Deadline: 15-Dec-22
WA Women’s Foundation is excited to announce the Collective Grants.
Priorities
Their 2023 funding priorities in the thematic areas of Climate & Agricultural Justice, Education, and Healthcare:
- Food Sovereignty & Security: Investing in communities’ access to culturally appropriate food via sustainable food systems, and food security created through ecologically sound production lines.
- They are interested in learning more about the relationship between people, power and food production, and the impact that relationship to the land has on climate and agricultural justice.
- Early Childhood Education: Investing in both formal and informal education and opportunities for early learners from birth to age 8, which may include the development of literacy skills.
- They are interested in learning more about how a focus on their youngest community members during a period of fundamental development impacts their growth.
- Reproductive Justice & Maternal Healthcare: Investing in the ability to maintain personal bodily autonomy, control reproductive choices, and access healthcare during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
- They are interested in learning more about the many ways reproductive matters impact their community, with a holistic approach to maternal health.
In 2023, the Collective, Advocacy, and Women & Girls grants will be awarded to organizations working within these priority areas.
Eligibility Criteria
- Tax Exempt Status: Organization must currently qualify as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) or 7871 of the Internal Revenue Code or be fiscally sponsored by another tax-exempt organization.
- Connection to Washington: Organization must operate programs or provide services within the state of Washington.
- WA Women’s Foundation does not fund endowments, pass-through scholarships or out-of-state projects of Washington-based organizations.
Grant Criteria
- Their funding is unrestricted and their grants should be used wherever they are most needed except that they do not fund endowments, pass-through scholarships, or out-of-state projects of Washington-based organizations.
- They are most interested in understanding community needs and how your organization is addressing those needs through the delivery of services to those directly impacted by inequity.
- They seek to support and collectively invest in organizations that are reflective of and embedded in the communities they serve, draw on the strengths and assets of these communities, and are accountable to these communities in order to achieve the long-term goals of increasing equity and reducing disparities.
- This year, they invite Letters of Inquiry from organizations that meet all the following criteria:
- Is focused on providing services to people affected by inequity due to race and/or gender identity;
- Is accountable to the people being served. “Accountable” can mean one or more of the following:
- Ensures that people being served are visibly leading;
- Develops leadership of the people being served;
- Engages the people being served in ongoing decision-making, planning and assessment; and/or
- Draws on the strengths, assets, and lived experience of the people being served.
- Is addressing systemic racial and/or gender inequities in one of the following areas:
- Food Sovereignty & Security
- Early Childhood Education
- Reproductive Justice & Maternal Healthcare
- Can demonstrate how they reduce disparities and/or achieve more equitable outcomes.
For more information, visit WA Women’s Foundation.