GRANT RECIPIENTS

Women With One Voice 2007 Grant Recipients

The following organizations have been awarded grants for 2007:

From the Community Fund:

1. Cancer Action $2,500

Cancer Action is dedicated to reducing distress and improving the quality of life for those living with, through and beyond cancer; and promotes education, prevention and early detection to reduce the impact of cancer in the greater Kansas City area. This grant will help provide women coping with a cancer diagnosis with personal care support services. It will target two of the crucial needs by providing minority wigs and providing scarves and turbans. Cancer Action serves the GKC area by providing service and support to over 2,500 women a year.

2. Good Samaritan Project $1,382

GSP provides supported and responsive care for a diverse community of individuals affected by HIV/AIDS and raises awareness of HIV/AIDS through education and advocacy. This grant will provide financial support for STI/HIV prevention education to high-risk young women in residential treatment. GSP will conduct a retreat developed by the Centers of Disease Control, for young girls, aged 13-19, who are currently living in treatment facilities. The curriculum includes empowerment, gender pride, STI/HIV information, risk-reduction education, role playing to practice refusal and partner negation skills, and testing.

3. Mattie Rhodes Center $2,100

The MRC bridges cultures and communities through arts, mental health, and social services. They empower individuals and families through culturally competent, bilingual services in a respectful and compassionate environment. This grant will help support the Nuevo Dia (“New Day”) Domestic Violence Program, which helps abused Latina and Spanish-speaking women reduce the cycle of violence by gaining services for self-sufficiency and a future that honors their individual potential. Bilingual professionals provide outreach and education, therapy, case management and advocacy.

4. Rose Brooks Center, Inc. $2,400

The Rose Brook Center breaks the cycle of domestic violence so that individuals and families can live free from abuse. This grant will help assist with the Outreach Support Group Services to women and their children who are victims of domestic violence. Support groups serve women who have recently been severely physically assaulted by an intimate partner and fearful for their lives, as well as those who have progressed through various stages of healing. These support groups are designed to provide immediate, ongoing support for victims in a safe, secure, non-threatening, confidential environment.

The Fifth Annual Grant from JULIE’S FUND:

Accessible Arts, Inc. $5,000

Accessible Arts, Inc. is an arts and disabilities organization that champions the arts for children with disabilities and advocates for the arts. This grant will help underwrite the Discovery Trails 2007-2008, The Outdoor, History and Arts Adventures Continues Program. Teens that are blind or visually impaired will venture along the Santa Fe trails from Kansas City to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Challenging outdoor activities will immerse the teens in the stories of Indians, explorers, merchants, soldiers and pioneers. Teens will travel in the company of skilled outdoors people and professional artist-educators whose task is to stimulate their imaginations about pioneer times and prepare the teens to share their insights about the risks and rewards of pioneering.