Grant Information - NYWF 2004 Grantee Partners ACCION New York, $25,000 To continue providing women technical assistance support and fair-rate loans and to increase the overall numbers of low-income microentrepreneurs in New York City. American Women's Economic Development Corporation, $10,000 To provide low-income women in New York City with high-quality training in business management and life skills as well as social services support. Andolan Organizing South Asian Workers, $30,000 To continue to support culturally-relevant services to South Asian low-wage workers, especially domestic workers, who are at risk of workplace abuses. Battered Women's Resource Center, Inc., $30,000 To continue their leadership development training and organizing project for victims of domestic violence in order to improve government systems and services for battered women and their children in New York City. Beit Shalom, $30,000 To strengthen Beit Shalom's community outreach and domestic violence awareness activities and to begin offering educational programs designed to change behaviors that lead to violence against women, including pre and post marital classes and mentoring on domestic violence, prevention and communication for women, and parenting classes for couples. Business Outreach Center Network, Inc., $25,000 To assist Spanish speaking low-income individuals to successfully create or enhance their own home-based child care business and expand the number of affordable child care slots available in their neighborhoods. Casa Atabex Ach�, $30,000 To continue providing leadership development, health awareness and empowerment services to young women living in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx. Center for Immigrant Families, $30,000 To continue support for the leadership development of Latina women in the Washington Heights area to increase their involvement in the community. Child Welfare Organizing Project, $25,000 To continue to support CWOP's work to educate parents about the foster care system and allow them to become active participants in improving the child welfare system. College and Community Fellowship, Inc., $25,000 To provide the staff and infrastructure needed for formerly incarcerated women to become active participants in society and to secure a college diploma that will help them rebuild their lives. Community Development Project/Urban Justice Center, $20,000 To support the development of a project that establishes a broad coalition of low-wage workers, nonprofit organizations, and lawyers to further the domestic workers' rights movement. Damayan Migrant Workers Association, Inc., $25,000 To expand Damayan's community organizing, education and outreach, and leadership development programs for Filipina domestic workers. Esperanza del Barrio, $30,000 To develop a program for marginalized street vendors in East Harlem and establish public awareness about the issues affecting street vendors. Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, $30,000 To continue to support FUREE's work with women on public assistance in South Brooklyn to improve access to training and education for low-income communities. Forest Hills Community House, $30,000 To continue providing a 20-week leadership development program for low-income young women and girls in Queens. Friends of Island Academy, $25,000 To continue providing support and social services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated young women of Rikers Island in order to help them successfully reintegrate into the community. Grand Street Settlement, $25,000 To continue offering after-school girl's programming services to girls and young women from the Lower East Side community and to expand the program by introducing the program into a nearby public high school. Gay Reunion In Our Times, $30,000 To continue the Buddy-2-Buddy program and to expand their services so that they can recruit more mentors to partner with existing members in need. HIV Law Project, $15,000 To support the ongoing programs and services of the Women and HIV Empowerment Project, which includes their Center for Women's Organizing program, technical assistance to HIV-positive women engaged in advocacy work, and to continue advocating around specific issues of ongoing importance to protect the rights of HIV-positive women. The HOPE Program, $20,000 To enhance service delivery of the HOPE Program that would allow them to work with women with multiple barriers to economic independence such as drug addiction and mental illness by improving their organizational infrastructure and service delivery. Hour Children, $35,000 To continue offering job skills and social services support to formerly incarcerated women and mothers in order to achieve economic independence and successfully reintegrate back into the community. Human Rights Project/Urban Justice Center, $23,000 To implement a partnership between city policymakers, nonprofit organizations, and low-income individuals that will develop a local human rights framework that can be used to shape public policy in New York City. Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility, Inc., $30,000 To continue their Sisters in Sisterhood program at the recently expanded level of serving young women and girls of African descent who live in Flatbush, Brooklyn and its surrounding neighborhoods. Institute for Labor and Community, $30,000 To continue their preadolescent girls program to upper elementary school students living on the Lower East Side and to expand their program by offering services to middle-school girls residing on the Lower East Side and nearby Manhattan neighborhoods. Make the Road by Walking, $35,000 To sustain Make the Road by Walking's work to develop the leadership potential of immigrant women on public assistance and to increase access to translation services in public benefit offices and hospitals in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Mercy Center, $30,000 To provide job training and social services to low-income women who lives in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx. Neighborhood Self Help by Older Persons Project, Inc., $30,000 To provide health education, prevention and social services to older women of color at-risk of heart disease and diabetes who resides in the Bronx. New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault, $20,000 To create a reproducible public awareness/education campaign that can be easily implemented on sexual assault by local activists and organizations and to provide technical assistance to these organizations on how to carry out and promote their campaigns. The campaign efforts will culminate in April 2005, which is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. New York SCORES, $30,000 To continue their after-school education and recreation program through the next school year for girls residing in Washington Heights. Picture the Homeless, $25,000 To continue to support Picture the Homeless' project which organizes homeless women to advocate for better shelter services for themselves and their families. Project Hospitality, $30,000 To expand Project Hospitality's program and increase leadership and economic opportunities for Mexican women day laborers. Red Hook Health Initiative, $25,000 To expand and enhance their services for girls and women by offering an increased number of weekly health education services and to extend their office hours allowing more young women to access the program. Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, Inc., $17,000 To expand an intergenerational program that allows girls from the Ridgewood/Bushwick section of Brooklyn to establish relationships with older neighborhood women so that they can recognize their individual potential and celebrate the resilience of their communities. Sadie Nash Leadership Project, $20,000 To support the expansion of Sadie Nash's leadership program that enables girls to explore their communities and develop critical skills that can be applied in the future as socially-active and productive members of society. Sex Workers Project/Urban Justice Center, $25,000 To continue providing legal representation to sex workers and to improve conditions for sex workers through legal advocacy and research. Sister Outsider, $30,000 To enhance Sister Outsider's girls-led, grassroots program which works with socially alienated young women in the East Flatbush/Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Welfare Rights Initiative, $20,000 To support leadership transition, expand technology systems, and develop a long-term sustainability plan that will allow the Welfare Rights Initiative to continue to advocate on behalf of City University of New York (CUNY) students on public assistance and help them complete a higher education degree. Women for Afghan Women, $25,000 To establish a leadership development and service-delivery program for the isolated Afghani women and girls living in Flushing, Queens. Youth at Risk, $30,000 To sustain the work of a mentorship program for parenting teenage mothers that connects them to positive role models, teaches parenting skills, and offers holistic classes to help make positive choices and become healthy members of the community. Youth Empowerment Mission, Inc., $30,000 To expand a girls' program that will provide positive after-school programming for girls who are at risk of dropping out of school, gang involvement, and other risky activities. ^ back to top		< Back to Grant Info