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Archived Grants
BenchMark: The National Council of Jewish Women's Campaign to Save Roe v. Wade"BenchMark: The National Council of Jewish Women's Campaign to Save Roe" educates and mobilizes The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) members, the Jewish community, and friends and allies to advocate for a federal judiciary that will protect fundamental freedoms, including a woman's right to reproductive choice. The Barbara Lee Family Foundation contributed to the NCJW's BenchMark campaign.
Boston Women's MemorialThe Boston Women's Memorial is a work of public art that celebrates the achievements of Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone, and Phillis Wheatley - three visionary writers who share a strong Boston identity and a passion for social justice. Adams' correspondence, Stone's newspaper The Woman's Journal, and Wheatley's poetry were progressive, even radical, in their time. The Boston Women's Memorial Task Force brought together educators, historians, elected officials, Back Bay neighbors, area businesses, and the Boston Women's Commission, along with other city agencies. The installation, in 2003, culminated ten years of work by the Boston community and increased the representation of women in public art in the city by 30 percent. The Barbara Lee Family Foundation provided an initial grant to help launch this project.
Creative Consortium - Iron Jawed AngelsIron Jawed Angles is an HBO original film chronicling the fight of revolutionary suffragettes, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, to secure a woman's right to vote. Creative Consortium conducted key outreach to leading women's organizations and their members with the goals of increasing viewership of this important film and inspiring women to become involved in this political season. The Barbara Lee Family Foundation funded this outreach effort.
Planned Parenthood Federation of AmericaPlanned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is working to harness the energy produced by the March for Women's Lives, a demonstration that drew one million people to the nation's capital in April 2004 to support women's reproductive rights. Planned Parenthood will conduct a series of intense, regional "boot-camp" training sessions across the nation. Camps will take activists into communities to demonstrate how they can increase the visibility of choice issues, conduct canvassing and volunteer phone banking. The Barbara Lee Family Foundation supported the Live Action Camp held in Massachusetts on July 23rd and 24th.
Public Policy InstituteThe Public Policy Institute is a Boston-based non-profit organization that provides training and coaching services to non-profit social and economic justice organizations on how to effectively lobby for their policy objectives. The Public Policy Institute has been awarded a grant by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Fund at the Boston Foundation to produce The ABZ's of Women in Public Policy, a six-session pilot training program in which women leaders from Massachusetts non-profit organizations will learn skills and gain contacts for effective public policy advocacy.
V is for Vote"V Is For Vote" is a grassroots voting campaign created by Eve Ensler and thousands of V-Day activists and individuals around the U.S. V-Day activists are mobilizing, registering and supporting get out the vote efforts in conjunction with their 2004 V-Day events. In concert with this effort, V-Day activists are reaching out to candidiates of all political parties urging them to make Violence Against Women a central issue of their campaign platforms. The Barbara Lee Family Foundation provided a grant for the "V Is for Vote" campaign.