Deadline: 4-Oct-21
The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut is offering Women & Girls Fund Grants to help women and girls in Eastern Connecticut lead more fulfilling, productive, healthy lives.
The Women & Girls Fund helping empower women of all ages in 11 communities in the southeastern portion of the region. The goal of this charitable fund was to support nonprofits that help women and girls pursue positive, productive lives – for themselves and their families.
Priorities
- Empower women and girls to make positive decisions – Examples include mentoring, leadership, career exposure, character development.
- Promote healthy relationships and prevent domestic violence – Examples include teen dating violence prevention education, domestic violence shelters and transitional housing, victim advocacy.
- Advance family economic security – Examples include training for jobs and career advancement, programs to overcome barriers to financial security, and other supports for low-income women.
- Support access to women’s health, mental health and reproductive health services – Examples include counseling, health education, health care access.
- Support public policy, advocacy and leadership to promote equity – Examples include statewide policy groups, training programs for grass-roots organizations.
- Help New London women, ages 62 and older, with limited incomes to remain in their homes (Southeast only) – Examples include meal delivery, nursing services.
Funding Information
- Collectively, the four Women & Girls Funds have an endowment of nearly $6.9 million and have awarded more than $2.41 million in grants to over 531 programs.
- Eligible applicants may submit grant requests for amounts between $2,000 and $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Please be sure to view the specific criteria and deadline for each of the grant programs. Here are some general eligibility criteria:
- Applicants must be 501(c)(3) charitable organizations, schools, municipal or governmental agencies, or partner with a nonprofit fiscal agent. They do not make grants to individuals or for-profit endeavors.
- Applicants must serve one or more of the 42 communities in Eastern Connecticut.
- They do not provide funding for capital or endowment campaigns, litigation costs, religious programming, endowment campaigns, deficit funding or debt retirement. They do not typically make grants for special events.
- Applicants may not discriminate against any person or group of persons on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, disability, marital status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state and/or local laws.
- Grant reports must be received before a new grant award is made.
- Southeast Area Women & Girls Fund: East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, Lyme, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Old Lyme, Salem, Stonington and Waterford.
For more information, visit https://www.cfect.org/Nonprofits/Apply-for-a-Grant/Apply-for-Our-Southeast-Area-Women-Girls-Fund-Grants