GRANTEES
100% of the proceeds from this event will be donated to the grassroots women's organizations listed below.
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Banteay Srei (Oakland)provides health services and self-empowerment training for 14-19 year-old, sexually
exploited Southeast Asian women at-risk for human trafficking. In addition, the program offers mentoring, cooking classes and academic support.
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| HOUSING
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Freedom House (San Francisco) serves 28 women survivors of human trafficking annually. It is the first shelter for survivors of human trafficking in San Francisco. In addition to housing, they provide counseling, job training and legal services.
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Enslavement Prevention Alliance West Africa (Ghana) creates job opportunities and rehabilitation services for 25 formally trafficked women. These young women, ages 14-21, build a support network, receive counseling, participate in jewelry-making training and develop a long-term plan to prevent their return to sexual slavery.
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The Center for Young Women's Development (San Francisco) operates Sisters Rising, a program that provides young women leaving the juvenile justice system with life and job skills training. Most of their participants are young mothers working to achieve self-determined goals including full employment and college enrollment.
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The Chuacruz Weaving Cooperative (Guatemala) builds community through business. These Mayan artisan women weavers collaborate with international NGOs to secure foot-pedal looms and business trainings in order to increase their production, sales and incomes. |
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| SCHOOL
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Akili Dada (Kenya) provides scholarships, mentors and leadership training to bright women students from low-income families. Their curriculum is designed to help the girls achieve academic excellence, self- awareness and a strong sense of civic responsibility.
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Sweet Dreams (San Francisco), a vocational education program, operates a student-run small business that has its own line of products including pillows, yoga mat bags and zip cases. 12 formerly gang-affiliated young women entrepreneurs rotate responsibilities such as finance, marketing, sales and production. |
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| VOTE
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Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Zimbabwe) empowers local leaders, both women and men, to address the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe by advocating for women and their families. They train a cadre of citizens in public policy and community organizing. |
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Spark is a community of young professionals who are invested in improving the lives of women. We believe through education and strategic investment of social capital we can eliminate the inequalities that impact women around the world and in our local communities.
