2001 Fund for Women Grant
Recipients
The Arc of Delaware - Women to Women peer
mentoring program provides opportunities for retarded women, ages 22
to 56, to receive one on one mentoring from other women with
cognitive disabilities who have successfully addressed a shared
challenge in their lives or work.
Biggs Museum - to develop and produce
educational materials and programs related to a traveling exhibition
featuring the work of 12 15 outstanding women artists associated
with the State of Delaware from 1900 1950. The exhibition will open
in March of 2002. The exhibition will visit all three Delaware
counties and will target the needs of girl’s age’s 9 11.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Delaware - To support
the Career Explorers Club, a ten-week summer enrichment program that
allows young women to experience the importance of the role of
education and careers. Focus is on communication skills, identifying
and exploring one career area.
Children and Families First Support - the
expansion of "Lil Sis" Life Skills program in Georgetown. Program
targets adolescent girls at risk due to substance abuse by
themselves or a family member.
Delaware Adolescent Program - Address
outreach expansion needs through growth of the Alumni Mentoring
Program and the Summer Reading Enrichment Program in New Castle
County.
Delaware State University - Support intensive
one week summer residential program involving hands on exploration
of math and science topics for 20 high school 10th and 11 ~ graders
and two teachers. Parents will be participating at opening and
closing ceremonies. Focus will be on minority girls.
Delta Outreach and Education Center, Inc. -
Assist the Dr. Betty Shabazz Delta Academy to create a life skills
course for the adolescent African American young women. Workshops
and sessions to include: leadership, interpersonal skills, self
esteem enhancement, time management, decision-making, conflict
resolution, goal setting, and money management.
First State Community Action Agency - Assist
a college tour of Historical Black Colleges and Universities for one
busload of African American students and teachers from Sussex
County. The college visits, complete with presentations from
admission officers and academic advisors, will aid in setting higher
expectations and hopes for these at risk teens.
Latin American Community Center - Funds to
adapt the LACC basic computer literacy skills program for youth to
teach 50 limited English proficient immigrant Latino women basic
computer literacy and keyboarding; hopefully enabling better jobs
with higher pay in the future. Four of these women will build a
computer from spare parts donated to the computer lab and will take
the computer home.
Mom's House - Supports this year's Fund focus
on education of women for self-sufficiency through supplementing
expenses that assists two school age mothers to complete one year of
a degree program. The mothers are selected via a merit process for
the child-care assistance.
Perinatal Association - Support the Cobs for
Moms’ program that helps low income, high-risk mothers to provide
for their families as they enter the work force. The program creates
good relationships with employers to provide a support system for
the women.
Greater Smyrna Clayton Boys and Girls Club - Supports
a series of hands on activities that give girls a visual image of
math concepts they will face in high school. This Kent County
focused program closes with an introduction to the Tl 83 calculator,
which is the instrument of choice in many Delaware High Schools.
Survivors of Abuse in Recovery, Inc. (SOAR)-
This project will provide sexual abuse recovery services to child
and adult survivors who are without health insurance or who are
limited in their ability to pay for treatment.
YWCA of New Castle County Delaware -
Partially support the Young Women's Leadership Academy; developed by
collaboration between the YWCA Study Circles and the University of
Delaware's Women's Leadership Development Program. Target twenty
five Study Circle graduates between the ages of 18 and 25 for
further leadership development.
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