The Women’s Fund of Rhode Island (WFRI) is excited to announce financial commitments totaling $120,000 in grant funding to seven organizations over the next two years for their innovative proposals to achieve gender equity and help level the playing field for women and girls in Rhode Island.
Donor Name: Women’s Fund Rhode Island
State: Rhode Island
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/18/2022
Size of the Grant: $120,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
Priorities
- Systems change ideas that work to level the playing field for women and girls in Rhode Island
- Civic engagement and leadership
- Economic self-sufficiency and justice, particularly fair/equal pay and increased/living wages
- Women and girls health and well-being, particularly freedom and access to reproductive health and/or freedom from sexual harassment
To give you a sense of what we mean by funding gender equity through systemic change, our most recent grant recipients and awarded programs include:
- SISTA Fire ($20,000)
- Sojourner House ($20,000)
- RI Coalition Against Domestic Violence ($20,000)
- Center for Women & Enterprise ($20,000)
- SEIU Education & Support Fund ($20,000
- Rhode Island for Community & Justice ($10,906)
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England ($9,094)
Eligibility Criteria
WFRI’s grant making supports systemic change. Proposals need to demonstrate one or more of the following:
- A capacity to address root causes of problems, challenges and issues
- Impact on societal attitudes or behaviors
- Positive long-term change for women and girls
- Expanded choice for women and girls
- Empowerment of women and girls to challenge the status quo
- Changes in policies and systems to provide full participation by women and girls
WFRI will fund the following types of organizations:
- Non-profit organizations and groups that demonstrate tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Code 501 (c) 3
- Groups or organizations that submit an application through a fiscal sponsor, e.g. a tax-exempt organization under IRS Code 501 (c) that agrees to accept funds on its behalf
- Schools receiving funding from the government
- Eligible Organizations or groups that serve women and girls in Rhode Island
- Federal, state, county, and city government agencies
- Religious organizations for religious purposes. Although there is no restriction on funding faith-based organizations, all WFRI-funded projects /services must be secular
- For-profit business ventures
- Endowment or capital campaigns
- Individuals or scholarships
- Fundraising events or conferences
- Debt reduction
- Medical research
- Campaigns to elect candidates to public office
- Projects that discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or any veteran’s status.
For more information, visit Women’s Fund of Rhode Island (WFRI) Grant Program.
