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Grantees |
Boston
Women’s Fund
Works with grassroots organizations in the Greater Boston
area for over 16 years, and has been active in the struggle
for social justice and equality for women of color, low-income
women, women with disabilities, lesbians, elderly women and
girls. www.bostonwomensfund.org |
$22,000 |
Cambridge
Com. On the Status of Women
In support of the Kitchen Table Conversations Project, the general
mission is to enhance the well-being, build the self-confidence,
and strengthen the political voice of low income Cambridge women,
both individually and collectively. |
$22,000 |
Cooperative
Economics for Women
Organizes low-income immigrant refugees and battered women of
color in self-sustaining, worker-owned cooperatives and organizing
groups identified by language to achieve livable wages, heighten
political consciousness, and fully participate in civil society. |
$48,000 |
KWRU
(Kensington Welfare Rights Union)
Work with the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
and the International Campaign for Economic Justice is a national
effort in the USA led by poor and homeless men, women and children
of all races to raise the issue of poverty as a human rights
violation. This grant is awarded for the National Welfare Rights
Work. |
$20,000 |
Low
Income Welfare Organizing Collaborative (LIWOC)
The focus is on reaching and empowering low-income people, primarily
low-income women on any form of public assistance or recently
off of such assistance. |
$22,000 |
Mass.
Interfaith Com. For Worker Justice (Working Massachusetts)
Dedicated to insuring the Massachusetts’ welfare program
protect the rights of all workers; offers opportunity for education
and training; and protects children’s while strengthening
families -- not punishing them. |
$22,000 |
| Mass.
Welfare Union |
$1,425 |
Roofless
Women
Through their belief in personal and
collective power, Roofless Women aims to lift and combine the
voices of women who have touched homelessness. They maintain a firm commitment to non-traditional structures,
especially peer support & leadership development which encourages
personal growth and systemic change. |
$22,000 |
Sisters
Together Ending Poverty
Deals with the issues of affordable housing and homelessness.
Organizing to force welfare to provide shelter to a number of
families initially illegally refused shelter; supported new
leaders in fighting numerous serious health violations at the
renovations of the local public housing development and forcing
management to at least communicate with tenants and address
complaints. |
$25,300 |
Sojourner
Feminist Institute
Publishers of Sojourner: The Women’s Forum, creating a
public forum where the voices of the most marginalized women
in our community are amplified, thus empowering them to participate
in activism for justice for women, poor people, lesbian and
gay people and people of color in this country and around the
world. |
$12,000 |
Survivors,
Inc.
Provides information about rights to benefit
and basic human needs so low-income/no income people can be
heard, to educate people and develop analysis about social welfare
issue, to develop leadership among low-income people, and to
help mobilize a large welfare rights constituency in order to
develop more humane social policy. |
$22,000 |
City
Life/ Vida Urbana
www.clvu.org |
$2,000 |
Welfare
Education Training Access Coalition (WETAC)
To restore and improve access to education and training for
low-income mothers, particularly those currently receiving,
who recently received or who may at some point need to receive
TAFDC benefits for their family. |
$24,600 |
Women’s
Institute for Leadership Development (WILD)
Works to increase the number and diversity of women labor leaders
and promote a new model of a democratic, inclusive and anti-racist
labor movement. WILD believes that women, especially women of
color, will play a key role in providing new leadership for
the labor movement. |
$22,000 |
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$347,850 |
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