The 2001 Elly Grant Awardees

Brooklyn Educational Opportunity Center (BEOC)

The BEOC Welfare to Work Program incorporates economic development practices into its job-training curriculum.  This project will teach 20 trainees to create jewelry and learn the business side of crafts making, including customer service skills and retail sales.  The grant funds will cover one-time start-up costs and the purchase of jewelry-making materials and other craft equipment.

The Creative Center For Women with Cancer

Geraldine Herbert, Director

Building on a pilot project that created a multimedia performance piece, the Creative Center proposes to develop a series of multimedia workshops that will create an essential support system and community for 40-50 women with cancer.  These women are struggling with issues of body image, isolation and self-esteem.  The workshops will instruct them in the skills and practice of the expressive arts, and will culminate in public performances, enabling the Center's participants and the community to interact in ways that are informative and beneficial to both.

Groove With Me, Inc.

Abigail Rosin, Director

Groove With Me, a community-based organization, provides free dance classes to 200 girls from impoverished neighborhoods such as the lower East Side and Spanish Harlem.  Addressing the root causes of women's self-destructive behavior, Groove With Me classes accommodate girls' special needs, utilizing dance to instill leadership, pride, and the discipline needed for future positive development.

inMotion

Catherine J. Douglass, Executive Diector

Several years ago, some former participants in inMotion's Pro Se Divorce Workshop, which aided women in securing their own divorces, established the Women's Empowerment Circle (WEC) to continue this work.  This grant will provide support for a coordinator to manage WEC's increased involvement in workshop activity, including the expansion WEC's membership and the coordination of training to enhance members' teaching and mentoring skills.

The Korean American Family Service Center

Hye-Suk Theresa Chong, Executive Director

The Ottuki Club, a citywide support group for Korean American women who have survived domestic violence, is comprised of 10-15 single mothers.  It meets every month to share experiences and participate in psychological and educational workshops and social activities.  The 'ottuki,' a Korean doll with a rounded bottom allowing it to rock but never tip over, is a symbol of resilience and survival.  The grant will improve and enhance this program, providing salary monies for professional staff and emergency funds for members' special needs.

Queens Women's Center, Inc.

Ann Juliano Jawin, Chair, Board of Directors and Founder

The QWC Job Club assists women from varied socio-economic, racial and ethnic backgrounds with career selection, resume preparation, interview skills and job search techniques.  This grant will allow the Center to hire a part-time job developer to seek out available positions in the community and generate job interviews, aiding women in the transition from training to job placement

Shalom Task Force

Nadine Wolfson, President

This grassroots, community-based effort works to prevent domestic violence against women and girls in the Orthodox Jewish community.  It will offer violence prevention education programs to 1,100 at-risk high school seniors and college students, and to 30 culturally-embedded teachers of brides in Orthodox Jewish schools.  The project addresses the root causes of domestic violence in this community by educating young women'including some who are engaged to be married'about domestic abuse and avoidance of abusers.

Women's Project & Productions

Julia Miles, Artistic Director

Now in its 23rd season, the Women's Project develops and produces the work of women theatre artists.  Its Developmental Program, which this grant supports, incorporates four initiatives, which develop the work of women theatre artists at various levels of maturation.  It includes the First Looks Rehearsed Reading Series presenting 15-20 new plays, the Directors Forum, the Playwrights Lab, and Works-in-Progress which are workshop productions of plays in final stages of development.

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