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ACCION USA $75,625
New York Microlending Program for Women Microentrepreneurs
To provide low and moderate income women microentrepreneurs with the ability to 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 with stabilized incomes.
*RISE-NYC! grantee partner
Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice $50,000
Nari Shakti (Women’s Power): Justice for Women Workers
To ensure economic independence and provide leadership opportunities for low–income Nepali women workers, most of who are domestic workers and nail salon/beauty parlor workers.
Brooklyn Workforce Innovations $50,000
The Driver’s Seat
To provide low–income women with free skills and job readiness training leading to a NYS Driver’s License and placement in either a job or sector–based career development program.
*RISE-NYC! grantee partner
Business Outreach Center Network $50,000
Child Care Business Development Initiative
To support business development and job creation in the high–demand childcare sector for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families recipients, unemployed and other low–income women, as well as increase the availability of quality child care spaces in economically-distressed neighborhoods.
*RISE-NYC! grantee partner
Center for New York City Neighborhoods $50,000
The Neighborhood Improvement Project
To provide female public assistance recipients with employment in neighborhood cleaning projects that support low–income areas hard hit by the foreclosure crisis, as well as vocational training and intensive job placement services.
*RISE-NYC! grantee partner
CHANGER (Communities, Homeowners And Neighbors Gaining Economic Rights) $60,000
Counseling Outreach Program for Education & Empowerment (COPE²)
To operate foreclosure defense legal clinics in Brooklyn and Queens where women homeowners in danger of foreclosure gain access to attorneys, mortgage counselors, and financial education classes.
*RISE-NYC! grantee partner
Cypress Hills Child Care Corporation $41,000
Family Day Care Financial Empowerment
To provide financial literacy and empowerment trainings for Family Day Care providers, parents of children enrolled in the daycare centers, and senior citizens in Cypress Hills.
Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES) $50,000
Public Housing Residents of the Lower East Side (PHROLES)
To ensure the stability and affordability of public housing on the Lower East Side and nationally by addressing multiple needs of low–income women, including eviction prevention and housing security, domestic violence outreach, and leadership development training.
GRAMEEN America $70,000
New York Microfinance
To provide low–income women with the opportunity to start or expand businesses, accumulate assets, develop credit scores and participate in ongoing financial training.
*RISE-NYC! grantee partner
Hour Children $50,000
Hour Working Women Program
To provide job training and job development services for formerly incarcerated women who live in Hour Children residences, including job readiness counseling, skill building workshops, peer mentoring and internships.
*RISE-NYC! grantee partner
Local Development Corporation of East New York $50,000
Women Rise to Financial Independence @ Women’s Business Center
To provide personal and business financial training and counseling for women entrepreneurs in Brooklyn.
*RISE-NYC! grantee partner
Love Heals: The Alison Gertz Foundation for AIDS Education $50,000
Leadership, Empowerment and Awarness Program (LEAP) for Girls
To provide leadership training and information on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS to young women of color in East Harlem, the South Bronx and Central Brooklyn, and provide advanced learning and skills–building opportunities to further graduates’ work as community educators and activists.
Make the Road New York $50,000
Immigrant Women Support and Training Project
To provide critical support and educational opportunities for immigrant women through skills based workshops, English literacy services, and individualized job counseling.
*RISE-NYC! grantee partner
Mercy Center $50,000
Employment Yes!
To empower low–income women in the South Bronx to pursue and obtain sustainable employment in office administration by developing their technical skills, enhancing job readiness, assisting them in obtaining meaningful employment, and supporting their on-going success.
*RISE-NYC! grantee partner
The Mount Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program $50,000
Program Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
To provide services for young women survivors of sex–trafficking, many of who have histories of sexual and domestic violence.
ParentJobNet $50,000
General Operating Support
To empower and support low–income mothers of students in the New York City public school system through job readiness and financial literacy workshops, computer and English literacy classes, job placement services, networking events, and referral services.
RightRides for Women’s Safety $65,000
New Yorkers for Safe Transit
To educate and mobilize those most affected by gender–based violence on public transit. The New Yorkers for Safe Transit program operates alongside community members and civic groups to raise awareness of violence and pursue policy change to create a safer, more equitable mass transit system.
*This grant was made possible in part by the generosity of the Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund.
Row New York $50,000
Empowerment Through Rowing and Academics (ERA)
To provide athletic and academic training for girls and young women in Queens and the South Bronx.
Sakhi for South Asian Women $50,000
Economic Empowerment Program
To increase access to opportunities for educational advancement, financial stability and self–sufficiency for South Asian survivors of domestic violence.
*RISE-NYC! grantee partner
Upwardly Global $50,000
Job Seeker Services Program
To engage low–income immigrant women in classes on U.S. business norms and provide job search help and career coaching, directly moving immigrants and their families from poverty into professional employment.
*RISE-NYC! grantee partner
Urban Justice Center: Homelessness Outreach and Prevention Project
$50,000
Partnership for Women’s Educational Advancement
To ensure that low and no–income pregnant and parenting young women who are students at Hostos Community College can obtain the post–secondary education they need to break the cycle of poverty while continuing to receive the benefits to which they are entitled.
VAMOS Unidos $50,000
General Operating Support
To develop the leadership skills of and self–employment opportunities for low–income Latina immigrant workers who are street vendors.
Violence Intervention Program $50,000
Self-Sufficiency Program at Casa Sandra
To provide a comprehensive array of services that promote self–sufficiency for the residents of Casa Sandra, all of who are survivors of domestic violence, including job readiness, financial literacy, computer literacy, and referrals to GED, college and hard–skills training programs.
*RISE-NYC! grantee partner
Voces Latinas $65,000
General Operating Support
To reduce the rate of HIV transmission among immigrant Latinas by operating a promotora (peer education) program to empower and educate Latina participants in Queens.
*This grant was made possible in part by the generosity of the Catalyst Fund at Groundswell Fund.
Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation $50,000
Home–based Childcare Business Development
To help women create and grow successful childcare businesses through training in bookkeeping, business planning, health and safety, and child development, as well as provide access to start–up funds, technical assistance and referrals.
*RISE-NYC! grantee partner
YWCA of Queens $50,000
Women to Work
To provide English literacy and workforce development training for low–income immigrant women by preparing them for one of two employment tracks: working in an administrative capacity in doctor’s offices or working in direct care by obtaining their Home Health Aide Certification.
*RISE-NYC! grantee partner
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