Greater New Haven nonprofit organizations serving women and organizations that support women entrepreneurs and business owners are invited to apply for grant funding.
Donor Name: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
State: Connecticut
Town: Selected Towns
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/31/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven’s Community Fund for Women & Girls is providing grants (up to $15,000) to Greater New Haven serving nonprofits that provide women (including those who identify as cisgender, transgender and nonbinary) with greater economic security through programs that support:
- Women’s workforce training and employment participation
- Women entrepreneurs
- Women’s housing stability
- Innovative childcare which supports women in the workforce.
Funding Priorities
- Women’s Workforce Participation
- Support for workforce training, job readiness and employment programs which improve women’s economic security and support women in underrepresented career fields. Priority consideration will be given to programming which includes wraparound supports (ex., cash assistance, transportation, childcare), that allow women to fully participate in training and work opportunities. Sample outcomes: Women’s increased ability to seek and maintain employment; increased ability to participate in and complete job-training programs.
- Women Entrepreneurs
- Support for initiatives that help women entrepreneurs in the development and maintenance of sustainable businesses. Can include training and coaching, direct financial assistance for operational and administrative costs, business planning and marketing guidance, and/or other related services. Sample outcomes: Woman-owned business’ increased financial strength, increased operational capacity, creation of employment opportunities for women.
- Women’s Housing Security
- Support for initiatives that help women obtain or maintain housing stability. Can include rental and eviction assistance, rental down payments, furniture, utility assistance and foreclosure prevention. Sample outcomes: Women’s increased housing stability through rental assistance distributions.
- Childcare Innovation
- Support for childcare programs which incorporate creative solutions to meet the needs of working families. Examples include alternative/extended-hour childcare; childcare-employer collaborations; on-site employer-centered care; childcare-training program collaborations and partnerships.
- Sample outcomes: Increased access to childcare for families, increased collaboration amongst childcare providers and local businesses.
Eligibility Criteria
- All applicants must be defined as tax-exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) or any applicable statute of the Internal Revenue code. While grants are occasionally made to governmental agencies, local nonprofits receive priority. Requests will be considered from nonprofit groups and community organizations that do not have tax-exemption status, provided that they have a fiscal agent with the appropriate tax status. Projects that involve partnerships among multiple agencies require one agency with the appropriate tax status and financial management capacity to assume the role of lead organization.
- You must provide services within the 20 town area: Ansonia, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, North Branford, North Haven, West Haven, Oxford, New Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Milford, Seymour, Shelton, Wallingford, Orange, Woodbridge.
Unless otherwise noted by a specific grant program, these projects do not receive consideration:
- Activities that include the practice or promulgation of any faith or ideology
- Endowment campaigns
- Previously incurred expenses
- Funding deficits
- Sports groups/leagues that do not provide academic and/or other social supports
- Organizations that have a fiscal sponsor that is outside the TCF region and do not have a local Advisory Board or Board of Directors
- LLCs with a nonprofit fiscal sponsor
- Nonprofits closely affiliated with a for-profit business that offers similar programs and/or shares leadership
- PTSOs, PTOs, PTAs, Sport/Club booster clubs of PK-12 academic programs.
For more information, visit TCFGNH.
