2004 Grants
Review of AFFW Grants - Announced October, 2004
As you may recall, the focus for our last grant-making cycle emphasized healthy relationships. The following grants were announced last year to support that objective.
East Madison Community Center¹s Junior Girls Development Group
This is a program that primarily serves girls, ages 6 to 11, in the Truax Housing Development and the immediate surrounding neighborhood.
The project promotes strong values and high self-esteem, encouraged by exposure to positive female role models who act as mentors and inspiration, an emphasis on developing good school and study skills, learning to make healthy, safe decisions and contributing to the community. The girls also have an array of educational, social and recreational activities that promote joyful confidence by taking them beyond the usual experiences of their neighborhood.
Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth - Children of Promise/Madison
Children of Promise/Madison (CAMP) is a cooperative program between the Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth and Toki Middle School in Madison. It is a project that nurtures academically gifted female students.
The project coordinator is a school psychologist whose doctoral thesis focused on gifted middle school girls.
By encouraging the exceptional talent of academically gifted girls, CAMP proposes to help them focus on their future, thereby helping the long-term prospects for our entire community.
Wexford Ridge Neighborhood Center - Women, Rise Up!
Women, Rise Up! is a new program at WRNC that brings together women of all ages and diverse backgrounds so they can share their anxieties and dreams, strengths and concerns in a supportive atmosphere. The project has emphasized the importance of teaching and learning from one another, across generations, cultures and experiences.
Bayview Community Center - Project T.E.A.C.H.
The Bayview Community Center serves 102 families; 87 percent of the heads of households were born outside the USA. In this multi-ethnic community, many girls are first generation Americans, or immigrants.
Project T.E.A.C.H. (Together Every Arm Can Help) provides a group where girls share their unique cultures through arts, cooking, service learning and teaching opportunities. The program has encouraged girls to learn and to teach, to interact with each other, their mothers, grandmothers and community members in ways that help them become stronger, more confident and more capable of taking their place in the world.
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