Deadline: 6-Jan-22
The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota (WFMN) is currently accepting applications for its WFMN Innovators Program to provide microgrants directly to young women and gender-expansive people (ages 16-24) to fuel their ideas and support their development as leaders with microgrants, cohort-based learning, and individual leadership coaching.
Grants through the WFMN Innovators program fund projects that advance gender and racial equity by visionary young women who are leading within their communities from the intersections of their identities and experiences.
Goals
Your project should further one of the key goals of the Young Women’s Initiative, and one or more Blueprint recommendations that apply:
- Build Pathways to Economic Opportunity.
- Improve Safety and Well-being.
- Promote Young Women’s Leadership.
Award Information
WFMN Innovators will receive a $ 2,500 grant to support innovative problem-solving grounded in the Blueprint for Action, the series of recommendations created in partnership with young women from eight communities across the state and informed by WFMN Listening Sessions.
How can the WFMN Innovators grant award be used?
Think creatively! How can this microgrant uniquely help move your leadership and ideas forward? How can it help you be more effective in the impact you want to make?
WFMN encourages you to think creatively: How can this microgrant uniquely help move your leadership and ideas forward? How can it help you be more effective in the impact you want to make. Examples of projects could be executed in the following ways:
- Start or continues a social change initiative
- Design and pursue a personal learning plan
- Attend a conference and share learnings with community for impact
- Organize an event for impact
- Supply resources to organize people for advocacy
- Research
- Travel as part of greater learning and share learnings in Minnesota for impact
What do I need to apply?
- WFMN Innovators will be selected based on ability to identify their voice, share their lived experiences, and demonstrate commitment to community-building and leadership.
- The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota will engage a review panel of young women and YWI MN partners.
- The panel will review the grant proposals and recommend awards for the applications that best represent the mission, goals, and values of the Young Women’s Initiative of Minnesota.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Wo men’s Foundation of Minnesota will accept applications from eligible applicants in the state of Minnesota which include the following:
- Identify as a young woman or gender-expansive person between the ages of 16 years old to 24 years old.
- The definition of young woman is anyone who identifies as a woman and is inclusive of cisgender, transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender non-binary people.
- Residence and impact in the state of Minnesota for the entire grant period.
- Priority given to young women identifying with one or more of the following communities: Black / African American, African Immigrant, American Indian, Hispanic / Latina, Asian / Pacific Islander, LGBTQ +, Disabilities, Greater / Rural Minnesota.
- Citizenship is not required.
- Application includes:
- Project outline & narrative submitted in two ways: (1) Video or (2) Essay.
- Project budget
- Optional: summary and photos
For more information, visit https://www.wfmn.org/apply-to-become-a-wfmn-innovator-informational-webinar-is-nov-10/