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2003 PROJECT GRANTS

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2003

Battered Women’s Resource Center -- $25,000
328 Flatbush Avenue, Suite 342
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Contact: Susan Lob at (212) 696-1481
Project: Voices of Women Organizing Project
The Battered Women’s Resource Center supports organizing efforts of battered women through technical assistance, leadership development and political education. CWF’s renewed support will be used to strengthen the organization through outreach to survivors of domestic violence, leadership development training and support, and promoting advocacy for improved system response to battered women.

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol -- $15,000
512 West 143rd Street
New York, NY 10031
Contact: Jason Warwin at (212) 283-7044
Project: The Liberation Program
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol is a grassroots, youth development organization that provides inner city Black and Latino youth support, guidance, knowledge, and resources. The Brotherhood/Sister Sol’s Liberation Program is designed to promote youth development and activism. With renewed support from the CWF, the program will continue its organizing campaign to renovate an abandoned building in their community and extend and strengthen rent stabilization laws.

Center for Family Life in Sunset Park -- $30,000
345 43rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11232
Contact: Sister Mary Paul at (718) 788-3500
Project: Outreach/Outdoor Neighborhood Center
The Center for Family Life in Sunset Park is a community-based preventive services agency in Brooklyn. The Center will outreach to and engage 70 hard to reach new immigrant and undocumented families, provide English language classes, and conduct a research study on its outreach methods for these underserved communities.

Center for New York City Affairs -- $35,000
New School University
72 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10012
Contact: Andrew White at (212) 229-5311 Ext.1506
Project: Child Welfare Watch/ Domestic Violence
The Center for New York City Affairs at the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy provides a forum for dialogue and debate about critical urban problems. The center will produce an issue of Child Welfare Watch on domestic violence, accompanied by a media campaign and public policy forum at the New School University.

The Children’s Center of Bedford Hills -- $20,000
c/o Catholic Charities, Diocese of Brooklyn
247 Harris Road
Bedford Hills, NY 10507
Contact: Toni Campoamor at (914) 241-3100
Project: Teen Time/Pre-Teen Time Program
The Children’s Center of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility offers a wide range of services to inmates and their children. Support from the CWF will be used for the Pre-Teen Time Program that provides advocacy, parenting classes, overnight visits for children with local host families, and a summer program.

Child Welfare Organizing Project (CWOP) -- $35,000
East Harlem Neighborhood Center
80 East 110th Street, 1E
New York, NY 10029
Contact: Mike Arsham at (212) 348-3000
Project Title: Child Welfare Organizing Project
The Child Welfare Organizing Project (CWOP) was created to give parents whose children are or have been in the child welfare system, a greater voice in shaping child welfare policy. With continued CWF support, CWOP will expand its core activities and begin several new projects. These projects include working with City Council members to develop a legislative agenda, collaborating with the Center for Family Representation, developing job placements for parent leadership graduates, and training other organizations to implement the CWOP leadership model.

Child Welfare Project (formerly C-PLAN) -- $20,000
Office of the Public Advocate of New York
1 Centre Street, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10007
Contact: Hank Orenstein at (212) 669-4812
Project: Child Welfare Project
The Child Welfare Project (formerly known as C-PLAN) addresses problems with the New York City child welfare system, promotes a stronger continuum of prevention and family support services, and engages in individual and system advocacy. With continued support from CWF, the project will provide case advocacy and implement a new case management system.

Child Welfare Project (formerly C-PLAN) -- $15,000
Office of the Public Advocate of New York
1 Centre Street, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10007
Contact: Hank Orenstein at (212) 669-4812
Project: Partners in Prevention
The Child Welfare Project (formerly known as C-PLAN) addresses problems with the New York City child welfare system, promotes a stronger continuum of prevention and family support services, and engages in individual and system advocacy. CWF support will be used to initiate the Partners in Prevention (PIP) program, a city-wide collaborative effort to enhance healthy and nurturing relationships between parents and their children.

Community Resource Exchange -- $2,000
39 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
Contact: Mohan Sikka at (212) 616-4994
Project: Technical Assistance to Rainbow Horizons
Community Resource Exchange (CRE) provides management assistance to facilitate and enable community based organizations to improve their services to poor and disenfranchised populations. A CWF grant to CRE will be used to help Rainbow Horizons clarify its mission and strengthen fundraising strategies.

Community Resource Exchange -- $2,000
39 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
Contact: Cathy Fulwood at (212) 616-4994
Project: Technical Assistance to Trinity Human Services Corporation
Community Resource Exchange (CRE) provides management assistance to facilitate and enable community based organizations to improve their services to poor and disenfranchised populations. A CWF grant to CRE will be used to assist Trinity Human Services Corporation to strengthen its infrastructure and expand services and funding sources. Trinity is based in Willamsburg, Brooklyn and provides English classes and runs a food pantry and soup kitchen.

CONNECT (formerly at the Urban Justice Center) -- $15,000
P.O. Box 20217, Greeley Square Station
New York, NY 10001-0006
Contact: Alisa Del Tufo at (212) 683-0015
Project: Family Violence Project
The Family Violence Project addresses domestic violence in the New York City child welfare system. With support from the CWF, the project will produce and distribute, “A Guide to Working with Abused Mothers of Children Involved in the Child Welfare System.” The report will be used to train staff to handle cases involving domestic violence.

Corporation for Supportive Housing -- $20,000
50 Broadway, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10004
Contact: Constance Temple at (212) 986-2966 Ext. 225
Project: Supportive Housing for Youth
The Corporation for Supportive Housing works to increase the availability of affordable service-supported housing for adults and youth who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and for people coping with extreme poverty, mental illness, disabilities, addiction and/or HIV/AIDS. CWF support will be used to increase the availability of supportive housing for youth who age out of the foster care system.

Correctional Association of New York -- $25,000
135 East 15th Street
New York, NY 10003
Contact: Tamar Kraft-Stolar at (212) 254-5700
Project: Women in Prison Project
The Correctional Association of New York develops and promotes alternative solutions for a more humane criminal justice system. The Association’s Women in Prison Project was created to address the effects of New York City and State criminal justice policies on women and their families. CWF support to the Women in Prison Project will allow them to continue conducting a public education, outreach, and advocacy campaign to promote policy reform.

Good Shepherd Services -- $100,000
305 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10037
Contact: Sister Paulette LoMonaco at (212) 243-7070 Ext. 304
Project: Full Service School Outreach Program (Red Hook, Brooklyn)
Good Shepherd Services (GSS) is a social service and youth development agency, which provides services to more than 10,000 children and families annually. With support from the CWF, GSS will 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.

Grandparents Advocacy Project -- $17,000
1595 Metropolitan Avenue, #6G
Bronx, NY 10462
Contact: Kathryn E. Gibson at (718) 863-4776
Project: Teach and Tutor Program
The Grandparents Advocacy Project was created to assist grandparents who are raising their grandchildren and to prevent foster care placement through personal advocacy, education, consultation, referral and respite. With support from the CWF, the Teach and Tutor program will strengthen intergenerational ties to enhance family stability and well-being by focusing on the educational needs of both grandparents and grandchildren.

Legal Information for Families Today -- $20,000
226 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Contact: Melissa Beck at (646) 613-9633
Project: Legal Information for Families Today
Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT) provides court-based information and resources to individuals and families facing legal proceedings in New York City’s Family Court. The CWF grant is a challenge grant to be matched 1:2 with government funds to help institutionalize LIFT. LIFT successfully secured these funds from the Office of Court Administration.

Lower Eastside Girls Club -- $20,000
56 East 1st Street
New York, NY 10003
Contact: Adriana Pezzulli at (212) 982-1633
Project: Girls as Advocates, Leaders, and Activists (GALA)
The Lower Eastside Girls Club is a grassroots organization that provides a support network for girls and promotes leadership development and self-empowerment through art, sports, and educational programs. With support from the CWF, the Girls Club will continue the GALA program that trains girls to be community leaders by addressing local issues. This year’s project will focus on health.

National Coalition for Child Protection Reform -- $20,000
53 Skyhill Road, Suite 202
Alexandra, VA 22314
Contact: Richard Wexler at (703) 212-2006
Project: Training on Media Advocacy
The National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR) advocates for systemic reform to change policies concerning child abuse, foster care, and family preservation. NCCPR works with the media to create a more balanced view of the appropriate role of protective services in the United States. CWF support will be used for technical assistance to the Child Welfare Organizing Project and People United for Children. NCCPR will work with these groups 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.

Neighborhood Family Services Coalition -- $20,000
350 Broadway, Suite 525
New York, NY 10013
Contact: Michelle Yanche at (212) 965-8505 Ext. 202
Project: Preventing Preventive Service Cuts
The Neighborhood Family Services Coalition (NFSC) is a coalition of service providers and advocacy organizations that identifies, researches and monitors issues that influence the well-being of children, youth, and their families in New York City. With support from the CWF, NFSC will advocate for preventing or minimizing budget cuts for preventive services for families.

New Yorkers for Children -- $30,000
200 Park Avenue, Suite 4503
New York, NY 10166-4193
Contact: Melissa Baker at (212) 341-0965
Project: ACS Parents/ Youth Partnering in Neighborhood Networks Project
New Yorkers for Children (NYFC) was founded as a nonprofit partner for the Administration of Children’s Services. It has supported projects designed to improve the lives of children in foster care and families receiving preventive services in New York City. CWF support will enable NYFC to provide small grants to various ACS neighborhood based networks providing preventive, protective, and treatment services and to hire youth and parent recipiants of child welfare services.

Nicholson Review Committee -- $10,000
Center for the Study of Social Policy (fiscal agent)
700 Broadway, Suite 301
New York, NY 10003
Contact: Susan Kelly at (212) 979-2369
Project: Nicholson Review Committee
The Nicholson Review Committee was created by Judge Jack B. Weinstein for the Nicholson lawsuit on battered women. The Committee works to improve the response of the Administration of Children’s Services to mothers who are victims of domestic violence and whose children are reported to ACS. CWF support will help the Committee execute its oversight responsibilities in ensuring that ACS complies with the terms of Judge Weinstein’s injunction and improves its response to battered women and children.

Parents in Action for Leadership and Human Rights -- $20,000
35-52 24th Street, Suite 6A
Astoria, NY 11106
Contact: Rolondo Bini at (917) 590-0395
Project: Parent Training and Court Advocacy
Parents in Action’s (PIA) mission is to preserve, strengthen and protect families involved in the foster care system. With support from the CWF, PIA will initiate its advocate training program to recruit and train volunteer parents to work with families in crisis.

Partnership for Family Supports and Justice -- $50,000
135 East 15th Street
New York, NY 10003
Contact: John Courtney at (212) 529-0110
Project: Partnership for Family Supports and Justice
The Partnership for Family Supports and Justice is a collaboration of seven foundations supporting a community-based demonstration project focused on Highbridge, in the south-west Bronx. The project seeks to demonstrate that targeted services and legal representation, meaningful parent and youth involvement, creative use of data and planned collaboration by all appropriate service providers will result in improved child welfare outcomes and enhanced well-being of families.

Pathways to Development -- $25,000
The Fund for Public Advocacy, Inc.
c/o Office of the Public Advocate of New York
1 Centre Street, 15th Floor
New York, New York 10007
Contact: Sidney Goldberg at (212) 669-4592
Project: With an initial grant from the CWF, Pathways to Development Program was created in New York City to provide foster children with opportunities to pursue various types of art. The program currently provides classes in different kinds of music, dance, and art to over 200 children. CWF support will be used to continue music and dance.

People United for Children -- $17,500
2370 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd
New York, New York 10030
Contact: Sharonne Salaam at (212) 368-8600
Project: General Support
People United for Children (PUC) is a grassroots organization working with parents, providing support services, peer and professional counseling, educational information, and individual advocacy in the child welfare and family court systems. A grant from the CWF will be used to continue PUC’s core activities which include support and advocacy services, seminars on family law and the child welfare system, public education, parenting classes, newsletter publication, and training parent leaders.

Rainbow Horizons -- $15,000
P.O. Box 837
New York, New York 10017
Contact: Kathaleen Linares at (718) 496-8975
Project: General Support
Rainbow Horizons was established in 1998 to help mothers within the criminal justice system have more quality contact with their children, to assist them in understanding their parental rights and responsibilities, and to prevent, where appropriate, the termination of their parental rights. CWF support will allow Rainbow Horizons to continue its core programs which include an advocacy, parenting classes, self-advocacy and self-expression workshops for up to 40 women a month at the Beacon Correctional Facility.

Resources for Children with Special Needs -- $10,000
116 E. 16th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Contact: Judith Sussman at (212) 677-4650
Project: Center Without Walls
Resources for Children with Special Needs (RCSN) was founded by parents of children with disabilities to provide information, referral, advocacy, training and support for parents of New York City children with disabilities. RCSN and its Center Without Walls project will train 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.

Sanctuary for Families -- $25,000
67 Wall Street, Suite 2211
New York, NY 10005
Contact: Jill Zuccardy at (212) 349-6009
Project: Child Protection Project
Sanctuary for Families provides an array of services and supports to battered women and their children. With support from the CWF, Sanctuary will provide individual and group training and technical support to case workers and lawyers representing battered women in Family Court to ensure the legal rulings in Nicholson v Scoppetta are implemented in the child welfare and judicial systems.

St. Christopher’s, Inc. -- $10,000
71 South Broadway
Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
Contact: Sola Winley at (914) 693-3030, Ext. 2291
Project: Institute for Leadership & Change/Executive Leadership Program
St. Christopher’s, Inc. is a large social service agency that serves children and families in 18 facilities located throughout New York City and Westchester County. The Institute for Leadership & Change is dedicated to educating and preparing African American and Latino senior mangers for top level positions in child welfare and human services agencies. CWF support will be used to provide mentoring, training and technical assistance to Fellows in the Institute’s Executive Leadership Program.

Turtle Bay Music School -- $10,000
244 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022
Contact: Jennifer Sherwood at (212) 753-8811 Ext.17
Project: Margules Music Therapy Program: Program and Assessment
The Turtle Bay Music School (TBMS) provides musical instruction, programs and activities to students of all ages. TBMS’s Margules Music Therapy Program provides music therapy for emotionally disturbed adolescent girls and boys aged 10-18 in New York City foster care. CWF support will cover a portion of program costs and be used to hire an independent evaluator to assess the impact of the program, using feedback from participants.

Urban Justice Center -- $20,000
666 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Contact: Dean Spade at (646) 602-5638
Project: Sylvia Rivera Law Project: Foster Youth Initiative
Urban Justice Center is an advocacy organization, working with the homeless, victims of domestic violence, welfare recipients, the mentally ill, and gay and lesbian youth. The Sylvia Rivera Law Project serves low-income transgender, transsexual, intersex, and gender variant youth in New York City. CWF support to the Foster Youth Initiative will aid these youth with direct services, trainings, and advocacy for policy reform in the New York City child welfare system.

Volunteer Prevention Group -- $20,000
1229 Brooklyn Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11203
Contact: Andrea Evans at (718) 462-7917
Project: Families Working Together
The Volunteer Prevention Group is a community-based nonprofit organization founded in 1998 by women concerned with the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The program is designed to support and involve adolescents and their family members in HIV prevention workshops. With support from the CWF, outreach, education, and recruitment of youth and their families will continue.

Welfare Law Center -- $15,000
275 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1205
New York, New York 10001-6708
Contact: Henry A. Freedman at (212) 633-6967
Project: Child Care Access Project
The Welfare Law Center is a national law and policy organization that works with and on behalf of low-income people to ensure that adequate income support and services are available to meet their basic needs. CWF support for the Child Care Access Project will aid the center’s work around integrating HRA (welfare) and ACS (non-welfare) child care provision so parents who become financially independent do not have to lose their current child care provider. The project will develop a reform strategy, produce a report and work to implement its recommendations, and provide trainings for advocates, providers and parents on child care rights.

Women’s Prison Association -- $20,000
110 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10003
Contact: Ann Jacobs at (212) 674-1163 Ext. 16
Project: The Youth Services Program at the Sarah Powell Huntington House
The Women’s Prison Association (WPA) provides social services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women. With support from the CWF, WPA will incorporate its Youth Services Program as a permanent part of WPA. WPA will also explore ways to increase housing opportunities for women previously involved in the criminal justice system, improve mental health assessments for WPA clients and their families, and create a new department for research and policy to analyze and strengthen its advocacy efforts for women and their children.

Youth Communication -- $30,000
224 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001
Contact: Keith Hefner at (212) 279-0708 Ext.102
Project: Represent (formerly Foster Care Youth United)
Youth Communication, publisher of Represent, was founded with a grant from the CWF to train, inform and provide a voice for teens in foster care through print journalism. Support from the CWF will go towards the development of thematic issues of Represent and to complete a website for the general public to access all its previous articles.