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2001-2002
Sisters Empowering Sisters Grants
As a general practice, SES includes an additional ten percent over and above grant amounts to support evaluation of projects.
Total Sisters Empowering Sisters grants: $16,502.75
A Sporting Chance Foundation
1940 W. Irving Park Rd.
Chicago, Il 60613
773-935-2402
$1,100
For Leveling the Playing Field, a full day of workshops on sports, health, and emotional well-being for girls and young women at Jahn Elementary School.
Centro Romero
6216 N. Clark
Chicago, IL
773-508-5300
$770
For Clay World, a program for young women to learn pottery making skills and teach pottery making to younger girls in the after-school program.
Community Extension Project, Inc.
47 S. 6th Ave.
LaGrange, IL
708-579-5898
$1,100
Girls ages 15-17 will plan and oversee the Girls Conference, a one-day conference for high school girls and young women to get to know one another and to discuss topics such as health, sexuality, sexual orientation, self-defense, and drugs.
Family Rescue Ridgeland Transitional Housing
6822 S. Ridgeand
Chicago, IL 60649
773-667-0715
$1,100
For Sisters Kick Butts, a girl-run anti-smoking program for young women and their mothers who have survived domestic violence and are living in transitional housing.
Gear Up Girls Club
Northeastern Illinois Chicago Teachers Center
770 N. Halsted
Chicago, IL
312-733-7330
$1,100
For Girl Warriors, a bi-lingual, peer, self defense program. Eighth grade girls will teach fifth and sixth grade girls Karate techniques learned from Thousand Waves Karate instructors.
SisterNet
220 S. State Suite 1215
Chicago, IL
312-939-8044
$1,100
Support for planning and implementation of a youth rally against sexual assault and teen dating violence. Girls and young women ages 14-17 will plan and participate in the rally to be held during National Sexual Assault Awareness month, April 2003. (This grant was made to the Vicariate VI Youth Office.)
Insight Arts
1535 W. Morse
Chicago, IL 60626
773-973-1521
$1,100
For Girl's Gala, a performance/art festival in Rogers Park that encourages young women to create art, express themselves, have pride in their identity, and build community.
LeClaire Hearst Community Center
4439 S. LaCrosse Avenue
Chicago, IL
773.767.1709
$1,540
For the Mother Daughter Retreat, in which young women from LeClaire Hearst Public Housing development invite their mothers and female role models to a retreat to participate in workshops on improving relationships, health, and recreation.
Neighborhood Boys and Girls Club
2501 W. Irving Park Road
Chicago, IL 60618
773-463-1848
$1,100
Young women recreational leaders will embark on a river-rafting and camping trip to help improve team dynamics and welcome a younger group of leaders.
Redmoon Theater Dramagirls
2936 N. Southport
Chicago, IL
773-388-9031
$1,399.75
For New Girls on the Block, a summer program for girls and young women ages 13-16 to teach younger girls in the Logan Square community stilting, art, puppeteering, painting, and lantern making.
This Is Me, Inc.
2441 N. Kedzie #1
Chicago, IL 60647
773-583-8550
$1,100
For Women's History Playback Theatre, a program for young women in the Portage Park neighborhood to enhance their knowledge of women's history and culture through research and portrayal of the stories of prominent figures in women's history.
Urban Art Retreat
2936 N. Southport #210
Chicago, IL 60657
773-275-1319
$1,100
For Fun-a-ture, a project of Drum Roll, an art program for young girls to teach other girls how to be independent and learn non-traditional skills. Girls will learn carpentry and make fun furniture to be sold in community storefronts. Sales revenue will be used to start a peer-to-peer art program in a domestic violence shelter.
Vietnamese Association of Illinois
5252 N. Broadway #2
Chicago, IL 60640
773-9896157
$1,100
For Young Women's Dance and Leadership Group also called May Xanh (The Blue Cloud), a program that increases self-esteem, team work, leadership skills, and community service by organizing, practicing, and performing both traditional Vietnamese and hip-hop dance.
Young Women's Leadership Charter School
3410 S. State
Chicago, IL 60616
312-949-9400
$1,100
For Performing Arts, a program for young women that uses interpretive dance and slam poetry as self-expression and encourages participants to put their imagination into action to reflect their social and cultural experiences.
Latin School
59 W. North Ave.
Chicago, IL
312-573-4598
$693
For the Latin Alliance of Women, a group of high-school aged young women organizing to talk, and analyze issues that concern women. Participants will organize Spread the Word, a conference of high-school aged young women from local area high schools to discuss body image, gender bias, and eating disorders.
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