Staff Grants 2001

Alianza Dominicana, Inc.
New York, NY

Flight 587 Community Assistance Center

To support this emergency relief effort responding to urgent community needs generated by the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, and the more recent crash of American Airlines Flight 587. 1 year $5,500

Brooklyn Children's Museum
Brooklyn, NY

General Support

To provide support to the nation's first children's museum, which presents innovative interactive exhibits, involves schools and families, and works within its community to enhance the lives of children. 1 year $3,000

Chinese American Planning Council, Inc.
New York, NY

Project Reach

To support Positive Youth, an employment and youth organizing project designed and run by HIV-positive young people to challenge the silence facing young people and proactively change the conditions facing young people living with HIV and AIDS. 1 year $1,000

Creative Theatre Group, Inc.
Monroe, NY

Festival of New Plays

To support their third annual Festival of New Plays, especially, but not 'limited to, the festival's marketing and promotion. The festival, which in 2001 featured 6 one-act plays over three days, provides this community arts group with an opportunity to feature emerging local playwrights. 1 year $500

Earth University Foundation
Atlanta, GA

General Support

To support efforts to foster educational programs in teaching, research and dissemination of knowledge about agriculture and conservation of the humid tropics and in furtherance of the foregoing purpose, to provide financial and other support for the programs of Escuela de Agricultura de la Tropical Humeda. 1 year $5,000

His Place Youth Center, Inc.
Patchogue, NY

General Operating Support

To enable His Place Youth Center to continue offering the teens in the Patchogue and Medford community a place where they can meet and be supervised by caring adults. The funds will also help the Youth Center to raise other funds to keep it operational. 1 year $1,300

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Lee, MA

General Support

To support dance creation, presentation, education and preservation and to engage and deepen public appreciation and support for dance. 1 year $6,000

J W Saxe Memorial Fund
Washington, DC

General Support

To support the activities of a fund that provides scholarships to undergraduate or graduate students working in public service. 1 year $500

National MPS Society, Inc.
Downing Town, PA

General Support

To support families affected by MPS (Mucopolysaccharoses) and ML (Mucolipodoses), severe disorders caused by abnormal storage of mucopolysaccharides because of the genetic absence of a certain enzyme, and to further the awareness of the general public, medical professionals, educators and social workers of these diseases. 1 year $500

Network on Women in Prison
San Francisco, CA

Justice Now Website Development and Support Project

To support a website that will educate the public about human rights abuses against women prisoners and the prison industrial complex, and encourage participation in campaigns against the abuses of women in prison. It will be the first website to serve as a resource center for information about women prisoners, and it will uniquely involve women prisoners' writings, art and photographs, creating an invaluable opportunity for women prisoners to enter the public discourse on issues affecting them. 1 year $7,000

Save the Children Federation, Inc.
Westport, CT

General Support

To support this international nonprofit child-assistance organization, which focuses on improving girls' and women's status, education, nutrition and access to information and services for their own health and their children's health. 1 year $7,000

Technoserve, Inc.
Norwalk, CT

General Support

To support this organization in providing management technical assistance and training to farmer-owned and other small businesses and to institutions primarily related to the agricultural sector, especially in poor rural areas of the developing world. 1 year $7,000

Third Wave Direct Action, Inc.
New York, NY

General Support

To support the only national organization run by and for young women between the ages of 15-30, that, through grantmaking, networking, and public education campaigns, empowers young women and fosters leadership among progressive feminist youth. 1 year $750

Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, Inc.
New York, NY

Ethical Leadership Retreat Program

To support the Woodhull Institute's ethical leadership retreat program for young women. 1 year $1,000
  Total $46,050