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2011-2012 Grant Recipients

International Rescue Committee Tucson – The Refugee Well-Being Project

Impacting the lives of 162 women and their families in year one. The Refugee Well-Being Project serves all refugee
women in the community, and seeks to 1) raise awareness regarding women’s issues and community resources, 2) build skills that are critical to becoming a thriving American, and 3) empower refugee women and their daughters to advocate for themselves. The Refugee Well-Being Project utilizes the promotora model in which successfully resettled refugee women (Well-Being Promoters) work with newly arrived women from their own culture to teach them financial literacy, household management, and about the issues that may affect them and their family during the resettlement process, as well as share information about local community resources.

ACCION – Creating Systemic Change for Southern Arizona’s Women Entrepreneurs.

Provide resources and training for women entrepreneurs to create jobs. This program will increase access to business credit, make loans and provide training to women entrepreneurs who face barriers to securing the financial resources they need.  ACCION utilizes its microloans to provide both the financial capital to fuel a small business and hands-on financial literacy training around business and personal development opportunities.  With this grant, ACCION will issue loans to women entrepreneurs helping to support the creation and/or maintenance of 72 jobs provided by these businesses.

Chicanos Por La Causa – Young Women’s Literacy & Empowerment Project

An after-school program serving 30 young women. The Young Women’s Literacy and Empowerment Project is an after-school program which is both school and community-based.  The program focuses on educational objectives and the social awareness of women’s issues through hands-on training and civic engagement.  These young women, along with tutors, will address educational objectives and then engage in service learning activities with organizations dedicated to women’s issues to develop young women’s educational competence and self-empowerment.

Literacy for Life Coalition – Women’s Literacy Network

Impacting the lives of 30 women and their families in year one. The vision of the Women’s Literacy Network is for women to increase their social and economic capital.  The Women’s Literacy Network provides opportunities, training, and support for women to serve as leaders and agents of change in their families and neighborhood communities. Participants develop marketable skills that transfer to the workplace, enabling families to improve their quality of life.  Neighborhood women inspire, teach and support other neighborhood women, setting up a dynamic whereby women in the Sunnyside Neighborhood become empowered.  With funding from the Women’s Foundation of Southern Arizona in year one, this program now has a solid foundation and with a second year of funding, they will continue to build on this vision.