The Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW) is accepting applications for the 2022 Primary Grant to advance gender equity, which they believe to be inherently interconnected with racial, economic, and health equity.
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: $10K-$30K
Details:
The Primary Cycle is focused on general operating and program support (both direct service and advocacy) across all three issue areas.
CFW has learned about the systemic issues blocking women’s ability to thrive. It takes comprehensive support to give women the skills they need and remove any roadblocks that may stand in her way. It takes education, job training, and entrepreneurship. It also takes legal assistance, credit clean up, domestic violence services, and childcare as well as centering women’s leadership, giving space for healing, and building their social capital. CFW understands that all of these issues are interconnected; they thus frame the work to also encompass the broader systemic issues of gender, race, and economic inequities.
Issue Areas
- Access to health services and information
- Economic security
- Freedom from violence
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 will range between $10K-$30K.
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.
For more information, visit CFW.
