The Women’s Foundation of Colorado is currently accepting applications for its Women & Girls of Color Fund Front Range Grant program.
Donor Name: The Women’s Foundation of Colorado
State: Colorado
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/13/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,000-$15,000
Details:
Women of color contribute immensely to the health, well-being, and advancement of the communities. They mobilize grassroots movements that create real change, they are thought leaders who shape their understanding of gender and race, and they are uniquely positioned to lead them into a better future because of their lived experiences. At the same time, women of color face greater disparities in health outcomes, pay, wealth, access to capital, and more.
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 committed to building economic power and dismantling oppressive systems through direct service or community organizing. The approach will focus on elevating women and girls of color across the state of Colorado to create a better future for all of them.
Grantmaking Priorities
It 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 Grantee organizations will be led by women of color executive directors.
- Focused on Women and Girls of Color
- Programs they 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.
- Advancing Economic Security
- 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.
Funding Information
The minimum grant amount is $10,000. The average grant size per cycle has been about $15,000. Applicants do not need to submit an application for a specific amount.
Eligibility Criteria
- 501(c)(3) charitable organizations; tax-exempt educational institutions; tax-exempt state, tribal, local government entities; or initiatives working with a fiscal sponsor.
- Organizations whose executive director or CEO is a woman of color, girl of color, or nonbinary person of color.
- Community organizing or direct service organizations that advance economic security for or build the economic power of women of color, girls of color, and/or nonbinary people of color along the continuum from birth through adulthood. (Excludes research– and public policy-exclusive organizations)
- Front Range focus (Larimer, Boulder, Broomfield, Jefferson, Denver, Arapahoe, Douglas, Adams, and El Paso counties).
For more information, visit The Women’s Foundation of Colorado.
