Deadline: 1-Nov-21
The Akron Community Foundation (ACF) has announced Women’s Endowment Fund (WEF) to make a difference in the lives of local women and girls.
In 1993, a group of 106 women came together with one goal in mind: to make a difference in the lives of local women and girls. Seeing a need for funding to support programs that empower this population, the women each gave $1,000 to establish the Women’s Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation.
Categories
- Economic empowerment:
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- Entrepreneurship
- Building assets
- Financial literacy
- Workforce development
- Enabling mothers to work productively
- Safety from violence:
- Domestic violence
- Sexual assault
- Childhood sexual abuse
- Raising awareness/preventing violence
- Developing a coordinated response to violence
- Health & Wellness:
- Awareness, education, prevention
- Mental health
- Reproductive health
- Teen pregnancy
- Access to treatment
- Obesity prevention/control
- Nutrition & physical fitness
Note: If your program falls under more than one category, please select “Combination.”
What they Fund?
While their programming differs, all Akron Community Foundation grantees have things in common:
- Organizational strength: They support efficient and effective nonprofit organizations with the capacity to significantly improve the community. They value organizations that demonstrate sustainability, honesty and transparency while remaining true to their mission.
- Systemic impact: They support collaborative efforts that help individuals, families and neighborhoods thrive by addressing immediate needs while creating holistic improvement within Summit County. They prefer to fund organizations that address the underlying cause of a problem and make a lasting improvement.
- Accountability: They serve as stewards of their donors’ community investments. They honor the charitable intentions of these donors to help them meet current and future needs of their community. As a result, they hold themselves and their grantees to the highest standards of ethics, integrity, service and fiduciary responsibility.
- Strengthened capacity of the nonprofit sector: They support efforts that build governance, management, financial and organizational capacities of nonprofit agencies and the sector as a whole. They also strive to create partnerships that reduce duplicative and ineffective programs.
- Inclusiveness: They honor the diverse strengths, needs, voices and backgrounds within their community, and They support organizations whose missions promote equity and inclusiveness.
- The Community Fund grants improve life for all residents of Summit County. Therefore, they do not make grants for:
- Endowments
- Scholarships
- Direct financial support to individuals
- Religious organizations for religious purposes
- Private non-operating foundations
- In accordance with their grantmaking priorities, they generally do not fund:
- Newly established nonprofit organizations that duplicate existing services
- Curriculum for schools
- Disease-specific programs
- Economic development initiatives already being addressed by the Fund for their Economic Future
- Programs at parochial schools that benefit only their students
- Multi-year grants
For more information, visit https://www.akroncf.org/grantmaking-initiatives/overview/competitive-grants/