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Asset
Development
Mayors'
Commission on Women
Unita Blackwell Young Women's
Leadership Institute
2007 Southern Rual Black Women's Hall of Fame
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New Visions Digital
Film Making Project
New Visions Digital Film Making Project
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Visions is committed to engaging and involving young women in the
work of the Southern Rural Black Women's Initiative (SRBWI) and to
teaching marketable skills in digital filmmaking, documentary
shorts, oral history and advertising. Through this program
trained mentors in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi offer guidance
and instruction in digital film techniques and produce short films.
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Participation
in the Economy and Land Issues
Strategic
Objectives: Facilitate women’s access to capital, credit,
resources, employment, workforce training, skills building for self
employment, transportation, markets, and trade; Eliminate all forms
of employment discrimination; Improve public housing, Increase availability
of affordable and “alternative” housing and opportunities
for home ownership; Increase access to land, land retention and
ownership.
Self
Empowerment and Discrimination
Strategic Objectives:
Raise women’s consciousness concerning their rights to be
free and equal, and explore the subliminal and blatant denial of
rights and issues inhibiting women’s full economic, social,
political, and personal empowerment; Eliminate negative cultural
attitudes and practices against and among women and girls.
Women
in Power and Decision Making
Strategic Objectives:
Ensure access to
and full participation in power structures and decision making;
Increase women’s capacity to actualize economic and social
justice by participating in decision-making and leadership; Integrate
representative perspective in legislation, public policies,
and projects.
Community
Wellness/Support Services
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Strategic Objectives:
Improve the quality of educational systems – from early childhood
through higher education, and increase access to appropriate, affordable
and quality education at all levels; Expand access to healthcare
and related services; Develop program and services for youth and
elderly and enhance mechanisms for integration and accountability
from existing providers; Strengthen or establish mechanisms to abate
the impact of development and environmental policies on women.
Arts,
Culture, History and Communications
Strategic
Objectives: Integrate arts and culture into all program areas; Promote
preservation and evolution of Black culture and history, with a
particular focus on youth; Increase the participation and access
to expressing and decision making in and through media and new technologies
and communication.
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