Project Title: School Unity Project
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol is a grassroots, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping black and Latino youth develop into critical thinkers and community leaders, helping them learn the skills to survive and become successful. A grant from the FAR Fund will support the School Unity Project that will operate in three middle schools in Harlem and Washington Heights . The project seeks to positively affect the culture in each school, to use educational and empowering approaches to counter school violence, and to support youth to develop leadership skills through design, implementation and evaluation of a community building project.

Project Title: Youth Activism Project
The Center for Anti-Violence Education is a nonprofit organization in South Brooklyn which develops and implements violence prevention programs for children, teen and adult women, and other communities at-risk of violence. With a FAR Fund grant, the Youth Activism Project will empower young women to gain skills to become effective change agents and to respond to violence in their communities.

Project Title: Jistis Pou Fanm (Justice for Women)
Dwa Fanm, meaning "Women's Rights" in Haitian Creole, is a women's advocacy organization founded in 1999 by eight Haitian and American women. The organization is committed to empowering Haitian girls and women in the United States , Haiti and abroad, and to the eradication of discrimination, injustice and violence against Haitian women and girls. With a grant from the FAR Fund, Jistis Pou Fanm will be the first program to provide legal representation for Haitian women who are victims of domestic violence. In addition to legal representation, Jistis Pou Fanm will support and organize around positive domestic violence policies, lead a legal education and outreach campaign and serve as a legal resource for black immigrant survivors of domestic violence. This project was launched by a FAR Fund Fellow.

Project Title: Equity Now!
Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing communities of color to ensure overall health and safety of young girls on the streets, in schools, community centers and in the home. It also creates opportunities for girls to play team sports and to change the social attitudes associated with female athletes within black communities. With support from the FAR Fund, GGE will continue to provide its Gender Respect Workshop Series in 10 public schools reaching 1000 girls and boys ages 7 to 14. In addition, they will recruit 40 parents to join the Title IX Task Force. This task force will ensure that the Title IX amendment be adhered to in all public schools, which states, "No person in the U.S. shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, or denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal aid."

Project Title: The Art of Remembering
Founded in 1996, Groundswell Community Mural Project teaches individuals, grassroots organizations and artists in underserved neighborhoods to use murals to increase civic participation and empower people to speak for themselves. The Art of Remembering project will work with a dozen youth to create a multimedia exhibit about Rest in Peace murals, painted by local artist in tribute to youth who have died violently and prematurely from problems such as police brutality, gang warfare and gun violence. A grant from the FAR Fund will enable the project to work collectively with teens in every aspect of the exhibit.

Project Title: "I Look Up to the Sky" Violence Prevention Project
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is the largest multi-service organization focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) populations on the East Coast. The Center's Youth Enrichment Services program (YES), founded in 1989 provides LGBT youth with free and confidential services. "I Look Up to the Sky," a 60-minute documentary directed by Barbara Bickart and co-produced by Miriam Yeung is a series of video self-portraits of eleven LGBT youth activist/artists between the ages of 18 and 25. With support from the FAR Fund, the YES program will implement the next phase of the Safer Schools Campaign aimed at reducing violence against LGBT youth, using this video, with school and youth audiences.

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 nine foundations and the Administration for Children's Services. The Partnership is implementing a new approach to child welfare service in the Highbridge section of the Bronx . With support from the FAR Fund, the initiative will pursue its goals of reducing the incidence of child abuse and neglect, decreasing the number of children placed in foster care and decreasing the amount of time they spend in foster care.

Project Title: No More Violence Against My Sistas! Video Project
Sista II Sista is a Brooklyn-based community organization created to address the lack of community spaces that focus on the experiences of young women of color. With a grant from the FAR Fund, Sista II Sista will produce a video entitled, No More Violence Against My Sistas! , to illustrate the issue of violence, particularly domestic violence, from the perspective of young women of color. Once completed, this video will be used as an outreach/advocacy tool to raise awareness, dispel stereotypes and include community members of all genders and ages in the battle to end violence against women of color.

Project Title: Desi Girls on 'da Rise (Planning Grant)
Founded in 1996, South Asian Youth Action (SAYA!) was created to provide opportunities for South Asian youth to realize their full potential. It is the only organization of its kind that provides non-sectarian comprehensive youth development services to South Asian youth in New York City . With support from the FAR Fund, SAYA! will develop leadership skills of 20 young women to launch a campaign focusing on issues of violence in the South Asian community.