The Women’s Foundation of Colorado’s Women & Girls of Color Fund is accepting letters of interest from Front Range organizations.
Donor Name: The Women’s Foundation of Colorado
State: Colorado
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/13/2022
Size of the Grant: $50,000
Details:
The Ford Foundation is supporting the launch of Women and Girls of Color Fund by offering $50,000 in matching dollars.
The fund focuses on organizations led by women or girls of color executive directors that are committed to building economic power and dismantling oppressive systems through direct service or community organizing.
The Women & Girls of Color Fund is a community-developed, community-led field-of-interest fund dedicated to investing in and partnering with women-of-color-led organizations that are working to advance the economic security of Colorado women and girls of color. Women and girls of color are assets to communities. By collaborating with and investing in them, they are investing in their inherent gifts and invaluable contributions. Their approach will focus on elevating women and girls of color across the state of Colorado to create a better future for all of us.
Focus Area
Front Range focus (Larimer, Boulder, Broomfield, Jefferson, Denver, Arapahoe, Douglas, Adams, and El Paso counties)
Priorities
Funding priorities are grounded in increasing investments in Colorado women and girls of color, their leadership, their futures, and their economic security.
- Led by women and girls of color: Women of color have the experience and community knowledge to best lead communities into an equitable future. Grantee organizations will be led by women of color executive directors.
- Focused on women and girls of color: Women and girls of color receive just .5% of all foundation funding. Programs we fund will have a focus on the power and potential of women and girls of color.
- Colorado-based and Colorado-focused: Colorado is a large and diverse state. Grantees will take a range of approaches to advancing the economic security of women and girls of color based on their specific communities’ needs.
- Liberatory leadership: Grantees will not only reject systems of racism, classism, homophobia, and patriarchy, they will also demonstrate radical practices of liberatory leadership such as self care and collective leadership, which undermine white supremacy culture.
- Advancing economic security: In alignment with The Women’s Foundation of Colorado’s mission, the fund will support programs that advance the economic security of women and girls of color.
- Those most underfunded: Following principles of intersectionality, the Women & Girls of Color Fund will prioritize those communities marginalized by multiple systems of oppression and most underfunded.
Who is eligible to apply?
Applicants must meet all criteria.
- 501(c)(3) charitable organizations; tax-exempt educational institutions; tax-exempt state, tribal, local government entities; or initiatives working with a fiscal sponsor.
- Organization headquartered in rural Colorado (regardless of service area)
- Organizations based in Front Range counties and statewide organizations are eligible for funding in the June – September cycle.
- Organizations whose executive director or CEO is a woman of color, girl of color, or nonbinary person of color.
For more information, visit WFCO.
