The following organizations were grantees of the Spring 2009 cycle.


Autumn Gem
Santa Clara, CA - $1000
To support sound post production costs of documentary Autumn Gem: the life of China's first feminist

http://www.autumn-gem.com

Comunidad Hispana
Merrill, WI - $1920
To support the Casa de la Cultura bimonthly gatherings

NGO Provincial Women
Bryansk, Russia - $1000
To provide travel stipends for the STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN program.

PA Immigrant & Refuge Women’s Network
Enola, PA - $1500
To support the production of the Story Circle: Immigrant & Refugee Women’s Health Stories at their Annual Women’s Health Conference
http://pairwn.org
 

Southwest Panhandle Search & Rescue K-9/Emotional First Aid Team
Foley, AL - $1750
To purchase GPS Tracking Devices and Radios for the women handlers to monitor their location.
http://www. swpansar.org/

Transitional Life Connections, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN - $1500
To support Project CAREER: Education and Employment Empowerment program for homeless young women.

UpStage Theatre Company, Inc.
Baton Rouge, LA - $1100
To support A Season of Women: two stage productions that focus on women’s issues.
http://www.upstagetheatre.biz/

VP Foundation, Inc.
Moscow, ID - $1750
To support the expansion of Yin Radio ’s weekly program: Women’s Voices and Women’s Stories
http://vpfound.org/yinradio/index.html

Women of Color Quilter’s Network
Lawrence, KS - $1250
To support Visual Literacy: a non-school intervention program for at-risk female students.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/dec/02/sewing_seeds/

 

The Ellen Dougherty Activist Fund for Young Women

New Voices Pittsburgh: Women of Color for Reproductive Justice
Pittsburgh, PA - $2000
To support the LGBTQ Women of Color Reproductive Justice Series.
http://www.myspace.com/newvoicespgh/


The Jeanne Meurer Fund for Indigenous Women

Indigenous Women’s Network, Inc.
Elmo, MN - $700
To support the Indigenous Women’s Leadership Project – a gathering of 30 Texas-based activists focusing on issues of immigration, environmental justice and Native Sovereignty
http://indigenouswomen.org/


The Kologi Sports and Recreation Fund

Diva Adventures
Wolcott, VT - $1000
To support the summer program: Dirt Divas, an adventure-based experiential education of mountain biking
http://www.girlsmovemountains.org

Donor Directed Funds

The Edie Windsor Fund for Old Lesbians

Peace Encampment Herstory Project
Nunda, NY - $1000
To support the production of 500 copies on the DVD: Every Woman Here, a recording of the women who participated in the Seneca Encampment between 1983 and 2006. The DVD will be sent to 350 public access stations across the US and 150 county public libraries in NY, PA, and MA.
http://www.peacecampherstory.blogspot.com

The Susan F. Eastman Fund for Environmental Activism

Islands First
Brooklyn, NY - $1000
To support the production of the documentary: The Next Wave which follows the relocation of one of the world’s first climate change refugees, the Carteret Islanders – a matrilineal society of 3000 people living on a chain of low-lying islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
http://www.nextwavefilm.com

The PatsyLu Fund for Women's Music

Paicho Women Choir Group
Gulu, Uganda - $500
To support the purchase of acoustic instruments for the Pakwelo Parish Women Choir Group

Girls Rock Philly
Philadelphia, PA - $400
To support the purchase of instruments for special needs girls at the rock n' roll summer camp
http://www.girlsrockphilly.org

Music on a Mission, Inc.
Avon Lake, OH - $800
To support the project: Kids in Tune, which takes the early childhood music program to Genesis House domestic violence shelter.
http://www.musicmissioninc.com

Sounds of the Northway
Willsboro, NY - $1200
To support the production of the CD: Herstory in Song: A Musical Women's History Anthology, a multiple-period, international music about icons and issues.
http://soundsofthenorthway.com

Community Women's Orchestra
Berkeley, CA - $1500
To support the commissioning and production of pieces by Martha Stoddard, Mary Watkins, and Hilary Tann in celebration of the Community Women's Orchestra 25th anniversary
http://www.communitywomensorchestra.org/

ARTREACH, INC.
Philadelphia, PA - $500
To support the project: Go Girls of Imbabura, Ecuador in a week of music, photography and dance presentations.
http://dariamusic.com/

Traprock Center for Peace and Justice
Greenfield, MA - $1000
To support a songwriting/CD recording workshop for peace and social justice for women struggling with those issues in their lives.
http://www.awomansvoice.net/

The India Fund

Centre for the Development of Rural Women
Eggur, India - $1900
To support an educational/training program for 50 girls of Tribal Servant Maids to empower the girls through awareness, skill training, and career guidance.

MANUSHI
Kulathur Taluk, India - $1600
To support the Women Empowerment Program for socio-economic environmental justice and equity through the development of bio-intensive gardening
for 50 women in 10 villages in a drought-prone area.

Society for Village Women
Kalitheerthal Kuppam, India - $1200
To support education, leadership development, and a Legal Aid Camp around issues such as Dowry Atrocities, Child Marriage, and Dowry Death.

Integrated Rural Women & Girls Welfare Social Service Society
Kadapa, India - $1500
To support the Promoting Equity Opportunity of Women project through the establishment of a legal aid cell.

 

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