Educational Access and Success Grants
The Care Center
The Care Center’s mission is to provide resources and support to empower young women and their families so that they may continue their education, increase self-confidence, develop leadership skills and make healthy life choices leading toward self-sufficiency.
$10,000 FY09 and $10,000 FY10
Hampden County
Community Action
“The Family Learning Center” aims to break intergenerational cycles of poverty and low literacy by helping 15 women and their children reach their education, employment and other family goals through a comprehensive family literacy program.
$10,000
Franklin and Hampshire Counties
Enlace de Familias de Holyoke/Holyoke Family Network, Inc
Holyoke Unites/Holyoke Se Une is a community-wide coalition that aims to improve the quality of life in Holyoke by promoting collaboration among existing groups and individuals in the city. The coalition’s goal of achieving a 100% graduation rate in the Holyoke Schools will use community organizing as a key strategy and will focus on women’s leadership development as part of that strategy.
$6,000
Hampden County
Flying Cloud Institute
“Young Women in Science” offers education in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) to upper elementary girls during the school year and in a summer camp setting where high school girls are their mentors and club leaders.
$10,000 FY09 and $10,000 FY10
Berkshire County
Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts
Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts builds girls of courage, confidence and character and helps girls become leaders through discovering, taking action to make the world a better place, and connecting with others.
$7,000
Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire Counties
Girls Inc. of Holyoke
Girls Incorporated of Holyoke inspires all girls to be strong, smart and bold by providing them the opportunity to develop and achieve their full potential through a wide array of programs ranging from school-based and after-school education and activities.
$12,000 FY09 and $10,000 FY10
Hampden County
Girls Incorporated of the Berkshires
Girls Incorporated of the Berkshires, a program of the Gladys Allen Brigham Community Center, inspires all girls to be strong, smart and bold through its camp, community center, and outreach programs in gender equity and empowerment for school-age girls and teens.
$12,000
Berkshire County
The Gray House
“Community Education Support Program” provides literacy education and English for Speakers of Other Languages services to refugee women from Africa so they can gain language skills and increase their ability to navigate the systems around them and provide for their families.
$8,000
Hampden County
Helen Berube Teen Parent Program
The Helen Berube Teen Parent Program provides comprehensive support to meet the educational, health, and social service needs of pregnant and parenting teens and their infants in order to ensure that teens receive their high school diploma or G.E.D. and that their children succeed as well.
$10,000 FY09 and $10,000 FY10
Berkshire County
Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts
“Get Real” is a comprehensive middle school sexual education curriculum that will be offered to students and be taught to teachers at schools throughout the Hampden County region.
$10,000
Hampden County
Russian Community Association of Massachusetts
The organization will help Meskhetian women refugees improve their employment preparedness, participate in ESL classes, and receive education about family law, domestic violence and the American educational system.
$6,000
Hampden County
Square One
"Parenting for Incarcerated Parents" works toward preserving the mother-child bond through parenting education skill building, literacy training, support groups and individualized family service plans.
$11,000
Hampden County
Treehouse Foundation
“Hear Our Voice Initiative” offers skill building and training to women and girls so they can become advocates of child welfare and other policies, and ultimately improve conditions for children who have experienced foster care.
$6,000
Hampshire County
Step Forward/Step Ahead --Elms College
Step Forward/Step Ahead offers underserved girls opportunities to improve their academics, expand their cultural and social horizons, develop leadership skills, and pursue college and career goals through an intense fine arts and academic program during the summer (residential program) and school-year 'Saturday Success' program.
$14,000
Hampden County
YEAH Network
“Youth Empowerment Adolescent Health (YEAH) Network,” which addresses the Hampden County teen birth rate through youth participation in a broad-based coalition, works with an adolescent advisory board to address teen pregnancy through research collection in community needs assessments and to lead their own community advocacy and awareness campaigns and events.
$3,000
Hampden County
Economic Justice Grants
HAP, Inc.
“Family Self-Sufficiency Program” helps low-income women move from dependence on public assistance to economic self-sufficiency through job skill development, comprehensive career planning, counseling, and case management.
$10,000
Hampden County
MotherWoman, Inc.
“MomsRising of the Pioneer Valley,” the bipartisan political arm of the organization, organizes a coalition of mothers and their allies to take political action on social and economic justice issues impacting mothers and their families through education, training, outreach, and public events.
$10,000
Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden Counties
New England Learning Center for Women in Transition (NELCWIT)
NELCWIT will incorporate an economic assessment curriculum (Personal Economic Planning or PEP) into their advocacy and counseling work with survivors, and will also offer training in the curriculum to all providers serving rural western Massachusetts.
$10,000
Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden Counties
Walaalo Somali Sisters Collective
The Walaalo Somali Sisters Collective helps Somali women create income opportunities, self-sufficiency and a culture-based micro-business enterprise by offering workshops, business training and cross-cultural exchanges.
$9,000
Hampden County
Weston Rehabilitation Associates, Inc.,
Weston’s Employment and Training Program supports women in transition from jail and/or in-patient drug treatment by offering them on-site employment, employment skills development, economic literacy, and career planning and transition.
$8,000
Hampden County
Safety and Freedom from Violence Grants
Safe Passage
Safe Passage serves women and children who have experienced physical or emotional abuse by offering services and engaging the community, and strives to create a community that does not tolerate violence against women and children.
$10,000
Hampshire County
Victim Rights Law Center
The Victim Rights Law Center (VRLC) will increase its presence in Western Massachusetts to provide civil legal services to victims of sexual assault by recruiting and training pro bono attorneys, forging closer relationships with other service providers (including law enforcement, prosecutors, rape crisis centers, etc.), and training staff members from service organizations to identify civil legal needs of victims and make referrals to VRLC.
$10,000
Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties
Womanshelter/Compañeras
Womanshelter/Compañeras assists, supports, and empowers those whose lives are affected by battering or abuse by offering intervention and stabilization services including emergency shelter, a 24-hour hotline, counseling, support groups, and advocacy.
$10,000 FY09 and $10,000 FY10
Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties
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