The following organizations were awarded grants in the Spring 2000.

Ancestral Trails Campaign Burnsville, MN - $1,500 The Billboard campaign is a collaborative public art project using billboards, a companion web site and student focused art-making workshops to present the history and culture of the first people of this area - the Ojibwa and Dakota/Lakota people.   Casa De La Cultura/A Project of El Comite Cultural del Pueblo, Inc. Del Rio, TX - $1.500 Casa de la Cultura has coordinated an International Women's Day conference for the last fourteen years that provides a unique opportunity for women and young girls in the area. The grant will go towards funding the conference coordinator and guest artists.   Committee for Humanitarian Assistance to Iranian Refugees New York, NY - $1,500 CHAIR challenges the oppression and discrimination faced by Iranian woman refugees through comprehensive case management, the Iranian Refugee Legal Support Documentation Center, advocacy, education and organizing. CHAIR advocates for the general right to gender-based asylum for all women who have fled the Islamic Republic of Iran.   Film Arts Foundation San Francisco, CA - $500 The grant will assist with the distribution and post-production cost of A Haunting. This video explores the issues of death and grief in a lesbian relationship.   Five College Women's Studies Research Center South Hadley, MA -$1,000 The Women's Research Roundtable will create a forum and an infrastructure for scholars, teachers, agency specialists and activists to form collaborative partnerships with local women and girls.   The Gender Project New York, NY - $1,500 The primary goal for The Gender Project is to investigate the realities of gender disparity within the dance world, the reasons for that disparity and why women accept gender prejudice without question. In addition to listening through one on one interviews, the project also conducts panel discussions and an annual performance event.   Hermanas Sisterhood in Central America and the Caribbean Princeton, NJ - $3,000 A $2,000 grant from the Jeanne Meurer Indigenous Women's Fund to fund travel scholarships for two Native American Women and a $1,000 grant from the Ellen Dougherty Activist Fun for a scholarship for a young woman to participate in the Women's Economic Justice Delegation to Cuba. The delegation will attend the International Women's Labor Conference. Hermanas seeks to bring diverse women's voices, values, and strategic thinking to a growing movement to change US policy toward Cuba.   Institute for Labor and the Community New York, NY - $1,500 The Wanted: X-Cheerleaders Project provides "Cheering for Ourselves" educational workshop and performance opportunities for women and girls to examine the restrictions and stereotypes of gender. Workshops include the Girls Project for public school girls, the Working Women's Project (with 9to5) for low-income women and Project Greenhope for formerly incarcerated women. Funding will go towards stipends for the X-Cheerleader squad members who conduct the workshops.   Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York New York, NY - $1,500 The Lower Eastside Girls Club will hold a festival of films and documentaries for, by and about girls. Girls from the Lower Eastside will be admitted free of charge. The Girls Club was formed in 1996 to meet the disparity in services offered to boys and girls. The Club has grown into a full-fledged organization providing multiple and holistic services to over 300 girls.   NARAL/NY - Teen Outreach Reproductive Challenge New York, NY - $1,000 The TORCH program provides training and stipends to peer leaders to make presentations on reproductive rights issues throughout the five boroughs of New York City. The peer leadership advocacy program prepares teenagers to organize and speak to community groups and schools on a wide-range of reproductive healthcare issues.   New Americans Healthy Advocacy Project San Diego, CA - $1,000 Associated with Project Concern, the San Diego-based project works with East African refugees and immigrants providing comprehensive health education training to women who then conduct culturally and linguistically appropriate outreach to their peers.     Queer Cultural Center San Francisco, CA - $1,500 The grant will support Sister Spit's participation in the Lesbian Literature Series at the Third National Queer Arts Festival. Sister Spit is an exceptional ensemble of 8 to 10 emerging young Lesbian writers in their twenties. The festival's mission is to demonstrate to the community, to Queer artists and to the world at large - that artists do vital and valuable work.     Servicios Alternativos Mujer - AMAUTA Arequipa Provincia, Peru - $1,000 The project will educated Quechua and Aymara speaking women specifically on the human right to live free of male violence.     Swing the Pussy Brooklyn, NY - $1,500 STP is publishing and distributing a free newsletter created by and for lesbians to serve the large, diverse lesbian community in New York City. They are responding to the lack, other than one or two bulletin boards, of any public way for lesbians to communicate with each other, especially with women who are different from themselves.       UE Research & Education Fund Pittsburgh, PA - $1,500 Cruzando Fronteras or Crossing Borders is an innovative women's cross-border mural project. Participating artists, Beatriz Aurora and Juana Alicia, will collaborate in the creation of two murals: one in Mexico and one in the United States. The content of the murals will be informed by exchanges with women workers from organizations in both countries which have been on the forefront in establishing ties between working people.     West Texas Promotoras Project Plainview, TX - $2,000 This project trains women in the local farm worker community about domestic violence and health issues of special concern to migrant farmworkers. These women will then become Promotoras responsible for sharing the information they have learned through visits, radio appearances and small group presentations.     Women of Color Against Violence Santa Cruz, CA - $1,500 The grant will fund a resource manual for all participants in the conference, The Color of Violence: Violence Against Women of Color, to promote networking and alliance building. The conference will be held establish a national organization for women of color against violence which will organize around the connections between sexual/domestic violence and institutional structures of violence in the lives of women of color.

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