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| 2003
Grantees |
Association
of Haitian Women
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 |
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. |
$10,000 |
Crossing
Communities Collaborative
(a.k.a. Education and Careers Collaborative, Inc.)
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. |
$41,000 |
Darrell
Gane-McCalla
Mural artist working with women in prison as well as
with some of the young girls form Artist for Humanity (organization)
and children at the Paige Academy to design a mural called,
“In the Time of Butterflies” to be painted at the
Paige Academy. |
$9,775 |
Development
Leadership Network
A national membership organization of individuals working
in community building and economic development (CED) dedicated
to developing and implementing practices which integrate a broad
social, economic and racial justice vision into the CED field. |
$40,000 |
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 |
Mass.
English Plus Coalition
Organization to counter the efforts of the English-only
movement to make English the official language of Lowell and
Massachusetts. The organization opposes English-only efforts
because they lead to the discrimination and disenfranchisement
of language minorities, and engender feelings of bigotry that
threaten the very foundation of a healthy community. |
$20,000 |
Mass.
Vietnamese American Women’s League
A group of active Vietnamese immigrant and refugee
women felt the need to critically respond to issues that were
marginalized both within the mainstream and Vietnamese community.
We advocate for a voice and a constructive space to intimately
dialogue about issues such as domestic violence, sexism, cultural
and socio-economic barriers, and discrimination against Vietnamese
women. |
$5,000 |
Mission
Safe
Youth development organization that works primarily
with highly at-risk African-American and Latino youth in Mission
Hill and the surrounding neighborhoods. Our mission is to work
with at-risk youth and their families to help them gain the
skills and confidence to thrive, not merely survive, and to
work to improve their community and the larger world. |
$10,000 |
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
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$22,500 |
PeaceWatch
Ireland
Works to support peace, justice and equity in Ireland
by linking struggles, information, and resources across cultures,
borders, and issues. |
$10,000 |
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. |
$20,000 |
Rhythm
Vision Production Co., Inc.
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. |
$22,000 |
Raising
Our Children’s Children (ROCC)
Serving grandparents and other relatives who are raising their
children’s children. ROCC serves this particular population
in large part because the issue of relatives raising children
was not on the radar screen of the larger social service delivery
system. ROCC was uniquely situated to help newly formed families
deal with the variety of difficult legal, financial, medical
and emotional issues that need to be addressed when relatives
assume these parenting responsibilities. |
$5,000 |
Tieng
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. |
$10,000 |
Up
You Mighty Race Theater Company (UYMR)
UYMR started of a theatre troupe that would study and
perform works by playwrights of African decent. UYMR utilizes
the arts as a catalyst for social awareness and change. By producing
works that represent a positive image of people of African decent,
UYMR cultivates the development of emerging theatrical artist,
serve as an educational outlet for youth in the theatrical arts,
and provides access and exposure to the performance arts for
member of the community. UYMR is dedicated to presenting professional
quality performances that exhibit integrity, reflects great
thought, and honors our ancestors. |
$10,000 |
We
Are Nevertheless Talented, Educated and Determined (W.A.N.T.E.D.)
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. |
$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. |
$25,000 |
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. |
$15,000 |
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. |
$27,000 |
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$367,275 |
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