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2005 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 Voices of Women Battered Mother’s Justice Campaign to combat the injustices of custody decisions that endanger children, to work for increased representation of parents, and to advocate for increased accountability of judges and law guardians and to improve and influence the Administration of Children’s Services’ policy on domestic violence issues.
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CASA ATABEX ACHE
471 East 140th Street, Basement Level, Bronx, NY 10454 (718) 585-5540
www.casaatabexache.org
Contact: Olutoyin Adebanjo
$15,000 to support the Fuerza/Power Project for Young Women in Foster Care to produce a video about the role that ACS has played in participants’ lives and to screen and facilitate discussions of the video in neighborhood schools.
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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 Host Project, which improves the visiting options available for parents whose children are in foster care.
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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 2005-2006 issue that will provide a comprehensive analysis of legal issues in New York City’s child welfare system.
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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 to include prevention and job training, assess its job placement work and work to secure passage of I 492, a bill that would establish a child welfare parent advocate advisory committee for ACS.
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THE 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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CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR FAMILY PRESERVATION
120 Stuyvesant Place, Room 425, Staten Island, NY 10301 (718) 447-6788
www.vocalinfo.org/concerned_citizens_for_family_pr.htm
Contact: Folasade Campbell
$25,000 to help parents involved in the child welfare system advocate for themselves and for system reform through parenting classes, weekly support groups and monthly empowerment workshops.
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CONNECT
P.O. Box 20217, Greeley Square Station, New York, NY 10001 (212) 683-0015 x212
www.connectnyc.org
Contact: Mary Haviland
$10,700 to support Sharwline Nicholson, a Susan Schechter Leadership Development Fellow to work on a 30 minute training and educational video on issues surrounding domestic violence and the Nicholson v. Scoppetta lawsuit, in which she was the named plaintiff.
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THE CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK
135 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003 (212) 254-5700
www.correctionalassociation.org
Contact: Tamar Kraft-Stolar
$10,000 to support the printing and distribution of the Women in Prison Project’s Report on Incarcerated Mothers and a public education, advocacy and media campaign to gain policy makers’ support to implement the recommendations in the report.
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FUND FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
135 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003 (212) 529-0110
www.nycwf.org
Contact: Kaela Economos
$8,700 to purchase ad 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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GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES
305 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10001 (212) 243-7070
www.goodshepherd.org
$50,000 to provide intensive counseling and social work services to high risk families whose children attend P.S. 27 in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW YORK
350 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10013 (646) 442-3582
www.lsny.org
Contact: Caroline Kearney
A $12,500 matching grant to translate and print an updated and Spanish language version of The Parents’ Survival Guide to the Child Welfare System: A Workbook for Parents by Parents.
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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 staff member to further its work with law students 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: Vivian DeMilly
$30,000 for the Parents as Partners Initiative to identify and train Parent Advocates to work with “hard-to-reach” parents involved in the child welfare system.
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PARENTS IN ACTION FOR LEADERSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS
35-52 24th Street, Suite 6-A, Long Island City, NY 11106 (917) 590-0395
www.parentsinaction.net
Contact: Rolando Bini
$10,000 to support Parent Volunteer Advocate Training activities that recruit and train parents to work with families 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
$200,000 to support the Partnership for Family Supports and Justice (Highbridge Bridge Builders), a donors’ collaborative of ten 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
$30,000 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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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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RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
116 East 16th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10003 (212) 677-4650
www.resourcesnyc.org
Contact: Judith Sussman
$15,000 to the Center Without Walls project that trains parents and staff in foster care/preventative service agencies about the rights of children with disabilities, ways to secure services for them and to identify and address problems accessing appropriate educational services for special needs children in the child welfare system.
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SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES
P.O. Box 1406, Wall Street Station, New York, NY 10268 (212) 349-6009
www.sanctuaryforfamilies.org
Contact: Jill Zuccardy
$20,000 to support the Child Protection Project’s work to ensure the legal rulings in Nicholson v Scoppetta are implemented through outreach, training, workshop facilitation and representation of battered mothers involved in child welfare investigations.
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SOUTH BROOKLYN LEGAL SERVICES
105 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 246-3260
www.sbls.org
Contact: Lauren Shapiro
$20,000 for the Housing Advocacy Project to promote family reunification by improving access to housing subsidies and permanent housing for families involved in the child welfare system.
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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
$25,000 for the Foster Youth Initiative to continue working to end discrimination of transgender youth in foster care, increase their access to health care, provide individual legal advocacy and increase public awareness around related issues.
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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
$20,000 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 Child Welfare Fund Awards for Youth in Foster Care.
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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 for general support to Represent: The Voice of Youth in Care, a magazine written and edited by and for youth in foster care to develop thematic issues focused in several areas including preventive services.
$15,000 for Rise: By and For New York City Parents, a pilot project written by and for parents with child welfare system involvement.
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