Deadline: 09-Jul-21
The Women’s Foundation of Southern Arizona is seeking applications for its Annual Grants Fund to achieve social, political, and economic change that empowers women and girls.
Requirements
Services, activities, and outputs vary widely among their non-profit partners, and they value the diversity of work being done in Southern Arizona. However, to be a successful applicant to the WFSA Annual Grants program, a non-profit organization must clearly present its ability to measure one or both of the WFSA required outcome metrics, as elaborated below:
- Increasing Women’s Income and Assets
- If a direct service of your organization, or an outcome of your organization’s direct service(s), leads to an increase to income and assets for low-income women and girls. Services to help women build income and assets include (but are not limited to):
- increased income,
- debt reduction,
- credit repair
- increased savings
- home purchase
- grade level gains
- high school graduation
- completion of higher education
- enrollment in public benefits
- access to scholarships
- workforce development to train women in a mid-skill, high-wage occupation
- If a direct service of your organization, or an outcome of your organization’s direct service(s), leads to an increase to income and assets for low-income women and girls. Services to help women build income and assets include (but are not limited to):
- Influencing Legislative and/or Policy Change
- If your organization, through collaboration or its own initiative, seeks to influence legislative and/or policy change to benefit women and girls in their community, with a focus on systems-level change. Influencing legislative and/or policy change may include (but are not limited to):
- advocacy campaigns that educate decision-makers on the importance of the expansion of TANF funds
- pay equity that ensures comparable pay for all jobs
- comprehensive sex education that is evidence-based and age-appropriate
- a two-generation approach to policy advocacy that links early care and education for children with workforce development services
- coalition-building to prevent policy changes that are detrimental to women and girls
- If your organization, through collaboration or its own initiative, seeks to influence legislative and/or policy change to benefit women and girls in their community, with a focus on systems-level change. Influencing legislative and/or policy change may include (but are not limited to):
For more information, visit https://www.womengiving.org/grants/annual-grants-fund/