The following organizations were grantees of the Fall 2006 cycle.
Cineasteas de Granada
Glenwood, WI - $610
To support an intensive, 5-day lighting and cinematography workshop in Granada, Nicaragua for teenaged girls working for the first time with film.
http://www.cinegranada.orgMarion County Diamonds & Pearls
Fairmont, WV - $1025
To support an interactive series of workshops for teenage girls working through the 7 principles of Kwanza toward personal self-development and community service.Isadora Productions
Astoria, NY - $1000
To support the pilot educational project: The Natasha Campaign that is a combination of workshop-based skills development courses and a production of the play about human trafficking, Becoming Natasha, in Slovenia.
http://www.isadoraproductions.orgCoastal Sisters Bamenda
Mezam, Cameroon - $1809
To support the program to sensitize and educate rural women and girls in 3 villages on their legal rights, land rights, and reproductive rights as well as their possibilities of achieving sustainable economic empowerment.EKIPA
Santiago, Chile - $1500
To pay for flyers, posters, brochures, conference program, and the rental of audio visual equipment for the 7th Encuentro Lesbico Feminista de Latinoamerica y del Caribe.SistaSpace Collective, Inc.
Atlanta, GA - $1000
The Spring Break Academy for 7th, 8th, and 9th grade girls focuses on HIV/AIDS and teen pregnancy prevention. The grant is to cover the stipends of two peer leaders.
http://www.sistaspace.org/Foundation for Uganda Women Development
Mbale, Uganda - $1000
To cover the costs for purchasing hardware in establishing a Women and Girl Child Computer Training Project to train women and girl children with Information Technology Skills.TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada
Sparks, NV - $1500
To support the drama class for girls residing at the Jan Evans Detention Center for Girls culminating in a production of Marsha Norman's play Getting Out.Women's Center of Greater Lansing, Inc
Lansing, MI -$1500
To support the training and skills development for 15 women to become employed within a 12 month period.
http://www.cacvoices.org/womencenterThe Birth Circle
Athens, OH - $1000
To support the "Having a Baby? Ten Questions to Ask" program that educates women about their rights and responsibilities as health care consumers to improve maternity services.
http://www.athensbirthcircle.org/Samaritan Women, Inc.
Rochester, NY - $1000To support a series of workshops for women who are and have been incarcerated to become knowledgeable about community resources, and gain educational, employment, and financial information.
http://www.samaritanwomen-inc.org/Jeanne Meurer Indigenous Women's Fund
Tufune Women Association
Mbale, Uganda -$1021 of which $500 was matched by $521 from the Open Meadows Foundation
To establish a small-scale fish farming/demonstration project to improve the women’s incomes through small-scale entrepreneurships.Ellen Dougherty Activist Fund for Young Women
Emerging Women Projects
Montpelier, VT - $1000 of which $500 was matched by $500 from the Open Meadows Foundation
To support the Dressing Room Project, which is a social change initiative for positive body image. Cards with affirming statements have been designed by girls. The grant is to fund the conversion of the cards to digital media and put them on the web site being developed.
http://www.thedressingroomproject.org/
Donor Directed Funds
The Edie Windsor Fund for Old Lesbians
Bronx Lesbian and Gay Consortium
Bronx, NY - $500
To fund the Bronx Lesbians in Solidarity and Sisterhood expanding the programming for old lesbians in the Bronx.
http://www.blghrc.org/The Susan F. Eastman Fund for Environmental Activism
Bring Urban Recycling to Nashville Today (BURNT)
Nashville, TN - $1175
To support the Legal Appeals in the Responsible Mosquito Control Project to prevent further spraying of areas and people without proper notification
http://www.burnt-tn.org/The PatsyLu Fund for Women's Music Projects
Nanababies Nonprofit Performing Arts Troupe
Vauxhall, NJ - $1000
To support the musicians' cast salaries for the Wonder of Women Musically Educating Assembly Program, a live 45-minute stage play in which scenes showing the contributions of women are depicted.Arts on the Edge
Anchorage, AK - $1500
To support the general operating expenses of the String Orchestra for Incarcerated Women at the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center.Atomic Clock Music Events
Lafayette, CO -$800
To support Wonder Women, a concert of diverse works by the living women composers: Elizabeth Brown, Ursula Mamiok, Kaija Saariaho, Shulamit Ran, Lorretta Notareschi, Caroline Mallonée, Libby Larson, Pauline Oliveros, and Meredith Monk.Brooklyn Women's Chorus
Brooklyn, NY - $870
To support the performance In America, a multi-media presentation on Immigration.
http://www.brooklynwomenschorus.com/Speaking in Rhythms
Bronx, NY - $1000
To support Syncopation New York a music education project through study and performance with rhythm instruments to expose African and Latin-American students in East Harlem to styles of music in various cultures with special focus on the Garifuna culture from Central America.San Diego Women's Chorus
San Diego, CA - $500
To support the 20th Anniversary Concert that features a historical perspective on feminist/women's music over the last twenty years.
http://www.sdwc.org/Fairbanks Choral Society
Fairbanks, AK - $1150
To support the recording and production of a CD Enhanced/DVD of new compositions of five Alaskan women composers based on the poetry of Alaskan writer and artist Claire Fejes (1920-1998). The composers are: Lori Lange, Terese Kaptur, Corliss Kimmel, Sheri Troop, and Courtney Miklas.
http://www.fairbankschoralsociety.org/Tenth Muse Productions
San Francisco, CA - $1500
To support the 2007 opera workshop production of JUANA, an original Spanish language, lesbian-themed opera about a 17th century nun, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, by composer and co-librettist, Carla Lucero and co-librettist and author, Alicia Gaspar de Alba.The India Fund
Prakash Trust
Pudukkattai, Tamil Nadu, India - $1853
To support the Housemaid Project that will mobilize woman and girl housemaids about their rights and benefits.Social Progressive Integration through Civil Education
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - $1569
To support the training and the purchase of the production units for leather goods/items in four villages outside Hyderabad where a Women's Association comprising 25 Scheduled Caste Women in each village will operate on a cooperative basis and earn and share income collectively and equally.Rural Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Educational Society
Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India - 1898
To support the training of volunteers and implementation of a Direct Observation Therapy Short course (DOTS) for treating tuberculosis among slum dwelling women.The DOTS program is the most effective treatment regimen endorsed by the World Health Organization.Grace Trust
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India - $1000
To support the training in economic empowerment of Dalit women using organic agricultural produce.UJVALA
Mulapet, Andhra Pradesh, India - $1650
To support the eradication of the Mathangi system which is against the law, but continues in the society. This system chooses and thus sacrifices women and girls in the Name of the Traditional Gods. They are thenceforth treated as a toy doll, not allowed to marry but used for sexual contacts and are encouraged to have girl children to continue this system.Grant Cycles | Open Meadows Home