Center for New York City Affairs
Milano The New School School for Managment and Urban Policy

72 Fifth Avenue, Room 618
New York , NY 10011

Project Title: Child Welfare Watch

The Center for New York City Affairs is a non-partisan, university-based forum for analysis and dialogue about critical urban issues, with an emphasis on low-income neighborhoods and rapidly changing communities. The Child Welfare Watch (CWW), a joint initiative of the Center for New York City Affairs and City Limits Community Information Service, provides ongoing coverage and critical analysis of the child welfare system.  The FAR Fund will support CWW’s Innovation Issue that highlights new initiatives in New York child welfare, including mental health, neighborhood family supports, improving parent/child visitation and rent assistance.

Project Title: Technical Assistance for Team Revolution

Community Resource Exchange (CRE) provides management assistance to encourage, facilitate and enable community based organizations to improve their administration and the services they provide. Support from the FAR Fund will allow CRE to assist Team Revolution with program and organizational planning as well as strengthening their financial management.  Team Revolution works to reduce violence against youth in Canarsie, Brooklyn by involving young people in the arts.

Project Title: Jistis Pou Fanm (Justice for Women)

Dwa Fanm, “Women’s Rights” in Haitian Creole, is a women’s advocacy organization created in 1999 to empower Haitian women and girls in the United States and abroad to eradicate all forms of discrimination, injustice and violence against women and girls. Launched by a FAR Fund Fellow, Jistis Pou Fanm is the first program to provide legal representation for Haitian women affected by domestic violence. With a grant from the FAR Fund, the program will continue to provide legal services and advocacy to Black immigrant women and girls as well as support and organize around public policies that positively affect domestic violence survivors.

Project Title: Youth-led Campaign to Reduce School Violence in Bushwick, Brooklyn

El Puente, founded in 1982, is a community/youth led development organization focused on ending community violence and promoting democratic action, healing and human rights.  A grant from the FAR Fund will allow youth involved in the anti-violence campaign to participate in trainings led by the Center for Third World Organizing. They will use the learned skills to organize workshops on violence prevention strategies and community change with 150 incoming ninth-grade students and their teachers.

Project Title: FAR Fund Fellowship Program: Philanthropy for Social Change

The fourth FAR Fund Fellowship assisted Omowale Adewale in developing the Rallying, Educating & Building Effective Leadership (R.E.B.E.L.) program which organizes and mobilizes young people through Hip Hop to decrease the incidence of violence against youth. R.E.B.E.L. helps participants develop self-determination and leadership skills through a 14-week curriculum that explores a variety of topics, including the educational and electoral system, affordable housing, conflict resolution and the juvenile justice system, preparing youth to address problems in their neighborhoods.

Grassroots Artist Movement
P.O. Box 726
New York , NY 10021

Project Title: Rallying, Educating & Building Effective Leadership

Grassroots Artist Movement is an international nonprofit membership organization that uses Hip Hop to address social and economic issues with young people through three programs: the Healthcare Network, International Artists Union, and Rallying, Educating & Building Effective Leadership (R.E.B.E.L.). R.E.B.E.L. aims to teach young people of color basic organizing, self-determination and leadership skills. The program includes a 14-week curriculum that explores a variety of topics, including the educational and electoral system, affordable housing, conflict resolution and the juvenile justice system. A grant from the FAR Fund will enable up to 45 young people, ages 14-25, to participate in R.E.B.E.L.’s organizing and leadership programs and will also allow the Grassroots Artists Movement to expand their Alternative to Incarceration program in the Bronx. This project was launched by a FAR Fund Fellow.

$50,000
   Contact: John Courtney/David Tobis

212-529-0110 ext.329

Project Title: Partnership for Family Supports and Justice

The Child Welfare Fund and the Open Society Institute initiated the Partnership for Family Supports and Justice, a donors collaborative, which now includes ten foundations and the Administration for Children’s Services.  The Partnership is in its third year of implementing a new approach to child welfare services in the Highbridge section of the Bronx. With support from the FAR Fund, the initiative aims to reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect, decrease the number of children placed in foster care as well as the time spent in care.

Sauti Yetu Center for African Women                                                                                                                 $5,000

c/o Dwa Fanm                                                                                                                                  Contact: Zeinab Eyega

P.O. Box 23505                                                                                                                             718-230-4027 ext. 304

Brooklyn, NY 11202

Project Title: Planning Grant

Sauti Yetu, “Our Voices” in Swahili, is a nonprofit community-based advocacy organization that focuses on African immigrant women’s rights.  The FAR Fund’s support will enable Sauti Yetu to conduct an assessment of the health, education, social service and personal needs of girls ages 11-18 in the African immigrant and refugee communities. The assessment will be used to develop a program that meets the identified needs of immigrant and refugee girls.

Project Title: Desi Girls on ‘da Rise Part II

Founded in 1996, South Asian Youth Action (SAYA!) creates opportunities for South Asian youth to realize their potential. Desi Girls on ‘da Rise assists young women ages 14-19 to develop leadership and organizing skills to work against personal and familial violence.  With a second FAR Fund grant, they will help 15 young women further develop their skills by organizing to reduce the number of violent incidents against women in the home and dating situations.