Women’s Fund, along with seven other funds/foundations
nationwide, is part of a matching grant program that
brings new funding and attention to women of color-led
organizations engaged in reproductive justice work. With
a belief that women who are directly impacted by
reproductive injustice must be at the center of any
effort to transform the systems that impact their lives,
Women’s Fund is partnering with the Tides Foundation
Catalyst Fund to build a strong Reproductive Justice
movement. The Tides Foundation Catalyst Fund will match
all donations received in 2010 in support of this
initiative. Organizations awarded grants address a broad
spectrum of issues that create better lives for women,
healthier families and sustainable communities.
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2010 Reproductive Justice Projects in Miami-Dade
Alliance for Early Care
& Education (AECE): $10,000
Access to
affordable child care is integral to the economic security
of women with children. AECE trains and mobilizes
child care practitioners to be involved in advocacy of
policy issues affecting the child care industry.
Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami (FANM), Haitian Women of Miami:
$10,000
Concerns for modesty among Haitian women create a resistance
to Pap smears leaving them vulnerable to cervical cancer.
FANM offers an alternative which teaches self-screening
methods and provides Haitian women the tools to advocate for
increased access to affordable health care for themselves,
their families, and their communities.
Miami Workers Center: $15,000
People of color, and
the economically disadvantaged, carry an inequitable
environmental burden in their communities. The Build
Healthy Communities program at Miami Workers Center
engages Black and Latina women from low income communities
to advocate for affordable community healthcare, childcare,
and safe, environmentally healthy housing.
National Farm Worker
Ministry: $15,000
Women farm workers exposed to pesticides are
at greater risk for chronic health problems such as cancer,
infertility, birth defects and neurological damage. The
National Farm Worker Ministry’s program educates women in
South Dade on the health hazards of pesticides and builds
their self-esteem so they will feel confident in advocating
for their rights.
Power U Center for
Social Change: $20,000
Black infant mortality in Miami Dade County
is 2.5 times higher than Whites and 3 times the rate of
Hispanics. Mortality of Black women from breast cancer is
41% higher than Whites and 64%higher than Hispanics.
Power U educates and empowers women living in Overtown about
their bodies, birthing options, and the health of mothers,
children, and community. By teaching women
self-determination over their bodies, Power U can then
engage them in advocacy activities to create a healthy
community.
Sahara of South Florida: $15,000
South Florida is home to more than 35,000
Asians from varied backgrounds who are often isolated both
physically and linguistically. Sahara provides culturally
sensitive advocacy and support to Asian women survivors of
domestic violence.
Serve the People: $7,500
Women of color are systematically discouraged from reaching
positions of leadership and denied opportunities for
informal mentorships. Serve the People's Advanced
Leadership Development Program will identify
female leaders and train them to become effective social
justice advocates.
Sisterhood of Survivors
Advocate Program: $20,000
Domestic violence is a social and public
health issue that has devastating physical, emotional,
financial, legal, and social effects, not just on women and
children, but on society as a whole. The Bridging
Families and Communities program organizes domestic
abuse survivors to be advocates for changing social systems
that blame the survivors and place little accountability on
the abuser.
Unite for Dignity - Women Workers Co-operative: $7,500
Women who work in “cleaning and caring” professions
experience extremely low wages, wage theft (non-payment for
work performed), and physical threats from their employers
which reflects the devaluing of women’s work and bodies. The
Women Workers Co-operative provides low-income women
entrepreneurial skills and trains them to conduct outreach
to other women affected by wage theft.
Urgent, Inc.: $11,000
Young women of color have disproportionately higher rates of
teen pregnancy and HIV/AIDS. Urgent's Rites of
Passage Pregnancy Prevention program empowers at-risk
girls to make informed and responsible decisions about their
reproductive/sexual health and advocate for these rights. |
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The 2010 Grant cycle is now closed.
Next Grant Period:
January 2011 to December 2011
Proposals due Fall of 2010 (date to be announced).
For more information
contact:
Fran Katz,
Associate Director 305-441-0506
fran@womensfundmiami.org
To
make a matching donation:
Dannaliz Segrera, Director of Development
and Communications 305-441-0506
dannaliz@womensfundmiami.org
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