New York Women’s Foundation is seeking applications to promote the economic security, safety and health of the most vulnerable women in New York City.
Donor Name: New York Women’s Foundation
State: New York
City: New York City
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/28/2023
Size of the Grant: $80,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The New York Women’s Foundation has long advanced a dynamic philanthropic strategy based on the fundamental reality that when women thrive, their families and communities also thrive. They invest in women-led, community-based solutions that promote the economic security, safety, and health of the most vulnerable women in New York City.
The New York Women’s Foundation understands that to invest in the long-term economic security of women, girls, and TGNCNB people living at or below the poverty line in New York City means also investing in the sustainability, growth, and success of effective leaders, programs, and organizations. In addition, since its inception, The Foundation has been driven by its core value of supporting solutions and leaders that bare authentically anchored in their communities. Through their Early Investment strategy, they prioritize funding small and/or emerging organizations and programs implementing community-based solutions for historically under invested communities of women, girls, and TGNCNB people throughout NYC.
Further elements of the Early Investment grant making strategy, across both general Operating support and program-specific support grants, include the following:
- Long-term funding:
- They understand that real. Change takes time. The Foundation supports their grantee partners for up to five years. Long-term and consistent funding provides the necessary stability and resources organizations need to strategically focus on deepening their impact.
- Capacity building:
- The success of a program or a solution is only as good as the organization moving it forward. The Foundation invests in the capacity and leadership of their grantee partners by building on their existing strengths and furthering their self-sufficiency and sustainability.
- Cultivating leadership:
- Organizations and movements are powered by people. They seek to remove barriers and create opportunities for leadership and partnership within/among organizations and communities.
Grant Priorities
The Foundation prioritizes the needs of women, girls, and gender-expansive people from under-invested communities in any borough of New York City. Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Transgender, gender nonconforming, no binary, and gender-expansive people
- Native/Indigenous people
- LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or Questioning) women, girls, and gender-fluid youth of color
- Individuals facing issues related to mental health and/or substance abuse
- Immigrant and refugee communities
- Survivors and criminalized survivors of gender-based violence and intimate partner violence
- People with disabilities
- People experiencing homelessness or unstable housing
- Individuals working in the sex trades
- Older adults
- Organizations based in and serving Staten Island
Focus Areas
The Foundation funds across three main focus areas: Economic Security and Justice; Safety and Healing; and Reproductive Justice, Health, and Sexual Rights. Applicants are asked to select at least one of these three focus areas that are most closely aligned with their work. They are keenly aware that these focus areas are often inextricably linked through the lived experiences of girls, women, and TGNCNB (transgender, gender nonconforming, or no binary) people. Thus, applicants can also select a secondary Focus Area, if applicable.
Funding Information
- Organizations are eligible to apply for an $80,000 one-year grant.
Grant Period
- July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024
Eligibility Criteria
In this grant cycle, The New York Women’s Foundation is accepting proposals from:
- Organizations not previously funded in the Early Investment strategy by The New York Women’s Foundation that meet the following criteria:
- Are a registered 501(c) (3) or have a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor
- Located within and operating within the five boroughs of New York City
- In existence for at least six months
For more information, visit New York Women’s Foundation.
