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The following
organizations were grantees of the Spring 2003
cycle:
Appalachian
Women's Alliance
Riner, Virginia - $500
Beginning
when a group of women organized local Alliance Circle,
this group has organized local circles and regional
caucuses to create a movement of African American,
Cherokee, Poor White Appalachian and Rural Lesbian women
and girls who understand the need to overcome the
ignorance, fear, and isolation that separates them, and
work together to create a just Appalachia.
Arizona Protective Parents Network
Phoenix, Arizona - $750
Funding
will support this start-up organization in it mission to
protect women and children from family violence and
sexual abuse through advocacy, research, and education.
The work will focus on helping low-income women protect their
children and themselves by supporting them through an
unjust legal system that continues to give sole or
partial custody rights to abusive men.
BATTERED
WOMEN‚S RESOURCE
Brooklyn, New York - $500
Battered
Women's Resource Center provides
battered women in NYC with the leadership development,
training and support they need to participate in policy
debates and provide leadership to advocacy efforts on
behalf of battered women and their children.
Specifically, the Center works to improve the child welfare
and the court systems' response to batter women through
organizing, advocacy and giving voice to survivors.
Detroit Healing Arts Collective
Detroit, Michigan - $500
This
network of social justice workers is partnering with
Alternatives for Girls ˆ a community organization
working with at-risk and homeless girls and young women
ˆ to provide healing arts including massage therapy
and yoga. To facilitate sustainable
healthy change in the lives of girls at AFG, they plan to
teach them techniques to massage themselves and each
other and to practice yoga on their own.
DIASPORA FLOW
Roseville, Minnesota - $750
This is a new arts organization run by
women of color that connects communities of color through
artistic expression and supports young artists interested
in pursuing their own vision of arts and activism. Their
goal is to build solidarity among people of color and
create social change through various mediums such as
spoken word, theater, dance, visual and performance art,
and music.
EAU CLAIRE AREA HMONG
MUTUAL ASSISTANCE - Maria
Eau Claire, Wisconsin - $750
Initiated by members of the Hmong
community who settled as refugees in Wisconsin, the program
provides on-going support to Hmong
women who remain isolated.
Exhale
Oakland, CA - $700
As abortion services become harder and
harder to find, direct services for women facing this
difficult choice are also harder to find.
Exhale provides an after-abortion counseling line.
FEETS
OF RHYTHM KIDS
Brooklyn, New York ˆ $500
Konbit is a workshop series for young girls
on Haiti‚s
traditional dances, music and cultural arts.
The workshops culminate in with a recital at the
Children‚s West African Parade in Brooklyn during the
summer of 2003.
GABRIELA
NETWORK
Kababaihan: Building Pinay Sisterhood is a
one day conference in New
York City where
Filipina women will organize around issues of gender,
history of militarism, foreign
intervention, violence and especially the
trafficking of Filipina women.
Helicon,
Inc.
New York, New York - $550
Mothers
as Math Mentors (M^3) provides mathematics education to
mothers of children attending schools in New York
City‚s more impoverished neighborhoods so that they
can, in turn, aid their children‚s math education
and performance. This project‚s goal is
increased opportunities for both generations.
Human
Strategies for Human Rights
Pami Desert, California - $675
This
grant will help fund the purchase of dictionaries and
provide translators to their project ˆ Empowerment
of Women and Young Girls in Southeast
Turkey ˆ an area
in which women of Syrian and Kurdish heritage have
experienced cultural and educational isolation for many
years of civil war. Through
community centers called CATOM‚s,
these women are given the opportunity to learn the
Turkish language and develop skills to provide for
themselves and their families.
Imagining
Ourselves
San Francisco, CA - $500
This
project of the International Women‚s Museum will
involve the production of an international literary and
visual arts anthology for women between the ages of 18
and 35. It will function as a vehicle to foster dialogue between
emerging young women leaders in the US
and around the world.
IN PRAISE OF MOUNTIAN WOMEN
St.
Paul, Virginia - $600
For the past twelve years these
Appalachian women have worked to build leaders,
strengthen communities and empower women to make the decisions
that affects our lives. In 2002, five women from
this group attended the Celebration of Mountain Women in Thimpu
Bhutan as part of the United Nation‚s International Year of
the Mountain. Funding
will support a gathering in the Fall of 2003 to report to
Appalachian Women on this event and to bring to
strengthen participating in the Global Mountain Women
partnership.
KHMER GIRLS
IN ACTION
Long Beach, California - $500
KGA
is a community organizing and empowerment organization
working with Cambodian refugee/immigrant and second
generation women and girls, ages 13-21. The grant will support the
Khmer Poetry and Creative Writing Workshop series and the
printing of Her Story, Her Struggle: Khmer American
Women and Girls Writings and Oral Histories.
LAS
SINVERGUENZAS
Seattle, Washington - $1000
Las
Sinverguenzas (The Shameless Women) is a
group of Latina lesbians and
bisexual women who organize activities, workshops, forums
and events that break the isolation and invisibility that
most of these women feel. Funding will go towards the
second annual Latina LGBT Cultural Week ˆ five days
of culturally and linguistically appropriate programs and
events in art, culture, theater, film, education, and
sport for the greater Seattle community.
Mirror Images
Healthy University
Detroit, Michigan - $750
Mirror
Images is a mentorship program
created by young women in inner-city Detroit that
encourages adolescent girls to participate in social,
educational, and community service activities. The
program prepares girls to become women by promoting self-
determination, empowerment, respect, and honor. The
funding will be used for Healthy University, an 8 part
series aimed at encouraging participants to develop
lasting attitudes and behaviors leading to a healthy
lifestyle.
THE NAZ FOUNDATION
New Delhi, India - $750
The
Sangini project seeks to create a safe
space, provide support, and fight for social equality for
Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender women.
Activities range from providing counseling to printing a
community newsletter; from networking with other
organizations to lobbying for public policy change; from
crisis intervention and case management to reaching out
to women in prison. Through their work, the
women at The Sangini Project address many issues faced by
LBT women including violence, sexual health, and human
rights.
Oasis
San Francisco, California - $1,000
This center for young women in the
South of Market (SOMA) district will use funding to
provide stipends and support for a youth initiated and
led organizing campaign.
The campaign will focus on combating discrimination practiced
at the Sony Metreon mall and
give young women an opportunity to develop skills and
leadership in politics, economics, and campaign
organizing.
PROJECT
COFFEEHOUSE OF CLINTON COUNTY
Lock
Haven, PA - $500
The
Girls Kick Butt program is designed to give direction to
at-risk teenage girls and to empower them to think and
take action so that they can achieve in their lives.
The girls participated in an educational sleepover, bi-weekly
meetings, and a volunteer service project including a
project to provide childcare services for single mothers.
PUERTO
RICAN EQUATION
New York, New York - $750
The
You Are a Young Lady theater piece, takes an
internal look at long standing Latino cultural and social
values that perpetuate machismo, male privilege and
female submissiveness.
SEXUAL
ASSAULT CRISIS TEAM
Barre, Vermont -
$500
SACT includes a team of young people
working on a teen-led sexual assault prevention effort.
The "Your Choice" program includes materials developed by
teens for use with teens in their education efforts.
SICANGU WAY OF LIFE
Rapid City, South Dakota ˆ $1000
SISTAS ON THE
RISE
Bronx, New York - $750
Sistas on the Rise works with young mothers
of color in the South Bronx to support their personal,
educational, and emotional development and build their
capacity to move forward together as critical and active
mothers, leaders and organizers of the community.
SPEAK OUT
SISTERS
Minneapolis, Minnesota - $500
For
support of a state-wide Woman Power Conference on
feminist/womanist activism.
Social Capitol
Development Corporation
Albany, New York - $500
The
„GANG‰ (Girls Answer for a New Generation)
project project will involve
hosting a youth conference during the Summer of 2003
which will focus on youth and gun violence as it affects
young women. Young women trained in
critical incident stress management and urban grief and
bereavement support work will facilitate the conference.
STITCH
Washington, DC - $500
Through
is project, building skills and solidarity ˆ
Organizing for change in Central
America and the U.S. STITCH will train women in
the banana and maquila industries in Central
America to take
leadership roles in labor organizations to improve the
working conditions of women in these industries
particularly in Guatemala and Honduras.
STRONG
Quincy, California - $500
Based in a rural community, Strong
provides domestic violence prevention and direct
services. Their Leadership Development
project works to increase women's skills as they address
the institutions they must work with as survivors of
trauma.
Sunset Dreams
Donna, Texas - $750
Sunset
Dreams is a grassroots non-profit organization created by
women that seeks to start a diverse and innovative "Life
Skills Project" for economically distressed Hispanic
women in Donna. This project is a
stepping-stone toward outside employment, personal and
economic self-sufficiency for women who come from
backgrounds of chronic unemployment, poverty or
displacement.
The Turning
Point
Paulding, Ohio - $500
Spirit
of a Young Woman Camp
The Unbroken
Circle
Anchorage, Alaska - $1000
The
„Virtual Social Worker‰ is a culturally
appropriate, interactive website for American Indian and
Alaskan Native women who are facing the challenges of a
cancer diagnosis. The
website will provide women with information from
diagnosis through follow-up care, and serve as a resource
where women can obtain and exchange information.
Yanaa,
Inc.
Greenhurst, New York - $750
This organization provides transitional
housing for homeless women in recovery and is funded
entirely through community donations with an
all-volunteer staff.
The Open Meadows grant will provide general support.
Young Women
United for Oakland
Oakland, CA - $750
As
a grassroots organization, YWUFO strives to enhance the
lives of poor, disenfranchised young women who support
themselves on the street economy and/or live in poor
communities. To
accomplish this, YWUFO provides, amongst other services,
employment training and offers community outreach to
young disenfranchised women in Oakland. The grant from Open Meadows
will go towards both employment training and the outreach
program.
Women's Anti
Violence Education
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - $500
Mother/Daughter
Self-Defense Training classes help students understand
the realities of sexual and gender-based violence and
develop tools to respond effectively.
Their programs, taught by women, focus on women's realities
and women's strengths, teach empowerment from the inside
out, and challenge the dominant narrative about violence
against women. They
replace images of powerlessness with real-life "success
stories" of women and girls resisting, surviving, healing
and thriving. Mother
- Daughter pairs are particularly powerful both because
they inspire each other and because they can process the
information outside of the class.
WOMENS INTERNATIONAL NEWS GATHERING SERVICE (WINGS)
Vancouver, Canada -$750
WINGS
is an all-women independent not-for-profit radio
production company that produces and distributes news and
current affairs programs about women around the world.
The funding will be used to help interns maintain an Austin
bureau (WINGS recently relocated to Vancouver after 16
years in Austin) producing two programs per month, and to
archive past WING‚s
broadcasts on to the internet for more global access. WINGS
is broadcast on the internet out of Dallas, at radioleft.com and out of Costa Rica on Radio for
Peace International, at www.rfpi.org.
The
PATSYLU FUND FOR WOMEN'S MUSIC grantees:
THE FEMININE
TONE
North Springfield, Vermont - $1500
For
travel expenses to Cuba for
participation in the Women's Choral Festival, and
distribution of medicine, food and clothing
PANOS
INSTITUTE
Washington, D.C - $1500
For
production and distribution throughout the Haiti countryside,
of cassettes of midwifery and health songs of Haitian
women
PEN AND BRUSH
New York, New York - $1500
For
artists' fees for the concert series: "New Music by Women
Composers"
FUND FOR WOMEN ARTISTS
Florence, Massachusetts -
$1000
For
commissioning music of African-American composer Diedre
Murray for the new music theater piece, "The
Rose Project"
RESPOND
Somerville, Massachusetts - $1000
For
concerts and CD marketing to support education about
domestic
violence
AMERICAN
COMPOSERS FORUM BOSTON
Boston,
Massachusetts - $1000
For support of Community Partners with Casa Myrna Vazquez
in the residency of composer Kearney Kirby for "In Our
Own Voice," a collaboration
of composers, poets and survivors of
domestic violence.
THE FIELD
Brooklyn, New York - $1000
For
support of a workshop production of the lesbian musical
"Love According to Luc" by Alicia Mathewson
at the Witness Our Welcome Conference in August 2003
CALHOUN SCHOOL
New York, New York - $500
For
support of production of a CD of "Eating My Reflection,"
a musical created by high school women to develop an
outreach program about body image issues for young women.
TURNERS FALLS RESOURCE CENTER
Turners Falls, Massachusetts - $1000
For
support of a series of twelve song writing workshops for
abused women, beginning September 25,
2003, led by
musician Robin Lane, resulting in
performance and recording of their songs
The Susan F. Eastman Fund for the
Environment Activism grantee:
INDIGENOUS
WOMEN'S MERCURY INVESTIGATION PROJECT
Lake Elmo, Minnesota - $1000
For
support for the interviews conducted in each of the 11
state reservations concerning the mercury contamination
in the lake waters.
The
Edie Windsor Fund for Old Lesbians grantee:
WOMEN'S
CENTER
Melbourne, Florida - $1000
For
the development of a support group to address grief and
isolation issues for senior lesbians
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