WINDHAM CHAPTER GRANTS

Women & Girls Grants Awarded in 2009: $22,000 to 10 organizations
• Ashford Youth Services Bureau: to provide support groups to educate stay-at-home parents on services available to them while providing activities for children, $1,000
• Companions and Homemakers: to train and mentor Spanish-speaking employees, ultimately producing a video to educate and inspire others, $2,500.
• Connecticut Legal Services: to expand services to victims of domestic violence, $5,000
• Generations Family Health Center: to provide breast and cervical exams, PAP tests, diagnostic referrals and other gynecological care to uninsured women, $2,000.
• Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters: to provide mentors for younger women (especially African-Americans and Latinas) to improve academics, relationships and confidence, $1,000.
• Perception Programs: to improve literacy among female offenders, $2,000.
• Sexual Assault Crisis Center of Eastern Connecticut, $1,500
• Windham Area Interfaith Ministry: to provide emergency auto and home repair services to single mothers, $3,000.
• Windham Community Memorial Hospital to educate Latina women on how to take control of their health and their health of their families, $2,500.
• Windham County 4-H Foundation: to enable four girls to attend a one week nature camp, $1,500.

Women & Girls Grants Awarded in 2008: $23,771 to 5 Organizations

• American Association of University Women: to sponsor seven young women with financial barriers attending “Girls State,” a week long political science camp, $1, 750
• Perception Programs: The “Healthy Bodies” program provides exercise equipment and programs to women who have been released from York State Prison, $1,621
• Safe Havens: to support in-home education in parenting and life skills fro residents, $8,000
• Windham Hospital Foundation: for prenatal services for low-income, primarily Spanish speaking women who are uninsured or underinsured, $12,000
• Safe Havens: for transportation of residents to and from GED classes, $400. This grant comes from the Louise Guarnaccia Fund for Non-Traditional Students, a component fund of the Women & Girls Windham Chapter

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.