The Essex County Resilient Girls Project, an initiative of The Women’s Fund of Essex County supported by the Cummings Foundation, will invest in a small three-year cohort of nonprofit programs that help adolescent girls (ages 11 to 18) to build and strengthen personal resilience.
Donor Name: Essex County Community Foundation
State: Massachusetts
County: Essex County (MA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/14/2023
Size of the Grant: $14,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
Project Components
The Project has three main components:
- A total of five, three-year grants will be awarded to focus on building and enhancing resilience in adolescent girls.
- The five grantees will become a cohort-based learning initiative, convening two times each year over the three years of funding to share their approaches, successes, and challenges and learn from other thought leaders in the field to support their work around building girls’ resiliency;
- The integration of an evaluation and research model based on the 7Cs Model of Positive Development (Ginsburg & Jablow, 2015) with the goal of assessing in what ways programs can positively influence girls’ development of the 7Cs. The 7Cs include seven qualities that research has tied to resilience: competence, confidence, character, connection, contribution, coping, and control.
Grants will be made to enhance existing programs in a measurable way or to fund creative new initiatives.
Funding Information
The Women’s Fund of Essex County is offering five 3-year grants of $14,000 per year over 3 years ($42,000 total over 3 years)
Geographic Limitations
The Foundation supports non-profit organizations serving the residents of Essex County, MA. They prefer the organization be based in Essex County, but it is not a requirement. Either way, the grant funds must be spent within the County.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Women’s Fund is limited to non-sectarian programming for Essex County girls of all religious, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. Programs sponsored by religious organizations are eligible if enrolment is open to all qualified adolescent girls and the program is free of mandatory sectarian religious instruction.
- Generally, grants will not be awarded:
- To individuals
- To agencies with pending 501(c)3 status
- For debt or deficit reduction
- For political purposes
- For sectarian or religious purposes
- For endowment or capital campaigns
- For research or feasibility studies.
For more information, visit ECCF.
