The following organizations were grantees of the Spring 2005 cycle.

ARISE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Springfield, Massachusetts - $1000 Funding will support the campaign to stop the construction of a proposed women's jail in Chicopee, MA. ARTMAKERS INC. Brooklyn, New York - $500 For materials to install a collaborative mural: "When Women Pursue Justice." CLINCH VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION, INC. FAMILY CRISIS SERVICES N. Tazewell, Virginia - $500 Funding will go towards certifying their instructors in radKIDS (Rape Aggression Defense) training. BALI BUDAYA Oakland, California - $600 Funding for presentation of Liku-Liku Hidupku: The Story of My Life, a multi-media theatre piece that weds traditional Balinese music and dance with contemporary dance and theater arts to tell a modern Balinese American story of survival.  BREAK THE CYCLE Washington, DC - $500 In support of preventative education, peer leadership opportunities, and legal services to young people ages 12 to 22. BRIGHT MOVE NETWORK Cedar Falls, Iowa -$750 Funding for the Women Care Project designed to provide immigrant women with training in building skills for success and provide them the opportunity to make friends. DEPRIVED POOR AMERICANS Pittsburg, Pennsylvania -$500 In support of job training and employment support for unemployed women in the economically disadvantaged community of Homewood. ECONOMIC RESOURCE COUNCIL West Palm Beach, Florida - $500 In support of the Women Life Planning Institute to increase women's knowledge of finance and to help them assess their financial situations and options. GRUPO DE MUJERES SHA JEÉ Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico -  $500 To support local women's drive to perpetuate and develop the art of weaving the traditional Chinantec huipil, learn about marketing Oaxacan arts and handicrafts and foster organizational development. HISPANIC HEALTH PROJECTS Pocatello, Idaho -  $750 Funding will support the Salsa Aerobics program and nutrition classes for Hispanic farmworker women. HORSE OPERA PRODUCTIONS Vancouver, British Columbia - $750 Funding will support postproduction for The Insular Empire:  America's Pacific Frontier, a 60-minute documentary about the Mariana Island. KIKIKI WOMAN EFFORT FOR SUSTANICE DEVELOPMENT Mbale, Uganda - $500 To support training for women in dairy farming. LGBT RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE SEVEN RIVERS AREA La Crosse, Wisconsin -  $500 Funding will support educational presentations by the Speaker's Bureau to fight discrimination. MOUNTAIN MEADOW Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - $750 To fund a kid-centered summer camp program to develop social awareness and leadership skills for children with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer parents. NEWSHOE New York, New York - $500 Funding for day-long artists retreat for women playwrights and directors and honoraria for guest artists to attend Salon sessions. SISTER CARE Benin City, Nigeria - $500 In support of training for girls to provide them with alternative sources of income to keep them from being recruited and sent to Europe for prostitution. TSUNAMI RELIEF BENEFIT COMMITTEE FOR SRI LANKA New York, New York -  $2000 Funding will go towards progressive organizations in Sri Lanka working to provide relief to women, girls and the LGBT community. TUKEI WOMENS GROUP Mombasa, Kenya -  $500 To fund establishment of a turkey training and breeding center to train women/girls in poultry farming and provide them with their first bird. viBE THEATRE EXPERIENCE New York, New York - $500 Funding will support viBeStages Summer 2005 playmaking program to engage, educate and empower 10 teenage girls from underserved communities to create and perform an original honest theater production. UGANDA GENDER RIGHTS FOUNDATION Mbale, Uganda - $500 To support training women in their local village through capacity building including income generating activities and education. The project will include forming drama groups to sensitive the local village against HIV/AIDS and domestic violence. WOMEN'S NETWORK OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY Moorhead, North Dakota - $500 In support of a week of community events promoting social and political change. YOUNG WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT PROJECT Chicago, Illinois - $750 Funding will support Girls in Charge, a leadership development program for girls and young women in the sex trade and street economies.   The Ellen Dougherty Activist Fund for Young Women grantee: UNITED LESBIANS OF AFRICAN HERITAGE Los Angeles, California - $500 Ellen Dougherty Fund and $250 general fund. To fund Young, Empowered Sistahs, a new program to develop black lesbian youth activism and leadership through youth designed programming.   The Susan F. Eastman Fund for Environmental Activism grantee: GRACE TRUST TamilNadu, India - $1000 For support of an agro-based small business training for marginalized Dalit women and girls   The India Fund grantees: ANDHRA PRADESH GIRIJANA SEVAK SANGH (APGSS) Ongole, India - $1700 In support of the purchase of 6 computers for a computer education training project for Tribal girls in MSOffice, Photoshop, and typing in TELUGU, the local language, in order to obtain employment. LEGAL EDUCATION AWARENESS RURAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY (LEARDS) Mallikharjunapet, India - $2000 To support a legal awareness campaign about the exploitative system of contract marriages of poor Muslim and Dalit girls with rich Sheiks. The marriages, which only last days or months, force the "discarded" girls into social ostracism. The grant will also provide training workshops for the girls. RURAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION Perecherla, India - $1000 To help support health camps, counseling and awareness to young women and girls about HIV/AIDS   The Jeanne Meurer Indigenous Women's Fund grantee: AMERICAN INDIAN SAFETY COUNCIL St. Paul, Minnesota - $500 &endash; Jeanne Meurer Fund and $250 general fund. To fund effort by women elders and girls who will work together to create a public service announcement for radio promoting the cultural value and the spiritual, community power of peace.   The Edie Windsor Fund for Old Lesbians grantee: PAM WALTON PRODUCTIONS Mountain View, California - $1000 To fund the design and printing of a two-color brochure for instructors and care givers to publicize the film, "Liberty: Three Stories about Life and Death" with its accompanying Curriculum and Study Guide.   The PatsyLu Fund for Women's Music grantees: THE GIRL THAT I MARRY New York, NY - $1500 To support performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2005 of the one-woman cabaret: "The Girl that I Marry," about same sex relationships and commitments. THE SINGING BRIDGE Stonington, Maine - $2000 In support of the premier performance of the opera "the Singing Bridge" at the Stonington, Maine Opera House, July 8-10, 2005. The opera tells the story of a young girl's triumph over a personal history of incest, rape, alcoholism, and abusive family relationships. MELODIA WOMEN'S CHOIR New York, NY - $1200 For the commission of a new choral work by Allison Smiffen based on the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a Mexican lesbian nun of the 17th Century. THE MARIA ANTONIA PROJECT New York, NY - $1500 To pay for a demo recording of excepts of the opera "Il trionfo della fedelta" by Maria Antonia (1724-1780), a composer recently discovered. The demo recording is to help apply for funding for the performances of the opera. D'AMICO FILM PRODUCTIONS Buffalo, NY - $2000 For the final editing of the film: La Maestra in the House," a film about Mary Louise Nanna, a woman in classical music who has overcome the bias against women conductors.

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