Arts for Social Change

ArtSpring
$10,000 to provide a self-reflective art program for incarcerated women and girls in detention that develops the skills necessary for successful re-entry into the community.
Funding Partners: Deborah Hoffman and M. Victoria Cummock

Healing Thru Arts
$10,000 to provide creative expression workshops to women and girls in the county jail that will enable them to heal, find self-worth, learn personal responsibility and develop attainable life goals.
Grant Underwriter: Linda Schejola

Museum of Contemporary Art
$10,000 to expose minority teenage girls to an innovative art therapy program that uses women artists as role models to boost the girls' self-esteem and provides strategies for creative self-expression and critical thinking.
Grant Underwriter: Any One of Us: Words From Prison, Miami

Thomas Armour Youth Ballet
$10,000 to continue three highly successful classical ballet outreach training programs for financially disadvantaged minority children. The long-term goal of the project is to expose the girls to new options and opportunities.
Grant Underwriter: Kirk Landon & Pamela Garrison

Women's International Film Festival
$6,000 to teach filmmaking to at-risk girls and then give them the opportunity to make a short documentary about a group of successful female African-American classical musicians. Their film will then be presented at The Women’s International Film Festival.
Funding Partners: Dale Moses (In Honor Of Jean Picker Firstenbergand) and Dale & Stephen Kulvin (In honor of Dana Kulvin)

Economic Empowerment

Accion USA
$5,000 to educate immigrant women about how to gain access to credit and capital and build wealth in order to be financially independent.

Casa Valentina
$10,000 to provide one-on-one counseling to girls who have recently “aged out” of the foster care system that will enable them to become functional and financially independent adults.
Grant Underwriter: M. Victoria Cummock

Centro Campesino Farmworker Center
$10,000 to provide women farm workers with academic instruction, vocational training, work experience and job placement so they can secure higher-paying and consistent employment.
Grant Underwriter: CREW-Miami (Commercial Real Estate Women)

Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami
$8,500 to provide financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills to teenage girls in Little Haiti.
Funding Partners: Carole Shields & Hugh Westbrook and Gibraltar Private Bank and Trust

Haitian Neighborhood Center, Sant La
$7,500 to educate low-income women about financial literacy and asset development while providing free income tax preparation, filing and individualized financial counseling.

Honey Shine Mentoring Program
$10,000 to assist low-income teenage girls in developing and implementing a plan for the future, including preparation for college or vocational school.
Funding Partners: Bank of America and Macy's, Inc.

Florida ACORN
$10,000 to bring low-income single working mothers out of poverty by providing them with free tax preparation, financial literacy education and screening to identify all available assistance.
Funding Partners: The Ethel and Harry Reckson Foundation, Inc.

Greater Miami Coalition of 100 Black Women
$4,000 to provide teenage girls with ongoing mentoring that educates and empowers them to make better life choices and avoid the cycle of poverty, violence, and teenage pregnancy.

Pumps, Pearls, & Portfolios, Inc.
$5,000 to provide women and girls living in homeless shelters with basic literacy, job readiness, interview and customer service skills in order to assist them in being economically self-sufficient.
Grant Underwriter: CREW-Miami (Commercial Real Estate Women)

Redlands Christian Migrant Association
$6,000 to provide childcare for women living near the Everglades Farm Worker Village so they can attend free GED preparation, ESOL, computer literacy and employment skills classes.
Funding Partner: Maria Molina

Suited for Success
$5,000 to provide girls aging out of foster care with employment skills including interview techniques, appropriate job attire, workplace etiquette, business ethics and job retention skills.
In memory of Joan Crimmen Rand.

Lotus House of Sundari Foundation
$18,000 to provide formerly homeless women residing at Lotus House with culinary and food preparation skills that will enable them to obtain entry level positions in the restaurant and hospitality industries.
Grant Underwriter: Feeding The Mind, Inc.

Thelma Gibson Health Initiative
$10,000 to break the cycle of poverty for at-risk adolescent and teenage girls in West Coconut Grove through education, counseling, financial literacy and personal enrichment.
Grant Underwriter: Sara Oren/The Yulman Foundation

URGENT
$8,000 to provide teenage girls in Overtown, Liberty City, and Little Haiti with opportunities to increase self-esteem and build a resume through skills and entrepreneurship training, field trips and paid internships.
Funding Partners: The DiazCala Balonek Family and Ellaine Honig

Education and Leadership Development

Associated Marine Institutes
$5,000 to provide pregnant women in juvenile detention with academic tutoring, parenting skills and individualized counseling treatment.
Grant Underwriter: Any One of Us: Words From Prison, Miami

Carrfour Supportive Housing
$8,000 to build self-confidence and self-esteem among formerly homeless women; empowering them to break the vicious cycles of victimization, poverty and crime.
Funding Partners: The Israel, Rose, Henry and Robert Wiener Charitable Foundation and The Helliwell Family Foundation

Challenging Christian Women
$4,000 to provide at-risk adolescent and teenage girls in Liberty City with the tools they need to meet the challenges of their daily lives and live responsibly.
Funding Partner: The Edward S. Moore Family Foundation

CHARLEE Homes for Children
$9,000 to improve the academic progress of girls in foster care to ensure they achieve their full potential.
Funding Partners: Braman Family Foundation and TeamFootWorks

Children's Hope
$5,000 to provide homeless and runaway adolescent and teenage girls with a safe, nurturing, rehabilitative environment in which they can develop social skills, goals, self-esteem and employability.
Grant Underwriter: Any One of Us: Words From Prison, Miami

DIVAS
$7,000 to teach journalism to African-American teenage girls who will then publish their own magazine and website that provides a positive alternative to the negative self-fulfilling stereotypes about women perpetrated by today’s media.
Grant Underwriter: The Helliwell Family Foundation

Educate Tomorrow
$10,000 to connect girls in foster care who are approaching age 18 with mentors who will assist them in managing the college/vocational school application and scholarship/financial aid processes.
Grant Underwriter: CREW-Miami (Commercial Real Estate Women)

GEMS at Miami Edison Senior High
$6,000 to continue an after-school mentoring, enrichment and tutoring program that concentrates on educational and vocational success for at-risk teenage girls.
Funding Partners: Braman Family Foundation and Melanie & Klein Merriman

GEMS at North Miami Beach
$8,000 to provide at-risk teenage girls with workshops, field trips and seminars aimed at increasing self-esteem and academic performance while decreasing risky behaviors.
Funding Partner: Washington Mutual and Norman Shulevitz Foundation

Hands 2 Help
$7,000 to teach at-risk teenage girls etiquette, grooming, financial management, career skills and job readiness so that they can become mature self-sufficient young adults.
Funding Partner: CresaPartners

IT Women
$7,000 to increase the number of young women pursuing careers within the field of technology by providing exposure to successful female IT professionals as speakers and mentors.
Funding Partners: The Friedman-Klarreich Family Foundation and Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust

Miami Police Athletic League
$5,000 to teach girls in Overtown and West Coconut Grove self-respect, self-discipline and the value of maintaining a healthy body and soul through the study of martial arts.

Jewels Twirlers at National Auxiliary Association
$7,500 to teach the concepts of practice, teamwork, self-confidence and reward to low-income girls in Liberty City through a disciplined baton twirling program that provides a positive alternative to negative media influences.
Funding Partners: Vicki & Sylvester Lukis and The Friedman-Klarreich Family Foundation

Pridelines Youth Services
$10,000 to provide lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth with leadership training, experiential workshops and coaching in a supportive community.
Funding Partner: Aqua Foundation for Women

Rapha Family Services
$5,000 to provide mothers in Overtown, Little Haiti and Wynwood with the nurturing parenting skills class that is required for them to regain custody of their children who have been placed into foster care.
Funding Partner: Solomon Family Foundation

Unite for Dignity
$7,000 to build a community of grassroots immigrant women leaders by providing them with leadership and organizational skills, internships and knowledge about issues affecting their lives such as healthcare, childcare, refugee detention, domestic violence, and workers' rights.

YES Institute
$10,000 to provide educational workshops on gender and communication to lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women throughout Miami-Dade County.
Funding Partner: Aqua Foundation for Women

Freedom from Violence

CASA
$10,000 to strategically reach out to and educate victims of domestic violence who are virtually imprisoned in their homes about their legal rights and available social services.
Grant Underwriter: Young/Legal Professionals RAISE THE BAR

Catholic Legal Services
$15,000 to provide free legal services to immigrant women living in abusive situations that will assist them in obtaining residence, work permits or citizenship.
Grant Underwriter: Margarita Codina & Alexandra Codina

Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
$10,000 to assist immigrant Haitian women victims of domestic violence achieve legal status and economic self-sufficiency without the sponsorship of their abuser.
Grant Underwriter: Carlton Fields, at the recommendation of Tracfone Wireless, Inc.

Kristi House
$10,000 to replicate a successful youth-led awareness program that identifies and intervenes in the lives of girls who are potential victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking.
Grant Underwriter: Young/Legal Professionals RAISE THE BAR

Legal Services of Greater Miami
$10,000 to resolve the civil legal problems of women who are in pre-release at the Homestead Correctional Institute in order to increase self-sufficiency upon release.
Funding Partners: White & Case and Young/Legal Professionals RAISE THE BAR

Sahara of South Florida
$5,000 to reduce the incidence of domestic violence within Asian communities by raising awareness about violence against women, providing support and referrals to survivors and developing leadership.
Funding Partner: Lalita and Dar Airan

Health and Reproductive Freedom

Care Resource
$7,500 to educate Spanish-speaking women who are at risk of or affected by HIV/AIDS about prevention, treatment and healthy living.

South Florida Coalition to Promote Emergency Contraception
$5,000 to educate low-income women who are most vulnerable to unplanned pregnancy about emergency contraception and its role in a comprehensive strategy to prevent unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

Women’s Emergency Network
$9,000 to provide indigent and low-income women with reproduction counseling, unbiased discussion of options, referrals and one-time medical care when they have a compelling need to terminate a pregnancy and have exhausted all other options.
Funding Partner: Evelyn & Norman H. Cohan

National Social Justice Partnerships

Community Benefits Coalition
As the local funding partner with national foundations such as The Ford Foundation, Jewish Fund for Justice and New World Foundation, we will provide $125,000 in support of the coalition’s work on affordable housing, living wage jobs, gentrification and quality of life issues.

Tides Foundation
The Catalyst Fund at Tides Foundation awarded Women's Fund $100,000 in matching grants to support reproductive justice work led by women of color.

Special Initiative Funding

Bridge to Hope
$2,500 to provide seed funding for W.E. Can! (Women Empowered Can), a one year mentoring program for girls 16 and older who are at risk or living in poverty in Homestead.
Funding Partners: Missy Carricarte and Maria Roberts

Camillus House
$10,000 to assist homeless women in achieving self-sufficiency by addressing their basic needs (showers, meals, medical care and housing) in a private and dignified manner.
Funding Partners: Sue & Doug Gallagher and Jodi & Bob Dickinson

Human Services Coalition
$5,000 to educate service providers about the 2007 Florida Economic Self-Sufficiency research and assist women with selecting occupations in higher-paying non-traditional fields.

Planned Parenthood of Greater Miami, Palm Beach, and Treasure Coast
$10,000 to provide comprehensive sexual healthcare through the provision of clinical services, education and advocacy.

Women of Tomorrow
$10,000 to inspire, motivate and empower young women to live up to their full potential by using highly accomplished professional women as mentors and providing educational scholarships.
Grant Underwriter: M. Victoria Cummock

Women's Emergency Network
$10,000 to provide the full range of reproductive choices to indigent and low-income women and girls in South Florida facing an untenable pregnancy.