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The following organizations were
grantees of the Spring 2001 cycle:
GIRLS
INCORPORATED OF ST.
LOUIS
St
Louis, Missouri
- $500
Established in 1985, Girls
Incorporated serves ten thousand girls and young women,
most of whom are people of color and impoverished. The
Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy program informs girls
about human sexuality and sexual health, encourages girls
to delay premature sexual involvement, opens family
communication, and helps them make informed choices about
life planning and decision-making.
TAKING
LIBERTIES-SOUTH AFRICA
New York, London, Capetown,
Johannesburg, Paris - $2,000
Artists, activists, educators
and community members traveling in a caravan will use
Suzan Lori Parkís Obie
award-winning play Venus. The drama tells the story of Saartjie
Baartman, a young South African woman sold
into sexual slavery in 1810 and exhibited nude in London
as the legendary 'Venus Hottentot', whose brain and genitalia remain
housed at the Museum of Man in Paris. Through an
innovative drama therapy curriculum, Taking Liberties
challenges African and European women survivors of
violence to explore the impact of exile, displacement and
Western acculturation upon a woman's ability to resist
physical violence and social injustice.
CREATING
SAFE SCHOOLS
Fort
Collins, Colorado
- $1,000
The Lambda
Community Center
was established in 1993 as a response to the passage of a
statewide anti-gay law. Located only sixty miles from
where Matthew Shepard was killed, the Center is
establishing 'Creating Safe Schools' for gay, lesbian,
bisexual, transgender and questioning youth. The program
will train security personnel and counselors in several
high schools.
INFINITY
DANCE THEATER
New
York, NY
- $500
Dedicated to expanding the
boundaries of professional dance by including dancers
with and without disabilities, Infinity Dance Theater
also works with public school students. Funds will be
used to design and produce a curriculum guide and
companion to an educational technique video and compact
disc.
A
GIRL'S LIFE -- SELF-REFLECTION PROJECT
San
Francisco, CA
- $500
Part of a larger film project
documenting the lives of girls from various ethnicities
going from 4th to 6th grade, this project will have girls
practice personal journal work--in written and video
form--exploring the women heroines in their lives. The
students will then share their differences and
similarities gaining a deeper understanding of the
various communities they come from.
COURAGE
AND CONVICTION
Cambridge, MA -
$1000
Dr. Mary Daly, a world-renowned
feminist theologian, philosopher and author with seven
advanced degrees and three doctorates taught at Catholic
Boston College
for over thirty years. Courage and Conviction, a
film-in-progress, documents a suit threatened against Dr.
Daly by the Center for Individual Rights, the fourth
largest conservative legal group in the nation, and Dr.
Daly's suit against Boston
College
for revoking her tenure with no due process.
APPALACHIAN
WOMEN'S CARAVAN
Floyd,
VA -
$2,000
The Appalachian Women's Alliance,
a grassroots coalition of low-income and working women,
is sponsoring a third caravan to reach women in seven
different states. Women use the caravans as a forum to
air the abuse women face, share resources, and organize
community responses to the various forms of violence
poor, rural women of color confront.
GIRLS
PHOTOGRAPHY PROGRAM
New York, NY -
$1,000
ABC No Rio is a community arts
center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan serving the
Latino, Chinese, and African-American families that are
currently being displaced. The Girls Photography Program
provides free ten-week photography classes for girls ages
eight to
twelve.
I
LOOK UP TO THE SKY NOW
New
York, NY
- $1,000
This video documentary
chronicles the struggles, challenges, and triumphs of
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender youth activists,
artists and leaders. The video features eight young
people involved in the Youth Enrichment Services program
of the Lesbian
Gay Community
Services
Center
who will create their own self-portraits.
LIVELY
EYE
Indian
Valley, VA
- $1,000
Maat Dompim,
a land-based project in rural Virginia,
is documenting the development of a women's community
space. They will be videotaping the stories of elders who
settled the historic Black mountainside community
originally.
MULTIPLI-CD
San Francisco, CA -
$700
Resources for Students, Youth
and Trainers, a group working with queer youth, is
documenting on a CD the voices and images of queer youth
who are of mixed blood. The goal is to make the CD
available to a variety of queer youth organizations
around the country.
STORIES
FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Brooklyn,
NY -
$1,000
This project works with women
survivors of violence in the Bedford Hills Correctional
Facility and those who have left the facility and are now
part of the Post-Release Program. Working with the
Theatre Action Group, the women will meet regularly and
use expressive arts as a vehicle for dialogue,
communication, skills development and community building.
THE
EDGE OF EACH OTHERS' BATTLES: THE VISION OF AUDRE LORDE
Long
Beach, CA
- $500
Director Jennifer Abod
is editing a video chronicling a historic transnational
conference entitled I Am Your Sister: Forging Global Connections Across
Difference held October
4-9, 1990 in Boston,
MA. The
conference used Lorde's work as
its foundation and became a celebration of her life.
PA'
FUERA. PA'LANTE
Boston,
MA -
$1,000
Coming Out and Moving Forward is
an annual regional conference addressing issues affecting
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Latino communities
from the northeastern states.
KIDS
IN MOTION
Bronx,
NY -
$500
The homeless children at
Concourse House have very little exposure to musical
instruction. These music/drama/movement classes allow
these children to explore and discover their own
interpretations and use their energy in constructive
ways.
FAMILY
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Somerville,
MA -
$1,200
Women's Supported Housing and
Empowerment program works with women and children who are
homeless due to poverty and domestic violence. Funds will
be used to support the Child/Family advocate position at
WSHE.
RURAL
WOMEN'S MARKET TEST
New York, NY -
$1,100
A network of rural
African-American, Latina, Native American, and
impoverished White women have established a program to
market art work they produce and find financial freedom.
Funds will be used to help establish a market through a
large distribution exhibit.
APPALACHIAN
WOMEN HEALING, ENABLING,ENCOURAGING AND LEADING
Wise, VA - $1,000
Designed to increase the
participation of low-income rural Appalachian women,
especially African Americans, American Indians and Melungeons,
in academic pursuits, Project AWHEEL mentors women
through a four-year program. The participants are from
the coal fields of Southeast and Northeast
Kentucky and Southwest
Virginia.
INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATION FOR ADOLESCENTS
Brooklyn,
NY -
$1,000
IOFA is committed to advancing
the health and well-being of adolescents throughout the
world.
THE
JEANNE MEURER INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S FUND GRANTEE:
NATIVE
AMERICAN MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
Minneapolis, MN -
$500
The Battered Women's Legal
Advocacy Project is establishing a mentoring program to
improve the skill level of domestic abuse advocates who
are Native American or who are working with Native
American women.
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