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2006 Grants
AFFW Grants Summary - Announced October, 2006
Freedom, Inc. – Family Strengthening Project
In Dane County alone, there are more than 7,000 Southeast Asians, and this doesn’t include the hundreds of new Hmong refugees. Freedom, Inc. has already touched the lives of hundreds of Southeast Asians, beginning four years ago as a Southeast Asian girls support group. Services have grown to include help with family strengthening, domestic violence prevention, preteen and teenage girls leadership and anti-violence education; teen mother and teen wives support, and support, resources and advocacy for elder victims of violence. With the new AFFW grant, Freedom, Inc. can continue work toward its mission of ending domestic violence Hmong women and children endure.
West Madison Senior Coalition – Food Pantry Resource Program
This dynamic organization keeps seniors actively involved in the community through programs and services that emphasize independence while promoting mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing. The coalition offers case management, a senior center, health screenings, and a home chore volunteer program. This particular grant will support the Food Pantry Resource Program. It seems there is plenty of surplus food at area pantries for those eligible – but no way for senior women to get to the pantry. The Food Pantry Resource Program will provide the “opportunity, transportation and coordination to help older women utilize their food pantry” – key to improving the health, nutrition, independence and wellbeing of older women.
UNIDOS Against Domestic Violence – Mujeres Adelante
According to UNIDOS, “Women in abusive relationships need realistic, attainable options for survival for themselves and their children in order to make informed, empowered decisions about how to deal with the abuse in their lives.” UNIDOS helps the Latino/Hispanic immigrant and migrant population in Wisconsin, who often speak little English, and have left family to come to the U.S. With a mission to support abuse victims and end domestic violence, UNIDOS has grown since its founding in 1996. It now serves fourteen counties in southern and western Wisconsin, as well as provides technical assistance to two counties in northeastern Wisconsin. The Mujeres Adelante project (Women Moving Forward) is an eighteen-month pilot program that aims to increase Hispanic/Latina women’s self-sufficiency by teaching basic skills. These skill-building classes would include basic car repair, computer literacy, ESL and basic Yoga for stress relief.
Atwood Community Center – Women CAAN
The Atwood Community Center has been in Madison since 1954, and is one of Madison’s most successful neighborhood centers. The Center offers short-term emergency food relief, neighborhood event and festival sponsorship, volunteer opportunities, and a resource center. The Women CAAN program is an inter-generational program between younger and older women and girls, created to reduce isolation and increase self-sufficiency for older women. Women will prepare and share meals together, take educational classes, do light community service and attend holiday parties. Younger women and girls may also help older women who are living alone with light cleaning and maintenance duties. The girls involved will be from diverse racial backgrounds – African American, Latino, Hmong and Caucasian.
Catholic Charities – CompanionCare Alzheimer’s Program
Catholic Charities acts on behalf of the Diocese of Madison for eleven counties in south central Wisconsin. The Charities provide counseling and support for individuals in challenging situations, such as adoptions, unplanned pregnancies, troubled relationships, abuse, addiction, mental illness, homelessness and more. The AFFW grant money will support the CompanionCare program. Up to four qualified caregivers will be matched up with elderly women who have Alzheimer’s disease, allowing them to remain in their homes during 2007.
Wisconsin Initiatives in Sustainable Housing, Inc. – A Home for Life
Created in May 2002, WISH addresses the challenges people with disabilities face in finding, keeping and preserving decent and affordable housing. WISH primarily serves Dane County and the greater Milwaukee region, and helps people with disabilities stay in their homes and create a permanent stock of affordable, community-based housing for these individuals. With AFFW’s grant, WISH launched a pilot program in January 2006 with eight women with disabilities. The end goal with these eight women is to have a comprehensive plan to ensure each can remain in her home the rest of her life. Based on these women’s experiences, WISH will also complete a self-help guide for other women with disabilities and elderly women who wish to remain in their homes. Eventually, WISH wants to develop a contractual substitute ownership-management arrangement, similar to the typical senior housing community arrangement, but which allows a low-income woman to stay in her own home.
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