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Sakhi's Core Supporters & Leadership

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Sakhi's Leading Supporters

Sakhi’s board, staff, volunteers, and survivors would like to thank our major donors for 2009.  You investment was essential in sustaining services for survivors of domestic violence as well as our programs to mobilize community and institutional responses to end violence. 

In 2009, among other achievements, we

• Celebrated Sakhi’s 20th Anniversary with a gala which brought together two decades of Sakhi supporters to commemorate the numerous accomplishments made as a result of their commitment and dedication;
• Secured funding from the Ford Foundation to further our ground-breaking court interpreter project which enhances language access in the court system to survivors of intimate partner violence.
• Collected a record number of Swarna grant applications, a 59% increase from 2008, from survivors of abuse; we continue to assist survivors in achieving financial independence by awarding grants for higher education;
• Received world-wide recognition across 100 countries, at the Sony South Asian Excellence Awards held May 9, 2009;
• Presented our expertise at conferences, colleges, community engagements and other venues over 35 times; 
• Sustained a multifaceted volunteer program with 94 active volunteers who donated a record breaking 2 years and 10 months of time - a 45% increase from 2008.

Without your commitment and vital support we would not have been able to achieve such a successful year!  For information on our program activities and outcomes, go to http://www.sakhi.org/learn/Archives.php.  Thank you for supporting safe homes and a stronger community.

$75,000+

• Ford Foundation
• US Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women

$50,000 - $74,999

• Carnegie Corporation
• Department of Youth and Community Development

$25,000 - $49,999

• City Council Domestic Violence Empowerment (DoVE) Initiative
• Daphne Foundation
• Legal Aid Society
• New York Women’s Foundation RISE-NYC
• Tides Foundation

$15,000 - $24,999

• Edward & Ellen Roche Fund
• Queens Legal Services

$10,000 - $14,999

• Margaret Abraham & Pradeep Singh
• Asian American Community Fund
• Independence Community Federation
• Prasad Family Foundation
• Romita Shetty & Nasser Aziz Ahmad
• Chandra K. Sunkara
• Verizon

$5,000 - $9,999

• Allstate Foundation
• Anonymous (2)
• BRV Sharma Family Foundation
• Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi Foundation, Inc
• Davis & Gilbert LLP
• Migna Guzman & Michael Karp
• Ifran Kathwari Foundation
• Mahadeva Family Foundation
• Manhattan President Borough/Borough Needs Program
• Nandini & Adil Nathani
• Patrina Foundation
• Ritu Sahai & Manish Mittal
• Radhika & Mukesh Sehgal

$2,500-$4,999

• Ritu Agarwal & Kislaya Prasad
• Tania & Anilesh Ahuja
• Anonymous
• Monica Arora & Raj Goyal
• Pallavi & Anil K. Atluri
• Bloomberg LLP
• Rachel & Jaideep Khanna
• Shabnam & Mazin Mirza
• NYC Human Resources Administration
• Reshma Patel
• Rana Quraishi
• Anju & Joe Simon
• Tamseela Tayyabkhan & Sanjeev Khanna
• Alpa Tolia
• Sarabjit & Hanita Walia
• Syed Zaki & Naju Hossain

$1,000-$2,499

• Jagdish Bhagwati &Padma Desai
• Jayant & Vandana Chivate
• Dow Jones & Co.
• Marilyn A. Davis
• Milan Gupta
• Mohsin Hamid
• Ranu & Enamul Malik
• Ivan & Shibani Menezes
• Rajiv & Slomi Sobti
• Syracuse University
• U.S. Department of Labor
• Sujatha & Kashif Zafar