500 At-risk women and girls from substance abuse recovery houses, shelters and community corrections programs will participate in creative writing workshops. Funding will support workshop supplies and publication of the women's writing. GRIOT READING PROGRAMS Brooklyn, New York - $500 Funding will support free writing workshops for girls to develop writing and literacy skills. The program includes introducing girls to published authors, careers in writing, and related cultural institutions and programs. HARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN Waterville, Maine - $600 The grant will fund a DVD master of an educational documentary showing the process of rehearsing and performing Carolyn Gage's play Ugly Ducklings that addresses suicide and the need for lesbian teens struggling with issues of sexual orientation to have a safe and supportive space to explore and find acceptance of their true selves. NEW YORK FEMINIST ART INSTITUTE New York, New York - $1000 Funding will support transcription of oral histories on the NYFAI's eleven-year legacy of offering art classes, exhibitions and special events. OUR TRUTHS/NUESTRAS VERDADES Alexandria, Virginia -$550 Grant will go towards production and distribution of a bilingual print and on-line zine dedicated to bringing to light the diversity of abortion experiences. PARACLETIA Prairieville, Louisiana - $1500 Grant will provide support for pregnant inmates at Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St. Gabriel. THE POLISH PROGRAMME OF DEVELOPMENT AND AWARENESS RAISING Legnica, Poland - $750 The grant will support program to help rural teenage girls to learn English to improve their chances of being employed. SISTERS TOGETHER ACHIEVING RESULTS Rochester, New York  - $1000 STAR provides young women in grades eleven and twelve with a 12 month program of Interactive Skill Based Workshops and Community Action Work culminating in a formal ball to celebrate their success. The grant will support program expenses. SOCIETY OF DAKINI WOMEN Warsaw, Poland - $800 The grant will support an educational campaign promoting positive attitude toward women's bodies and the menstrual cycle and promoting use of menstrual cloth pads. SOLUTIONS FOR CHILDREN AND CAREGIVERS Thurmont, Maryland - $500 Grant will go towards space and childcare for support meetings for grandmothers who provide primary care for their grandchildren. The organization also helps grandparents navigate the bureaucracy to get the assistance they and their grandchildren are eligible for. STITCH Washington, DC - $500 Funding will support the Women, Labor and Leadership Curriculum Project in Central America to systematize leadership development workshops for women workers to build skills and strategies. A WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS Venice, California - $500 Funding will support The Story Trees hands-on art workshops for formerly battered women and their children who meet regularly to use creative expression as a tool to heal. The project will culminate in a public gallery exhibit. WOMEN IN MEDIA & NEWS Brooklyn, New York -  $750 The grant will provide general operating support for this startup organization that offers media analysis, education, advocacy and reform programs for women and girls.   The Ellen Dougherty Activist Fund for Young Women grantee: SCHOOL GIRLS UNITE Kensington, Maryland - $500 Funding will support a program in which US teenage girls raise money to pay for girls to go to school through a sister chapter in Mali, West Africa. An integral part of the project is that the US girls mentor their younger peers to prepare them to take over the effort. The grant will go towards creation of an Action Toolkit to disseminate to girls, schools and communities that want to get involved.   The Susan F. Eastman Fund for Environmental Activism grantee: LOUISIANA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BATON ROUGE, Louisiana- $1000 Grant is for hurricane relief to assist battered survivors and their children who have been directly affected/displaced by the hurricane from the following parishes in Louisiana: Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines.   The Jeanne Meurer Indigenous Women's Fund grantee: SICANGU WAY OF LIFE PROJECT Whitewood, South Dakota - - $500 from Jeanne Meurer Fund and $500 from the general fund Funding will support birth education classes for young Lakota women and organization of Lakota Midwifery Forums across Lakota communities.   The Edie Windsor Fund for Old Lesbians grantee: WOW Cafe Theatre New York, NY -  $1000 Funding will support, in a matching grant, renovation of the elevator for a collective women's theatre to make the space accessible.   The India Fund grantees: Creative Action for Rural Development Pedakakani, Andhra Pradesh, India -  $1000 Funding is for purchase of medicines and equipment for a Community Health Program that serves 250 women sex workers Maruthi Mahila Society Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India -  $2000 Grant will support a leadership training program for women and a skills training for 50 girls in tailoring and embroidery. Participants are from 15 tsunami affected villages. Rural Reconstruction Society Kavali, Andhra Pradesh, India -  $1800 Funds will support purchase of implements and raw materials for a basket weaving training for women in five tsunami devastated tribal villages. Tamil Nadu Tribal Development Society Avur, Tamil Nadu, India -  $1500 Funds will support a series of 15 awareness and educational seminars on early marriage/child marriage as a violation of Human Rights,   The PatsyLu Fund for Women's Music grantees: ALLEGRO CHORALE & ORCHESTRA Mosinee, Wisconsin -  $1000 Funds will support the commission of a work by the Hispanic composer, Elisenda Fábregas, for the Allegro Women's Chorale and String Quartet. THE AZURE ENSEMBLE New York, New York - $1350 Funding to record and distribute to record companies the final version of "Requiem for Rachel Corrie-Mioritza" by Alice Shields for trombone and tape. LA DONNA MUSICALE  Boston, Massachusetts -  $2000 Grant to produce the second CD of Renaissance composer Antonia Bembo's masterpiece of early music: The Seven Psalms of David. NAH WE YONE: "Healing Through the Arts"  New York, New York -  $2000 Grant will support six 45-minute dance/music therapy sessions for African women refugee survivors of war trauma. SCHOOL OF MUSIC/ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY Norma, Illinois -  $2000 Grant will support the college tour in Mississippi and Tennessee of the opera by Nancy Van de Vate, "Where the Cross Is Made." THE SUMNER COUNTY SYMPHONY  Hendersonville, Tennessee -  $ 500 The grant will support the salary of conductor Janet Clazzy Scott for a series of symphony concerts in Tennessee elementary schools. TIBIA RECORDER DUO Albany, California -  $1500 Funding to support a Sitka Residency for three women composers: Frances Blaker, Letitia Berlin, and Shira Kamen to collaboratively write new pieces for recorders.

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