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Grantees |
Adbar
Ethiopian Women’s Alliance
Ethiopian women organization to convince Ethiopian refugee/immigrant
women that it is OK to be organized on behalf of our own personal,
social, economic and cultural growth. |
$20,000 |
Association
of Haitian Women in Boston
Believes 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 |
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. |
$6,000 |
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. |
$2,000 |
Deletha
Willis
Young woman that provides other young women creative
outlets as well as support that will help them achieve self-sufficiency.
|
$500 |
Dress
for Success – New Bedford
To provide free interview suits, career development
and mentoring groups to disadvantaged women entering the workforce.
We also strive to give them something they really need –
their dignity. |
$3,750 |
Haitian
Women in Action
Brings together Haitian women who do not have a background in
community organizing or a formulated political agenda, but who
are motivated to make changes in their community. |
$10,000 |
Immigrant
Workers Resource Center
Supports the development of leadership skills for immigrant
women, who historically have the least access to resources,
and who are excluded from full participation in their workplaces
and communities because of their race, class, gender and ethnicity. |
$20,000 |
| Mass.
Welfare Rights Union |
$100 |
The
Network/La Red
Organization on the East Coast that serves as a local
and national model for battered women’s programs, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender
(GLBT) health care and service providers and other GLBT domestic
violence groups. |
$20,000 |
Reflect
& Strengthen
To create a support circle for young women to share
our experiences and create art from them. Through discussion
and writing, we will share our struggles and begin to heal from
our mental and emotional scars. Such struggles as the murder
of sibling, the incarceration of us or loved ones, low self-esteem,
rape, drug abuse, promiscuity and other such tragedies. |
$16,400 |
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. |
$21,200 |
Survivors,
Inc.
Our purpose is to provide 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. |
$20,000 |
Women’s
Fightback Network/International Action Center
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. |
$5,300 |
Women’s
Institute for Leadership Development (W.I.L.D.)
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. www.communityworks.com/thml/mgd/WILD.html |
$20,000 |
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$200,250 |
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