2003 PROJECT GRANTS
BATTERED WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTER
328 Flatbush Avenue, Suite 342, Brooklyn, NY 11238 (212) 696-1481
www.vowbwrc.org
Contact: Susan Lob
$25,000 for the Voices of Women Organizing Project to strengthen the
organization through outreach to survivors of domestic violence, leadership
training, and system reform advocacy.
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THE BROTHERHOOD/SISTER SOL
512 West 143rd Street
New York, NY 10031 (212) 283-7044
www.brotherhood-sistersol.org
Contact: Jason Warwin
$15,000 for the Liberation Program to continue its organizing campaign to renovate an abandoned building in Harlem and strengthen rent stabilization laws.
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CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE IN SUNSET PARK
345 43rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11223 (718) 788-3500
www.cflsp.org
Contact: Sister Mary Paul
$30,000 to the Outreach/Outdoor Neighborhood Center to contact, engage
and serve 70 hard to reach new immigrant and undocumented families, and
assess the outreach methods for these underserved communities.
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CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY AFFAIRS
New School University, 72 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10012 (212) 229-5311 Ext.1506
www.newschool.edu/milano/nycaffairs/
Contact: Andrew White
$35,000 for the Child Welfare Watch/ Domestic Violence issue including a
media campaign and a public policy forum at the New School University.
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THE CHILDREN’S CENTER OF BEDFORD HILLS
c/o Catholic Charities, Diocese of Brooklyn, 247 Harris Road, Bedford Hills, NY 10507
(914) 241-3100
Contact: Toni Campoamor
$20,000 for Teen Time/Pre-Teen Time Program that provides advocacy,
parenting classes, overnight visits for children with local host families, and a
summer program for children of women in Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.
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CHILD WELFARE ORGANIZING PROJECT (CWOP)
East Harlem Neighborhood Center, 80 East 110th Street, 1E, New York, NY 10029 (212) 348-3000
www.cwop.org
Contact: Mike Arsham
$35,000 for the Child Welfare Organizing Project to develop a legislative
agenda, collaborate with the Center for Family Representation, develop job
placements for parent leadership graduates, and train other organizations
to implement the CWOP parent leadership model.
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CHILD WELFARE PROJECT (formerly C-PLAN)
Office of the Public Advocate of New York, 1 Centre Street, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10007
(212) 669-4812
Contact: Hank Orenstein
$20,000 for the Child Welfare Project to provide case advocacy and implement a
new case management system for people experiencing difficulty with the child welfare
system.
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COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE
39 Broadway, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10006 (212) 616-4994
www.crenyc.org
Contact: Mohan Sikka
$2,000 for technical assistance to Rainbow Horizons to help clarify its mission
and strengthen fundraising strategies.
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COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE
39 Broadway, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10006 (212) 616-4994
www.crenyc.org
Contact: Cathy Fulwood
$2,000 for technical assistance to Trinity Human Services Corporation to strengthen
its infrastructure and expand services and funding sources.
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CONNECT (Formerly at The Urban Justice Center)
P.O. Box 20217, Greeley Square Station, New York, NY 10001-0006 (212) 683-0015
www.connectnyc.org
Contact: Alisa Del Tufo
$15,000 for the Family Violence Project to produce and distribute, “A Guide to
Working with Abused Mothers of Children Involved in the Child Welfare System.”
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CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
50 Broadway, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10004 (212) 986-2966 Ext. 225
www.csh.org
Contact: Constance Temple
$20,000 to increase the availability of supportive housing for youth who age out
of the foster care system.
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CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK
135 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003 (212) 254-5700
www.corrassoc.org
Contact: Tamar Kraft-Stolar
$25,000 for the Women in Prison Project to continue conducting a
public education, outreach, and advocacy campaign to promote increased
contact between incarcerated mothers and their children.
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GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES
305 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10037 (212) 243-7070 Ext. 304
www.goodshepherds.org
Contact: Sister Paulette LoMonaco
$100,000 for the Full Service School Outreach Program to expand and
enhance its outreach and intensive services to hard-to-reach families whose
children attend P.S. 27 and the middle school for Leadership and Environment
in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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GRANDPARENTS ADVOCACY PROGRAM
1595 Metropolitan Avenue, #6G, Bronx, NY 10462 (718) 863-4776
www.gap.homestead.com
Contact: Kathryn E. Gibson
$17,000 to support the Teach and Tutor Program that focuses on the
educational needs of both grandparents and grandchildren.
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LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY
226 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10001 (646) 613-9633
www.LIFTonline.org
Contact: Melissa Beck
$20,000 for a challenge grant to be matched with government funds to help
institutionalize Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT). LIFT successfully
secured these matching funds from the Office of Court Administration.
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LOWER EASTSIDE GIRLS CLUB
56 East 1st Street, New York, NY 10003 (212) 982-1633
www.girlsclub.org
Contact: Adriana Pezzulli
$20,000 for the Girls as Advocates, Leaders, and Activists (GALA) program that
trains girls to be community leaders by addressing local issues. This year’s
project will focus on health.
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NATIONAL COALITION FOR CHILD PROTECTION REFORM
53 Skyhill Road, Suite 202, Alexandra, VA 22314 (703) 212-2006
www.nccpr.org
Contact: Richard Wexler
$20,000 for technical assistance to the Child Welfare Organizing Project and
People United for Children to develop strategies for working with the media to
increase organizational visibility, impact, and improve the image of parents involved
in the child welfare system.
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NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY SERVICES COALITION
350 Broadway, Suite 525, New York, NY 10013 (212) 965-8505 Ext. 202
www.nfsc-nyc.org
Contact: Michelle Yanche
$20,000 for the Coalition to prevent budget cuts for preventive services
for families.
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NEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN
200 Park Avenue, Suite 4503, New York, NY 10166-4193 (212) 341-0965
www.newyorkersforchildren.org
Contact: Melissa Baker
$30,000 for the ACS Parents/Youth Partnering in Neighborhood Networks Project
to provide small grants to various ACS neighborhood based networks and to hire
recipients of child welfare services.
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NEW YORK NONPROFIT PRESS
P.O. Box 338, Chatham, NY 12037 (888) 933-6967
www.nynp.biz
Contact: Fred Scaglione
$8,640 (contract) to make advertising space available to current and former
CWF grantees.
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NICHOLSON REVIEW COMMITTEE
Center for the Study of Social Policy (fiscal agent), 700 Broadway, Suite 301, New York, NY 10003 (212) 979-2369
Contact: Susan Kelly
$10,000 for the Nicholson Review Committee to ensure that ACS complies
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PARENTS IN ACTION FOR LEADERSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS
35-52 24th Street, Suite 6A, Astoria, NY 11106 (917) 590-0395
www.parentsinaction.net
Contact: Rolondo Bini
$20,000 to support the Parent Training and Court Advocacy project to train
volunteer parents to work with families in crisis.
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PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILY SUPPORTS AND JUSTICE
135 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003 (212) 529-0110
Contact: John Courtney
$50,000 for, a collaboration of seven foundations supporting a project in
Highbridge, the Bronx, demonstrating that targeted services, legal representation,
and parent and youth involvement will result in improved child welfare outcomes.
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PARTNERSHIPS FOR PARENTS (Formerly at C-PLAN)
322 West 88th Street, #1B, New York, NY 10024
(212) 877-2199
Contact: Hank Orenstein
$15,000 for Partners in Prevention, a city-wide collaborative effort to enhance
healthy and nurturing relationships between parents and their children.
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PEOPLE UNITED FOR CHILDREN
2370 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd., New York, NY 10030 (212) 368-8600 Contact: Sharonne Salaam
$35,000 to provide support services for recipients of the Family Unity Awards
and their families as a way to prevent foster care recidivism.
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PEOPLE UNITED FOR CHILDREN
2370 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd., New York, NY 10030 (212) 368-8600 Contact: Sharonne Salaam
$17,500 for general support to continue People United for Children’s core
activities of advocacy, public education, parenting classes, and training parent leaders.
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PATHWAYS TO DEVELOPMENT
The Fund for Public Advocacy, Inc. c/o Office of the Public Advocate of New York
1 Centre Street, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10007 (212) 669-4592
Contact: Sidney Goldberg
$25,000 to support the Pathways to Development Program, created to enable
foster children to pursue art, sciences, cooking, or other areas of interest.
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RAINBOW HORIZONS
P.O. Box 837, New York, NY 10017 (718) 496-8975
Contact: Kathaleen Linares
$15,000 for general support to allow Rainbow Horizons to continue its core
programs of advocacy, parenting classes, and self-advocacy for women at the
Beacon Correctional Facility.
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RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
116 E. 16th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10003 (212) 677-4650
www.resourcesnyc.org
Contact: Judith Sussman
$10,000 for the Center Without Walls project that trains parents and staff in
foster care and preventive service agencies about the rights of children with
disabilities and ways to secure services and supports for them.
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SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES
67 Wall Street, Suite 2211, New York, NY 10005 (212) 349-6009
www.santuaryforfamilies.org
Contact: Jill Zuccardy
$25,000 to provide training and technical support to case workers and lawyers
representing battered women in Family Court to ensure the implementation of the
legal rulings in Nicholson v Scoppetta.
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ST. CHRISTOPHER, INC.
71 South Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 (914) 693-3030, Ext. 2291
www.sc1881.com
Contact: Sola Winley
$10,000 for the Institute for Leadership & Change/Executive Leadership
Program to provide mentoring, training and technical assistance to fellows in
the program.
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SYLVIA RIVERA LAW PROJECT (Formerly at the Urban Justice Center)
322 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10001 (212) 337-8550
www.srlp.org
Contact: Dean Spade
$20,000 for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project Foster Youth Initiative to provide
low-income, transgender, transsexual, intersex, and gender variant youth with
direct services, training, and advocacy for policy reform in the New York City
child welfare system.
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TURTLE BAY MUSIC SCHOOL
244 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022 (212) 753-8811 Ext.17
www.tbms.org
Contact: Jennifer Sherwood
$10,000 to provide music therapy for girls and boys aged 10-18 in New York
City foster care and to hire an independent evaluator to assess the impact of the
program.
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VOLUNTEER PREVENTION GROUP
1229 Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203 (718) 462-7917
www.vpgprevention.org
Contact: Andrea Evans
$20,000 for the Families Working Together project to continue outreach and
education of youth and their families in HIV prevention workshops.
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Voices of Youth
224 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, New York 10001 $40,000
Contact: Giselle John
(212) 279-0708 Ext.150
Voices of Youth was created to make youth part of training and policy making in the foster care system. With support from CWF, Voices of Youth will implement a model mentoring and support program for CWF Awardees. The program will provide peer-to-peer support with peer mentors, a monthly support group, career shadowing opportunities, and a network of resources for youth.
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The Volunteer Prevention Group
1229 Brooklyn Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11203 $25,000
Contact: Andrea Evans
(718) 462-7917
The Volunteer Prevention Group (VPG) is a newly formed Brooklyn based nonprofit organization founded by women who were concerned with the HIV/AIDS epidemic. With support from the CWF, VPG will outreach and educate youth and families involved in the New York City child welfare system about HIV and STD prevention.
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WELFARE LAW CENTER
275 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1205, New York, NY 10001-6708 (212) 633-6967
www.welfarelaw.org
Contact: Henry A. Freedman
$15,000 for the Child Care Access Project to develop and implement a reform
strategy to integrate welfare and non-welfare child care.
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WOMEN’S PRISON ASSOCIATION
110 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003 (212) 674-1163 Ext. 16
www.wpaonline.org
Contact: Ann Jacobs
$20,000 for the Sarah Powell Huntington House to incorporate its Youth Services
Program as a permanent part of the Women’s Prison Association.
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YOUTH COMMUNICATION
224 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001 (212) 279-0708 Ext.102
www.youthcomm.org
Contact: Keith Hefner
$30,000 for Represent (formerly Foster Care Youth United) to develop thematic
issues of the publication Represent and to upgrade its website.
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