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RISE-NYC! Grantee Partners
ACCION USA $75,625
New York Microlending Program for Women Microentrepreneurs
To provide low and moderate income women microentrepreneurs with affordable credit and financial education, and to help women borrowers establish and/or repair their personal credit; create, sustain and grow their businesses; generate jobs for community members; and better provide for themselves and their families.
*This grant is made possible by the generosity of The Women’s Self-Worth Foundation.
Brooklyn Workforce Innovations $50,000
The Driver’s Seat
To support a part-time training program to enable low-income women to obtain New York State driver’s licenses, engage in job readiness training, then use both their new licenses and skills to find a first or better-paying job and/or get accepted into a skills training program.
Center for New York City Neighborhoods $50,000
Neighborhood Improvement Project
To train women receiving public assistance in basic job skills, employ them in transitional jobs cleaning neighborhoods affected by the foreclosure crisis, and to provide ongoing job readiness and job placement services.
CHANGER (Communities, Homeowners And Neighbors Gaining Economic Rights) $60,000
COPE² (Counseling Outreach Program for Education & Empowerment)
To support legal clinics where homeowners in danger of foreclosure have access to attorneys, mortgage counselors, and financial education classes.
GRAMEEN America $70,000
New York Microfinance
To extend microloans to low-income women in Queens allowing them the opportunity to start or expand businesses, create jobs for themselves and others in their communities, accumulate assets, and develop credit scores.
Hour Children $50,000
Hour Working Women Program
To support formerly incarcerated women with children to secure long-term employment upon their release from prison with the help of job readiness, ESL, and skills-building classes.
Local Development Corporation of East New York $50,000
Women Rise to Financial Independence
To offer intensive financial literacy training and technical assistance to female residents of East New York, both entrepreneurs and non-business owners to increase the financial security of women in the community and increase the stability of women owned small businesses.
Make the Road New York $50,000
Immigrant Women Support & Training Project
To provide education and support services, recover unpaid wages or public benefits, and increase job readiness and marketable skills for hundreds of low-income immigrant women in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.
Sakhi for South Asian Women $40,000
Vital Support: Enabling Survivors of Domestic Violence to Achieve Safety and Self-Sufficiency
To respond to the increasing incidents of domestic violence with culturally appropriate and multilingual crisis response and case management, and to address the lack of appropriate services for South Asian survivors who seek to access opportunities for educational advancement, work authorization and financial stability, and self-sufficiency
Upwardly Global $45,000
Outreach Initiative
To support skilled immigrant women in transitioning from low-paying service industry jobs into professions that utilize degrees from their home countries and provide a living wage and benefits.
Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation $50,000
Home-based Childcare Business Development Initiative
To enable 200 low-skilled women impacted by the economic recession to access to start-up funds, technical assistance and referrals in order to create thriving and financially stable home-based childcare small businesses.
YWCA of Queens $50,000
Women to Work
To support the training of low-income immigrant women in Flushing, Queens in healthcare industry career skills to prepare them for jobs as bilingual administrators and translators in doctor’s offices and hospitals, and as home health aides.
Sixth Year Grantee Partners
Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition $30,000
The Northwest Bronx Women’s Educational and Economic Security Initiative
To develop the leadership capacity of low-income Latina parent and youth leaders so they can advocate for the improvement of school facilities and education reform in Districts 9, 10, and 12 in the Northwest Bronx.
Red Hook Initiative $50,000
Peer Health Educator and Leadership Program
To train young women living in the Red Hook Houses, a large and geographically isolated public housing complex, as paid peer educators to provide reproductive, social, and emotional health information to their peers.
*This grant was made possible in part by the generosity of the Catalyst Fund of Tides Foundation.
Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council $40,000
Sister S.A.G.E. (Strengthening Advocacy for Girls’ Empowerment)
To offer a comprehensive, year-round girls’ empowerment and college-preparatory program for adolescent and teenage girls residing in the low-income, underserved neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Sadie Nash Leadership Project $50,000
General Operating Support
To support the leadership and activism development of young women, ages 14-18, attending New York City’s public schools by offering a two-year program that fosters community leadership through an intensive summer program, yearlong service and activist internships, and independent and/or collective social justice projects.
Women’s Center for Education and Career Advancement $50,000
Career Services & Self-Sufficiency Programs
To support WCECA’s citywide career readiness services, small business training, and the updating, maintenance, and training of community members in the Self-Sufficiency Standard and Benefits Calculator, a web-based computer tool that screens individuals’ eligibility for work supports and tax credits, and calculates how well a given wage meets a working individual’s real expenses.
Women for Afghan Women $40,000
Community Outreach Program
To support educational and leadership development activities for the isolated and underserved population of Afghan women and girls living in Queens, including English as a Second Language (ESL) courses, counseling, leadership development training, walk-in emergency assistance, and a safe space for inter- and intra-faith dialogue.
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