The Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW) is seeking applications for its 2022 Eleanor Network: Training and Stabilization program that focuses on sector-based training paired with wrap around services as an economic security strategy.
Donor Name: Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW)
State: Illinois
Counties: Cook County (IL), DuPage County (IL), Lake County (IL), Kane County (IL), McHenry County (IL), Will County (IL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 08/02/2022
Grant Size: $35K and $75K
Details:
The Eleanor Network: Training and Stabilization cycle focuses on workforce development as an essential economic security initiative. The combination of training opportunities and comprehensive support services is designed to allow women to fully participate in programming that will lead to living wage jobs with benefits–and have clear pathways for career advancement and professional development.
Priority Areas
In the report they outline priority areas:
- Get Women Back to Work
- Address the Eviction Crisis
- Care for their Caregivers
- Demand an Antiracist Healthcare System
Funding Information
Grants typically range between $35K and $75K.
Priority Areas: Chicago South and West Side communities that are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, job loss, poverty, and community violence.
Priority Populations: Women, girls, transgender, and gender non-binary people of color, frontline workers, single-parent headed households, immigrants, and domestic workers.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations must be a 501c3 or have a fiscal agent with a 501c3.
- CFW supports nonprofit organizations within the Chicago metropolitan area (Cook, DuPage, Lake, Kane, McHenry, and Will counties). The activities of those organizations can be local, regional, statewide, or even, in some instances, national. All grantee organizations and their projects must be located within the U.S.
- Organizations must meet CFW’s Staff and Board Leadership Diversity Guidelines, stipulating that at least:
- 50% of staff leadership identify as a woman, transgender or gender non-binary person
- 40% of board members identify as a woman, transgender or gender non-binary person
- 33% of staff leadership identify as a person of color
- 25% of board members identify as a person of color
For more information, visit CFW.
