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WINDHAM CHAPTER GRANTS
Women & Girls Grants Awarded in 2007 (with support
from the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust): $11,795 to
5 Organizations
• AAUW, Girls State: $1,750
• Companions & Homemakers, Services for those with serious illness:
$2,500
• Perception Programs, Healthy Mind, Healthy Body: $3,000
• Windham Hospital, Girls Grow Strong: $1,795
• Planned Parenthood, Offsite HIV Testing: $2,750
Women & Girls Grants Awarded in 2006 (with support
from the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust and the SBM Charitable
Foundation).
• Access Agency: Project Fantastic, a new fitness and nutritional program
for girls living in a DCF Group Home in northeastern CT, $2,845.
• American Association of University Women: to support for seven girls
who could not otherwise afford to attend Girls State camp, but who demonstrate
promise and interest, $1,750.
• Caleb Group: for Opportunity Centers, a 16 week program for single female
heads-of-household to enhance their employment opportunities, $2,838.
• Companion and Homemakers to provide essential household assistance to
elderly, ill, or disabled women, $5,000.
• ECSU Women’s Center: for the Sisterhood Community Project, a six-week
stress management/ mentoring program for Windham High School girls to reduce
health risks, $500.
• Perception Programs--Next Step: Aftercare Enhanced Alumni Group: support
group for women who are returning to the community following incarceration, $3,000.
• Windham Community Memorial Hospital - Girls Growing Strong-Phase 2: program
to teach strategies for dealing with stress, decision making, conflict resolution,
and problem solving for girls in grades 7-10, $3,000.
Women & Girls Grants Awarded in 2005 (with
support from the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust).
• Access/ Windham WIC: Spanish information materials for Latino WIC clients,
$1,260.
• Caleb Group: Healthy living for women at risk for diabetes, $3,113.
• Growing Stronger: Mentor at-risk girls in landscaping projects benefiting
women with disabilities, $3,000.
• Natchaug Hospital: Pregnancy prevention program for residential center
for girls, $1,526.
• Perception Programs: Next Step community re-entry program for women following
incarceration, $2,864.
• Sexual Assault Crisis Center of NE CT: “Self Esteem and Healthy
Relationships” workshops for girls in public schools in Windham area, $5,000.
• Windham Hospital: Girls Grow Strong after-school program for young women,
$3,255.
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Women & Girls Fund Founders: Windham Area Chapter
Anonymous
Polly Allen
Helen Armstrong
Pamela S. Bacharach, Esq.
Mary Rogers Beckert
Donna Becotte
Deborah Walsh Bellingham
Judith A. Blei
Lynn Z. Bloom
Harriet Brubacher
Nancy Chance
C L & P
George & Joan Cole
Roberta Coughlin
Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust
Lucy Bartlett Crosbie
Mary Lou DeVivo
*Sonia Dudas
Kristina Elias-Staron
Rose Fowler
Josephine Ann Fox
Karla Fox
Mona & Todd Friedland
Martha Funderburk
Colleen Gally
Jane Gillard
Joan Russoniello Goba
Louise Guarnaccia
Marie Hakmiller
Sandy Hale
Joan Joffee Hall
Marcia Heath
Katherine Holt
Judith Hyde
Marietta W. Johnson
Janet Jones
Elizabeth Jordan
Walter Keenan, Esq.
June Krisch
Wally & Chris Lamb
Dr. James Watson & Ellen Lang
Julia J. & Carl W. Lindquist, M.D.
Ethel Mantzaris
Nancy McDowell
Ann Marie Orza
Eileen Ossen
Jane Pawelkiewicz
Barbara K. Porter
Anne Rash
Rebecca Reno
Marjorie Roach
Debra & James Ruel
Jean A. Sawicki
*SBM Charitable Foundation
Patricia Shannon
Shirley Shepard
Joan Seliger Sidney
& Stuart Jay Sidney
*Gail Smith
Lynn Stanley-Haney
Judith Stein & Kenneth Dardick
*Lee Ellen Terry, Esq.
Susanna Thomas
Kevin & Betsy Tubridy
Mary G. Weinland
Carol Wiggins
Carol J. Williams
*Gold Circle
In addition to our Founders, who make gifts of $1,000 or more,
the Women & Girls Fund is fortunate to have the ongoing support
of many, many friends, whose dedication make this giving circle
possible. We thank you for collectively helping to make life better
for all women and girls in our community.
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