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Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice $40,000
Nari Shakti (Women’s Power): Justice for Women Workers
To work with women and girls from the Nepali immigrant community to provide innovative programming through a combination of English classes, direct service programs, community organizing, policy, advocacy and leadership training.
Cypress Hills Child Care Corporation $40,000
Family Day Care Financial Empowerment Program
To provide tailored financial literacy classes to Family Day Care Network members and parents to increase savings and sound financial practices in a neighborhood particularly vulnerable to predatory lending practices and financial mismanagement.
Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES) $50,000
Public Housing Residents of the Lower East Side (PHROLES)
To empower low-income women residents on the Lower East Side to organize for the preservation, improvement, and protection of the public housing available in their community.
Love Heals: The Alison Gertz Foundation for AIDS Education $50,000
Leadership, Empowerment and Awarness Program (LEAP) for Girls
To conduct a comprehensive after school sexuality and health education program for young women in the three New York City neighborhoods with the highest rates of HIV infection among young women of color.
*This grant was made possible in part by the generosity of the Catalyst Fund of Tides Foundation.
Homelessness Outreach and Prevention Project of the Urban Justice Center $50,000
Access to Education Project
To operate a legal clinic at Hostos Community College in the Bronx to ensure that low-income women can continue to access the public benefits they need as they pursue education and work toward postsecondary degrees.
Mt. Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention (SAVI) Program $40,000
Program Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
To provide comprehensive supportive services to young women victims of commercial sexual exploitation and to help them establish healthy and economically secure lives.
ParentJobNet $50,000
General Operating Support
To educate, prepare and connect lower income public school parents with job opportunities and other economic resources that empower them to build financial stability for their families.
RightRides for Women’s Safety $50,000
General Operating Support
To allow for the development of the New Yorkers for Safe Transit Coalition which aims to to educate and mobilize individuals most affected by gender-based harassment and sexual assault, through building a coalition of community members and civic groups to raise awareness, provide education and pursue policy change to create a safer mass transit system in New York.
*This grant was made possible in part by the generosity of the Catalyst Fund of Tides Foundation.
Row New York $40,000
Empowerment Through Rowing and Academics
To provide a highly structured program that combines competitive rowing, academic tutoring, and college preparation for young women of color from under-achieving public high schools in New York City.
VAMOS Unidos $40,000
General Operating Support
To promote the rights of immigrant street vendors in the Bronx and advocate on their behalf to reduce arrests, increase the number of street vending permits that are granted by the city, and develop the leadership of the women members of the organization to become an organized and powerful constituency.
Voces Latinas $50,000
General Operating Support
To provide culturally and linguistically appropriate HIV/AIDS education to Latina immigrants in western Queens at risk for infection while promoting self-empowerment, community building and helping to affect legislation on HIV/AIDS, domestic violence and immigration issues.
*This grant was made possible in part by the generosity of the Catalyst Fund of Tides Foundation.
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