CASA ATABEX ACHE
471 East 140th Street, Basement Level, Bronx, NY 10454 (718) 585-5540
www.casaatabexache.org
Contact: Olutoyin Adebanjo
$20,000 to hire a part-time community organizer to work with the youth on a Youth and Community Action Council to utilize their video on violence against young women, to develop bilingual discussion materials on the video, and administer a survey on abuse within the foster care system
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CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION
116 John Street, Suite 1605, New York, NY 10038 (212) 691-0950
www.cfrny.org
Contact: Susan Jacobs
$20,000 for the Visiting Project to promote improved visiting options for parents and children affected by the child welfare system.
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CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY AFFAIRS
Milano The New School School for Management and Urban Policy, 72 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011 (212) 229-5418
www.newschool.edu/milano
Contact: Andrew White
$35,000 to support the Child Welfare Watch winter 2006-2007 issue that will examine critical issues facing the city’s preventive services program and the neighborhood-based preventive services infrastructure.
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CHILD WELFARE ORGANIZING PROJECT
East Harlem Neighborhood Center, 80 East 110th Street, New York, NY 10029
(212) 348-3000
www.cwop.org
Contact: Mike Arsham
$35,000 for CWOP to refine its parent leadership curriculum for replication and to work on the design and implementation of the Parent Advocate Advisory Committee that was approved by the New York City Council.
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CHILDREN’S VILLAGE, INC
Echo Hills, Dobb’s Ferry, NY 10522 (914) 479-3255
www.childrensvillage.org
Contact: Jeremy C. Kohomban
$25,000 for the Parent Leadership Initiative that will utilize Parent Advocates to work with birth and/or adoptive parents who have children in their programs.
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CITIZENS’ COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN
105 East 22nd Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10010 (212) 979-5063
www.cccnewyork.org
Contact: Jennifer March-Joly
$50,000 to develop a multi-pronged campaign to increase capacity and resources for aftercare and preventive services city-wide.
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CONCORD FAMILY SERVICES
1221 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216 (718) 398-3499
www.concordfs.org
Contact: Rhonald Underwood
$30,000 for the Job Readiness and Development program to maintain a full-time Job Developer, refine their tracking system and summerize their work for possible replication.
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THE DOOR A CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES
121 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013 (212) 941-9090
www.door.org
Contact: Zabrina Aleguire
$20,000 for the Foster Care Legal Action Project to provide legal services and peer-led “Know Your Rights” trainings to youth aging out of foster care.
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FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK, INC.
291 Broadway, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10007 (212) 266-7829
www.fphny.org
Contact: Pamela Nathenson
$45,000 for the first phase of an outreach plan by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to expand the Nurse-Family Partnership so that it reaches over 400 new families.
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FUND FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
666 Broadway, 8th Fl., New York, NY 10012 (212) 529-0110
www.nycwf.org
Contact: Kaela Economos
$8,700 to purchase advertising space in the New York Nonprofit Press for Child Welfare Fund grantees to announce events, conferences, awards or to provide other child welfare related information.
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FUND FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
666 Broadway, 8th Fl., New York, NY 10012 (212) 529-0110
www.nycwf.org
Contact: Kaela Economos/ Berny Horowitz
$5,000 for an assessment of Concord Family Services’ Youth Development Initiative which provides employment services for youth in foster care.
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GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES, INC. (GEMS)
298-B West 149th Street, New York, NY 10039 (212) 926-8089
www.gems-girls.org
Contact: Rachel Lloyd
$25,000 to build on its current leadership and peer education program for youth who have been sexually exploited, and to expand its programming to directly serve young people within the Administration for Children’s Services.
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JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN’S SERVICES (JBFCS)
120 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019 (212) 632-4665
www.jbfcs.org
Contact: Robert Abramovitz
$20,000 to evaluate the Foster Care Service Project which brings evidence-based trauma services (Trauma Systems Therapy) to youth in foster care through comprehensive training of clinicians.
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Clinical Law Center, 245 Sullivan Street, New York, NY 10012 (212) 998-6460
Contact: Martin Guggenheim
$25,000 for the Family Defense Clinic to hire a full-time lawyer to further its work with law and social work students who advocate for parents involved in the child welfare system.
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NEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN
200 Park Avenue, Suite 4503, New York, NY (212) 294-3580
www.newyorkersforchildren.org
Contact: Susan Magazine
$30,000 to the Parents as Partners Initiative in the Administration of Children’s Services to identify and train Parent Advocates to work with parents involved in the child welfare system.
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PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILY SUPPORTS AND JUSTICE
c/o Fund for Social Change, 135 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003
(212) 529-0110
Contact: John Courtney/ David Tobis
$200,000 to support the Partnership for Family Supports and Justice: Bridge Builders in the Bronx, a donors’ collaborative of thirteen foundations, ACS and community service providers to demonstrate that targeted services, legal representation, and parent/youth involvement will result in improved child welfare outcomes.
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PEOPLE UNITED FOR CHILDREN
2370 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd., New York, NY 10031 (212) 368-8600
www.peopleunitedforchildren.org
Contact: Sharonne Salaam
$35,000 to support the Child Welfare Fund Family Unity Awards that celebrate parents who have overcome challenges to reunite their families and advocate on behalf of others.
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SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES
1 Alexander Place, Glen Cove, NY 11542 (516) 671-1253
www.sco.org
Contact: Renee Skolaski-Anderson
$35,000 for the Family Enhancement Services to hire parents with child welfare system experience to facilitate Baby and Me groups and Visit Coaching in Brooklyn and Queens.
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SYLVIA RIVERA LAW PROJECT
322 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10001 (212) 337-8550
www.srlp.org
Contact: Sonja Sivesind
$15,000 for the Foster Youth Initiative to continue working to end discrimination of transgender youth in foster care, increase their access to health care, and provide individual legal advocacy.
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TURNING POINT
(Fiscal Agent: Women for Afghan Women)
P.O. 670086, Flushing, NY 11367 (718) 883-9400
www.turningpoint-ny.org
Contact: Robina Niaz
$25,000 to support organizational development as well as direct services for Muslim women and children across geographic or ethnic affiliations who are affected by domestic violence and/or involved in the child welfare system.
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YOUTH COMMUNICATION
224 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001 (212) 279-0708 x102
www.youthcomm.org
Contact: Keith Hefner
$25,000 to organize the eighth Child Welfare Fund Awards for Youth in Foster Care.
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