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Every day, we help over 150 grassroots organizations nationwide fight for changes like good paying jobs, reproductive health, ending violence against women and girls and the inclusion of women at decision-making tables. The Ms. Foundation has invested nearly $60 million and influenced other funders to support solutions from the ground up. We deliver funding, build skills, develop leaders, connect activists with allies, and amplify the voices of our grantees to create change that benefits women, families and communities. Together, we work for a nation in which power and possibility are not limited by gender, race, class, or any other factor.

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ACCESS/Women's Health Rights Coalition - Oakland, CA
$30,000 - To provide general support to remove barriers to sexual and reproductive health care and build the collective power of Californian women and girls to demand health care equity.

ACT for Women and Girls - Visalia, CA
$25,000 - To provide general support for organizing in poor, rural communities of the Central San Joaquin Valley; to build the power and leadership of women, primarily farmworker immigrants; to advocate for reproductive justice; and to strengthen local and regional connections among diverse groups to promote LGBTQ rights and marriage equality.

AIDS Alabama, Inc. - Birmingham, AL
$50,000 - To provide general support for advocacy and education to promote comprehensive sexuality education within the context of HIV/AIDS prevention.

AIDS Services of Austin, Inc. - Austin, TX
$25,000 - To support the Women Rising Project which offers education, peer support and leadership training to HIV-positive women; builds women's power to change local and state policy; and works to improve testing services for women at risk of HIV due to socioeconomic factors such as poverty, homelessness and lack of transportation.

$10,000 - To provide support for the Women Rising Project, an HIV/AIDS advocacy program, to conduct financial literacy training.

Alabama Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Inc. - Montgomery, AL
$50,000 - To provide general support for education and advocacy at local and state levels to promote comprehensive sexuality education.

Alaska Community Action on Toxics - Anchorage, AK
$25,000 - To provide support for a year-long collaboration of scientists and researchers facilitated by the Environmental Reproductive Health Education Program, established in 2006 to address major reproductive justice concerns -- involuntary infertility, premature births and infant health -- of Indigenous Peoples in Alaska.

ANIZ, Inc. - Atlanta, GA
$20,000 - To support Reaching Out to Sisters with HIV/AIDS, which builds the power and self-sufficiency of HIV-positive women of color through leadership development, advocacy training and social-networking support.

Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice - Oakland, CA
$10,000 - To provide general support to launch Strong Families, a national campaign to create more inclusive policies and expand the reach and power of the reproductive justice movement.

Avery Institute for Social Change, The - Boston, MA
$75,000 - To support Raising Women's Voices, a national coalition working to promote the perspectives and participation of women in securing equitable and inclusive health-care reform.

BABES Network-YWCA - Seattle, WA
$25,000 - To provide support to build the power of women affected by HIV/AIDS to advocate for long-term policy change.

California Latinas for Reproductive Justice - Los Angeles, CA
$55,000 - To provide general support to ensure California's most underserved Latinas have access to reproductive health policies, services and information that are comprehensive, accurate, unbiased, and culturally and linguistically appropriate, and to advance a Latina reproductive justice framework.

Chicago Women's AIDS Project - Chicago, IL
$25,000 - To provide support to help eliminate disparities in treatment outcomes for HIV-positive women through direct-care services, education, advocacy and prevention programming.

Choice USA - Washington, DC
$35,000 - To support the Fetal Personhood Ballot Initiative Campaign, which aims to prevent measures from passing in CO and KS.

Christie's Place - San Diego, CA
$25,000 - To support Transformations - The Sisterhood Project, which aims to ensure HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment are adequately resourced to support the needs of women living with HIV/AIDS in San Diego County.

Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights - Denver, CO
$50,000 - To provide general support to build a movement of Latinas, their families and allies through leadership development, organizing and advocacy to ensure Latina's access to a full range of reproductive health opportunities, including comprehensive sexuality education and access to contraception.

$10,000 - To support participation in Community Voices on the Economy, a joint focus group and national polling project with the Ms. Foundation, the Center for Community Change and the Communications Consortium Media Center, to determine the impact of the economic crisis on diverse communities, particularly women.

Education Fund of Family Planning Advocates of New York State, The - Albany, NY
$50,000 - To provide support to advance policies in support of comprehensive sexual health education, specifically targeting the NY State Education Department's revision of K-12 learning standards, which have implications for local curriculum development statewide.

Faith Aloud - St Louis, MO
$35,000 - To support the passage of the Compassionate Act for Rape Emergencies, which requires every emergency room or rape treatment center to share accurate medical information about emergency contraception with rape victims.

Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights - Rockville, MD
$5,000 - To provide support to the Women of Color Working Group to create a multi-media toolkit to educate funders about the vital role played by women of color-led reproductive justice organizations.

Generations Ahead - Oakland, CA
$30,000 - To provide general support to help ensure that public debate and policies governing reproductive and genetic technologies include the voices, values and perspectives of historically excluded communities such as women of color, LGBTQ individuals and people with disabilities.

Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health - Chicago, IL
$40,000 - To provide general support to fight for reproductive justice for adolescents, and to build the power of youth leaders to mobilize education and advocacy efforts among peers and adults in their communities.

Migrant Health Promotion - Weslaco, TX
$45,000 - To provide support to expand the organizing capacity of women from rural, migrant farmworking communities to advocate for improved access to reproductive rights, health and justice, and to leverage community voices in discussions of immigration reform.

Mujeres Unidas Contra el SIDA - San Antonio, TX
$20,000 - To support Saber es Poder in developing a statewide network in Texas to mobilize women of color living with and affected by HIV/AIDS to seek representation on HIV-related decision-making boards.

NARAL Pro-Choice Montana Foundation - Helena, MT
$50,000 - To support Healthy Montana Teens Community by Community: Creating Lasting Change in Montana Schools, an advocacy campaign to promote comprehensive sexuality education in Great Falls Public Schools, as well as in Helena and Missoula.

NARAL Pro-Choice Washington Foundation - Seattle, WA
$30,000 - To support the Campaign for Real Sex Education to monitor compliance with the Healthy Youth Act, which mandates medically accurate sexuality education in school districts statewide.

National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum - Brooklyn, NY
$40,000 - To provide support to conduct organizing and community-based research and action projects to address access to health care, the lack of research and documentation of the reproductive health needs of Asian Pacific Islander women, and reproductive and environmental injustices faced by women in the nail salon industry.

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health - New York, NY
$80,000 - To support Women of Color United for Health Reform, a coalition led by NLIRH, the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, and the Black Women's Health Imperative, to amplify the priorities of women and communities of color in the national health care reform debate, particularly among key legislative officials.

Native American Community Board - Lake Andes, SD
$40,000 - To provide support to promote Native American women's reproductive rights, health and justice nationwide, including advocacy to ensure women's access to emergency contraception and just treatment for sexual assault survivors.

NYC AIDS Housing Network - Brooklyn, NY
$10,000 - To provide support for work led by and for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS, including efforts to win affordable housing protection for low-income women, increase housing opportunities for undocumented immigrants, restore city budget cuts, and strengthen women's leadership.

Planned Parenthood Affiliates of Michigan - Lansing, MI
$20,000 - To provide general support to advance comprehensive sexuality education policies and ensure full access to reproductive healthcare in Michigan.

Planned Parenthood Association of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT
$25,000 - To support Healthy Families Initiative, which aims to secure an expansion of state Medicaid funding to expand family planning services to all low-income women.

Planned Parenthood Southeast - Atlanta, GA
$50,000 - To provide support for community-based advocacy trainings and public education to increase the base of support for comprehensive, medically accurate sex education and services -- and thwart regressive measures -- in AL and MS.

RH Reality Check/Better World Fund - Washington, DC
$10,000 - To provide general support to produce investigative stories and conduct press calls in partnership with key organizations and individuals to amplify and expand coverage of sexual and reproductive health issues.

Sisterhood Mobilized for AIDS/HIV Research & Treatment - NY, NY
$25,000 - To provide general support to expand comprehensive, women-centered services for HIV-positive women and to raise awareness of HIV-positive women's health disparities among community members and policymakers.

SisterSong, Inc. - Atlanta, GA
$3,000 - To support efforts to mobilize 50 women of color from the Deep South to attend the Day of Action to Stop Stupak in Washington, DC and meet with legislators to advocate for the protection of abortion coverage in health care reform.

SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW - Atlanta, GA
$30,000 - To provide general support to collaborate with individuals and communities to build and sustain a powerful reproductive justice movement in GA.

Taproot Foundation - San Francisco, CA
$6,000 - To enable Taproot to provide capacity building to one national Ms. Foundation grantee working on immigration and reproductive health to expand their reach and base of support and build their capacity to more effectively advocate for national policy in these areas.

Texas Freedom Network Education Fund - Austin, TX
$50,000 - To support the Sex Education Advocacy Project, which aims to create state-level policy changes, reverse abstinence-only policies in local school districts, and pass responsible health curriculum standards at the State Board of Education.

West Virginia Free - Charleston, WV
$50,000 - To provide general support to improve education on sexual and reproductive health through grassroots activism, public education, policy advocacy, research, coalition-building and community events.

Women Alive Coalition - Los Angeles,, CA
$25,000 - To provide general support to promote the health and well-being of women of color living with HIV/AIDS, including an intensive, peer capacity-building program that builds women's power to promote policy change and advance economic justice for women living with or affected by HIV/AIDS.

Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases - Oakland, CA
$25,000 - To support efforts to grow the membership base of the Positive Women's Network, which works towards securing a greater presence and increased expertise of HIV-positive women at targeted, critical advocacy access points in the US.

$10,000 - To provide support for a financial literacy project.

Women's Law Project - Philadelphia, PA
$25,000 - To support Understanding Abortion Care in Pennsylvania, a grassroots advocacy campaign to dispel myths about abortion care through hundreds of face-to-face meetings between state legislators and their constituents.

Women's Lighthouse Project - Aurora, CO
$20,000 - To provide general support to advance advocacy efforts by and for women living with HIV through leadership training and comprehensive education.

Women's Voices for the Earth - Missoula, MT
$35,000 - To provide general support to build bridges across movements and cultivate collaborations with groups of women most impacted by environmental hazards.

Young Women United - Albuquerque, NM
$40,000 - To provide general support to develop language, materials and resources that are supportive of young parents and respectfully address teen parenthood.

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Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers - Beaverton, OR
$43,000 - To provide support to produce a report on sex offender-related policy in the US and its impact on child sexual abuse prevention.

Beyondmedia Education - Chicago, IL
$15,000 - To support Chain of Change, a youth-driven effort that uses media activism to address violence by bringing youth voices, especially those of young women, to the forefront of the issue.

Close to Home Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative - Dorchester, MA
$15,000 - To support Close to Home Youth Team, a network of 60 youth, 13-20 years old, working to create and execute an organizing campaign designed to advocate for healthy relationships and teen dating violence prevention in Boston public schools.

generationFIVE - Oakland, CA
$50,000 - To provide general support to end child sexual abuse within five generations by building the capacity of community-based leaders to respond to and prevent abuse by shifting cultural norms and changing local policies.

Hollaback! - New York, NY
$15,000 - To support HollabackNYC, which offers a safe way to report street harassment and assault online, including a cell phone "app" available to the public.

Hope Haven of the Lowcountry - Beaufort, SC
$15,000 - To support Peer to Peer Violence Prevention through Social Media, a project designed to address violence in the lives of middle and high school students through the creation of public service announcements that address inequities in two South Carolina laws.

Massachusetts Citizens for Children - Boston, MA
$40,000 - To support the Enough Abuse Campaign, a comprehensive, community-based, public education and community engagement model for child sexual abuse prevention.

Massachusetts Coalition on Occupational Safety and Health - Dorchester, MA
$30,000 - To provide support to engage women in participatory action research within workplaces to identify and end abuse -- from chemical exposure to sexual assault.

Public Health Institute - Oakland, CA
$63,000 - To provide support to analyze news coverage of child sexual abuse.

Rebecca Project for Human Rights, The - Washington, DC
$40,000 - To provide general support to work to end the shackling of mothers behind bars, expand alternative sentencing to maternal incarceration, and develop and strengthen Sacred Authority chapters and leadership trainings.

Stop It Now! - Northampton, MA
$50,000 - To provide general support to increase the level and quality of online individual and group engagement around child sexual abuse prevention, community action and advocacy.

Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER) - New York, NY
$15,000 - To support the Campus Accountability Project, which supports student activists in taking a lead role in campus sexual assault policy reform, builds student leaders through mentorship, and changes cultural norms that contribute to campus sexual violence.

Violence Prevention Coalition of Southwest Colorado - DURANGO, CO
$25,000 - To support See It Stop It on Native Lands, which aims to lift up the voices and leadership of young people residing on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, and support them in identifying and implementing strategies to prevent gender-based violence.

Young Women's Empowerment Project - Chicago, IL
$20,000 - To provide general support to change the way Chicago perceives and treats its homeless and street-based people who have been involved in the sex trade; to use new and innovative media to raise awareness of girls' experiences and to enable them to document experiences of neglect or abuse from police, hospitals, and social services.

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African American Policy Forum, The - Los Angeles, CA
$5,000 - To support the fourth annual CRS symposium, Intersectionality.

All Our Kin, Inc. - New Haven, CT
$30,000 - To provide general support to ensure Connecticut accesses funding made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to increase the quality of child care.

Alternatives for Community & Environment - Roxbury, MA
$25,000 - To support the Green Justice Initiative, which aims to ensure Boston's communities of color are at the forefront of a new green economy.

CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities - Bronx, NY
$ 500 - To support participation in the US Social Forum 2010 in Detroit, MI.

California Child Care Resource & Referral Network - San Francisco, CA
$25,000 - To support the Parent Voices project, which aims to ensure that American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars left unspent are accounted for and used to expand access to child care in all California counties.

Center for Community Change - Washington, DC
$35,000 - To support Community Voices on the Economy, a joint focus group and national polling project with the Ms. Foundation and the Communications Consortium Media Center to determine the impact of the economic crisis on diverse communities, particularly women.

Center for Participatory Change, Inc. - Asheville, NC
$30,000 - To support the Immigrant Women's Organizing and Advocacy Project, which strengthens immigrant women's leadership and advocacy for federal immigration reform and state and local policies that move away from enforcement and towards creating a path to citizenship.

$ 850 - To support participation in the US Social Forum 2010 in Detroit, MI.

Childspace Cooperative Development, Inc. - Philadelphia, PA
$30,000 - To support Successful Models of Child Care Organizing, a project which aims to increase the percentage of child care programs in low-income communities and enhance American Recovery and Reinvestment Act investment in PA.

Communications Consortium Media Center - Washington, DC
$30,000 - To support participation in Community Voices on the Economy, a joint focus group and national polling project with the Ms. Foundation and the Center for Community Change, to determine the impact of the economic crisis on diverse communities, particularly women.

$20,000 - To support media outreach efforts on health care reform focused on increasing the visibility and point of view of low-income women and women of color.

Community Voices Heard - NY, NY
$25,000 - To support the Stimulus Policy and Monitoring Campaign, which aims to mobilize low-income mothers receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and educate them on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through teach-ins and workshops.

Critical Resistance - Oakland, CA
$25,000 - To support the Community Legal Clinic, which aims to help New Orleans residents expunge their records, and the Harm Free Zone in Durham, NC, which aims to develop and document methods to reduce reliance on police- and prison-based solutions.

$ 850 - To support participation in the US Social Forum 2010 in Detroit, MI.

Domestic Workers United - New York, NY
$4,000 - To provide support for capacity building to aid in an executive leadership transition.

Family Partnership - HIRE Minnesota, The - Minneapolis, MN
$30,000 - To support efforts to ensure that federal stimulus dollars in Minnesota will create green jobs with family-supporting wages, and reduce racial and gender disparities in hiring, training and contracting.

Georgia Citizens' Coalition on Hunger - Atlanta, GA
$ 850 - To support participation in the US Social Forum 2010 in Detroit, MI.

Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families - Silver Spring, MD
$2,000 - To support the Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families 25th Annual Conference.

Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training - Oakland, CA
$2,000 - To support Money for Our Movements 2010: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference.

Grassroots Leadership - Charlotte, NC
$25,000 - To support the Women's Campaign, a new project focused on researching the reality faced by incarcerated women in for-profit prisons.

$ 850 - To support participation in the US Social Forum 2010 in Detroit, MI.

Herstory Writers Workshop, Inc. - Centereach, NY
$15,000 - To support Youth Writing for Restorative Justice and Racial Equity, which aims to create direct interchange between incarcerated and formerly incarcerated teens and students at three Long Island universities.

Highlander Research and Education Center - New Market, TN
$15,000 - To provide support for work to ensure a powerful and diverse leadership base in the Southern US by strengthening democratic participation and multi-racial, multi-issue, and intergenerational grassroots organizing.

Kentucky Jobs With Justice - Louisville, KY
$ 850 - To support participation in the US Social Forum 2010 in Detroit, MI.

Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign - Chicago, IL
$30,000 - To support the Building Southern Living Wage Movement, which aims to win wage hikes for zero-wage and sub-minimum-wage workers.

Los Angeles Alliance For A New Economy - Los Angeles, CA
$25,000 - To support efforts to ensure women and people of color are well-represented in all work funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act at the Port of Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Transit Authority and the Department of Water and Power.

Louisiana Bucket Brigade - New Orleans, LA
$25,000 - To provide general support to reduce oil refinery accidents and promote healthier communities by delivering research and data to women-led organizations adjacent to the refineries and building their capacity to advocate for themselves and their communities.

Low-Income Families' Empowerment through Education: LIFETIME - San Leandro, CA
$30,000 - To support efforts to monitor and assess the effectiveness of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families job programs at the local and state level.

Maine People's Resource Center - Augusta, ME
$10,000 - To support participation in Community Voices on the Economy, a joint focus group and national polling project with the Ms. Foundation, the Center for Community Change and the Communications Consortium Media Center to determine the impact of the economic crisis on diverse communities, particularly women.

Media Equity Collaborative - Truth or Consequences, NM
$3,000 - To support efforts to organize the 2010 Summit of Women's Social Justice Media Organizations.

Mississippi Low Income Childcare Initiative - Biloxi, MS
$20,000 - To provide general support to enhance the quality of child development, to advocate for improved child care policies and greater public investment in subsidies for low-income families, and to build a strong grassroots constituency.

$10,000 - To provide general support to enhance the quality of child development, to advocate for improved child care policies and greater public investment in subsidies for low-income families, and to build a strong grassroots constituency.

Moore Community House - Biloxi, MS
$15,000 - To support Women in Construction, a comprehensive job training program for low-income women on the Gulf Coast that helps them access quality, living-wage jobs and, in the process, support ongoing post-Katrina rebuilding efforts.

National Council for Research on Women - New York, NY
$15,000 - To support efforts to assess whether child care funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is adequately reaching low-income women and families, particularly families of color, and to provide recommendations to improve the infrastructure of child care.

National Day Laborer Organizing Network - Los Angeles, CA
$25,000 - To provide support to NDLON and the National Domestic Workers Alliance to bring a gender analysis to, and expand the voices involved in, the debate over the passage of Arizona's anti-immigrant law; to document human rights abuses and highlight women and children's responses to the law; and to hold congressional hearings on the impact of federal and state policies on women and families in Arizona.

Neighbor To Neighbor Massachusetts (N2N-MA) - Boston, MA
$30,000 - To provide support to ensure that living-wage green jobs provide career opportunities for low-income and working class women who need them most, and to monitor and advocate for improved green jobs legislation, including components of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

New Mexico State University Foundation - Las Cruces, NM
$30,000 - To support efforts to increase the availability of quality affordable child care in Dona Ana County, New Mexico through the professional development of women employed in early childhood education.

New Orleans Parent Organizing Network - New Orleans, LA
$20,000 - To provide support to develop the leadership and organizing skills of parents whose voices have been excluded from the public education and policy arena and to build parents' power to advocate for the best possible public schools and ensure every child has access to one in her/his community.

$ 850 - To support participation in the US Social Forum 2010 in Detroit, MI.

New York University - Women of Color Policy Network - New York, NY
$5,000 - To support efforts to increase capacity to engage state and federal legislators and policymakers to ensure funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act reach low-income women and their families.

$3,000 - To support Lead the Way: Building the Pipeline of Women of Color in the Non-Profit Sector, a capacity-building and leadership initiative for women of color mid-level managers and emerging executive directors working in non-profit and community-based organizations.

North Carolina Justice Center - Blueprint NC - Raleigh, NC
$10,000 - To support participation in Community Voices on the Economy, a joint focus group and national polling project with the Ms. Foundation, the Center for Community Change and the Communications Consortium Media Center to determine the impact of the economic crisis on diverse communities, particularly women.

Odyssey Youth Center - Spokane, WA
$40,000 - To provide general support to continue youth organizing and advocacy training to address issues of race, class, sexuality and gender equity in schools and communities.

Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. - Portland, OR
$30,000 - To support efforts to ensure fair access to employment opportunities created by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-funded public works, particularly the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building project and the Clean Energy Works Portland Program.

Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign - Cleveland, OH
$20,000 - To provide support to create and strengthen connections among "poor people's groups" from New Orleans to Detroit; and to facilitate a regional World Court of Women in the South to address the often invisible issues created by poverty and elevate them in national policy debates.

$ 500 - To support participation in the US Social Forum 2010 in Detroit, MI.

Praxis Project, The - Washington, DC
$4,000 - To provide general support.

Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide - Atlanta, GA
$30,000 - To provide general support for leadership development and organizing that builds critical social justice infrastructure, locally and regionally, to provide access to quality education, health, safety, and economic opportunity for family networks in communities of colors.

$ 850 - To support participation in the US Social Forum 2010 in Detroit, MI.

Safe Streets/Strong Communities - New Orleans, LA
$ 850 - To support participation in the US Social Forum 2010 in Detroit, MI.

Solar Richmond - Richmond, CA
$30,000 - To support East Bay Women in Solar, which advocates for greater investment in green-jobs training and set-asides for women -- specifically that 25% of solar installations funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act be reserved for qualified women in Richmond, CA.

Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network - Durham, NC
$30,000 - To provide general support to develop approaches to immigration reform that benefit both immigrant communities and communities of color.

Southern Center for Human Rights - Atlanta, GA
$30,000 - To support the Alabama Women's Resource Network, a coalition of incarcerated women, service providers, and advocates working to ensure that communities support women with the services and resources they need to lead safe and healthy lives.

Southerners on New Ground - Atlanta, GA
$30,000 - To provide general support to deepen its sub-regional and statewide grassroots base-building and campaign work, and to strengthen cross-sector and cross-issue work with groups led by LGBTQ people of color.

SpiritHouse, Inc. - Durham, NC
$25,000 - To support Choosing Sides/Youth Noise Network Emerging Leaders, a project to inspire emerging leaders to be proactive about their decision-making and create alternatives that can lead to authentic, long-term community change.

Tennessee Alliance for Progress - Nashville, TN
$30,000 - To support efforts to provide training opportunities for women in green jobs and to ensure that American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for green jobs be used for single mothers and low-income women in the most distressed communities.

Western North Carolina Workers Center - Marion, NC
$30,000 - To provide support to engage low-wage Latina immigrants who face discrimination, abuse and exploitation in their communities, homes and workplaces; to conduct targeted outreach and training to build immigrant women's power to organize and advocate for policy change on worker and immigrant rights.

$ 850 - To support participation in the US Social Forum 2010 in Detroit, MI.

Western States Center - Portland, OR
$20,000 - To support the Gender Justice Program which uses a movement-building approach to address sexism, heterosexism, reproductive justice, and family security and strengthen the capacity of groups led by and for immigrants, women of color, LGBTQ people, and low-income women.

Women in Transition
$ 850 - To support participation in the US Social Forum 2010 in Detroit, MI.

Young Voices - Providence, RI
$25,000 - To support the Gender Justice Project, which builds awareness and skills among young people to recognize and dismantle systemic gender dynamics and constrictive gender roles.

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Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) - Arlington, VA
$15,000 - To provide support to amplify and expand women's economic security, particularly that of low-income women and women of color, through microenterprise.

Bella Abzug Leadership Institute - New York, NY
$2,000 - To support Leaders of Tomorrow, a New York City high school debate and leadership training program for young women.

$1,000 - To support Leaders of Tomorrow, a New York City high school debate and leadership training program for young women.

Center for Community Change - Washington, DC
$15,000 - To provide general support to disseminate the results of the Community Voices on the Economy, a joint polling project with the Ms. Foundation and the Communications Consortium Media Center, to congressional leaders with the assistance of the Hatcher Group.

Domestic Workers United - New York, NY
$1,000 - To provide support for capacity building to aid in an executive leadership transition.

Dwa Fanm (Haitian Women's Rights) - Brooklyn, NY
$5,000 - To provide support for Haitian Women Organizing for Peace and Security, a project through which Dwa Fanm mobilized support for women and their families in the aftermath of the January 2010 Haitian earthquake.

Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami, Inc. - Miami, FL
$5,000 - To provide support for the coordination of the collection of medical and other donations in the aftermath of the January 2010 Haitian earthquake and to offer assistance to Haitian families in Miami.

Feminist Majority Foundation - Beverly Hills, CA
$25,000 - To provide general support.

Funders for LGBTQ Issues - New York, NY
$10,000 - To provide general support to focus on research, convenings, strategic field-wide leadership and a national retreat to build on the issues surrounding LGBTQ movement building.

Girls Speak Out Foundation - Santa Rosa, CA
$5,000 - To support GSO Kenya's workshops and trainings for girls and women in Kenyan schools and villages.

Global Fund for Women - San Francisco, CA
$10,000 - To support women's peace-building efforts and the rebuilding of organizations and communities after the January 2010 Haitian earthquake.

International Museum of Women - San Francisco, CA
$2,500 - To provide general support to a groundbreaking social change museum that inspires global action.

National Council for Research on Women - New York, NY
$10,000 - To support efforts to assess whether child care funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is adequately reaching low-income women and families, particularly families of color, and to provide recommendations to improve the infrastructure of child care.

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health - New York, NY
$27,000 - To provide general support to defend and promote reproductive and economic justice for immigrant women by increasing the number of leaders and organizations engaged in the movement for immigration reform.

New York University - Women of Color Policy Network - New York, NY
$10,000 - To support efforts to increase capacity to engage state and federal legislators and policymakers in ensuring that funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are reaching low-income women and their families.

Partners in Health - Boston, MA
$10,000 - To provide emergency medical relief to survivors of the January 2010 Haitian earthquake.

Service Women's Action Network - New York, NY
$27,000 - To support Claiming Justice: Military Sexual Trauma Policy Reform, which includes a national campaign to educate policymakers, the media, health professionals and non-profit organizations about the causes and consequences of Military Sexual Trauma.

Seventh Generation Fund - Arcata, CA
$10,000 - To support the Indigenous Women's Leadership Development Initiative, which aims to promote, strengthen and honor the leadership role of Indigenous women by supporting women-initiated and led projects that build their power and capacity.

Sisterhood is Global Institute, The - New York, NY
$10,000 - To provide general support to establish a greater and more cost-effective impact in building the global women's movement.

South Bronx Food Foundation - Bronx, NY
$2,500 - To support the Hunts Point Community Mural Project.

Taproot Foundation - San Francisco, CA
$12,000 - To enable Taproot to provide capacity building to two national Ms. Foundation grantee partners working on immigration and reproductive health to expand their reach and base of support and build their capacity to more effectively advocate for national policy in these areas.

Wilma Mankiller Foundation, The - Tulsa, OK
$1,000 - To provide general support in honor of the memory of Cherokee Nation Chief Wilma Mankiller.

WNET.ORG - New York, NY
$2,000 - To support the documentary, "Women, War and Peace."

Women's Action for New Directions Education Fund - Arlington, MA
$1,000 - To support the WiLL National Security Media and Messaging Training held in Las Vegas, NV.

Women's eNews - New York, NY
$5,000 - To provide general support for award-winning 24/7 online news about women around the world.

Women's Environment and Development Organization - New York, NY
$10,000 - To provide general support.

Women's Funding Network - San Francisco, CA
$10,000 - To support the annual conference, Investment, Influence, Impact: Seizing the Moment, in Denver, Colorado.

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