PREVENTING VIOLENCE AGAINST YOUTH

Center for Anti-Violence Education 421 Fifth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215

$10,000 Contact: Annie Ellman 718-788-1775

Project: Teen Women's Initiative The Center for Anti-Violence Education is a South Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization that develops and implements violence-prevention programs for children, teen women, adult women, and other communities at-risk of violence. With a planning grant from the FAR Fund, they will develop a new framework for youth activism through their existing Teen Women's Initiative, which is a youth-development and leadership program, serving primarily low-income young women of color in South Brooklyn.

El Puente 211 South 4th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211

$25,000 Contact: Jackie Chang 718-387-0404

Project: Youth-led Anti-Violence Campaign El Puente is a community/youth development organization and school focused on ending community violence, as well as on promoting democratic action, healing and human rights. A grant from the FAR Fund will allow them to bring together a group of 20-25 community youth, ages 15-21, to design and develop an anti-violence campaign addressing school and street violence.

Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing c/o Jewish Fund for Justice 260 Fifth Avenue Suite 701 New York, NY 10001

$25,000 Contact: Melody Baker 212-213-2113

Project: Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing The Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) is a group of national, regional, and local foundations, and youth organizing practitioners dedicated to advancing youth organizing as a strategy for youth development and social change including the prevention of violence against youth. The grant from the FAR Fund will support the Collaborative's continuing efforts to increase philanthropic investment in youth organizing in New York City and across the country and strengthen the organizational capacities of youth organizing efforts, including campaigns that prevent violence against youth.

Good Shepherd Services The STOP Team 173 Conover Street Brooklyn, NY 11231

$5,000 Contact: Crystal Hernandez 718-422-1915

Project: Students Teaching on Prevention (STOP): A Peer Leadership and Youth Development Project Good Shepherd Services is a large multi-service agency operating in Manhattan and Brooklyn . Its STOP/ Peer Educators project works with South Brooklyn Academy students. The youth have completed an intensive training curriculum in which they study the risks of violence and substance abuse and then practice and lead participatory, role-playing workshops for fellow students and other young people. The FAR Fund grant is to the students themselves to recruit new members, prepare skits and videos on youth violence and disseminate their approach in local communities.

I Look Up to the Sky Now c/o The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center 208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011

$25,000 Contact: Barbara M. Bickart 212-268-9822

Project: I Look Up to the Sky Now The Youth Enrichment Services (Y.E.S.) program of the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center does a great deal of work to advocate for the rights and protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth on local, state, and national levels. I Look Up to the Sky Now is a 60-minute documentary video project that focuses on the struggles, challenges, and triumphs of a vibrant community of gay activists, artists, and leaders in New York City as they confront and survive hate and violence with tremendous resiliency, compassion, and humor. They discover their own voices and creative and personal strengths and confidence through the relationships and community they build together. With support from the FAR Fund, they will create a comprehensive violence prevention training tool which will include an education-focused version of I Look Into the Sky and an accompanying teaching curriculum to be used in New York City schools.

Justice 4 Youth Coalition c/o Prison Moratorium Project 180 Varick Street 12th Floor New York, NY 10014

$25,000 Contact: Maria Lambert 718-260-8805

Project: No More Youth Jails! Campaign The Justice 4 Youth Coalition is made up of organizations within New York City that work on a variety of issues including trying to stop prison expansion and excessive incarceration of youth, working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered youth of color, and providing education and support services to biological and non-biological fathers to help rebuild nuclear families. The FAR Fund grant will allow the coalition to support approximately ten youth organizers to work on the campaign to stop prison expansion.

Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth 34 Park Avenue Bay Shore, NY 11706

$25,000 Contact: David Kilmnick 631-665-2300

Project: Project Safe Space Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth (LIGALY) is a nonprofit agency which offers education, advocacy, and social support services to Long Island and New York City 's gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender (GLBT) youth, young adults and their families. With support from the FAR Fund, they will launch Project Safe Space, which is a research and intervention project for improving school climate and reducing school violence by specifically addressing violence directed toward GLBT high school students in eight high schools in the New York Metropolitan area and on Long Island .

Make the Road By Walking, Inc. 301 Grove Street Brooklyn, NY 11237

$25,000 Contact: Oona Chatterjee 718-418-7690x204

Project: Action Summer Make the Road By Walking is a not-for-profit, membership-led organization based in Bushwick, Brooklyn . Its members are low-income, Latino and African-American residents of all ages, who work for justice and opportunity for all. With support from the FAR Fund, Make the Road By Walking's Youth Power Project will bring together 17 Bushwick neighborhood teenagers, ages 14-21, to work on a campaign to reduce violence in and improve Bushwick High School .

Partnership for Family Supports and Justice 135 East 15th Street New York, New York 10003

$50,000 Contact: John Courtney 212-529-0110

Project: Partnership for Family Supports and Justice The Open Society Institute and the Child Welfare Fund initiated the Partnership for Family Supports and Justice as a funders' collaborative. With support from the FAR Fund, the initiative will implement a new approach to child welfare service in one neighborhood in Highbridge, the Bronx , making a broad range of services available to all children and families.

Sista II Sista 89 St. Nicholas Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11237

$15,000 Contact: Isabel Gonzalez 718-366-2450

Project: Video and Media Literacy Project Sista II Sista is a collective dedicated to the holistic development of young women of color. They promote the principles of self-determination, inter-connected personal and social transformation, and collective action against injustice. They are working in collaboration with Downtown Community Television Center , which is dedicated to the belief that expanding public access to the electronic media arts invigorates our democracy. With support from the FAR Fund, a group of young women will be trained to use the information gathered from their research, personal interviews and a community survey to produce a video which will be used as a tool to educate various communities around the issue of police harassment and violence of young women in their neighborhoods.