AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION: CENTER ON CHILDREN AND THE LAW

740 15th Street, NW  8th Fl., Washington, DC  20005  (202) 662-1736

www.abanet.org/child

Contact: Mimi Laver

$25,000 to launch the first ever National Organization of Parents’ Lawyers to increase the quality of legal representation of parents in child welfare.

BATTERED WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER
328 Flatbush Avenue, Suite 342, Brooklyn, NY  11238  (212) 696-1481
www.vowbwrc.org

Contact: Susan Lob

$30,000 to hire an organizer to staff and create Voices of Women’s campaign to discourage false and malicious child abuse and neglect reports to the New York State Central Registry.

CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY AFFAIRS

Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, 72 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY  10011  (212) 229-5418

www.centernyc.org

Contact: Andrew White

$35,000 to support the Child Welfare Watch Issue 15 (Winter 2008), which examines the impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act on New York City, and Issue 16 (Summer, 2008), which addresses efforts to transform the culture of foster parenting and the increased involvement of birth parents.

$25,000 to support a study of school-based preventive services.

CHILD CENTER OF NEW YORK, INC.

60-02 Queens Boulevard, Lower Level, Woodside, NY  11377  (718) 651-7770

www.childcenterny.org

Contact: Sandra Hagan

$25,000 to place a social worker at two middle schools in Queens, NY, to provide high-risk families with workshops, counseling and intervention to prevent involvement in the child welfare system.

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

$25,000 to train parents with child welfare involvement to interview parents currently receiving preventive services as a way to assess the quality of those services.

$35,000 for general support and to refine its parent leadership curriculum for replication.

$38,800 for a planning grant to design a scholarship program to enable parents who have had child welfare involvement to pursue a college education.

CHILDREN'S VILLAGE, INC

Echo Hills, Dobbs Ferry, NY  10522  (914) 479-3255

www.childrensvillage.org

Contact:  Jeremy C. Kohomban

$25,000 for the Parent Leadership Initiative in Harlem, which will utilize Parent Advocates to support the needs of birth and/or adoptive parents and establish a “Reunification Support Group” for parents who have recently reunited with their children.

COALITION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

50 Broad Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY  10002  (212) 809-4675

www.cacf.org

Contact: Wayne Ho

$25,000 to launch a pan-Asian parent education and mobilization program to increase parent influence in the child welfare system and advocate for improved child welfare policies, funding and services for immigrant Asian Pacific American families.

COUNCIL OF FAMILY AND CHILD CARING AGENCIES                

254 West 31st Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY  10001  (212) 929-2626

www.cofcca.org

Contact: Diane Leske

$25,000 for the sixth “Child Welfare Fund Best Practices Awards” to honor parent and youth advocates, childcare workers, caseworkers, supervisors and senior managers who demonstrate best practices in working with and empowering families in the child welfare system.

THE DOOR - A CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES

121 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY  10013  (212) 941-9090

www.door.org

Contact: Myrna Forney

$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.
 

FORESTDALE, INC.

67-35 112th Street, Forest Hills, NY  11375  (718) 263-0740

www.forestdaleinc.org

Contact: Anstiss Agnew

$25,000 to hire a Parent Advocate to conduct outreach and provide services to youth in the after care program and to young women currently in foster care who are pregnant or have recently had children.

THE FOSTERING CONNECTION

511 Avenue of the Americas #200, New York, NY  10011  (718) 789-0757            

www.thefosteringconnection.org

Contact: Amanda Hirsh

$25,000 to expand long-term pro-bono psychotherapy to children, youth and families involved in foster care.

FUND FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

666 Broadway, 8th Fl., New York, NY  10012  (212) 529-0110

www.fundforsocialchange.org

Contact: Anita Gundanna

$7,500 to hire a consultant to inform, guide, and advise the Child Welfare Organizing Project in their Scholarship Support Program for parents with child welfare system involvement.

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 strengthen GEMS’ leadership and peer education program for sexually-exploited youth, and to expand its programming to serve girls involved with New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services.

HOUR CHILDREN, INC.

36-11A 12 Street, Long Island City, NY  11106  (718) 433-4724                                 

www.hourchildren.org

Contact: Sister Tesa Fitzgerald

$25,000 to provide parent education and advocacy services to pregnant women and mothers who give birth while incarcerated on Riker’s Island at the Rose M. Singer Center (RMSC), and to increase new mother’s use of the RMSC nursery.

JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN’S SERVICES (JBFCS)

120 West 57th Street, New York, NY  10019  (212) 632-4519

www.jbfcs.org

Contact: Paula Panzer

$25,000 to evaluate the Foster Care Service Project, which brings evidence-based trauma services (Trauma Systems Therapy) to youth in foster care through on-site partnering with mental health clinics at foster care agencies.

LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW YORK/ BROOKLYN FAMILY DEFENSE PROJECT

177 Livingston St., 7th Floor, Brooklyn, NY  11201  (917) 302-3636

www.lsny.org

Contact: Lauren Shapiro

$10,000 for the Tracking and Advocacy Project to train staff to use and collect data for advocacy and reform efforts.

MIDWEST ACADEMY

28 East Jackson, #605, Chicago, IL  60604  (312) 427-2304

www.midwestacademy.com

Contact: Jackie Kendall

$6,000 to provide a three-day community organizing training for Child Welfare Fund and New York Foundation grantees.

NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE

275 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1506, New York, NY  10001  (212) 633-6967   

www.nclej.org

Contact: Henry A. Freedman

$25,000 to address systemic barriers that prevent young people transitioning out of foster care from accessing benefits including health care, housing, and public assistance, which could support them in achieving independence.

NATIONAL COALITION FOR CHILD PROTECTION REFORM

(Fiscal Agent: New York University School of Law )

53 Skyhill Road, Suite 202, Alexandria, VA  22314  (703) 212-2006
www.nccpr.org

Contact: Richard Wexler

$23,000 to organize a forum in New York City to promote parent participation in child welfare reform movements, and to share strategies to increase parent involvement in the child welfare system.

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 work with the Brooklyn Family Defense Project to train and mentor new staff, and to hire a social work supervisor to provide advocacy for parents involved in the child welfare system.

PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILY SUPPORTS AND JUSTICE

Fund for Social Change, 666 Broadway, 8th Fl., New York, NY  10012  (212) 529-0110

www.fundforsocialchange.org

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 fifteen foundations, ACS and community service providers to demonstrate that targeted services, legal representation, and parent/youth involvement will result in improved child welfare outcomes.

SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES

1 Alexander Place, Glen Cove, NY  11542  (718) 574-8289

www.sco.org

Contact: Sharmeela Mediratta

$35,000 for the Family Enhancement Services to support two Parent Advocates to staff SCO’s Baby & Me and Visit Coaching programs for families involved in foster care in Brooklyn and Queens.

TURNING POINT FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES                                 

(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.

YOUTH COMMUNICATION

224 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY  10001  (212) 279-0708 x102

www.youthcomm.org

Contact: Keith Hefner

$60,000 for two years of general support to Rise: By and For Parents in the Child Welfare System, a publication written by and for parents with child welfare system involvement. 

$20,000 for two years of 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 on several areas including preventive services.

$52,000 to organize the ninth and tenth Child Welfare Fund Awards for Youth in Foster Care.

$6,000 to plan a scholarship and support program that promotes post secondary education among youth who have been in foster care.