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2000
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: $10,160.50
Artistic Pursuits
628-630 Columbus
Ottawa, IL 61350
815-434-2784
$1,500
Girls ages 13 - 16 will plan and paint murals in the town of Ottawa and visit youth-developed murals in Joliet.
Casa Central
1531 N. California
Chicago, IL 60622
773-645-2408
$1,500
Girls ages 13 - 17 who have participated in the Career Links program will hold a career fair for other girls in their Humbolt Park community. They will use the career fair to expose girls to many different career options. They will also host a banquet at the end of the program to thank the adult volunteers and to celebrate the end of their program year.
Community Extension Project Inc.
47 S. Sixth
LaGrange, IL 60525
708-579-5898
$1,500
Girls ages 15 to 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 at McDonald's Hamburger University
Illinois Center for Violence Prevention/SisterNet
220 S. State, Suite 1215
Chicago, IL 60604
312-986-9200
$1,500
In support of the planning and implementation of a youth rally against sexual assault and teen dating violence. Girls ages 14 - 17 will plan and participate in the rally to be held during national Sexual Assault Awareness month (April 2001).
Music Theatre Workshop
5647 N. Ashland
Chicago, IL 60660
773-561-7100
$1,388
A small group of 15- and 16-year-old girls who formerly lived in the Juvenile Detention Center want to put together a newsletter to help support girls who are still in the detention center as well as girls who are out. They will ask both sets of girls to submit stories, poems, and so on. The editors will also research and report on resources in various communities.
Redmoon Theater Dramagirls
2936 N. Southport, First Floor
Chicago, IL 60657
773-388-9031
$1,272.50
Girls ages 13 - 16 will teach younger girls in the Logan Square community about 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
$1,500
Street-Level's Girl Video Crew, ages 15 - 18, built (with help from a welder) a portable video "confessional." Girls can come into the moveable booth to discuss whatever is on their minds. This year the booth will be taken to more sites, and group discussions by the girls running the haven will also be videotaped. All of the discussions with the camera 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 be a resource for other girl-serving organizations.
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