Grant Information - NYWF 2006 Grantee Partners ACCION New York   $40,000 To provide women microentrepreneurs with access to business capital, training and financial education. Amethyst Women's Project   $20,000 To support Peer Education Outreach Services for women at risk for HIV infection, substance abuse, and domestic violence. Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund   $30,000 To support the New York Asian Community Anti-Trafficking Collaborative to focus on the needs of Asian women and girls who are trafficked for the purposes of involuntary domestic servitude, forced labor, and sexual exploitation. Battered Women's Resource Center   $35,000 To provide leadership development, training, and organizing 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   $20,000 To educate Bukharian Jewish women on family violence and provide information and referrals for domestic violence support services. The Brotherhood/Sister Sol   $30,000 To support the Sister Sol Development Program, a rites-of-passage program for young women emphasizing long-term, positive adult mentorship, and the creation of a safe space for young African-American and Latina women. Business Outreach Center Network   $40,000 To assist low-income women to successfully create or enhance their home-based child care businesses and expand the number of affordable childcare slots available in their neighborhoods. Catholic Big Sisters and Big Brothers   $30,000 To support mentoring, counseling, and skill-based programs for girls and families residing on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Center for Family Life of Sunset Park   $30,000 To provide job training, education and employment services to low-income women in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services   $30,000 To provide academic, social, and emotional support for girls involved in the criminal justice system. Center for Immigrant Families   $20,000 To support the leadership development and community involvement of low-income immigrant women in Uptown Manhattan. Chica Luna Productions   $30,000 To provide media literacy and practical media making skills along with community organizing and advocacy training to young women of color. Child Welfare Organizing Project   $25,000 To organize, educate, and empower parents involved with the New York City child welfare system and to foster their active participation in public child welfare reform. Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center   $30,000 To provide critical legal support to the grassroots efforts of domestic worker organizations in New York City. The Correctional Association of New York   $30,000 To support advocacy and leadership training for formerly incarcerated women. Day One   $30,000 To prevent intimate partner and domestic violence among girls ages 12 to 22 throughout New York City through public education, legal representation, peer leadership, and advocacy. Domestic Workers United   $30,000 To support multi-ethnic leadership among low-wage workers to advocate for fair labor standards in the domestic work industry. Dominican Women's Development Center   $30,000 To support the development of the leadership and critical thinking skills of young Dominican women that will enable them to become advocates for themselves, their families, and their communities. Dwa Fanm   $30,000 To provide advocacy and legal education to Haitian and black immigrant women who are survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Equality Now   $30,000 To convene the New York State Anti-Trafficking Coalition to ensure that the state develops a strong and effective legal framework within which to combat human trafficking. Esperanza del Barrio   $35,000 To support the organizing efforts of street vendors in East Harlem and to create public awareness on issues affecting street vendors. Families United for Racial and Economic Equality   $40,000 To continue to support the organizing and advocacy efforts of low-income women of color in Brooklyn to build power and find a way out of poverty. Friends of Island Academy   $35,000 To assist young women who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated at Rikers Island Jail through onsite education, case management, counseling, computer training, and basic employment training. Girls for Gender Equity   $30,000 To increase the number of Gender Respect Workshops in public school classrooms of low income communities in Brooklyn; to empower African-American and Caribbean girls; and to assist the schools in providing equal opportunities to students in a safe environment. Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility   $35,000 To support the Sisters in Sisterhood program, which helps young women of African descent journey toward adulthood by providing programs that foster life skills, self-esteem, self-expression, and overall mental and physical well-being. Latin American Integration Center   $30,000 To increase health care access among low-income Latina immigrant women and to build their capacity to advocate for equitable access to quality health care. Learning Center for Women in Prison   $30,000 To implement in partnership with Bard College an accredited college program for women incarcerated at Bayview Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison housing 220 women in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Legal Momentum   $30,000 To support an advocacy project that uses equal opportunity policies and procedures to expand opportunities for women in nontraditional occupations, specifically the construction industry. Lower Eastside Girls Club   $30,000 To provide youth development and skills-building programming to girls residing on the Lower East Side. Muslim Women's Institute for Research and Development   $35,000 To support health education, disease prevention, and better access to health care for Muslim immigrant women. Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project   $30,000 To provide low-income women-particularly younger women, women of color, immigrant and senior women-with vital tools needed to establish financial security for themselves and their communities. Neighborhood Self-Help By Older Persons, Inc.   $20,000 To provide health education, prevention, and social services to older women of color at risk of heart disease and diabetes residing in the Bronx. New Settlement Apartments   $30,000 To support an intensive literacy and theater-arts program designed for adolescent girls from low-income families in the Southwest Bronx. New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation   $30,000 To expand access to reproductive health care for adolescent girls in New York City's low-income communities through education and advocacy work. New York SCORES   $35,000 To support educational and recreational enrichment activities for low-income girls residing in Central Harlem and Washington Heights. New York Women's Employment Center   $35,000 To support WCECA's Self-Sufficiency program which includes both the Self-Sufficiency Standard and Calculator for New York City. Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition   $30,000 To increase opportunities for predominantly low-income Latina women and girls to obtain jobs at a living wage and pursue higher education through improved educational equity and access to Northwest Bronx public schools. Picture the Homeless   $40,000 To support the leadership development and organizing efforts of homeless women in order to identify solutions to homelessness and advocate for change in the policies that affect them. Red Hook Health Initiative of Long Island College Hospital   $30,000 To educate young and adult women to provide reproductive health education and medical referrals to their peers in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York   $30,000 To build the leadership of female restaurant workers to confront the challenges of gender discrimination and harassment in the industry. Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, Inc.   $30,000 To offer girls' empowerment program for adolescent and teenage girls residing in the Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Sadie Nash Leadership Project   $35,000 To support the expansion of Sadie Nash's leadership program - enabling girls to develop analytical and leadership skills to examine and challenge social injustice. Sauti Yetu Center for African Women   $30,000 To support education and advocacy efforts to raise awareness about violence against African immigrant women and girls and to ensure protection of their rights. Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center   $35,000 To provide legal representation to sex workers and to improve conditions for sex workers through legal advocacy and research. Sistas on the Rise   $30,000 To strengthen the leadership capacity of young low-income women of color, particularly young mothers, to participate and make their voices heard in social and economic justice work. Sisterhood Mobilized for AIDS/HIV Research and Treatment   $30,000 To engage and empower women living with or affected by HIV/AIDS to become informed about their health and rights, to learn how to live with the disease, and to advocate for changes in HIV/AIDS policy. TAMKEEN: The Center for Arab American Empowerment   $30,000 To prevent domestic violence among Arab-American women through bilingual support services and public education. Women and Work   $35,000 To provide job training, readiness, education, search and placement services for low-income women. Women for Afghan Women   $35,000 To support educational and leadership development activities for Afghan women and girls living in Queens. Women's HIV Collaborative of New York   $30,000 To support research and broad-based advocacy for addressing the specific needs of women infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation   $25,000 To provide women with skills to successfully start and expand their own child care businesses, increase child care capacity in the Bronx, and improve the overall quality of care for children and families. Youth Empowerment Mission   $40,000 To provide after-school programming for the girls of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Central Brooklyn who are at risk of gang involvement. Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice   $35,000 To expand programming at Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice's Center for Youth and Community Wellness to meet girls' mental and physical needs and strengthen their critical thinking skills through increasing awareness about political and social issues. ^ back to top		< Back to Grant Info