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1999
Sisters Empowering Sisters Grants
Sisters Empowering Sisters, the Girls' Advisory Group of Girl's Best Friend Foundation is a girl-directed program that offers teenage girls the opportunity to make grants to projects developed and run by girls. In addition to the grant amounts listed below, all grantees received an additional 10 percent over and above their grants to support evaluation of their projects.
Total Sisters Empowering Sisters Grants: $10,346.11
A Sporting Chance Foundation
1940 W. Irving Park
Chicago, IL 60613
773-935-240
$1,000
Support for Leveling the Playing Field, an annual event that brings together 500 girls and women for a day of sports, advocacy, empowerment, and fun organized by the Girls Advisory Board (girls ages 9 - 18) of ASCF.
Abraham Lincoln Centre
3858 S. Cottage Grove
Chicago, IL 60658
773-373-6600
$1,363.40
Support for Getting the News Out with Daughters of the Dust, a program for girls ages 10 - 18 to work together in developing a four-issue newsletter and a web site about girls in the Madden Park and Ida B. Wells housing developments.
Alternatives, Incorporated
1126 W. Granville
Chicago, IL 60660
773-973-5400
$1,080
Support for You're the Best Mom in the World: Daughter Appreciation, an event in which 9- to 11-year-old girls will plan an appreciation dinner for at least 60 pairs of moms and daughters in the Rogers Park/Uptown/Edgewater communities.
Community Extension Project, Inc.
47 S. Sixth
LaGrange, IL 60525
708-579-5898
$1,500
Support for girls ages 15 - 17 to plan and oversee a one-day conference for high school girls to get to know one another and to discuss health, sexuality, sexual orientation, self-defense, drugs, and so on in a safe and open environment.
Illinois Center for Violence Prevention
220 S. State, Suite 1215
Chicago, IL 60604
312-986-9200
$880
Support for an Informational Lock-In for eighth and ninth Grade Young Ladies, an event in which girls who are seniors in high school will plan and oversee an overnight retreat for 35, eighth and ninth grade girls. Topics to discuss will include gangs, sex, violence, high school adjustment, self-worth, volunteerism, and the importance of education.
Mile Square Health Center
2045 W. Washington
Chicago, IL 60612
312-413-1789
$892.93
Support for the mentoring activities of Sisters Essential EXperiences, a program developed by girls ages 16 - 17 from Mile Square Health Center to educate younger girls 11 - 13 years old about positive relationships between girls, sexuality, and pregnancy prevention, through a series of meetings.
Near North Health Service Corporation
1276 N. Clybourn
Chicago, IL 60610
312-337-1073
$1,100
Support for Change in Cabrini Green aka Cabrini Dreams, a program made up of a group of girls ages 11 - 14 who will create a quilt about Cabrini Green past, present, and future. They will show the quilt to various school and community groups to discuss the history of Cabrini and where they would like to fit into the future of the plans for the Chicago public housing development.
Redmoon Theater
2936 N. Southport
Chicago, IL 60657
773-388-9031
$1,179.78
Support for New Girls on the Block, a program in which girls ages 12 - 15 teach younger girls stilting, art, puppeteering, painting, and lantern making during the summertime.
Street-Level Youth Media
1856 W. Chicago, First Floor
Chicago, IL 60622
773-862-5331
$1,350
Support for Girls' Haven, a project in which Street-Level's Girl Video Crew (girls ages 15 - 17) will build a portable video confessional. Girls can come into the movable booth to discuss whatever is on their minds before a video camera. The discussions will be videotaped and edited into a short film that reflects issues in girls' lives. The film will be shown at various film festivals and will serve as a resource for other girl-serving organizations.
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