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Women With A Vision

Melissa Gira Grant — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:56:20 +0000

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

Power U Center for Social Change

Melissa Gira Grant — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:47:46 +0000

Power U seeks to organize low-income communities directly impacted by institutional oppression to create an equitable and just society. Third Wave’s grant will support the POWERful Women and Families project, which addresses maternal and child health disparities in communities of color. Childbirth classes are an entry point for young leaders to engage with Power U’s birthing justice campaign, which advocates for policies that are baby-friendly, support breastfeeding infants and mothers, and expand access to the midwifery model of care within the Jackson Health System.

Link: Power U Center for Social Change

National Sex Worker of Color Leadership Development Institute

Melissa Gira Grant — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:44:10 +0000

The National Sex Worker of Color Network’s Leadership Development Institute (LDI) is a collaborative effort on the part of Different Avenues, Young Women’s Empowerment Project and Women with a Vision. The LDI will foster leadership among people of color involved in sex work or the sex trade to build a national network of activists who can support policy analysis, community-based research, and develop joint strategies with other social justice movements.

Justice Now

Melissa Gira Grant — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:29:31 +0000

Justice Now is a human rights organization that partners with people in women’s prisons, former prisoners and people with family in prison to build a safe, compassionate world without prisons. Justice Now bridges movements for reproductive justice, human rights, and prison abolition through their campaign to end so-called “gender-responsive” prison expansion and their Right to Family human rights documentation program. Third Wave’s grant will support Justice Now in their campaign to halt illegal and coercive sterilization in California prisons.

Link: Justice Now

Gender JUST

Melissa Gira Grant — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:23:50 +0000

Gender JUST is a grassroots organization that seeks to build power and develop leadership among queer youth of color by organizing for racial, economic, and gender justice. Gender JUST has worked successfully within Chicago Public Schools to implement policy changes to ensure that all young people receive a safe and affirming education. With Third Wave’s support, Gender JUST will apply their successful organizing strategy towards winning comprehensive sexuality education and increased access to health resources for queer youth of color in Chicago.

Link: Gender JUST

Colorado Anti-Violence Program

Melissa Gira Grant — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:56:10 +0000

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 of 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. Branching Seedz uses art and media, participatory action research, trainings, and community organizing to end cycles of violence and build power and safety. With Third Wave’s Support, Branching Seedz will bring trans-inclusive policies to shelters within Colorado, host a Queer Youth Summit in Denver, and bring their youth training program “Unite to Fight” across the state of Colorado.

Link: Colorado Anti-Violence Program

Brown Boi Project

Melissa Gira Grant — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:42:27 +0000

Brown Boi Project cultivates spaces in which masculine-of-center women and men of color can explore and develop healthy frameworks of masculinity within the context of family, gender, race, sexual orientation, and class. With this grant, Brown Boi Project will continue their annual trainings around masculinity with men of color, masculine-of-center women of color, and trans people of color and will sustain each cohort’s leadership with training circles and one-to-one coaching.

Link: Brown Boi Project

Sylvia Rivera Law Project

Third Wave Foundation — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:29:28 +0000

The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence. Much of SRLP’s work centers around ensuring the right of all people to access the range of healthcare they need and to make their own decisions about their bodies, including trans people and those who are living in poverty or in prison. Third Wave’s grant will support SRLP’s Transgender Youth Initiative, which works to improve safety and access to respectful and affirming social, health, and legal services while simultaneously building the leadership of youth to participate more fully in movements for social justice.

Link: The Sylvia Rivera Law Project

Choice USA

Third Wave Foundation — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:54:59 +0000

Choice USA is a national pro-choice organization that gives emerging leaders the tools they need to organize, network, and exchange ideas to build a youth centered pro-choice agenda for reproductive justice. With Third Wave’s support, Choice USA will provide advocacy training for young people to engage youth in reproductive justice campaigns at the local, state and national levels.

Link: Choice USA

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

Third Wave Foundation — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:54:08 +0000

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) ensures the fundamental human right to reproductive health and justice for Latinas, their families and their communities through public education, community mobilization and policy advocacy. NLIRH will use Third Wave’s support to advance their advocacy and community mobilization efforts and ensure that their leadership development and local grassroots organizing and advocacy efforts resonate with young Latinas.

Link: National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health