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2004
Sisters Empowering Sisters Grants
Total FY2004 SES Grants: $40,150
Arab American Action Network (AAAN)
6400 S. Kedzie
Chicago, IL 60629
773-476-3534 ext 63
$3,850
AAAN is a community organizing and advocacy group dedicated to empowerment of Arabs & Arab-Americans and is housed in Southwest Youth Collaborative. This grant is in support of creating Killing Ignorance: Understanding Arabs & Muslims, a documentary that will break down myths and stereotypes of Arab & Muslim women and girls, and then screening the film at local high schools.
Arab American Family Services (AAFS)
10608 S. Roberts Rd.
Palos Hills, IL 60465
708-974-8084
$3,850
AAFS is a community-based organization that works exclusively with Arab immigrants (mostly Muslim, some Christian) from the south side and southwest suburbs of Chicago. This grant is in support of creating a mentorship project between the older and younger girls, to provide a safe space for girls to come together and discuss issues relevant to them.
Chicago State University
9501 S. King Dr. -HWH 129
Chicago, IL 60628
773-995-2357
$3,850
This grant is for materials to expose girls to science at an early age, with experiments that will pique their interest in science and math as well as trips to science museums in the city. PREP is a program on the south side of Chicago aimed at getting girls excited about math & science. The girls will design an animated cartoon featuring a young girl who uses math as a way to solve life's problems. The cartoon will then be put on cd and distributed around Chicago.
Community Extension Project
47 S. 6th Ave.
LaGrange, IL 60525
708-579-5898
$3,850
This grant is in support of a one day conference for 75 girls from various schools in the southwest suburbs on health education, peer support and leadership training.CEP is based in La Grange and sponsors a girls' leadership conference annually. The conference brings together girls from all over Chicagoland to learn about various health and social issues impacting them and their communities.
Community T.V. Network
2035 W. Wabansia
Chicago, IL 60647
773-278-8500
$3,850
This grant is for the creation of a comprehensive sexuality education video that talks to young women candidly about their sexual experiences and dispels stigma and misinformation about sexually transmitted infections and reproductive freedom. They also have plans to screen the film in health classes throughout Chicago Public School system.
Family Rescue
6822 S. Ridgeland
Chicago, IL 60649
773-667-0715
$3,850
Beautiful Zion, on the south side of Chicago, is an arts-based empowerment program started by and catered to girls who reside at Family Rescue domestic violence shelter. The girls want to choreograph, teach and perform praise dance for the residents of the shelter.
South Side Help Center
10420 S. Halsted St
Chicago, IL 60628
773-445-5445 ext 33
$3,850
The girls' program of South Side Help Center wants to create a rites of passage documentary that will encourage girls to use self-loving, positive approaches to every day life situations.
Southwest Youth Services - SOUL
6400 S Kedzie
Chicago, IL 60629
773-317-8092
$3,850
SOUL, a program within Southwest Youth Collaborative, works with girls from the south/west sides of Chicago around community organizing. Their latest project idea is to create a video in response to the rising rate of domestic violence in their communities. The girls will have only females in the video, playing both male/female and perpetrator/survivor roles. Their intent is to hold several community screenings of the film, inviting both youth and adults to attend.
Street Level Youth Media
1856 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
773-862-5331
$3,850
SLYM is an organization where marginalized youth can learn media arts for self-expression, communication and social change. The newly formed girls' group wants to make a documentary highlighting females in underground and local hip hop. Once the film is complete, the girls intend to hold a combination kick-off screening/art installation, with featured artists performing.
Uptown Center Hull House
4520 N. Bearson St.
Chicago IL 60640
773-561-3500
$3,850
Girls Unite! is a program within Hull House that is planning a one-day teen dating violence awareness and prevention gathering for girls and young women, to include arts-based responses to domestic violence (mural-making and spoken word).
YWCA Lake County
2133 Belvidere Rd.
Waukegan, IL 60085
847-662-4247
$1,650
Girls on the Move is housed in the YWCA in Waukegan, IL. The girls of the program want to get other girls excited about and engaged in political leadership, and are seeking to do this by creating contacts with local female elected officials that are involved in girls'/women's empowerment. Girls on the Move will document the meetings through interviews, photographs and videotaping, which will culminate in a multimedia presentation that they plan to debut at Waukegan High School.
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