Deadline: 14-Jan-22
WA Women’s Foundation (WaWF) is currently accepting Letters of Inquiry (LOI) from Nonprofits Organizations for the 2022 Collective Grants Program.
Themes
WaWF is focusing on the thematic areas of Law, Justice & Incarceration, Housing & Hunger, and Arts & Community Culture. The funding priorities are as follows:
- School to Prison Pipeline: Focusing on the relationship between the education system and the justice system, and the trend of young adults being funneled into detention, creating a pipeline from school to jail.
- Mental Health & Housing: Focusing on the intersection of mental health and housing and supporting organizations that address the many ways trauma and mental health can create additional challenges and unique needs in housing.
- Community Cultural Preservation: Investing in systemically under-resourced communities by supporting the preservation of language, stories, performing arts, sites, crafts, relationships to land, forms of subsistence, and other cultural traditions.
Eligibility Criteria
- Tax Exempt Status. Organization must currently qualify as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) or 7871 of the Internal Revenue Code or be fiscally sponsored by another tax-exempt organization.
- Connection to Washington. Organization must operate programs or provide services within the state of Washington.
- WA Women’s Foundation does not fund endowments, pass-through scholarships or out-of-state projects of Washington-based organizations.
- The funding is unrestricted and the grants should be used wherever they are most needed except that they do not fund endowments, pass-through scholarships, or out-of-state projects of Washington-based organizations.
- WaWF is most interested in understanding community needs and how your organization is addressing those needs through the delivery of services to those directly impacted by inequity.
- WaWF seeks to support and collectively invest in organizations that are reflective of and embedded in the communities they serve, draw on the strengths and assets of these communities, and are accountable to these communities in order to achieve the long-term goals of increasing equity and reducing disparities.
- This year, they invite Letters of Inquiry from organizations that meet all the following criteria:
- Is focused on providing services to people affected by inequity due to race and/or gender identity;
- Is accountable to the people being served. “Accountable” can mean one or more of the following:
- Ensures that people being served are visibly leading;
- Develops leadership of the people being served;
- Engages the people being served in ongoing decision-making, planning and assessment; and/or
- Draws on the strengths, assets, and lived experience of the people being served.
- Is addressing systemic racial and/or gender inequities in one of the following areas:
- School to Prison Pipeline
- Mental Health & Housing
- Community Cultural Preservation
- Can demonstrate how they reduce disparities and/or achieve more equitable outcomes.
For more information, visit https://wawomensfdn.org/for-nonprofits/letter-of-inquiry/