The Fund for Women & Girls, a special initiative of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, is to broaden the awareness of and response to issues affecting women and girls through the power of collective philanthropy.
Donor Name: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities
State: Pennsylvania
County: Cumberland County (PA), Dauphin County (PA), Franklin County (PA), Lebanon County (PA), Perry County (PA), York County (PA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Created in 2000, The Fund for Women & Girls has been working for nearly two decades to and continues to strengthen its primary goals:
- To recruit 1,000 individuals to join the Dream Team by each making a gift of $1,000 which will be used to create a lasting endowment of $1 million to support women and girls now, and far into the future.
- Make grants annually to local nonprofit organizations that focus on bettering the lives of women and girls in the South Central PA counties of Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lebanon, and Perry, and the Dillsburg Area. The Fund for Women & Girls believes that positive social change will come about only when barriers of class, economic status, educational background, ethnicity, educational background, faith traditions, gender identity, race, and sexual orientation are overcome, Participation at the broadest level is the beacon of the work.
Funding Priorities
- To further its mission, The Fund for Women & Girls utilizes four Funding Priorities which seek to support projects that advance the lives of women and girls by:
- Providing opportunities to address basic needs or develop economic self-sufficiency.
- Providing opportunities to strengthen and address health and safety needs.
- Providing opportunities for education.
- Providing opportunities to invest in systems and sustainable change efforts in diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- The Fund for Women & Girls is seeking proposals that are change making for local women & girls.
- Proposed projects may seek to strengthen and/or sustain existing programs, expand existing programs or be brand new.
- Proposals must be focused on service to women, service to girls, service to women & girls or service to those who identify as such.
- Proposals must have lasting value and provide a plan for sustainability beyond the grant term.
Funding Information
Up to $15,000.
Grant Period
Proposed projects may take place at any time during the grant year beginning September 1, 2025 and ending August 31, 2026.
Uses of Funds
Funds are to be used to carry out the program effort or initiative as defined in the grant proposal. The Fund for Women & Girls considers support for program/initiative operating costs and supports start-up as well as established programs.
Eligibility Criteria
The Fund for Women & Girls will make grants to programs/initiatives that serve women and girls in the South Central PA counties of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Lebanon, Perry, and the Dillsburg Area of York County. All money must be distributed through nonprofit organizations federally determined as 501(c)(3) entities. Applicants without 501(c)(3) status may engage a Fiscal sponsor to administer their grant funds.
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