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| 2002
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 |
Ana
da Hora Workers Center
The fundamental purpose of the Workers Center is to
help empower our marginalized sisters and brothers in the workplace
and in the community. |
$20,000 |
A
Slice of Rice
Asian and Asian-American queer youth. A Slice of Rice
work to end the isolation and discrimination faced by our constituency. |
$20,000 |
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 |
Darrell
Gane-McCalla - “Our Stories” Mural
Muralist working with Boston Glass to develop a mural
in the center. The theme “Women and Creation,” where
as women, anti-sexism, racial unity and the GLBT communities
ties and connections to different cultures were all brought
up as part of the theme. |
$6,590 |
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. |
$20,000 |
Crossing
Communities Collaborative
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 |
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 |
Irish
Immigration Center
Launching “Women of the Rainbow Project,”
a unique pilot program that incorporates a variety of forms
of artistic expression to foster meaningful connections among
a diverse group of women. By providing an opportunity for women
of many different racial and ethnic backgrounds to come together
around their own creativity and artistic expression. |
$10,000 |
Mass
Asian AIDS Prevention Project
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. |
$20,000 |
Mujeres
Unidas en Accion
Helps women to break the barriers that stand in the
way of the social and economic growth of Latina women. |
$10,000 |
New
Freedwoman Project
The project is currently engaged in arts workshops
at Women’s prison to develop work with participants that
will be used in performance or become a visual installation
of the work of Women at the Center. |
$15,000 |
PeaceWatch
Ireland
Works to support peace, justice and equity in Ireland by linking
struggles, information, and resources across cultures, borders,
and issues. |
$15,000 |
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. |
$20.000 |
Refugee
& Immigrant Assistance
Serves the health and socio-economic and cultural needs of refugees
and immigrants from the born horn of Africa (East Africa). Serving
new immigrants attempting to reside in the USA, the absence
of community organization makes it difficult to effectively
advocate changes in services and opportunities available to
them. |
$20,000 |
Strong
Women, Strong Girls
Program is to utilize the lessons learned from strong women
throughout history to encourage young girls to become strong
women themselves. |
$5,000 |
The
City School
Grant to support three young women to attend an Incite conference
in Chicago. The young girls work in Boston around the issues
of incarceration, rape and sexual assault, and popular education
for youth around issues of racial and economic justice. |
$1,000 |
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. |
$10,000 |
W.A.N.T.E.D.
Represents opportunities, resources, information and alternatives
to urban youth in their language and their culture in order
for them to comprehend fully. Our program focuses on balancing
opportunities, resources and information by making it available
presenting it to urban youth through step and hip hop in order
for them to comprehend more efficiently. |
$5,000 |
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. |
$30,000 |
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. |
$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. |
$10,000 |
Zahire
Estrella
Young girl attending Brandeis University went to Havana, Cuba
to attend courses at Havana University as well as connect with
young Cubans in hopes to connect the Hip Hop Community and see
what they were saying about Havana, their communities and what
improvements they wanted to see done. |
$5,050 |
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$307,640 |
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