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ACCION New York $30,000
To provide women microentrepreneurs with access to business capital, training and financial education.
African Hope Committee $30,000
To increase awareness of HIV/AIDS among African immigrant women and access to services.
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund $30,000
To provide legal assistance and representation to Asian women and girls trafficked into New York, conduct multilingual education, and outreach designed to build a stronger Asian community response to end human trafficking.
Audre Lorde Project $30,000
To support transgender nonconforming individuals and their allies to seek gender, racial and economic justice through organizing, advocacy, alliance building, public education and training.
Brooklyn Young Mothers’ Collective $30,000
To provide academic support, leadership development and skill-building workshops for pregnant and mothering girls and young women.
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol $30,000
To support the 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 Caring for the Future $40,000
To assist low-income women to successfully create or enhance their home-based childcare 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 their families.
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 Family Life of Sunset Park $30,000
To support job training, education and employment services as well as the implementation of a new workers’ collaborative for low-income, immigrant women in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
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 $30,000
To support efforts to organize, educate, and empower parents involved with the New York City child welfare system in order to become active participants in public child welfare reform.
College and Community Fellowship, Inc. $30,000
To provide formerly incarcerated women with opportunities for higher education and self-advocacy.
Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center $30,000
To provide critical legal and technical support to the grassroots efforts of domestic worker organizations in New York City.
Concerned Citizens for Family Preservation $30,000
To support the leadership development and organizing of poor and low-income women on Staten Island who are affected by the child welfare system.
Correctional Association of New York $30,000
To support advocacy and leadership training for formerly incarcerated women.
DAMAYAN Migrant Workers Association $30,000
To address the health needs of Filipino domestic workers, while also helping them develop the skills and knowledge to navigate the health system and become strong advocates for their own welfare and human rights.
Day One $30,000
To prevent intimate partner and domestic violence among girls ages 12-22 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 young Dominican women’s leadership and critical thinking skills that will enable them to become advocates for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Contact: Rosita Romero, 212-994-6060
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.
El Centro de Hospitalidad $30,000
To support the economic and personal empowerment of undocumented women day laborers.
Contact: Gonzalo Mercado, 718-448-1544
Equality Now $30,000
To support advocacy in collaboration with the New York State Anti-Trafficking Coalition to ensure the passage of a strong anti-trafficking bill for New York State.
Esperanza del Barrio $40,000
To support the organizing efforts of Latina immigrants through grassroots organizing, political/legal education, and leadership development.
FIERCE! $30,000
To support the leadership development of the transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, Two Spirit, queer and questioning youth of color to build the next generation of community activists.
Girls Educational & Mentoring Services $30,000
To expand and enhance direct services to sexually exploited young women as well as its outreach, education and awareness raising programs on the issue of sexual exploitation.
Girls for Gender Equity $30,000
To conduct Gender Respect Workshops in public school classrooms of low-income communities in Brooklyn and to assist the schools in providing equal opportunities to students in a safe environment.
*This grant is made possible in part by Sullivan & Cromwell.
Greenhope Services for Women, Inc. $30,000
To support domestic violence services for formerly incarcerated women, those referred to Greenhope Services for Women as an alternative to incarceration, and women substance users.
Housing + Solutions $30,000
To provide an intensive supportive services program for formerly homeless women and families living in Brooklyn.
JusticeWorks Community* $25,000
To support Women of Substance, a speakers’ bureau for formerly incarcerated women in recovery to speak about their experiences with incarceration and the need for drug reform and family residential programs.
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.
Contact: Kirsten Meadows, 212-628-3014
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 skill-building programming to girls.
*This grant is made possible in part by the NYWF Committee for the Future’s Giving Circle.
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, and immigrant and senior women — with vital tools needed to establish financial security for themselves and their communities.
New Settlement Apartments $30,000
To support expanded and age-appropriate, gender specific programs for girls and young women in Southwest Bronx.
Contact: Joy Leonard, 718-716-8000, ext. 133
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 the Literacy in Action program for low-income elementary school girls.
New York Women’s Employment Center/ Women’s Center for Education and Career Advancement $35,000
To support WCECA’s citywide career readiness services, small business training, and Self-Sufficiency Standard and Benefits Calculator.
Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition* $30,000
To increase opportunities for predominantly low-income Latina women and girls to obtain living wage jobs 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 to develop a critical analysis of the policies affecting them and to build the skills needed to identify solutions to homelessness and advocate for change.
Queers for Economic Justice $30,000
To support the engagement of low-income lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people who are on public assistance in outreach, trainings, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.
Red Hook Initiative $30,000
To train young women as peer educators to provide reproductive, social, and emotional health information as well as referrals to their peers.
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.
Sister S.A.G.E. $30,000
To offer a girls’ empowerment program for adolescent and teenage girls residing in the Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods of Brooklyn.
Contact: Tyese Brown, 718-381-9653
Sadie Nash Leadership Project $35,000
To support the strengthening and expansion of Sadie Nash’s leadership program, enabling girls to develop analytical and leadership skills in order 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 low-income young 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.
Sylvia Rivera Law Project $30,000
To improve health care access for transgender adults and youth in New York City through legal services, public education, and advocacy.
TAMKEEN: The Center for Arab American Empowerment $30,000
To provide domestic violence services for Arab-American women and conduct domestic violence education work within the Arab-American community.
Turning Point for Women and Families* $30,000
To provide services to Muslim women experiencing domestic violence and empower Muslim women and girls to prevent future violence.
Women and Work $35,000
To provide job training, readiness, education, search and placement services for women of modest educational backgrounds who are experiencing economic hardship.
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 childcare businesses, increase childcare capacity in the Bronx, and improve the overall quality of care for children and families.
Young Women of Color HIV/AIDS Coalition $30,000
To increase the visibility and voices of young women of color infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS in youth-serving and HIV organizations in New York City in order to ensure their needs are addressed.
Contact: Clair Simon, 212-529-7935
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 provide holistic wellness programming that meets girls’ mental and physical health needs and strengthens their critical thinking skills through increasing awareness about political and social issues.
*Funding made possible by the Dallas Women’s Foundation. The Ruth Ray Hunt Memorial III Fund, and The Ruth Ray Hunt Memorial IV Fund of the Communities Foundation of Texas.
Funding for the 2007 Positive Development of Girls & Young Women grant portforlio is made possible in part by the generous support of Ernst & Young LLP.
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