2004–2005 Women's Foundation of California Grant Partners
Community Action Fund Grant Partners
| Asian Law Caucus |
$20,000
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San Francisco. To support the Nail Salon Project, which educates Vietnamese immigrant women in Alameda County about health hazards in the nail salon industry, develops leaders among the women, supports the women in adopting methods to prevent injuries and illnesses and advocates for the improvement of working conditions in nail salons.
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| Bay Point Partnership |
$35,000
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Pleasant Hill. To support recruitment, training, advocacy and a community mapping project for an eight to 10-member Latina Action Team focused on public transportation issues important to low-income women and girls in Bay Point. Two community town hall meetings will educate local residents, business leaders and transportation policy makers and encourage advocacy for improvements to the public transit system.
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| California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation |
$25,000
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Sacramento. To support community education and outreach to adult and young women farmworkers in the Greater Sacramento Valley area on the risks of pesticide exposure and inadequate field sanitation. The program will coverways to reduce risks of exposure to protect the reproductive and general health of farmworkers and their families; trains leaders to advocate for their communities to improve these conditions and provides backup to women who complain about environmental and workplace conditions through administrative, judicial and legislative advocacy.
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| California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom |
$25,000
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San Francisco. For general operating support, specifically to ensure comprehensive reproductive rights and access to reproductive healthcare and education for all California women by maintaining an effective working coalition of organizations in California representing a broad range of disciplines, spiritual beliefs, ethnicities and ages. The coalition will use a variety of strategies to influence state policy that incorporates reproductive rights and health access into a broader cultural, economic and social justice framework.
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| California Latinas for Reproductive Justice |
$25,000
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Los Angeles. For general operating support, specifically to support the implementation of proposed priority policy advocacy strategies consistent with the organization’s mission, goals and objectives identified and with the necessary staffing and infrastructure to support its core operations.
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| Californians for Pesticide Reform |
$35,000
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San Francisco. To support and build upon previous work of developing fotonovelas about pesticide drift and inspiring women to tell and create their stories in order to educate and empower other women about this issue Women will learn about the dangers of pesticide drift and how to protect the health of themselves and their families, and they will take action to prevent pesticide drift.
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| Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice |
$25,000
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Riverside. For general operating support, specifically to address the environmental health issues with which the women of the Inland Valleys are struggling to cope and to pursue policy and legislation that will stop or reduce toxic exposures. CCAEJ will accomplish these long-term goals through providing community education, leadership and organizing training along with direct opportunities for women to become involved in environmental health campaigns in the Riverside and San Bernardino County areas. Efforts focus on the low-income immigrant/Latina population and will result in a powerful increase in community capacity by creating neighborhood organizing units led by women who have been trained and given tools to create change.
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| Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy |
$25,000
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Ventura. To support the Women’s Economic Justice Project, including organizing and leadership development activities with an emphasis on the development of Centro Mujer, a grassroots regional women’s community labor organizing center.
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| Clean Water Fund |
$35,000
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San Francisco. To support a collaborative project lifting new voices from the women’s health movement in campaigns to reform chemical policy in California. With long-term goals of improving women’s and girls’ health by reducing exposure, as well as involving more women in policy advocacy on environmental health issues, the organization seeks to develop effective public messaging on chemical policy and women’s health, bring these new messages to the public through various media and direct education outlets and conduct multi-sectoral organizing to development reciprocal relationships with new allies in the women’s health and labor movements.
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| Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking |
$25,000
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Los Angeles. To support the Trafficked Women Organizing Project that includes skill-building workshops, community organizing, peer mentorships and policy advocacy for and by trafficked women so they can identify and address root causes of trafficking and bring about systemic social change.
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Community Resources for Independent Living, Inc.
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$25,000
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Hayward. To support Save Women’s Home Care, using popular education to develop leadership by and community organizing among women with disabilities and their home care workers who live in low-income households. CRIL will improve upon existing methodology to strengthen its base of community advocates who will identify the features of the In-Home Supportive Services program that are the most important to their lives, such as wage levels, and fight to preserve those features.
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| Greenaction |
$35,000
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San Francisco. To support a collaborative effort between Greenaction, El Pueblo Para El Aire y Agua Limpio and the Grayson Neighborhood Council to train, educate, empower and mobilize women and teenage girls from the low-income, primarily Latina San Joaquin Valley communities of Kettleman City in Kings County and the west side of Stanislaus County. The project will build the leadership skills of a core of five women and teenage girls in each of the two communities impacted by environmental health problems and educate and mobilize women of all ages, their families and communities to become involved in their local environmental health campaigns.
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| International Indian Treaty Council |
$25,000
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San Francisco. To support the Mercury Tribal Health and Environmental Justice Project for education and community organizing in Northern California by affected tribes, providing information about the health impacts of mercury, launching a “Right to Know” campaign, advocating for community needs and initiating theclean up of contaminated waters and mine sites.
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| Labor Community Strategy Center |
$25,000
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Los Angeles. To support the Clean Air Clean Lungs Clean Buses public health and mass transportation campaign, which focuses on the public health dangers of automobiles and the public health benefits of clean fuel public transit. The campaign;s goals are to raise public awareness of these issues, expand public transit access to millions of riders and reduce air toxins.
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| Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area |
$10,000
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San Francisco. To support the Human Trafficking Project, specifically to partially fund the project director’s salary and her in-state travel costs. The grant will also partially fund strategic media and public education efforts. Part of this grant will also go to dissemination of a technical manual, training of other advocates throughout the state and promotion of legislation in Sacramento.
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| Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy |
$25,000
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Los Angeles. To support the implementation phase of the LAX Community Benefits Agreement (CBA), which includes important environmental mitigations and community benefits for Inglewood, Lennox and South LA and to ensure that it is implemented in the manner most beneficial to residents of the community, especially women.
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| Manila Community Services District |
$10,000
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Manila. To support the creation of a venue where women and girls who are disenfranchised, disabled and living in poverty in Manila in Humboldt County can find ways to contribute to their community.
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| National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum–National Office |
$25,000
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Washington, DC. To support a full-time presence and staff in California, where over 50% of members reside. Building on nine years of volunteer effort, a California organizer will be hired to build long-term policy organizing and advocacy infrastructure with the California Policy Organizing Committee with a key issue focus of reproductive health rights and justice.
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| Nevada County Citizens for Choice, Inc. |
$10,000
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Grass Valley. For general operating support, specifically to continue key service components including pregnancy options counseling and to expand outreach and civic participation related to supporting reproductive rights in western Nevada County.
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| Physicians for Social Responsibility |
$10,000
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Los Angeles. For general operating support to continue and strengthen work on the precautionary principle; to engage, organize and mobilize environmental justice advocates, women’s healthcare advocates and other health-affected and fenceline communities in chemical policy reform in the state of California; and work with local public radio stations, the California League of Conservation voters and partner organizations to develop public service announcements about chemical policy reform.
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| Pilipino Workers’ Center of Southern California |
$25,000
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Los Angeles. To support the Home Healthcare Worker Campaign, newly named the C.O.U.R.A.G.E. Campaign (Caregivers Organizing for Unity, Respect And Genuine Empowerment), which will continue to organize Pilipina home healthcare workers to change and improve conditions in this highly exploitative industry. Their In addition, they will introduce a Home Healthcare Worker Bill to the Los Angeles City Council and organize the workers and other supporters to pass the bill.
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| Radio Bilingue |
$25,000
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Fresno. To support work within Radio Bilingue’s larger environmental affairs desk to specifically target Latinas to increase their knowledge and awareness of specific environmental health concerns resulting from poor air quality and pesticide use in the network broadcast areas. The mini-campaign will consist of six La Placita Bilingue shows, four mini-dramas and six educational messages broadcast on the five-station network in California.
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| Realistic Education in Action Coalition to Foster Health |
$25,000
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Los Angeles. To support the Girl2Girl Leadership Program, a new training and organizing component to strengthen and expand existing REACH LA’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Initiative for Young Women of Color. The program will build a body of young women of color trained in the legislative process and community organizing, that will be able to direct the thinking of policy makers towards specific needs and services in the targeted community and mobilize other teen/young women to advocate for their right to sexual andreproductive health services.
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| Restaurant Workers Association of Koreatown |
$25,000
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Los Angeles. For general operating support, specifically to support work organizing low-income Korean immigrant women in the Los Angeles restaurant industry, including grassroots organizing, educational workshops and leadership development.
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| Transgender Law Center |
$10,000
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San Francisco. To support planning for a collaborative with other Bay Area organizations to create non-discriminatory and welcoming workplaces and educational enironments for transgender people at the same time increasing the workplace skills of transgender employees.
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| Urban Habitat |
$25,000
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Oakland. To support curriculum development and capacity building work with women of color on the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition staff; to develop a comprehensive series of environmental health and justice-related curricula to support the leadership training programs of both organizations; and to run an Environmental Health Leadership Institute to train 18 low-income women of color from East San Jose communities to build an active and effective base of women leaders in the San Jose grassroots community.
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| Women of Color Resource Center |
$25,000
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Oakland.To support collaborative work with the Women’s Department at Mills College on the Welfare Rights Education and Advocacy Project (WREAP). Funds will be used to continue survey research focusing on the impact of Maximum Family Grant, family cap, on the reproductive rights of poor women of color in Alameda county, expand the survey to two additional California counties, train low-income women in media and advocacy skills to prepare them to be spokeswomen on welfare reform issues and develop a legislative strategy for repeal of the family cap.
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| Women’s Community Clinic |
$10,000
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San Francisco. To train women and girls to conduct policy advocacy work and create a generation of community leaders in women’s health. By integrating this program, WCC will impact policy on a state level as it pertains to the health and well-being of women and girls by partnering with other agencies doing policy advocacy work and by integrating their clients and larger volunteer population into this work.
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| Women’s HealthRights Coalition/ACCESS |
$25,000
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Oakland. For general support, specifically to improve access to reproductive health care, expose barriers to care and disparities in access and advocate for changes in the Medi-Cal system to better meet the needs of low-income, young, undocumented and rural women.
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Sisterhood Fund 2004–2005 Grant Partners
| Asian Health Services |
$10,000
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Oakland. To support Banteay Srei, a three-phase project that will build upon a six-week pilot conducted to create a safe, confidential, private, youth-friendly and sensitive environment for young Southeast Asian girls ages 14 to 18 who currently are being sexually exploited or are at-risk of exploitation.
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| Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles |
$10,000
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Los Angeles. To support Wise Up!, an Immigrant Youth Empowerment Project, which seeks to educate and advance the leadership skills of immigrant youth in Los Angeles.
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| DiversityWorks |
$5,000
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Oakland. To support the Work, a mixed gender, multicultural, year-long comprehensive training program that brings together a diverse group of between 25 and 30 youth to dialogue about social justice issues and work to improve communities.
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| Economic Opportunity Commission of San Luis Obispo County |
$10,000
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San Luis Obispo. To develop a training program through the EOC Teen Wellness Program for teen peer providers, produce a training manual and clinic protocol and promote a program on relationship abuse that will be promoted through the EOC teen clinics, teen education programs and teen outreach.
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| Eveoke Dance Theatre |
$10,000
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San Diego. To support the creation of the documentary performance Hips and Objects, a dance theatre piece performed by young women about the experience of single mothers in the community of San Diego.
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| Filipino Community Support |
$5,000
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San Jose. To support the leadership development training and campaign activities of EMPAQ (Embracing the Movement of Pinays and Queers). This program develops the voices and skills of young Filipina LGBTIQs through organizing and advocacy and seeks to influence public opinion on the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration policies and the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.
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| Gay–Straight Alliance Network |
$5,000
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San Francisco. To support a student-led gender identity campaign which empowers youth leaders in GSA clubs to fight discrimination based on gender identity and expression through education, training, grassroots organizing and policy advocacy.
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| Khmer Girls in Action |
$10,000
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Long Beach. To implement a structural change to secure the leadership of Cambodian young women in all levels of the organization.
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| Movement Generation |
$10,000
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Oakland. To support costs associated with running the Strategic Leadership Training 2005, including trainer stipends, meeting space rental, food and staff time associated with running the day-long training session. This Training will bring together young leaders in the Bay Area social justice movement, primarily young women of color and queer/trans leaders, to strengthen their roles in working to promote economic rights and environmental justice for long-term systemic change.
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| Q-Team |
$10,000
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Los Angeles. To support continued grassroots multi-issue organizing by trans youth of color in Los Angeles. Specifically Q-Team hopes to expand its membership base by building relationships with high schools, participating in conferences, continuing to be a safe space for trans youth of color, training them on history, power and privilege and organizing and carrying-out campaigns that support trans youth of color and their communities economically, environmentally and socially.
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| Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project |
$10,000
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San Francisco. To support program implementation for the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project, which builds community among young queer women of color and organizes them as agents for social and political change through the process of filmmaking.
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| SOUL, School of Unity and Liberation |
$10,000
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Oakland. To support the SOUL Summer School, an intensive training program for young leaders primarily for young women of color. SOUL understands the challenge many young women face given social and cultural gender expectations and works to challenge these notions through engaging young women as key leaders in youth organizing efforts.
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| Southeast Asian Community Alliance |
$10,000
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Los Angeles. To support the Youth Leadership Project which trains young people in leadership and community organizing and gives them an opportunity to lead campaigns addressing the findings of community-based and youth-led research.
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| Young Women United for Oakland |
$10,000
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Oakland. For general operating support, specifically for salary support for peer educators and expenses related to the Research and Action program. Young Women United for Oakland trains and organizes young women who are a part of, or have been a part of, the street economy to be leaders and peer advocates around economic and health issues for themselves and other young women in Oakland.
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| YWCA of Watsonville |
$5,000
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Watsonville. To support the LyLyA Project (Latina y Lesbianas y Alliadas) which involves organizing led by young women, leadership development, non-violence training and the production of a video documentary that reflects the LGBT experience in a rural and primarily migrant community.
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| Youth Justice Coalition |
$10,000
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Los Angeles. To support the expansion of YJC’s organizing platform to further address the needs of young women in the juvenile justice system. The three main components include educating these young women on their legal rights in negotiating the courts; using various art media for the expression of their stories, experiences and demands and training young women inside and outside the juvenile justice system on direct action organizing that will more justly address the needs of young women in prison.
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| Youth United for Community Action |
$10,000
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East Palo Alto. To support the leadership develop of young women of color to organize and lead environmental justice and anti-gentrification campaigns by Higher Learning East Palo Alto, an intense program combining leadership development with community organizing that targets high school aged, low-income young women of color in East Palo Alto.
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Economic Development and Justice Fund (EDJe) 2004–2005 Grant Partners
| California Budget Project |
$23,000
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Sacramento. For general operating support, specifically to engage in research, analysis and education efforts with the goal of informing budget and policy debates around issues affecting the social and economic well-being of women and their families.
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| Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, Inc. |
$23,000
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Watsonville. For general operating support of the Women Ventures Project to conduct its core program of job training in non-traditional fields and job placement assistance for low-income Santa Cruz and Monterey County women in order to reduce women’s poverty and increase their access to employment that promotes self-sufficiency. These funds will also support work with a new collaborative investigating the feasibility of a pre-apprenticeship program for women in Silicon Valley.
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| Equal Rights Advocates (ERA) |
$23,000
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San Francisco.To support the Tradeswomen Legal Advocacy Project, aiming to advance equal opportunity in hiring, training, advancement and compensation in the skilled trades for women.
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| LIFETIME (Low Income Families’ Empowerment through Education) |
$23,000
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Oakland. For general operating support as the organization transitions to a statewide focus and strengthens delivery of peer-based support and advocacy services for low-income mothers enrolled in post-secondary education and training.
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| National Economic Development Law Center |
$23,000
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Oakland. To support policy advocacy by: Californians for Family Economic Self-Sufficiency, a collaborative run by the National Economic Development Law Center, to establish a state-calculated self-sufficiency index to more accurately capture the specific needs of low-income single mothers as an alternative to the federal poverty line. Fund will also support the development and implementation of “first source hiring” accountable development at the Alameda Naval Base to open job opportunities and training to local low-income residents for high-wage construction and other jobs.
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| OpNet Community Ventures |
$23,000
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San Francisco. To support WomensNet, seeking to empower young women to enter into a career and training track that will enable them to support themselves and their families.
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| San Francisco Works |
$23,000
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San Francisco. To provide low-income women with the remedial academic, skills training, professional coaching and hands-on experience they need to secure and retain jobs in the growing biotechnology industry or to enter the Biotechnology Certificate Program at City College of San Francisco.
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| Tradeswomen, Inc. |
$23,000
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Oakland. For general operating support, specifically with resource development and strategic planning to enable the organization to build capacity for future growth in order to increase the number of women in skilled trades and organize policy initiatives to benefit present and future tradeswomen.
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Road to Equity Tour 2005 Grant Partners
| SAN FRANCISCO |
| Breast Cancer Action |
$15,000
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San Francisco. To provide general operating support for Breast Cancer Action’s important and cutting-edge work to prevent breast cancer by engaging their constituents in policy and grassroots advocacy.
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| Mujeres Unidas y Activas |
$10,000
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San Francisco. To support MUyA’s transition to fiscal independence and their constituent member-driven strategic planning process, which has served as an innovative model for member-driven organizational development.
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| SAN JOSE |
| Working Partnerships USA |
$10,000
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San Jose. For general operating support of Working Partnerships USA’s economic development and justice work in the greater San Jose region.
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| Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition |
$10,000
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San Jose. To support economic and environmental justice work directed at promoting occupational health for low-wage high-tech workers who are predominantly Asian and Latina immigrant women.
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| FORT BRAGG |
| The Cahto Tribe |
$15,000
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Laytonville.To support public education and advocacy programs around environmental health and justice work. The Cahto Tribe has been working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California EPA to address increased incidence of learning disabilities and high prevalence of cancer related to exposure to toxins from landfills and waste sites located near the tribal grounds.
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| Sutter Lakeside Community Services |
$10,000
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Lakeport.To support a leadership development training program for women in the communities they serve in and the implementation of policy advocacy work.
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| REDDING |
| Native Women’s Health and Wellness Alliance |
$15,000
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Hoopa. Funding to train Native American women as community health advocates and to increase their involvement in policy advocacy work.
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| Women’s Health Specialists |
$15,000
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Redding. To support continued reproductive and primary care health services to women in the Shasta/Redding region and engage in policy advocacy work at the local and state level.
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| SAN DIEGO |
| Project Concern International |
$10,000
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National City. To support community organizing, leadership development and public education strategies for improving the health and well-being of East African immigrant and refugee young women (ages 14–21).
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| Center on Policy Initiatives |
$10,000
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San Diego. To support organizing work to improve the economic security of low-income women in San Diego by engaging in Accountable Development campaigns and building coalitions for social change.
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| RIVERSIDE |
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Westside Residents for Clean Air Now
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$15,000
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Riverside. To support organizing campaigns around combating diesel emissions into the air, addressing the encroachment of industry into the residential areas and perchlorate contamination in local drinking water.
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| Transportation and Land Use Committee |
$10,000
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Azusa. To support the development of a training program for women serving in elected or appointed office and emerging leaders about 'smart growth' strategies in Southern California's Inland Empire.
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| SANTA ANA |
| Orange County Asian Pacific Islander Community Association |
$10,000
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Garden Grove.To support programs for young Asians and Pacific Islanders that empower them to become more civically involved, particularly around the issues of voting, the census, redistricting and coalition-building.
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| Alianza Indigena |
$5,000
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Anaheim.To support an Indigenous Women’s Health Conference and continuing work with young indigenous women in school on suicide prevention, teen pregnancy, family planning and reproductive health and rights.
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| FRESNO |
| Tulare Women’s Network |
$10,000
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Visalia.To support the implementation of a program that addresses higher infection rates of HIV among women and increased rates of Chlamydia in the region and increases young women’s leadership around reproductive rights.
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| Pan Valley Institute |
$10,000
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Fresno. Funding for continued operation of educational gatherings that build cross-cultural relationships and development of a shared policy agenda for a network of immigrant women to shape and lead.
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| BAKERSFIELD |
| Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment |
$25,000
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Delano. To support the Rural Poverty Water Project, which uses community organizing to ensure that low-income communities and communities of color in rural Central California have safe and affordable drinking water.
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| Bakersfield Performing Arts and Philanthropic Society |
$10,000
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Bakersfield. To fund youth arts programs that empower young women and men to use their artistic talents and abilities to make a difference in their own lives and communities.
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| LOS ANGELES |
| Strategic Actions for a Just Economy |
$10,000
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Los Angeles.To support community organizing and policy advocacy work, particularly with women of color, to address issues related to the gentrification in the Figeroa Corridor of Los Angeles.
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| Homeboy Industries/Homegirl Café |
$10,000
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Los Angeles. To support the Homegirl Café, a project to engage low-income young women of color who have had involvement in gangs in micro-enterprise, life skills training and leadership development.
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| Los Angeles Indigenous People’s Alliance |
$10,000
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Los Angeles. General operating support for a young women’s program that provides reproductive health and rights and HIV prevention information in an indigenous cultural context.
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Donor Circle on Race Gender and Human Rights 2004–2005 Grant Partners
| California Coalition for Women Prisoners |
$5,000
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San Francisco. To support Compañeras, a program working with Latina immigrant women prisoners to build a movement to gain full human rights and end the criminilization and exploitation of immigrants and immigrant prisoners. The program will employ a variety of strategies and tactics, including building a collaboration between the prison reform movement and Bay Area immigrant rights organizations. The program will take action through public education advocacy and organizing.
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| California Prison Focus |
$10,000
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San Francisco. To support the second phase of the Dignity for Women Prisoners Campaign, specifically two part-time positions of campaign manager and public awareness coordinator. Additionally, funds will be used in support of four investigative visits to the Central Valley California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla and public awareness events.
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| Center for Young Women’s Development |
$25,000
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San Francisco. To support continued work with incarcerated pregnant and parenting young women through the Young Mothers United Initiative.
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| Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment |
$35,000
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Los Angeles. To support work on legislative and administrative policies that act as barriers to the successful reintegration of formerly incarcerated African American and Latina women to South Los Angeles communities.
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| Critical Resistance |
$15,000
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Oakland. To support a collaborative effort to continue the Leadership, Education, Action and Dialogue (LEAD) Project and No New Jails Campaign. Part of the grant funds will be used to create a Leaders in Training program which will support training, mentoring community organizing advocacy and leadership development among formerly-imprisoned women to fight for true safety in their lives.
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| Generation Five |
$30,000
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San Francisco. To support a collaborative research and development project that will evolve transformative justice models for alternative, community-based responses to child sexual abuse that are evidence-based, driven by data and grounded in current policies of the criminal legal and child welfare systems.
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| Justice Now |
$55,000
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Oakland. As lead members of Californians United for a Responsible Budget Coalition (CURB), a broad-based coalition of organizers seeking to curb prison spending by reducing the number of people in prison and the number of prisons in California, Justice now will develop and implement coordinated media, public education and organizing strategies impacting prison closures.
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| New Way of Life Foundation |
$30,000
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Los Angeles. To support a collaboration with Legal Services for Prisoners with Children to implement a project to train and organize 40 to 50 formerly incarcerated women to make presentations throughout California advocating for the elimination of barriers to prisoner re-entry, particularly those that disproportionately impact women and their families. Grant funding will allow for training, organizing and travel to the state Capitol and to other communities throughout California to meet with legislators, prisoners and other community members.
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| TGI Justice Project |
$10,000
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Oakland. To support the Justice for TGI People in Prison Campaign, focused on ending several policies and practices that lead to abuse and discrimination of transgender, gender variant/genderqueer and intersex people in prison in California. Specifically, funds will help fund the general operating expenses of both partner organizations and go towards hiring a half-time staff organizer for the campaign as well as for campaign-related expenses.
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| Time for Change Foundation |
$30,000
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San Bernardino. To support community organizing efforts to reduce the number of incarcerated women and girls in San Bernardino County.
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| United Way of the Bay Area |
$25,000
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San Francisco. To support the Girls Justice Initiative, providing coordination of community-based services as alternative to incarceration for 100 girls detained at the youth guidance center. This program will also provide 10 mental health and youth development trainings for 14 organizations in San Francisco that work with girls in the juvenile justice system and coordinate community-based transition services for 50 girls per year who return to San Francisco from out-of-home placement in group homes, treatment facilities and the California Youth Authority.
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Los Angeles Donor Circle 2004–2005 Grant Partners
| Aviva Family and Children’s Services |
$10,000
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Los Angeles. Funding for a computer learning center curriculum and the expansion of the independent living skills program for low-income girls.
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| City of Santa Monica Community and Cultural Services Department |
$10,000
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Santa Monica.To support summer camp programs for girls that build self-esteem and leadership skills through the exploration of skilled trades and other non-traditional activities.
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| Center for Young Women’s Development |
$10,000
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Los Angeles. To support Girls Collaborative Financial Literacy, a program which teaches the basics of personal finance and entrepreneurship to young women in the Los Angeles County probation system.
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| Girls Incorporated of Los Angeles |
$10,000
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Los Angeles. To support a countywide program for girls and young women ages 11-18 that combines college preparation, economic literacy and entrepreneurship.
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| Imani Phi Christ Sorority, Los Angeles |
$15,000
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Los Angeles. To support greater outreach efforts to African American young women to provide life skills training, college preparatory and financial literacy programs.
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| Sycamores |
$10,000
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Pasadena. Funding to expand the Girls Empowerment Group curriculum to include comprehensive financial literacy.
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| YWCA in Greater Los Angeles |
$10,000
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Los Angeles. To support Girls, Women, $ and Power, a program to increase the financial and economic literacy of girls and young women between the ages of 9 and 18.
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| Youth Mentoring Connection |
$10,000
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Los Angeles. Funding to develop a mentoring curriculum that integrates financial literacy for girls and young women.
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Women of Silicon Valley Fund 2004–2005 Grant Partners
| Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County |
$20,000
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San Jose. To support “Got Choices”, a year-round program that serves 300 young women who are involved in the juvenile justice system. The program’s weekly curriculum includes guest speakers and service projects meant to enhance the young women’s abilities to make healthier choices.
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| Girls for a Change |
$20,000
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San Jose. To support Girls Action Teams, this grant will allow teens to connect with local professionals, take skill building workshops and be a part of a powerful movement to empower young women as leaders and civic contributors.
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| Support Network for Battered Women |
$20,000
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Mountain View. To provide young women and men with leadership training to prepare them to be peer educators on domestic abuse, healthy relationships, community resources, and intervention strategies to use when talking with someone in an abusive relationship.
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| Women's Action to Gain Economic Security |
$20,000
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Oakland. To support a regional association of eco-friendly cleaning cooperatives that foster personal and professional support, create an internship to train peer leaders and provide opportunities for joint marketing and training.
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