The WFMN Fund for Safety resources innovation to end gender-based violence, a continuum that includes sex trafficking, domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment.
Donor Name: Women’s Foundation of Minnesota
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/30/2023
Size of the Grant: $25,000
Details:
The Fund for Safety expands WFMN’s investment in women’s safety as it works with communities to end gender-based violence. In partnership with community leaders, WFMN has followed an ethos of listening and responding to community concerns to drive strategic, cross-sector plans and create collective impact, build on WFMN’s investments in safety they’re investing in organizations, leaders, and movements to end gender-based violence and other forms of violence that directly impact women, girls, and gender-expansive communities.
The focus on Safety prioritizes ending all forms of violence that affect women, girls, and gender-expansive people including sexual violence, physical violence, state and structural violence, and exploitation and abuse experienced by elders and people with disabilities.
The Fund responds to community concerns and drives strategic cross-sector plans for collective impact as they eliminate barriers that create health, economic, gender, and racial inequities.
The Foundation is committed to investing in organizations working with Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian and Pacific Islander communities, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, Greater and rural MN communities, and immigrant and refugee populations.
Safety Funding Goals
The Fund for Safety has three priorities with the anticipated outcomes listed below. As a result of listening to communities and grantee-partners, WFMN invests in healing from trauma and cultivating community-centered solutions for survivors of gender-based violence, this includes sex trafficking, domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, sexual 2023 – 2024 WFMN Safety Grant Request for Proposal harassment, exploitation and abuse of elders and people with disabilities, as well as state and structural violence.
Goals
- Strengthen systems and infrastructure to sustain the movement to end gender-based violence, this includes sex trafficking, domestic
violence, rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse of elders and people with disabilities, as well as state and structural violence. - Build and sustain the movement for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and missing and murdered Black women and girls to address systemic inequities and reform policies that perpetuate gender-based, state sanctioned violence.
- Prevent cycles of gender-based violence with young women, men, and gender expansive people to address misogyny, misogynoir, and toxic masculinity through education to promote healthy gender norms and relationships, in-person and virtually
Grant Amount
WFMN will make one-time general operating support grants of up to $20,000 to dynamic organizations working to create a Minnesota where all women, girls, and gender-expansive people are free from violence and can experience safety in their homes, schools, and communities
Funding Criteria for Safety Fund
- The organization’s financial condition is stable.
- Demonstrated ability to work in partnership with other organizations.
- Demonstrated commitment to gender and racial justice using a multi-issue, multi solution framework.
- Board members, staff, and volunteers are representative of the population served and are represented in decision-making roles in the organization.
- Inclusive organizations that value the perspectives and contributions of all people and that strive to incorporate the needs and
Eligible Programs Include:
- Nonprofit tax-exempt organizations and schools that operate programs in Minnesota
- Unincorporated organizations with a tax-exempt fiscal sponsor
- American Indian Nations
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations driving innovative solutions that advance gender and racial justice by increasing access to community power, leadership, and safety.
- Programs must operate in Minnesota and serve Black, Indigenous, women of color and/or gender-expansive people.
- Organizations that serve Black, Indigenous, and women of color who live in rural areas, identify as LGBTQ+, and/or live with a disability are highly encouraged to apply.
- Organization must be willing to submit a short learning evaluation at the end of their grant agreement.
- Organization and program must align with the Women’s Foundation mission, vision, and core values of Hope, Generosity, Courage, Inclusion, and Belonging.
- Organizations should be prepared to speak to how they use a gender lens and intersectional lens in their programming and work.
- Organizations should apply if serving at least 50 to75 percent women, girls, and gender-expansive people to ensure that organizations are committed to working with women, girls, and gender expansive people and are advocates in creating a place where all women, girls, and gender-expansive people thrive.
For more information, visit Safety Grant.
