Deadline: 19-Oct-20
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina (CFWNC) is inviting proposals for Women for Women (WFW) to inspire hope and possibility, empowers women to take action, and strengthens Western North Carolina.
WFW works to create opportunities for women and girls of Western North Carolina through grantmaking, advocacy, and advancing women’s philanthropy. Since 2006, WFW has invested more than $4.1 million in high impact grants in WNC.
Women for Women uses an inclusive definition of women and girls. They seek to contribute to a region of shared prosperity and belonging where all women and girls, without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability, benefit from equitable opportunities and outcomes.
While Women for Women recognizes that many strategies are important to improving the lives of women and girls, its membership wishes to focus on projects that best align with the giving circle’s value statements listed. [They also understand that certain types of programming (e.g., childcare support, violence prevention education, school-based programs, etc.) may include boys and/or men in the served population. Such inclusion is acceptable for WFW funding as long as the intended outcomes support those same value statements.]
Funding Information
- Women for Women will make grants between $15,000 and $100,000, which may be used over one or two years.
CFWNC will invest in programs
- Help economically disadvantaged women become more self-sufficient
- Promote access to quality health care and advance healthy lifestyles
- Ensure women and girls live free from intimidation and abuse
- Ensure educational opportunities that help women and girls reach their full potential
- Eliminate discrimination against women and disparate treatment based on gender
- Promote access for women to legal services and equity within the justice system
Women for Women will accept proposals for:
- new projects
- project expansion
- operating expenses for existing projects (1 or 2-year grants; $50,000 limit total)
- general operating expenses for the organization (1 or 2-year grants; $50,000 limit total)
- direct service or advocacy
WFW considers advocacy programs to be those which promote social change for women and girls at various levels of society – communities, institutions, systems, and policies; it is NOT direct service to individual clients.
Eligibility Criteria
- ax-exempt organizations described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and governmental entities are eligible to apply for these grants.
- Organizations must be located in or serving one or more of these WNC counties: Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania or Yancey.
- Current WFW grant recipients may apply for funding; however, they may not apply for the same program WFW is currently funding.
- Faith-based applicants should clarify whether, and the extent to which, the organization’s religious beliefs are integrated into the project.
For more information, visit https://cfwnc.org/grants/women-for-women