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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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