The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota has launched the Innovators Program.
Donor Name: Women’s Foundation of Minnesota
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/24/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota (WFM) believes in the leadership and ideas of young women and gender-expansive leaders in state. Through the Innovators program, WFM provides microgrants of $3,000 directly to young women and gender-expansive people (ages 16-24) to fuel their ideas and support their development as leaders with microgrants, cohort-based learning, and individual leadership coaching. Innovators leadership, ideas, and solutions advance key recommendations in the Young Women’s Initiative of Minnesota’s (YWI MN) Blueprint for Action.
Grants through the Innovators program fund projects that advance gender and racial equity and justice, led by visionary leaders who are leading within their communities from the intersections of their identities and experiences. Innovators meet as a cohort in-person for technical support and leadership development.
Focus Areas
- GOAL 1: Build Pathways to Economic Opportunity.
- GOAL 2: Improve Safety and Well-being.
- GOAL 3: Promote Young Women’s Leadership.
Project Period
The funds must be used within 12 months.
Funds can be used
Think creatively: How can this microgrant uniquely help move your leadership and ideas forward? How can it help you be more effective in the impact you want to make? Example projects could be executed in the following ways:
- Start or continue a social change initiative.
- Design and pursue a personal learning plan.
- Attend a conference and share learnings with community for impact.
- Organize an event for impact.
- Supply resources to organize people for advocacy.
- Research
- Travel as part of greater learning and share in Minnesota for impact.
Participation
Leadership Convenings & Coaching – WFMN will engage young women in mandatory online and/or in-person convenings for leadership development, advocacy, and building community. The convenings will give young women an opportunity to support, develop, and scale their leadership and ideas. This leadership development includes direct professional coaching to support Innovators in their grant-funded projects and to deepen their leadership for the long term.
Eligibility Criteria
The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota is accepting applications from eligible applicants in the state of Minnesota. Eligible candidates:
- Must be 16-24 years old at the date of program kickoff.
- Identify as a young woman and/or gender-expansive youth. The definition of a young woman is anyone who identifies as a woman. The program is inclusive of transgender, gender nonconforming, gender nonbinary, and all gender-expansive people who experience gender-based structural harm.
- Applicants must reside in the state of Minnesota throughout the grant period.
- Priority given to young women and gender-expansive leaders who identify with at least one of the priority communities of the Young Women’s Initiative of Minnesota: Black/African American, African Immigrant, American Indian, Hispanic/Latina, Asian/Pacific Islander, LGBTQ+, Disabilities, Greater/Rural Minnesota.
- Citizenship is not required
For more information, visit WFMN.
