Deadline: 1-Sep-21
The Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW) is offering Eleanor Network: Training & Stabilization 2021 to focus on workforce development as an essential economic security initiative.
The combination of training opportunities and comprehensive support services ensures that women are able to secure living-wage jobs with benefits—and to have clear pathways for career advancement and professional development.
- Training grantees: deliver job skills training and job placement. The Foundation seeks to fund programs whose primary focus is to help women develop the skills and education they need to:
- Secure living wage employment with benefits and a career path or to advance up an existing career ladder to secure a living wage with benefits.
- Stabilization grantees: will be asked to partner with training organizations to provide services and resources that support women’s full participation in the training/educational opportunities. Supports could include services such as:
- financial coaching and credit repair, accessing childcare, accessing housing, family stabilizationand accessing healthcare (mental and behavioral health counseling or survivor-centered approaches to domestic violence support), or emergency cash support.
Priority Populations
- Women, girls, transgender, and gender non-binary people of color, frontline workers, single-parent headed households, immigrants, and domestic workers.
- Priority areas include Chicago South and West Side communities that are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, job loss, poverty, and community violence.
Funding Information
- Grants typically range between $35K and $75K.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations must be a 501c3 or have a fiscal agent with a 501c3.
- Organizations must meet CFW’s Staff and Board Leadership Diversity.
For more information, visit https://www.cfw.org/grants/how-to-apply/