The following organizations were grantees of the Fall 2009 cycle.

Beauty for Ashes

Rancho Cucamonga, CA - $750

To support necessary clothing and transportation for recently incarcerated women in the Re-entry Mentor Back to Work Program.

 

Club BrickHouse

Norfolk, VA - $1000

To support the purchase of resources for the Females in Training (F. I. T.) for Life program for at-risk, overweight and obese girls.

 

Desipina Productions, Inc.

Brooklyn, NY - $750

To support the Out of the Kitchen and Into the Fire Workshop Series, a year-long workshop of plays with South Asian/Asian American female protagonists and/or written by South Asian/Asian American/multi-racial women.

http://desipina.org/

 

Desiree Alliance

Henderson, NV - $900

To support the conference fees for 6 members of the LGBTQ community to attend the Desiree Alliance International Sex Worker Conference, July 2010.

http://desireealliance.org/

 

Familias Triunfadores, Inc.

San Elizario, TX –$1000 to be matched 1-1

To support the Colonia Women in Movement for Social Justice working on community organizing, training, and collective action.

 

Friends of Women with Disabilities

Kampala, Uganda - $1000

To support the purchase of equipment and supplies as well as stipends for a Tailoring Skills Training and Development Project for Women with Disabilities.

 

Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees

Brooklyn, NY - $1250

To support the Haitian Workers Project: “Language as Power,” which organizes low wage Haitian women workers in adult literacy programs.

 

No More Tears

Plantation, FL - $1250

To support the Move-In Assistance for immigrant, arranged marriages women who are Victims of Domestic Violence.
http://www.nmtproject.org/index.php

 

North Dakota Women’s Network

Bismarck, ND - $1500

To support “The Group that Opened the Box,” which explores adolescent sexuality through theater arts, mental health and social justice.

http://www.ndwomen.org/

 

The Prison Birth Project

Amherst, MA - $800

To support the purchase and distribution of books to mothers at the Regional Women’s Correctional Center.

http://theprisonbirthproject.org/

 

Rising Circle Theater Collective

Brooklyn, NY - $1140

To support the stipends for 2 Lead Teaching Artists for Q UP, an arts intensive for young Asian American girls residing in Queens.

http://risingcircle.org/

 

Simone’s Home

Little Rock, AR - $750

To support the equipment, flyers, banners and supplies for the Girls Circle – a teen to teen mini conference.

 

Women’s Empowerment Project

Providence, RI - $1160

To support the stipends and tailor’s salary for the job-training project: Umoja Wa Akina Mama Tailoring Workshop.

http://wepri.wordpress.com/umoja/

 

Women Forum Elbasan

Elbasan, Albania - $750

To support developing Awareness of Young Girls aged 15-25 years through Workshops clarifying 2008 Domestic Violence Law.

 

 

The Jeanne Meurer Indigenous Women's Fund

 

Ababiri-Bantu Womens Group

Mbale, Uganda - $1000

To support a Cassava Grower Project that improves nutrition and income for families with HIV.

 

The Kologi Sports and Recreation Fund

 

Reclaim Childhood, Inc.

Boston, MA - $1380

To support a Saturday Sports Clinic Program for Iraqi refugee girls living in Jordan, run and operated by Iraqi women.

http://reclaimchildhood.com

 

 

The Susan F. Eastman Fund for Environmental Activism

 

Egulansi Kayinza Women Farmers Association

Busia, Uganda - $1000

To promote the use of and training about Solar Pineapple Driers.

The Edie Windsor Fund for Old Lesbians

Bless Bless Productions
New York, NY - $1000
To support the outreach and organizing around the rights of same sex marriage as seen in the documentary: Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement.
http://blessblessproductions.com/

The PatsyLu Fund for Women’s Music Projects

Astoria Jazz Band
Astoria, NY - $500
To support the concert and panel: Women Composers of Queens, to be performed at the SAGE Senior Center. Nine women composers are included.
http://sudhalter.com/astoria-big-band/

NANABABIES
Union, NJ - $1000
To support the musical educating assembly program: Feminine Forces, for an underserved school. The program is about unsung heroines whose accomplishments caused paradigm shifts in our nation and our world.
http://www.nanababies.org/

North American Guqin Association
Fremont, CA - $500
To support the multidisciplinary, multimedia performance: From Beijing to San Francisco, by Fei Wang, a noted Chinese woman guqin player, who brings this ancient art form to American audiences.
http://www.chineseculture.net/guqin/

Vox Femina Los Angeles
La Crescenta, CA - $1000
To support Celebrate the Power of Women Through Song, in which six all-women high school choirs from underserved communities and members of the Vox Femina ensemble will participate in a March 20, 2010 choral workshop and festival.
http://www.voxfeminala.org/

Association of Torah and Arts
Brooklyn, NY - $750
To support the music component of the ATARA Conference: Jewish Women in the Arts, for Torah observant, gifted women, who, in adherence of Jewish laws, do not perform before a mixed gender audience.
http://www.artsandtorah.org/

The India Fund

Women’s Path
Aniladi, India - $1800
To support the establishment of the Women’s Rights Awareness Library.

Foundation of Rural Development
Karaikudi, India - $1700
To support Leadership Development of Young Women and Adolescent Girls in dealing with the Domestic Violence Act of 2005.

Village Community Development Organisation
Gingee, India - $1800
To support the sericulture technique in the development of a silk thread production cottage industry for 50 women.

Srimathi Gurram Subbamma Educational Academy
Vedayapalem, India - $1600
To support the legal training and implementation of the Tribal Women’s Rights Assurance Program for Dalit women.

 

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