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ACTION OHIO
Columbus, Ohio - $800
Funding will support ACTION OHIO Coalition
for Battered Women‚s
Young Women‚s Public Policy Institute
for college students. The institute
will include issue analysis, meeting State
legislators and community leaders,
and an „action component‚ in
which each participant will be asked to
demonstrate her ability to communicate
persuasively about an issue to
an elected official.
AWAAM: ARAB WOMEN ACTIVE IN THE ARTS AND
MEDIA
New York, New
York - $1000
Funding will support the summer program
for young women and girls
ages 10-18. AWAAM provides training in
community organizing, anti-oppression,
and art and media skills to encourage the
growth of a
generation of young Arab women with the
skills necessary to act as
leaders within their community.
C. WALDO SCOTT CENTER FOR H.O.P.E.
Newport News, Virginia - $500
The Center‚s Sisters with Style
program addresses teen pregnancy.
Funding will specifically support the
Image of You self-image workshop
and an interactive session with teen
participants and their mothers or
other significant women in their lives.
CENTER OF SPIRITUAL LIGHT
New York, New
York - $1000
Funding will support the developmental
stage of Sisters Helping Sisters
for the design, development and outreach
of their program to help
adolescent girls heal from the effects of sexual
abuse.
CHICA LUNA
New York, New
York - $1000
Chica Luna is a collective of women of color
organizers and filmmakers
who support each other in making media for
social justice. The grant will
go towards the Chica
Luna Media Justice Project, which will provide ten
women under 30 with weekly training in
media literacy, organizing and
advocacy skills, filmmaking and healing.
COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY
&
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
Denver, Colorado - $1000
Funding will support the Latina Lesbians
for Reproductive Health project
to increase knowledge of breast cancer,
HIV, sexually transmitted
diseases, birth control and abortion.
ESPERANZA DEL BARRIO
New York, New
York - $750
Esperanza is a neighborhood-based
membership organization for Latino
immigrants of El Barrio. The grant will go towards
the Street Vendors
Justice Project that is working to
challenge police abuse of vendors,
lobby local politicians and build
community support for a public space for
vending and the issuance of vendor licenses.
LOVE MAKES A FAMILY
Portland, Oregon - $1000
The grant will support the Opening Hearts
and Minds training program.
This year‚s training will focus on
same-sex marriage. The Opening
Hearts and Minds approach is designed to
win allies and supporters
while addressing challengers in a unique,
non-confrontational manner.
LEARNING & LOVING EDUCATION CENTER
Morgan Hill, California - $1000
The Learning and Loving Education Center is a comprehensive tuitionfree
educational program for the empowerment of
low-income immigrant
women and children. The grant will go towards
expanding the curriculum
to include a "Women of Hope" series of
classes in celebration of
women's history.
MAKING IT TO THE FINISH LINE
Detroit, Michigan - $500
MITTFL provides training and education
services to women from all
walks of life designed to increase
awareness, self-esteem and
personal development. Funding will support the
launch of a 14-week
Employment Readiness Program to help women
move towards
economic self-sufficiency.
NAH WE YONE
New York, New
York - $1080
Funding will go towards the Women‚s
Wellness program to improve the
well being and self reliance of women in
the Nah We Yone community
from sub-Saharan Africa whose lives have been impacted by war and
dislocation. The women will meet in a support group
monthly for one
year to share their experiences and learn
from each other and guest
speakers.
PASTORAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL
Tanzania, East
Africa
- $1000
The grant will go towards the Indigenous Maasai Women‚s
Empowerment Program. Training for the
women‚s group will include
leadership skills, project management,
bookkeeping, fundraising, and
other organizational/political skills.
QUEERS FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE
New York, New
York - $1500
The grant will support the work of a
Welfare Center Community
Organizer to work with lesbian, bisexual
and transgender women on
welfare. Founded in 2002, QEJ is committed to
promoting economic
justice in a context of sexual and gender
liberation.
VICTIMS‚ INTERVENTION PROGRAM
Honesdale, Pennsylvania - $845
VIP provides services to victims of
domestic violence, sexual assault,
and other serious crimes. Funding will
support a domestic violence
support group.
WELFARE WARRIORS
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - $1000
Welfare Warriors runs the MOMS Line
Self-Advocacy and Family
Empowerment Training Project that provides
telephone training sessions
for families in need. Each phone call is
followed up with a Self-Advocacy
Packet that is mailed to callers to
reinforce the training and provide them
with information, laws, names and numbers in
writing. Funding will go
towards the cost of producing and mailing the
packet.
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER
Glasgow, Montana - $725
The WRC's
mission is to provide progressive social, educational and
cultural opportunities for community
members residing in rural
Northeastern Montana. Funding will support the travel costs
for three
young women to participate in the March for
Women‚s Lives. Follow up
will include having the women share the
information and knowledge
gained with other women and girls after the
March.
ZENSKI CENTER
Trebinje, Bosnia/Hercegovina -
$1000
Funding will support a round table for the
"Affirmation of Women's
Organizations Through Partnership with
Women Politicians."
The Women‚s Centre will invite
representatives from 13 women's
organizations from Bosnia, Hercegovina, Serbia and Monte Negro to
meet with Lejla Ruzdic-Trifunovic, a member of the Serbia and
Monte Negro Parliament, coordinator of the
Serbian Policy Network for
Women and the president of the Democratic
Centre of Serbia. The
purpose is to network across organizations
to fight for the improvement
of women's position.
THE ELLEN DOUGHERTY ACTIVIST FUND FOR
YOUNG WOMEN GRANTEES:
GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL
Brooklyn, New
York - $1000
The grant will support Voices Her‚d,
a series of murals created by girls
about girls‚ issues in partnership
with community organizations whose
membership includes young women of different
backgrounds. Funding
will go towards artist fees, student stipends
and supplies.
LEAP SELF DEFENSE INC.
Cambridge, Massachusetts - $750
Funding will support the Girls' LEAP Teen
Mentor Program. Teens are
trained in teaching techniques and
approaches to leadership to become
certified as Teen Mentors. As mentors, they
participate on inter-generational
teaching teams in the Girls' LEAP Program and
receive stipends.
URBAN YOUTH ACTION
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - $750
Funding will support Youth Speak. Ten
girls interested in journalism
will research, write, design and publish a
newsletter to include statistics
on the effect violent crimes are having on
girls in the community and
nationally; a forum for girls to express
the personal impact of violence
through art, poetry and short stories; and
culturally relevant information
about after-school programs, employment,
recreation, violence prevention
programs and other alternatives.
THE SUSAN F. EASTMAN FUND FOR ENVIRONMENT
ACTIVISM GRANTEE:
THE SELF HELP ST WOMEN INCOME GENERATION PROJECT
Guntur Dt., India - $1000
Funding will go towards the support of the
yearly stipend to women in the
cultivation of gooseberry plants and vegetables.
THE JEANNE MEURER INDIGENEOUS WOMEN'S FUND
GRANTEES:
LA RAZA GALERIA POSADA
Sacramento, California- $1000
La Raza Galeria Posada‚s
mission is to advance, celebrate, and
preserve the art and culture of Chicano,
Latino, and Native populations
for present and future generations. Funding
will support the Xihuat
exhibition to acknowledge the
responsibility accorded women to preserve
and promote our cultural traditions.
MAASAI HERITAGE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
Roswell, Georgia - $700
The foundation‚s mission is to offer
education and supply medical care to
the Maasai people
of Kenya and Tanzania. The grant will support sending
4 girls to secondary school through the Maasai Scholarship Fund.
PRAYER LODGE
Busby, Montana - $1000
In collaboration with Penn State, Prayer Lodge will build a strawbale
building to provide a permanent shelter for their
sweat lodge. Prayer
Lodge also plans to use this project to
train local people in this method of
creating sustainable shelters to address
the housing shortage in their
community. The grant will go towards the purchase
of straw bales from a
local woman rancher and for providing food for
volunteers.
THE PATSYLU FUND FOR WOMEN'S MUSIC
GRANTEES:
THEATER OFFENSIVE
Cambridge, MA - $1500
Funding will support an Asian-American
opera: Surviving the Nian
TAU BETA SIGMA NATIONAL HONORARY BAND
SORORITY
Stillwater, Oklahoma - $500
Funding will support the Women in
Music/Girl Scouts Mentoring Program
The "Positive Messages Youth Program" for
girls includes technical
training in a recording studio, voice
training, choreography, and
song-writing workshops.
THE EDIE WINDSOR FUND FOR OLD LESBIAN GRANTEE:
GRIOT CIRCLE, INC,
Brooklyn, NY - $1000
The grant will go towards providing phone
cards for lesbian elders with
low-modest incomes. The phone cards will facilitate
telephone contact
between women who have been paired through GRIOT's Buddy program.
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