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Margaret Fuller Grants Program: Funded Projects
2010
Denham, Shelley Jackson, and the Mountain Quartet, Highlands, SC: $3,500 for an as yet untitled CD
The CD will bring up to 16 original songs by Shelley — author of "Blessed Spirit of My Life" and other hymns and readings in Singing the Living Tradition. Most of the songs have not been recorded previously.
Mummert, Rev. Melissa, Charlotte, NC: $3,000 for "Creating a 21st Century Consciousness Raising Curriculum"
Development of a guide and accompanying website.
Gaylord-Loy, Alyson, Medford, MA: $2,000 for "Frances Appleton Longfellow: In Her Own Words"
A site-specific performance, musical presentationa and production of a DVD drawn from the writings of this devout, 19th century Unitarian.
Gerke, Pamela, Everett, WA: $2,000 "Nightingale: A Musical of the Life and Passionate Nature of Miss Florence Nightingale"
The grant will support re-writing the draft script and score, and four performances.
2009
Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual: $1,500 for "Creative Feminist Ministers - Education, Training, and Networking," a June 2009 training institute which generated resource materials currently available on WATER's website.
Samantha Wilson: $1,500 for "Conversations in a Beauty Parlor: Stories of Activism and Feminisms," book and website reflecting organizing work with youth and women in India.
Laurie James: $2,200 for "A Medley for Margaret Fuller," a staged presentation of Fuller's works, in observance of the bicentennial of her birth.
Cynthia Grant Tucker: $1,425 for "A Web-Accessible Study Guide to No Silent Witness," a biography of the Eliots: three generations of Unitarian ministers' daughters. Currently available.
Church of the Larger Fellowship: $2,275 for "In Our Mothers' Footsteps," a free, online course on significant women from our UU history.
Pamela Gerke: $1,100 for production development of "Nightingale: A Musical of the Life and Passionate Nature of Miss Florence Nightingale
2008
Celeste DeRoche, Ph.D. / Rev. Gail Geisenhainer, $2,000 in support of “Singing For Our Lives: A History of the Pioneer Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, and Transgendered Unitarian Universalist Ministers.”
The Church of the Larger Fellowship and Rev. Elizabeth Lerner, $3,000 in support of “Ancient Roots: The Feminine Face of Western Religion,” an on-line adult religious education course.
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2007
Beverly Anderson Forbes, Ed.D., Renton, WA, will receive $2,300 for “Remembering May Sarton” (second year grant). This project is complete and has resulted in three books, each a compendium of portions of May Sarton’s work that address spirituality; aging and death; and a vision for life for women.
First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, MN, and First UU Church in Nashville, TN, will receive $1,000 for “Sources: A Unitarian Universalist Cantata.” A choral work based on the six sources of the Unitarian Universalist tradition, the project is also complete and will be made available for shipping charges only through the Church of the Larger Fellowship’s lending library beginning in late 2007.
Karen Day, Floyd, VA, will receive $2,000 for “Tales of Creation and Transformation,” a program of stories and creative responses for young women, aimed at helping them develop a sense of wholeness.
Qiyamah Rahman, Charlotte, NC, will receive $1,000 in support of “Testifying: Invoking the Lives and Voices of African American Universalist, Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist Women,” a book of oral histories of African American UU women past and present.
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2006
Dr. M’ellen Kennedy, Mdiv, Burlington, VT, was awarded $3,000 to support her project, “Encountering Feminist Theologies: A Small Group Ministry Demonstration Project,” a series of educational sessions on feminist theologies and theologians.
Lisa Paul Streitfeld, Stamford, CT, received $3,000 for her project, “21st Century Theology: The Hieros Gamos,” a short theology book on gender equality and contemporary mythology.
Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual, based in Silver Spring, MD, in collaboration with the River Road UU Church, Bethesda, MD, was given $2,000 for continued work on their “Seasons of Survival: Rituals for Women with Breast Cancer,” which also received funding from the Margaret Fuller Awards Program in 2005.
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