A Long Walk Home uses art therapy and the visual and performance arts to document, to educate and to bring about social change. Using testimonies, poetry, music, photographs, and videos of and by women and children, A Long Walk Home provides safe and entertaining forums through which the public learns about healing from trauma. One of their core programs is Girl/Friends, a multi-media art program designed specifically for adolescent girls (ages 14-19) that addresses issues of sexual assault, teenage dating violence, statutory rape, sexual harassment and sexual assault laws. Link: A Long Walk Home
A Long Walk Home was funded in 2004 and 2008. They are based in the Nationwide and work in Anti-Violence, Community Health & Healing and Sexual Violence.
Through leadership development, political education, and community organizing, the Brown Boi Project cultivates spaces in which young queer womyn and men of color can explore and develop healthy frameworks of masculinity within the context of family, gender, race, sexual orientation, and class. With Third Wave’s support, the Brown Boi Project will develop a health curriculum that speaks specifically to young masculine of center womyn and gender nonconforming youth of color, and creates space for these young people within the reproductive health and justice movement. Link: Brown Boi Project
Brown Boi Project was funded in 2010. They are based in the Nationwide and work in Community Health & Healing, Economic Justice, Gender Justice, Racial Justice and Trans Health utilizing Leadership Development.
Casa Atabex Achè runs a women's clinic in the South Bronx that provides alternative healthcare for young women of color. Through three holistic programs that integrate intensive personal development and collective political education, Casa provides the opportunities and resources for the womyn of Mott Haven to reclaim their bodies, minds and spirits and, as a consequence, their rights. Link: Casa Atabez Achè
Casa Atabez Achè was funded in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. They are based in the Northeast and work in Arts & Culture, Community Health & Healing, Organizing & Advocacy and Racial Justice.
The Chicago Abortion Fund (CAF) assists low-income women in obtaining safe abortion services by providing clinic referrals, negotiated discounts and financial assistance. CAF also engages young people who have used their services in public education, organizing and advocacy through the My Voice, My Choice leadership group. This capacity-building grant from Third Wave will assist CAF in developing internal leadership. Link: Chicago Abortion Fund
Chicago Abortion Fund was funded in 2009 and 2010. They are based in the Midwest and work in Community Health & Healing, Organizing & Advocacy and Reproductive Justice utilizing Direct Services, Leadership Development and Political/Peer Education.
The Colorado Anti-Violence Program is a community-based organization that works to eliminate violence within and against LGBTQ communities, including internalized, interpersonal and institutional violence. Third Wave Foundation's grant is in support to the Branching Seedz of Resistance: Youth Violence Prevention Project, the first sexual violence prevention project in Colorado to center the experiences, leadership, and organizing capacity of LGBTQ high school-aged youth. Link: Colorado Anti-Violence Program
Colorado Anti-Violence Program was funded in 2010. They are based in the West and work in Anti-Violence, Community Health & Healing, LGBTQ Rights, Organizing & Advocacy and Policy Advocacy utilizing Direct Services, Leadership Development and Research.
Based in Oakland, CA, is the nation's first national talkline to cater to the emotional needs of women after an abortion. In 2007, Exhale trained over 90 volunteers to staff the post-abortion talkline and has significantly expanded their hours, multi-lingual accessibility, and geographic range since Third Wave first funded them. Link: Exhale
Exhale was funded in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. They are based in the West and work in Community Health & Healing.
JASMYN offers the only teen-friendly safe space in northeast Florida for LGBTQ and gender queer youth to grow and develop their leadership and activism skills. In addition to hosting a drop-in health clinic, JASMYN runs the Gender Connections Project, which promotes wholeness and social change with transgender (including gender variant) youth through empowerment, reproductive justice awareness, education, advocacy, and support services. JASMYN’s youth leaders were instrumental in the passage of anti-harassment policy in Florida public schools. Link: Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network
JASMYN was funded in 2008, 2009 and 2010. They are based in the Southeast and work in Community Health & Healing, Gender Justice, LGBTQ Rights and Trans Health utilizing Direct Services, Leadership Development and Political/Peer Education.
Just Be, Inc., based in Selma, AL, helps young women who have suffered from sexual abuse, assault, and exploitation to transform from victims into survivors. The Breitbart Memorial Fund grant allowed the Me Too program to hire a consultant for the development of the Survivor’s Leadership Training curriculum. Link: Just Be, Inc.
Just Be, Inc. was funded in 2007. They are based in the Southeast and work in Community Health & Healing, Harm Reduction and Sexual Violence.
Kalpulli Izkalli is an intergenerational resource and action center dedicated to transforming the health and environment of communities of color in New Mexico. Kalpulli Izkalli centers the needs of under-resourced women and families and uses the provision of traditional health and healing services as an entry point to leadership within the organization, community, and reproductive justice movement. Kalpulli Izkalli is a leader in community education around midwifery, birthing practices, and the dangers of environmental toxins. Link: Kalpulli Izkalli
Kalpulli Izkalli was funded in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010. They are based in the West and work in Birthing Rights, Community Health & Healing, Environmental Justice, Organizing & Advocacy, Racial Justice and Reproductive Justice utilizing Leadership Development and Political/Peer Education.
Khmer Girls in Action (KGA) empowers young women of Cambodian and Southeast Asian descent in Long Beach, California to be leaders within the reproductive justice movement. As they move along KGA’s leadership development pipeline, members are equipped with the necessary educational tools and organizing skills to create positive change in their communities. Alongside their young women’s program, KGA is preparing to launch an 8-week pilot Young Men’s Empowerment Program in 2011. The program seeks to develop male leaders and prepare them with political knowledge to challenge patriarchy and become strong allies within the reproductive justice movement. Link: Khmer Girls in Action
Khmer Girls in Action was funded in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. They are based in the West and work in Community Health & Healing, Criminal/Legal System, Immigrant Rights, Organizing & Advocacy and Racial Justice utilizing Leadership Development, Political/Peer Education and Research.
Mujeres Unidas, based in San Antonio, Texas, unifies the Latino community by providing a safe environment for bilingual/bicultural support services and education to Latinas and their families living with or impacted by HIV/AIDS. Mujeres Unidas has recently launched a campaign to advocates for changing the current approach to sex education in one of the largest school districts in the community. Link: Mujeres Unidas
Mujeres Unidas was funded in 2008. They are based in the Southwest and work in Community Health & Healing, Comprehensive Sex Education, Organizing & Advocacy and Racial Justice utilizing Leadership Development.
The PCYP, which Peter founded in 1994, addresses the unique legal issues facing homeless and indigent lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) youth including foster care, education, public assistance benefits and criminal matters. Within PCYP, Streetwise & Safe (SAS), is a leadership development initiative aimed at building knowledge, leadership, and power among LGBTQQ youth of color who experience policing and criminalization in the context of policing of “quality of life” offenses, sex work and trafficking. Third Wave supports their development of “know your rights” materials tailored to the experiences and perspectives of LGBTQ youth, their peer education and organizing work, and their efforts to claim a seat at policy discussion tables as full participants, speak out on their own behalf, act collectively to protect and advance their rights and demand choices that allow youth to maximize their safety, self-sufficiency, and self-determination. Link: Peter Cicchino Youth Project
Peter Cicchino Youth Project / Streetwise & Safe was funded in 2009. They are based in the Northeast and work in Community Health & Healing and LGBTQ Rights utilizing Direct Services and Leadership Development.
PODER’s approach to reproductive justice work acknowledges that there is a sacred connection to our Mother Earth and the physical, spiritual, mental, and economic well being of women living in predominantly communities of color. PODER is a female of color led environmental justice organization that follows an intergenerational approach when addressing and organizing around the multi-layered impact of oppression occurring in their East Austin, TX community. Link: PODER
PODER was funded in 2009. They are based in the Southwest and work in Community Health & Healing, Racial Justice and Reproductive Justice utilizing Political/Peer Education and Research.
Sistas on the Rise advocates for quality education for teen parents and expecting mothers as a way of building leadership among young mothers and reducing poverty and unintended pregnancies. SOTR continues to build trust and community as they assess factors that impact and/or impede the educational access and achievement of young mothers, including the closing of "pregnant and parenting schools" in New York City. Link: Sistas on the Rise
Sistas on the Rise was funded in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. They are based in the Northeast and work in Community Health & Healing and Youth Mothers' & Parents' Rights.
St. James Infirmary is the only peer-led occupational health and safety clinic run by and for sex workers in the US. St. James Infirmary also operates the STRIDE program, which provides appointment-based hormone therapy services as well as drop-in clinic hours and a support group series for transgender sex workers. In 2011, St. James Infirmary will launch a new research project to assess the consequences of condoms-as-evidence policies and the health impact of sex workers' encounters with the police. Link: St. James Infirmary
St. James Infirmary was funded in 2008, 2009 and 2010. They are based in the West and work in Community Health & Healing, Criminal/Legal System, Harm Reduction, HIV/AIDS, Sex Work & Sex Trade and Trans Health utilizing Direct Services and Political/Peer Education.
Women with a Vision (WWAV) seeks to promote wellness and disease prevention for women and their families living at or below the poverty line through health promotion, advocacy, and community based research. WWAV is a harm reduction organization that has, in response to the rapidly changing political context in New Orleans, adopted a focus on women who are impacted by street economies, the sex trade, who are or were formerly engaged in sex work, or who are homeless or street-based. With Third Wave’s support, WWAV will increase the engagement of young people in their NO Justice Project, which challenges the criminalization of sex work under the Louisiana Statute 14:89, the Solicitation of a Crime Against Nature (SCAN) statute. This statute is currently being challenged in federal courts. Link: Women With A Vision
Women With A Vision was funded in 2010. They are based in the Southeast and work in Anti-Violence, Community Health & Healing, Criminal/Legal System, Harm Reduction, Organizing & Advocacy and Sex Work & Sex Trade utilizing Direct Services, Leadership Development and Research.
The Young Women of Color HIV/AIDS Coalition (YWCHAC) provides support services, training, workshops and events for youth and service providers in order to address rising HIV rates among young women of color 13-24. Third Wave supports the WE SPEAK program, in which young people receive sexual health education, advocacy and organizing training, and leadership development. YWCHAC is conducting a research and public education campaign that explores the connections between quality of life, schooling, and related socioeconomic indicators. Link: Young Women of Color HIV/AIDS Coalition
Young Women of Color HIV/AIDS Coalition was funded in 2009 and 2010. They are based in the Northeast and work in Community Health & Healing, Comprehensive Sex Education, HIV/AIDS, Organizing & Advocacy and Racial Justice utilizing Leadership Development, Political/Peer Education and Research.
Young Women United (YWU) was created by young women of color and allies to change the relations of power in Albuquerque. YWU members seek to reduce violence, improve health, and build power in their communities through public education, organizing and advocacy. YWU is nationally recognized for their leadership in the fight for comprehensive sexuality education in New Mexico. Currently, YWU operates the Strong Women, Healthy Communities program, which offers leadership development and advocacy opportunities for women in order to increase their access to health care and shift the local and national dialogues around teen motherhood and alternatives to violence. Link: Young Women United
Young Women United was funded in 2008, 2009 and 2010. They are based in the West and work in Anti-Violence, Community Health & Healing, Comprehensive Sex Education, Organizing & Advocacy, Racial Justice, Reproductive Justice and Youth Mothers' & Parents' Rights utilizing Research.
The Young Women’s Empowerment Project (YWEP) is a youth leadership organization grounded in harm reduction and social justice organizing by and for girls and young women, including transgender women (ages 12-23) impacted by the sex trade and street economies. In 2011 YWEP will continue to operate the Bad Encounter Line, through which girls and young women can report their experiences with institutional violence. Through the Chicago Task Force for Homeless, Homefree and Street Based Youth, YWEP will help author and promote the adaptation of a Street Youth Bill of Rights among youth-serving organizations in Chicago. Link: Young Women’s Empowerment Project
Young Women’s Empowerment Project was funded in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. They are based in the Midwest and work in Community Health & Healing, Criminal/Legal System, Harm Reduction, Organizing & Advocacy and Sex Work & Sex Trade utilizing Leadership Development, Political/Peer Education and Research.