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Girls for Gender Equity

Ensures that NYC youth have a safe place to achieve academic excellence, be community leaders, and maintain healthy lifestyles, and strives to eliminate sex discrimination through community organizing.

  • Total Awarded $350,000
  • Award Years 2021–2026

Girl Be Heard

Inspires girls and young women to be leaders, changemakers, and activists through socially conscious theater making, storytelling, and performance that develop, amplify, and celebrate their voices.

  • Total Awarded $135,000
  • Award Years 2021–2024
The Brave House

The Brave House

Supports young immigrant women and girls transitioning to life in the US through peer mentorship, legal advocacy, mental health support, job programs, and parenting assistance to bolster their independence.

  • Total Awarded $135,000
  • Award Years 2021–2024

The YWCA of Brooklyn

Supports women and girls, champions gender equity, and strives to eliminate racism through housing support, leadership development, immigration services, advocacy and policy, and community engagement.

  • Total Awarded $135,000
  • Award Years 2023–2026

HousingPlus

Provides women and families with housing and comprehensive support and case management through housing and justice initiatives, including an alternative to detention for women at Rikers Island

  • Total Awarded $217,500
  • Award Years 2022–2025
Muslim Community Network

Muslim Community Network

Provides civic engagement workshops for women, mentorship programs for justice-involved youth, and public education classes to Muslim Americans and people of all faiths to demonstrate the complexity of and to enhance the Muslim American experience.

  • Total Awarded $350,000
  • Award Years 2021–2026
Pure Legacee

Pure Legacee

Offers opportunities for healing and mentorship for young women who have experienced trauma as a direct result of the criminal justice system, aging out of foster care, and facing homelessness.

  • Total Awarded $135,000
  • Award Years 2022–2025

Restore Forward

Provides Black women with a land-based healing program, farm programs, crisis intervention and mental health services, reproductive health services, and retreats in upstate New York.

  • Total Awarded $100,000
  • Award Years 2022–2024

Sadie Nash Leadership Project

Strengthens and equips young women and gender-expansive youth of color as agents for change in their lives and in the world through leadership and mentorship programs and scholarships.

  • Total Awarded $135,000
  • Award Years 2021–2024

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