| 2004
Grant Cycle Recipients
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Association
of Eritrean Women
Encouraging the Eritrean-American women in engaging
on programs that are designed to empower women and informing
and mobilizing Eritrean girls and owmen ways to achieve gender
equality in today’s society. |
$2,500 |
Association
of Haitian Women in Boston
Believe that everyone regardless of race or sex should
have equal rights and equal opportunities. We believe that it
is human rights to have representation, to have health, education,
and decent housing. |
$20,000 |
CAPAY
The Coalition for Asian Pacific American Youth is a
youth empowerment organization that motivates and mobilizes
Asian American high school students to get active in their schools
and communities. We do this through consciousness raising, coalition
building, activism, and identity awareness. www.capayus.org
|
$20,000 |
Cape Verdean Community UNIDO
The goal of VALOR is to recreate a sense of community where violence ceases to exist. Through a series of Healing Circles, a group of mothers and daughters that have lost a loved one to incarceration, deportation or murder, will build a common sense of values that promotes shared responsibility and strenghtens both the Cape Verdean community and the broader Roxbury and Dorchester communities. |
$10,000 |
Chinese
Progressive Association
Organize and develop the leadership roles of Chinese
immigrant women in the workplace, in our organization, and in
the community at large. |
$5,000 |
Crossing
Communitites Collaborative
(A.K.A. Education )
The project fosters spiritual and educational growth
of women activists from Boston to Havana, Cuba and vice versa
to enable cross-cultural enrichment, and develop a network of
progressive women for sharing and reflecting strategies of community
struggles and organizing. |
$20,000 |
Darrell
Gane-McCalla
Young woman who teaches art classes in women’s prison
unit. The purpose of the class has been to design a mural centered
around the theme “women in prison” but the class
has also focused on political discussion, arts and crafts activities,
drawing skills, and looking at reproductions of murals. |
$5,000 |
Freedom
House
Sisters Circle a girls-project centers on leadership
development and physical health, which helps girls develop healthy
self-esteem, develop new skills, and realize the world of opportunities
available as they grow into tomorrow’s leaders. |
$10,000 |
Hermanas/Kinship
A new initiative that promotes equity and empowerment
for poor/low/moderate income/and homeless women and their families
in Cambridge. The projects overall goal is to mobilize and establish
a network of women who will be involved in developing community
resources and be involved in the political processes of the
city and their lives. |
$10,000 |
Homes
for Families
Work on ending family homelessness; prioritize leadership development of homeless mothers so they can create social change and affect public policy. |
$20,000 |
International
Institute of Greater Lawrence
The Mirabal Sisters’ Educational Center was created
to respond to the need for Latina childcare providers in Lawrence.
This needs response includes having instructors, staff and the
curriculum reflect the socio-economic backgrounds and racial
diversity of program participants. |
$17,000 |
Mass.
Asian & Pacific Islander
Provides culturally and linguistically appropriate
education, training, and empowerment, and has initially been
funded as a HIV/AIDS demonstration project through the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority
Health. |
$10,000 |
Mujeres
Unidas en Accion
To help women to break the barriers that stand in the
way of the social and economic growth of Latina women. |
$5,000 |
Navarasa
Dance Theater
Organization that promotes, nurtures and participate
in cultural activism. Navarasa believes that art is an effective
and powerful medium to convey political messages and engage
and mobilize people to affect positive social change. Navarasa
works to create social justice awareness and to empower people
to make change, especially people of color. www.navarasa.org
|
$20,000 |
On
with Living & Learning, Inc. (OWLL)
OWLL provides a theater based leadership training program for women and youth infected and affected by HIV/AIDS with the goal of developing artistic community presentations which weave their true stories into prevention messages that address the systemic roots of poverty, racism, and gender inequality fueling the staggering increase of new infections among women of color and to decrease the stigma so unjustly stapled to them. |
$5,000
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| Older
Women’s League (OWL)
An
organization that educates, advocates and mobilizes women
to fight on their own behalf. The organization is an advocate
of and on behalf of midlife and older women. |
$5,000 |
Religious
Coalition for Reproduction Choice of MA
We affirm women’s ability to make moral decisions about
their health and their lives. Therefore, we activate religious
communities to work to ensure the availability of a full range
of reproductive health services for all. |
$10,000 |
Revealing
Artistic Works (RAW)
RAW is a stepping-stone to bring positive paradigms to young
girls who are otherwise subject to the negative messages in
the media and in the streets. |
$10,000 |
Rhythm
Vision Production
Provide access to our clientele, encouraging them to find new
gifts within themselves and within their communities. Finally,
we commit to making our goals a reality. Once self worth and
access are in place, commitment is inherent. |
$20,000 |
SABAI
SABAI is an organization in Lowell, MA that is directed and
staffed by Cambodian/Asian women. The agency seeks to address
issues related to the disparities in access health services
and understanding health insurance among Southeast Asians. |
$20,000 |
| Samata
Adhyayana Kendra |
$5,000 |
Tien
Xanh-Voice
The organization works with high-risk girls because we as Vietnamese-American
women face the same societal and cultural challenges that limit
their economic choices. This grant supported the organization
to provide proven-risk Vietnamese-American adolescent girls
in Dorchester through the Examine Life (ELLE) project. |
$5,000 |
Viet-Aid
The Viet-AID Family Child Care Program promotes opportunities
for Vietnamese women who experience multiple barriers to have
a viable profession, living wage salary, professional and leadership
development opportunities that move them out of economic oppression. |
$5,000 |
W.A.N.T.E.D.
(We Are Nevertheless Talented, Educated and Determined)
Works on behalf of young women ages 13-19 from low-income communities
in order to enhance their opportunities. W.A.N.T.E.D. provides
young women the needed information and resources to access more
of what they need to accomplish their newly outlined goals.
We seek solutions to our conditions while working with their
families and teachers. |
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Women
Connecting Affecting Change
(A.K.A. Women of Color AIDS Council)
To prevent women from acquiring AIDS and assist infected women
to cope with the virus by providing them with education and
opportunities to help them preserve their physical, emotional,
and spiritual health and well being. |
$20,000 |
Women
of Action
Women of Action is a multi-issue, direct action, grassroots organization of low-income women organizing for social and economic justice. |
$20,000 |
Women
of Color Fundraising Institute
Help women of color, especially immigrant and marginalized constituents
(now at a greater target) learn the necessary skills to sustain
our movement. |
$25,000 |
Women
of Courage
Provides essential services including
emotional support to women suffering the effects of having been
diagnosed with Systemic and/or Discoid Lupus Erythematosus.
Also provide education, and information to lupus sufferers, their family
members and friends as well as the general public. |
$20,000 |
Women’s
Fightback Network
WFN organizes around the issues related to the impact of racism, poverty, war and budget cuts on women and children, including the LGBT communities, youth, immigrants and people living with HIV/AIDS. We also make the links between the US wars abroad and the impact of the war at home on women and children. We focus our efforts on building a united fightback movement that can address and solve these issues. |
$20,000 |
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