| The Women's Foundation Announces Over $600,000 in Grantmaking!
Washington Area Women's Foundation is pleased to announce grants totaling $630,000 to 20 nonprofits whose programs are improving the economic security of low-income women and girls in the Washington metropolitan region. The grants will impact the lives of more than 3,500 women and girls, and will enable women to increase their collective incomes and assets by nearly $3 million in 2015. Through the Foundation's flagship grantmaking program Stepping Stones, strategic investments in the areas of asset building, early care and education and workforce development continue. A few examples of the cutting-edge programs, research and  advocacy the Foundation will fund include: community college innovations to better prepare women for the workforce; early care and learning partnerships that will complete the first cost examination of local quality programs; and grants to fund innovative two-generation programs that serve middle school aged girls and their female caregivers simultaneously. The Foundation has been selected to join a national network of leaders pioneering two-generation programs. "When we change the life of one woman or girl, we change whole families and communities," said Jennifer Lockwood-Shabat, president and CEO of The Women's Foundation in a media statement. "The Foundation continues to promote holistic and impactful work that increases the financial capability and assets of women and invests where girls need it the most—earlier in their lives to ensure they have the best start possible, and during the critical middle school years to support high school completion, develop self-esteem and empower them as change agents that will help to break persistent cycles of intergenerational poverty." The following grants were approved this week by The Women's Foundation's board of directors: Academy of Hope ($30,000)
AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation ($25,000)
Capital Area Asset Builders ($15,000)
CentroNía ($50,000)
Community Tax Aid, Inc. ($35,000)
DC Appleseed ($90,000)
Doorways for Women and Families ($45,000)
Goodwill of Greater Washington ($25,000)
Greater Washington Workforce Development Collaborative ($15,000)
The Literacy Lab ($30,000)
Montgomery College Foundation ($5,000)
National Black Child Development Institute ($40,000)
Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation ($25,000)
Northern Virginia Family Service ($25,000)
Prince George's Child Resource Center ($40,000)
SOME (So Others Might Eat) ($25,000)
The Training Source, Inc. ($20,000)
Voices for Virginia's Children ($50,000)
Year Up ($15,000)
YWCA of the National Capital Area ($25,000)
Help Impact the Lives of More Women and Girls!
Make a Gift by December 31. Your donations help to ignite The Women's Foundation's innovative and evidence-based strategies. By making a gift before the end of 2014, you are investing in the: - potential of women and girls;
- proven track record of our community's best nonprofits; and
- power of women's philanthropy and our work at The Foundation.
Together—we can help end poverty in our region by investing in its greatest changemakers—women and girls. |
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