The following organizations were awarded grants in the Spring 2006 cycle.

Allied Cleveland Tradeswomen Cleveland, Ohio - $1200 Non-traditional building tradeswomen: carpenters, electricians, plumbers work with Allied Cleveland Tradeswomen in this project creating a data base of building tradeswomen and their resumes to serve as a resource for construction contractors. http://www.actw.org/ Brown Lady Productions San Francisco, CA - $800 Brown Lady Productions is producing a three-part documentary on the lives of young Black women. In Vol. 1 On the Outside, Looking In the troubling issues of skin color, hair, and body image are treated. The grant helps to fund film distribution costs. Education for Quality Living LAS VEGAS, NV - $900 Education for Quality Living works to provide appropriate health promotion, disease prevention, research and evaluation to federal, state, and local governments as well as community-based organizations. The grant supports Girls Get Fit, an obesity prevention pilot project that targets African American and Hispanic middle/junior high school aged girls 9-14. Gender Integrated Development Program (GIDP) Pallisa, Uganda - $827 GIDP is a community-based organization of women in Pallisa where the HIV rate is 35% among women, the school drop-out rate for girls is 45%, early marriage among girls 15-17 years of age is 28%, and the poverty rate for women is 68%. The grant will cover the construction of poultry sheds for 200 chicks, the purchase and transport of 200 chicks and their feed for one year. Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys (GABWA) Atlanta, GA - $1000 GABWA, through CPP, The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents, assists incarcerated mothers by providing seminar training, direct legal services, and access to important resources, forms and information from the Fulton County Family Law Information Center. CPP is the only organization in Georgia that provides civil legal services to incarcerated mothers. The grant is for the updating and publication of the CPP Resource Guide. Girls Write Now New York, NY - $500 Girls Write Now is a mentoring organization that matches teenage girls from underserved high schools in New York City with professional writers to develop the natural writing talents of the young women through workshops, mentoring sessions, and special events. The grant will support an anthology of original writings presented in the Girls Write Now Reading Serie this year presented in collaboration with the New York Writers Coalition monthly "Writing aloud" series. http://www.girlswritenow.org./ Juneteenth Legacy Theatre Louisville, KY - $1000 Juneteenth Legacy Theatre derives its name from the traditional African-American holiday when, on June 19,1865 slaves in the Western Territories learned of their freedom. JLT's mission is to educate and empower communities through the telling of stories about the African-American experience in historical and contemporary context. This grant supports the production of Motion and Location, at the Fringe Festival in August in New York City, a play about a teen-age African American girl who struggles with sexual identity issues. http://www.juneteenthlegacytheatre.com/ Movimento Lésbico de Campinas Campinas, SP, Brazil - $500 MO.LE.CA. is an activist organization specifically for lesbians working on issues such as racism, sexism, and homophobia. The grant goes to support the publicity for the 3rd Exposition of Lesbian Art in August 2006. Red Tent Women's Project Brooklyn, NY - $1200 The Red Tent Women's Project is establishing a women's community center for women of all backgrounds in a city, which has no community space for women that is not attached to a specific service, school, religious institution, race or ethnicity. The grant provides initial start-up costs for the women's center. http://www.redtentwomensproject.org/ Sisters Who Are Powerful, Inc. (SWAP) Inkster, MI - $1000 SWAP is an organization for the education, empowerment, support and well-being of young African-American women ages 12-18. T.A.S.T.E., Teaching Adolescents Success Through Education, enriches its members' experience by providing monthly support groups, life-skill workshops, and field events that involve the young women in community activities. When young women are educated about programs, services, and resources in their community they are empowered to re-examine their belief systems and involve themselves positively in their communities The grant provides start up funds for developing new projects. http:/./www.sisterswhoarepowerful.org Uganda Women Development Footsteps Nasenyi Village, Uganda. -  $870 Uganda Women Development Footsteps focuses on leadership and income generation projects among rural women. In Nasenyi village 98% of the women are illiterate compared tp 60% of the men. The grant supports: Girl Child Scholastic Program for 30 girls through the purchase of school uniforms, exercise books, pens, colored pencils, and classroom sets. Women Make Movies New York, NY - $1200 Grandma has a Video Camera presents 16 years of family video exploring the parallel stories of transnational immigration and examining issues of dual nationality and the conflicts of loyalty to a country, as well as, the complexities of social dynamics from the point of view of three generations of women within one family. The grant supports distribution costs. Women's Coffee Connection, Rochester, NY - $1000. The Women's Coffee Connection is a social service business that provides the coffee suppliers in Peru, with a just and fair price and improves the economic stability of disenfranchised Rochester women whose lives are complicated by problems associated with unemployment, poverty, addiction, domestic violence, and displacement. The grant is for the installation of a commercial coffee roaster in the present site. http://www.womenscoffeeconnection.com The Ellen Dougherty Activist Fund for Young Women grant: The Literacy Project Stanford, CA.- $500 from the Ellen Doughertyr Fund and $500 from the general fund The Literacy Project involves the intersection of race, class, and gender as it relates to literacy: who is literate and who is not, and how literacy can be brought to all people. The grant is to support retelling of the story of the Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961, widely considered the most successful literacy program to date in which the illiteracy rate was lowered from 20% to 3% because 268,000 volunteers went into the countryside to teach rural families to read and write. The grant supports the oral history documentation survivors of that memorable campaign. http://www.theliteracyproject.org/ The Jeanne Meurer Indigenous Women's Fund grant: Wisdom of Grandmother's Beauty (WOMB) Costa Mesa, CA- $500 from the Jeanne Meurer Fund and $500 from the general fund WOMB preserves and protects indigenous cultural identity by promoting cultural exchange and awareness of Indigenous Wisdom.The grant will help support an indigenous women's gathering on sacred lands of Indigenous women of all ages from all over the world.   Donor Directed Funds The Susan F. Eastman Fund for Environmental Activism grant: Musoma Woodworks Enterprises Musoma Mara, Tanzania - $1000 Musoma WoodWorks Enterprises works with extending the use of Biogas charcoal stoves to resist environmental deforestation. The grant is for a leadership-training program for girls in the making of the Biogas stoves as well as the processing of fruits and food products.   The India Fund grants: Institute of Women's Banking Nellore, India -$1528 The Institute of Women's Banking is actively involved in programs of urban health and staffs an Urban Health Centre. The grant is to support 30 2-day workshops for adolescent girls living in 12 slum pockets in Nellore City on issues of health, hygiene, and nutrition to be followed up with outreach services by 2 qualified nurses. Social Service Society Guntur Distict, Andhra Pradesh, India - $1979 The spread of naxal terrorist operations in the Guntur District has made tribal women especially vulnerable and victimized. The grant is to develop Mahila Sanghas (women self-help groups) in 10 villages in an entrepreneurship development program offering productive skill training, advocacy, self-management credit and thrift skills, and banking practices as well as education on women's rights and training in local governance for political participation. Working Group for Women and Land Ownership Ahmedabad, India - $1851 Land rights for women is a critical issue, since land is one of the main sources of livelihood, as well as the basis of political power and social status in India, a predominantly agrarian economy. The grant will cover the costs of the function, Celebration of Women Exercising their Rights to Agriculture Land Ownership, for 400 rural women in Gujarat, India to distribute the Khedut Pothi (women's land rights book) followed by educational sessions related to government procedures about land documents and land rights.   The PatsyLu Fund for Women's Music grants: OJALÁ San Leandro, CA - $1500 OJALÁ (Spanish for hope) is a music group of seven working class women, five of whom are lesbians, six of whom are women of color, who play and sing Afro-Cuban Folkloric music. The grant is to support completion of their recording project: a CD of Afro-Cuban songs. http://www.CarolynBrandy.com Susan Glaser Madison, NJ - $1000 Susan Glaser, an advocate for women composers, is a renowned flutist with a long history of commissioning and premiering works by women composers, performing and recording their compositions in major concert halls and on major labels. Jennifer Higdon is a lesbian and an accomplished composer whose music with this recording will reach a large audience and will advocate for the greater recognition of women composers. The grant to record the flute works of Jennifer Higdon will be matched by the Argosy Foundation. http://www.susanglaser.com/

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