Grants from The Women's Fund -- 2000
In 2000, TWF awarded $50,000 to programs that supported women and girls through a variety of programs.GIRLS/YOUNG WOMEN
Cahaba Girl Scout Council: $2,500. To coordinate and convene two Girl Summits as well as subsequent forums designed for adults.Girls, Inc.: $2,500. To develop “media centers” in the organization’s Birmingham/Crestwood and Bessemer centers.
Leading Edge Initiative, Birmingham-Southern College: $5,000. To provide operating funds for project designed to develop leadership capacity among college age women in Alabama.
Ruffner Mountain: $2,000. To design and pilot an outdoor skills program for adolescent and young adult women to help them develop physical and mental fitness in a secure but challenging environment.
Sandlot Sports: $3,000. To strengthen the organization’s programs for at-risk girls, not only through participation in sports activities, but by providing a support system for those girls in the classroom.
VIOLENCE
Crisis Center/Rape Response: $500. To purchase furnishings for a more private, therapeutic intake/waiting area and group counseling room for rape victims and their families who seek rape crisis services. Glenwood Mental Health Services: $5,000. To implement a new specialized trauma assessment and intervention program for girls in the Greater Birmingham area.
Legal Services of Metro Birmingham: $5,000. To serve low-income women in spouse abuse and related domestic relations matters by providing legal advice and representation in divorce matters and protection from abuse matters.
SafeHouse: $1,200. To help pay the salary of a legal advocate who provides education to victims on legal options, develops relationships and resources with legal and law enforcement officials, and provides training and information.
UAB Titusville 2000: $3,000. To assist in addressing root causes of violence against women and girls in the community of Titusville through education, teacher workshops, and public awareness.
GRASSROOTS/COMMUNITY CENTERS
Douglas Arant Non-profit Corporation: $3,200. To support a free program called “Success Story,” an after-school and summer day program located in Metropolitan Gardens and expanding soon to the Elyton area. ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY
Bessemer State Technical College: $2,000. To provide one-time assistance for domestic needs as well as limited academic support to women.First Light: $1,200. To help provide non-duplicated programs to homeless women, such as an apprenticeship program, a day program, and an after-school performing arts program.
New Life Harvest Ministries: $2,000. To provide help toward salaries of two female assistants to work in the organization’s computer lab.
TRANSPORTATION
Consumer Credit Counseling Service: $1,200. To help low-income head-of-household women meet emergency expenses and transportation needs.Kid One Transport System:$1,500. To offset fuel expenses in transporting pregnant women to prenatal care appointments.
PATH/Magic City Harvest: $1,200. To support a woman Jesuit volunteer who will work half-time with PATH in assisting its housing coordinator and half-time with MCH in soliciting and distributing excess food from restaurants and grocers to area homeless, disabled, and low-income women.
Traveler’s Aid Society of Birmingham: $2,500. To help make automobile ownership possible for welfare transitioners, mostly women, whose ability to obtain and retain employment is jeopardized because of a transportation dilemma.
