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Past Recipients
2006
Grant Recipients
In
2006, WFA announced 16 new grants totaling $172,500 to a diverse
group of agencies serving women and girls in the Puget Sound region.
Making Change Grant Recipients
The
Making Change Fund supports projects that work to change societal
attitudes and the larger systems and institutions that influence
the lives of women and girls.
Intercommunity
Peace & Justice Center (IPJC)
The Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center (IPJC) promotes
systemic change with a focus on justice for women. Funding from
WFA will support the Justice for Women programming. This program
works to broaden IPJC’s organizing among Latina immigrant women
with the goal to organize state-wide. A WFA grant will be used
to strengthen Puget Sound area organizing. $15,000
Passages
Northwest
Passages Northwest was formed in 1996 to inspire courage and leadership
in girls and women through the experiential education of the outdoors
and arts. Funding will support Passages’ Partners Program in which
it works with schools, educators, parent groups and other youth
organizations to design custom programs that can help them better
support girls in their midst. This program will work to change
institutions that serve girls to better help them reach their
full potential. $15,000
Seattle
Young People’s Project
Seattle Young People’s Project is a youth led – adult supported
– social change organization that empowers youth to express themselves
and take action on the issues that affect their lives. Funding
from WFA will support the Education Justice Campaign which will
create a specific gender justice analysis framework on the issues
of education justice and the WASL test. At the end of the campaign,
60 young women will have had the experience of designing and implementing
a community organizing campaign, developing their public speaking
skills and grassroots lobbying skills as well as participating
in social justice analysis. $10,000
Welfare
Rights Organizing Coalition (WROC)
Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition is a grassroots organization
that organizes low income and low income wage earning parents
to influence welfare and public policy where it is made and where
it is implemented. WROC will use WFA funding to work toward stopping
full family sanctions, raising family grants, increasing access
to education and training, and working on family leave policies.
WROC will publicize sanctions and report them to public officials
as well as educate allies about this punitive public policy. It
will also reach out to parents in King and Thurston Counties to
track who is being sanctioned.
$20,000
General
Community Fund Grant Recipients
BABES
Network - YWCA
BABES Network - YWCA is a peer-based program which works to enhance
quality of life and serves the needs of women and families living
with HIV. Operating support from WFA will allow BABES to continue
addressing the needs of women living with HIV while growing their
capacity to combat rising rates of new HIV infection through prevention
education. This funding will help bridge a gap in access to operating
funding. $10,000
Cedar
River Clinics
Cedar River Clinics is a social justice organization
that combines direct services with community education and pro-woman
activism to assure all women have the right to determine their
reproductive destinies. Funding from WFA will help to strengthen
IT infrastructure, expand its fundraising program, develop plans
and financial resources for a future clinic move and prepare for
the possible overturn or continued weakening of Roe v Wade or
a range of new restrictions affecting access to abortion and birth
control. $10,000
Community
School Partners of Highline
Community School Partners of Highline’s mission is to support
the well-being and academic success of Highline Public School
students through family, school and community collaboration. Funding
from WFA will support an expanded after-school program for middle
school girls at both White Center Heights and Cascade Middle School.
This program is based on the theory that personal development
fuels academic success. Funding will also support the first ever
“Young Women’s Self Express Fest;” a two day series of workshops
and forums on relevant life issues for girls. $10,000
Community
to Community Women’s Alliance
Community to Community Women’s Alliance is a women-led, grassroots
organizing organization working for a just society and healthy
communities through bringing people together in actions that promote
self-reliance and sustainable economies. Funding will be used
to hold a Girls Empowerment and Identity Workshop Series for immigrant,
migrant and low-income girls which will provide education on leadership
development, collective action, community organizing, building
alliances and exploring self identity. $10,000
Family
Planning of Clallam County
Family Planning of Clallam County’s mission is to assure that
all individuals in Clallam County have access to quality healthcare,
education and social services relating to human sexuality and
fertility. Through services and education, funding from WFA will
be used to increase the health and well-being of medically underserved,
low-income, rural, sexual minority, Latina and Latin American
women of Clallam and Jefferson Counties by reducing mortality
associated with late diagnosis of breast cancer. This funding
will support rising costs and combat reduced funding from other
sources. $10,000
Intercommunity
Mercy Housing
Intercommunity Mercy Housing is committed to providing serviced
enriched affordable housing to families, seniors and people with
special needs. Funding from WFA will help launch a Women’s Health
and Wellness program targeted to low-income Hispanic farm worker
women and girls residing at Sterling Meadows Apartments in Bellingham.
This program will offer health information classes in Spanish,
onsite delivery of free health services and individual consultations
with health care providers. $2,500
Mary’s
Place-Church of Mary Magdalene
Mary’s Place provides a safe environment for homeless and formerly
homeless women to build relationships, experience love and hope,
explore faith and develop strength to reach their full potential.
Funding from WFA will help stabilize Mary’s Place operations during
a year of transition as a new executive director takes leadership
and plans are made for development of a new space. $10,000
SafePlace
SafePlace is located in Thurston County and strives to stop sexual
and domestic violence and advocate for personal and societal change
through crisis intervention and education. Funding from WFA will
help to provide prevention education on domestic violence, provide
advocacy-based counseling to clients from the Spanish speaking
community, answer the crisis line, provide shelter and help women
in creating safety plans. Funding will also help to address increased
demand for services and cuts in funding for the Community Services
Program. $10,000
Verbena
Verbena strives to build vibrant communities for lesbians, queer
and bisexual women and trans-gendered individuals through health
advocacy, education, support services and access to care. General
operating funding will allow Verbena to continue working to eliminate
heterosexism and homophobia specifically within our health care
and public health systems. Verbena has a strong individual donor
base but few unrestricted dollars exist. Funding from WFA will
allow Verbena to conduct programming that is not otherwise funded.
$10,000
Womencare
Shelter
Womencare Shelter is a feminist organization in Bellingham working
to end domestic violence by providing safe shelter, 24-hour crisis
support services and community education. Funding from WFA will
support the increasing needs of emergency and confidential domestic
violence services. Funding will help meet rising costs due to
increased request for services. $10,000
YWCA
Kitsap
YWCA of Kitsap is committed to improving the lives of women and
children through its programming. Funding from WFA will support
the costs of operating for its YWCA Alive Shelter program, the
only one of its kind in Kitsap County, which provides domestic
violence victims and their children with emergency housing, advocacy-based
counseling, legal advocacy, case management, community-based support
groups and a 24 hour crisis line. Funding will help support personnel,
utilities, maintenance and insurance and help fill a gap in funding
due to recent changes in domestic violence funding. $10,000
Response
Grant Recipient
Northwest
Immigrant Rights Project
Northwest
Immigrant Rights Project is dedicated to strengthening the rights
and dignity of low-income immigrants and refugees through legal
services, education and public policy formation. It is WA State’s
only legal services program designed specifically for low-income
immigrants and refugees. NWIRP will use this response grant to
fund their critical work around emerging domestic violence issues
for refugee and immigrant women. The grant will fund their Domestic
Violence Unit which provides services and support to immigrant
survivors of domestic violence. Funds from WFA will help to fill
the gap between funding and increased demand for services. $10,000
2005
Grant Recipients
2005 Making Change Grant
Recipient
The Making Change Fund supports organizations addressing the root
causes of inequality for girls and women. These root causes include
individual and institutional attitudes, behaviors and barriers
that prevent women and girls from reaching their full potential.
WFA's inaugural Making Change grant has been awarded to the Northwest
Women's Law Center.
Northwest
Womens Law Center (NWWLC)
Ensuring Access to Emergency Contraception
Since 2002, Washington State law has required hospital emergency
room staff to provide information about and access to emergency
contraception (the morning-after pill) to rape victims seeking
medical treatment. Yet there are many stories of local victims
not receiving information or being refused by pharmacists. WFA's
funding will provide NWWLC with solid funding to change the community
thinking around emergency contraception and support NWWLC's efforts
to defend and ensure reproductive freedom. $25,000
2005
Additional Grant Recipients
Aradia
Women's Health Center
(AWHC)
Since 1972, AWHC has been providing affordable, accessible, and
complete reproductive health services to women. Funding will help
Aradia continue providing a unique, compassionate model of health
care and community-based and culturally competent outreach, education
and advocacy. $10,000
Camp
Ten Trees (CTT)
CTT provides youth, predominantly girls, who are LGBTQ or have
LGBTQ parents a safe space to form community, build their self-esteem,
and learn leadership skills. Funds will help provide fundraising
and media training, recruit diverse staff and youth, and create
gender-unlimited programming. $10,000
Church of Mary Magadeline
Mary's Place
Serving about
3,000 homeless women and children, the Mary's Place program is one
of the few places in Seattle that offer homeless women a safe place
to go during the day. Funding will help Mary's Place to open for
the entire week and meet the doubling of demand. $5,572.50
Helping
Link
Helping Link's English as a Second Language Program (ESL) helps
Vietnamese refugee and immigrant students, 85% of whom are female,
learn English and basic life skills that greatly improve their
social and work opportunities. Funds will help bridge the funding
gap from federal and state eligibility changes. $5,572.50
King
County Coalition Against Domestic Violence (KCCADV)
Multi-lingual Shelter Expectations Video Project
With this project, KCCADV aims to make confidential domestic
violence shelters a more viable option for refugee, immigrant,
Deaf, and hard-of-hearing
domestic violence survivors. KCCADV plans to consolidate videos
about basic shelter rules and operations and make them available
to area service providers and shelters along with written translations
in many languages. $4,725
LAW
Advocates
Project SAFER
Project SAFER (Stop Abuse and Fear by Exercising Rights) is the
only program in Whatcom County that provides free emergency legal
services to victims of domestic violence and education, training
and technical assistance to domestic violence victim services
programs, law enforcement, volunteer attorneys, caseworkers, and
the local courts. WFA funding will provide a bridge grant to keep
critical legal services going while Project SAFER finds additional
sources. $10,000
Mason County Counseling Services
Crisis Counseling Program
WFA's grant will help Mason Counseling Services Crisis Counseling
Program serve Mason County women and girls with significant emotional
problems. The short-term crisis therapy and referrals that Mason
County Counseling Services provides can mean the difference for
many women and girls in a county with high incidence rates of
domestic violence, substance abuse, and suicide. $5,000
Multifaith
Works
Shanti Inmate Support Program
The Shanti Inmate Support Program pilot project for women
at the Washington Corrections Center for Women will, among many
other things, assess the unique needs of HIV-infected women who
are incarcerated, create a service plan, determine program protocol,
and identify and train volunteers. Funds will help Multifaith
Works expand its innovative Shanti Inmate Support Program to support
incarcerated women with HIV/AIDS. $4,130
ReelGrrls
ReelGrrls workshops, training, projects, and multi-cultural women
mentors provide many teenage girls with valuable skills in media
production. By blending media arts with technology training skills,
they provide leadership opportunities, career development and
a long-term impact for low-income girls who would have never thought
these doors were open to them. Funds will help ReelGrrls continue
their work as they transition to new funding sources.
$10,000
Southern Sudanese Women's
Association (SSWA)
While their members move towards economic self-sufficiency, SSWA
forms a supportive community network by providing or accessing
community and culturally-sensitive support services such as childcare,
transportation, ESL classes, driving lessons, skills-based training,
and access to resources such as scholarships and higher education
opportunities. Funds will help SSWA with board development and
training, particularly in fundraising, grant writing and organizational
management and development. $10,000
Washington Women's Employment & Education (WWEE)
WWEE participants learn the skills necessary to permanently break
free of poverty and achieve self-sufficiency. Funds will help
WWEE provide the resources needed to help the women and families
they serve achieve success in the workforce, obtain and maintain
permanent, affordable housing, move out of poverty and stabilize
their lives now and in the future. $10,000
2004
Grant Recipients
CASA
Latina (Seattle)
The Alliance has funded CASA Latina’s women’s support group for
the last two grant cycles and has seen amazing growth. With
this grant, CASA Latina will build upon this past growth by developing
a leadership program for their emerging Latina women leaders.
The program will provide leadership training, engage leaders on
their advisory board, and create alliances with other Latina women
and immigrant groups. Their goal is to develop Latina women’s
ability to think critically, to organize, to learn from the community,
and to make social change happen. $10,000
Girls
on the Run
Girls on the Run (GOTR) is a 12-week after school self-esteem
and healthy living program for girls aged 8 to 11. Through
running programs and focused discussions, GOTR develops the character,
skills and habits girls need to recognize and challenge the negative
social and emotional dynamics that females face as they reach
adolescence and beyond. Funds will enable them to move from
a volunteer director to paid staff. $5,000
Intercommunity
Peace & Justice Center
Through its Justice for Women program, IPJC organizes and empowers
low-income women to address the underlying causes of injustice.
Women living in poverty and crisis are organized into Women’s
Justice Circles, which identify and research issues of concern
and organize successful campaigns in critical issues such as affordable
housing, access to healthcare, and livable wages. Women
whose voices have not been heard discover their power to speak
out and take practical steps for systemic change. $7,500
Pat
Graney Company
The Prison Project is an arts-based residency program using the
tools of movement, writing and visual arts to enable incarcerated
women and girls to discover a sense of identity within themselves
and to develop that identity within the context of community.
The project is designed to respond to the sense of isolation and
disempowerment within the prison by creating a clearly defined
and sanctified space for expressivity and community. $5,000
Rainbow
Center of Pierce County
The Rainbow Center provides Pierce County with resources, information,
and technical assistance to mobilize GLBTIQA persons to promote
the right to participate as full citizens in their community.
They also are active advocates in their community. They are the
only organization in Pierce County to serve the entire GLBTIQA
community with consistent hours and a staffed office. Over
60% of those served are women. $2,600
Seattle
Young People’s Project
This is a leadership program that encourages young women to take
action on the issues that affect their lives. The program
includes an annual conference that provides training on basic
organizing, dismantling racism, sexism, and capitalism and class.
SYPP provides an atmosphere where these young women can then become
leaders in other SYPP initiatives. $10,000
Verbena
Verbena provides health advocacy, education, support services
and access to care to lesbians, queer and bisexual women, and
transgendered individuals. General support will enable Verbena
to continue to build capacity for their advocacy work such as
providing LGBT competency training to health care providers and
responding to emerging opportunities for grassroots organizing
and community mobilization. $10,000
Welfare
Rights Organizing Coalition
WROC organizes low/no-income parents (mostly female heads of households)
to influence welfare and family policy. Their mission is
to work towards social and economic justice by empowering low-income
women, especially those receiving public assistance, to effect
positive change in their lives and in their communities.
General support will enable them to develop and nurture a group
of women who will take the lead on state and policy issues in
the 2005 state legislative process. $10,000
2002-2003 Grant
Recipients
Abused
Deaf
Women's Advocacy Services (Seattle)
ADWAS
provides sexual assault and domestic violence services to deaf
and deaf-blind children, teen and adult victims.
Funds will support an additional .5 FTE Community Advocate
and her work to break down barriers in the legal system for deaf
and deaf-blind victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
$10,000
Camp
Ten Trees (Seattle)
Camp
Ten Trees provides a summer camp for LGBTQ teenagers and children
of LGBTQ parents. During
the camp, youth are trained in advocacy, leadership development,
and social change, enabling them to become more involved in their
communities. $7,500
CASA
Latina (Seattle)
This
program develops the leadership skills of low-income Latino women,
increasing their ability to find work, and provides an educational
program for the participants’ children.
The Women’s Program also supports the women’s ability to
organize for social change by developing critical thinking, mutual
support, and shared learning. $10,000
Chaya
(Seattle)
Chaya
serves South Asian women in crisis and raises awareness of domestic
violence issues in the South Asian community.
Funds will support Chaya’s effort to serve South King County
victims and will help expand their language-specific services. They will also continue to develop leadership within the South
Asian communities to respond to domestic violence issues.
$7,500
Passages
Northwest (Seattle)
Passages
Northwest educates and motivates women and girls to develop courage
and leadership through the integrated exploration of the arts
and the natural environment. Funds will support the organization’s
capacity building efforts, which will include expanding their
outreach efforts, stabilizing their funding base, enhancing board
and staff leadership, and growing strategically. $10,000
Pierce
County AIDS Foundation (Tacoma)
The
Unity Now! Program strives to
reduce infections in women of color living in Pierce County,
educate communities of color with strong culturally relevant HIV
prevention messages, and support women of color living with HIV/AIDS.
$7,500
Safeplace
(Olympia)
Safeplace
offers safety, healing, and empowerment to survivors of sexual
and domestic violence. Their
services include a confidential shelter, crisis line, 24-hour
crisis intervention, advocacy, support groups, referrals, and
language translation. $10,000
Seattle
Girls School (Seattle)
The
Seattle Girls School inspires and empowers middle school girls
to think critically and seek creative solutions to real world
problems in a challenging academic environment that highlights
math, science and technology; embraces diversity; and promotes
collaboration, integrated learning and respect for all.
Funds will help hire a Development Director and transition
fund development activities in-house. $10,000
Southern
Sudanese Women's Association (Seattle)
SSWA
empowers and unites Southern Sudanese women and children through
community involvement such as educational projects and economic
independence. They
have hosted various community Sudanese gatherings, enabled lost
refugee children to find their parents, provided cross-cultural
counseling, and assisted newcomers to the area. Funds will help
set up an office and begin a program for Sudanese girls.
$10,000
Washington
NARAL Foundation (Seattle)
The
Teen Activist Board Expansion Project promotes peer-to-peer education
about the facts of reproductive choice and helps young women develop
the leadership skills necessary to become pro-choice activists.
Funding will help TAB establish five school-based groups
– three in Seattle, one in Redmond, and one in Tacoma. $10,000
YWCA
of Bellingham (Bellingham)
Funds
will support general operations and increased outreach for housing
programs. The YWCA is the only emergency housing program
for single women in the Bellingham area. $7,500
2001
Grant Recipients
In
November 2001, the Women's Funding Alliance officially announced
12 new grants to agencies supporting women and girls in the Puget
Sound area. Grants totaled $90,825 and were given to the following
agencies:
Asian
& Pacific Islander Women and Family Safety Center (Seattle)
Young Asian & Pacific Islander Women's Peer Program:
Trains teen women to become active peer educators helping
to address issues related to family, friends, dating, drugs
and school. $9,555
Casa
Latina (Seattle)
Family Education Program: Supports Latino women through
a women's group, ESL classes, a child education program, and
family events. $6,755
Chaya
(Seattle)
Operating/Capacity Building: To expand an advocacy program
for South Asian women in crisis, implement a community mobilization
plan, and focus on other capacity building issues. $9,555
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service
(Seattle)
Teen Peer Advocate Program: Provides outreach to girls
of color who are at risk of sexual, relationship, or family
violence. $4,385
Helping
Link (Seattle)
General Support: Provides ESL classes, advocacy, community
mobilizing, tutoring and social services to Vietnamese women
refugees and immigrants. $9,555
LAW Advocates (Bellingham)
Project SAFER: Provides legal assistance for battered
women in the Bellingham area by protecting, supporting, and
empowering victims as they move through the legal system. $10,000
Pierce
County AIDS Foundation (Tacoma)
Unity Now: Encourages HIV prevention and care for Pierce
County women of color between the ages of 14 and 28. $5,055
Somali Women & Children Skills
for Change (Seattle)
General/Capacity Building: Provides Somali women and
their children with access to services and resources, including
help with advocacy, health, nutrition and literacy. $10,000
Triangle Square
(Tacoma)
Queer Domestic Violence Project: Provides services to
victims of same-sex domestic violence in South King, Pierce
and Thurston counties. Funding will assist with visibility,
counseling services, and other educational costs. $5,755
Washington
CASH (Seattle)
Puget Sound IDA Collaborative: Supports a program that
provides matching funds for low-income women and their families
saving for education, home buying, or micro-enterprise development.
$6,055
Welfare
Rights Organizing Coalition (WROC, Seattle)
Mom’s Voices: Organizes low-income parents (especially
women) to be spokespeople about welfare and family
policy. $8,100
Womencare
Shelter (Bellingham)
General Support-Supports the only confidential emergency
shelter for domestic violence victims in Whatcom County. $6,055
2000
Grant Recipients
On
January 24th 2001, WFA announced ten new grants to a diverse group
of agencies in the Puget Sound region that work with women and
girls. Grants totaled $60,000 and were given to the following
agencies:
911
Media Arts Center (Seattle)
Supports the creative use of media as communication and art-making
tools in a democratic society. Funds will support the "Reel
Grrls" project, a media program for teenage girls to explore
issues of image in mainstream media. $8500
Chaya
(Seattle)
Serves South Asian women in crisis and raises awareness of domestic
violence issues. Acts as a cultural bridge and liaison between
South Asian women and existing DV agencies, law enforcement and
other providers. Provides peer support, information and advocacy,
works to increase access to services, and offers violence-prevention
programs. General operating support provided. $7750
Feminist
Women's Health Center (Lakewood)
Works for reproductive freedom by providing abortion and reproductive
health services and information so that women may determine their
own destinies. Funding will enable the Center to expand their
services to Lakewood and build capacity. $5000
Filipino
Youth Activities (Seattle)
Provides activities and health and human services to Filipino
American youth, their families and friends. Over 60% of clientele
are girls and women ages 5 to 25. Funding will support core programs,
including Folk Dancing, Drill Team and Martial and Cultural Arts
Program. $2500
Jewish
Family Services (Puget Sound)
Provides services to the poor, elderly, children, families, people
with disabilities, refugees and new immigrants. Funding will support
Project DVORA (Domestic Violence Outreach, Response and Advocacy),
which enables victims or survivors in the Jewish and general communities
and their families to receive counseling, case management and
emergency financial aid as needed. $7750
Jubilee
Women's Center (Seattle)
Affirms the worth and dignity of women by providing affordable
housing and support services as they work toward financial independence.
Funding supports the Learning and Technology Center that provides
access to computer training, information technology services,
and educational programs for residents and other homeless women.
$5000
Northwest
Indian College (Bellingham)
Provides post-secondary opportunities for Northwest Indian people.
Funding supports the 7th Annual Native American Women and Girls
Conference that will address primary risk factors affecting Native
Americans. Participants will share cultural knowledge and skills,
explore educational and vocational goals, develop intergenerational
communication skills, and grow in positive self-esteem.
$5000
Passages
Northwest (Seattle)
Instills leadership and courage in girls and women through the
medium of the outdoors, integrating arts, theatre and the natural
environment. Funding supports the following programs: Girls Rock!,
Girls Wilderness, Mother/Daughter and Women in Nature; and leadership
training and theatre projects. $9000
Tacoma
Urban League (Tacoma)
Serves minorities and economically disadvantaged individuals and
families. Funding supports the Bad Date Sheet Intervention Project,
which works with "sextraders" (women who offer sex in
exchange for money, shelter, food, protection, etc.) to report
"Bad Dates" with men that abuse or threaten. This allows
counselors to build trust and present alternatives to at-risk
behavior. $7000
Women's
Housing, Equality and Enhancement League
(WHEEL, Seattle)
Works on ending homelessness for women through empowerment and
action. Goals are to give voice and leadership to homeless women,
to organize campaigns around increased services and safety for
homeless women, and to develop and support self-managed shelters.
General operating support provided. $2500
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