Deadline: 30-Sep-22
The Aura Cacia has announced the Positive Change Project Grants to support organizations committed to helping women and girls facing difficult life situations make transformational improvements in their lives.
Founded in 2016, the Positive Change Project works to equip women and girls with the resources necessary to further their commitment to live more purposeful lives.
Programs supported through the Positive Change Project, are those that help women and girls through one or more of the following measures: enable disadvantaged women and girls become more stable and self-sufficient, employ strategies to help them live healthfully and purposefully, reinforce positive self-image, self-respect and self-confidence in women and girls, or creates opportunities for women to drive curriculum or programming that can be applied to program development and mentoring other women.
Priorities
To receive funding from the Positive Change Project, a program must align with the following priorities:
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Organizational priorities:
- Provides resources and services directly to women and girls who face substantial barriers to sustaining their commitment to positive change
- Enables disadvantaged women and/or girls who desire change to become more stable and self-sufficient
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Programing priorities:
- Employs strategies designed to reinforce a woman or girl’s positive change by living healthfully and purposefully
- Reinforces positive self-image, self-respect and self-confidence in women and/or girls
- Creates opportunities for women to drive curriculum/programming that can be applied to program development and mentoring of other women
Funding Information
- In 2022, consumer purchases made it possible for Aura Cacia to fund $145,000 in grants to six organizations.
- Duration: Positive Change Project funding runs from January – December 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit (501(c)(3)) tax-exempt organizations or grassroots groups serving women and girls in the U.S. and Canada are encouraged to apply for Positive Change Project grants.
- Aura Cacia does not fund programs that are politically motivated or that promote religious activities.
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For more information, visit https://www.auracacia.com/positive-change-project