Deadline: 22-Feb-2025
The Connecticut Community Foundation has launched the Women and Girls Fund Program to identify, convene and support programs that promote advocacy and skill development while fostering resilience, self-esteem and self-respect among girls and young women in our region.
Funding Information
- The average amount is between $5,000 and $15,000.
Women’s Fund, Possible Grant Funding Projects
- Creation of inclusive, welcoming, and supportive conditions and positive role models
- Outreach that builds participation and inclusion of underrepresented populations
- Meaningful youth involvement in creating the program’s plans and or implementation
- Programs that contribute to positive youth development and utilize the Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets; programs that have established achievable and meaningful goals for participants, as well as tracking systems to follow progress; and programs that include teenage and pre-teen girls.
- Multiple organizations working collaboratively on establishing goals, developing curricula or schedules, and addressing training needs, implementation and evaluation efforts.
- Planning grants that allow organizations the opportunity to explore and plan for a potential project. Costs associated with analyzing feasibility, solidifying partnerships, developing work plans or proofs of concept are eligible.
Eligibility Criteria
- They support 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations and organizations with a fiscal sponsor who support communities living in 21 towns within Greater Waterbury and Litchfield Hills.
- In order to apply for funding, an organization must:
- Be a not-for-profit organization recognized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a municipal entity seeking a grant for public purposes. Organizations may also have a nonprofit fiscal sponsor, if they do not have their own nonprofit status.
- Have a board, representative of the community, of which a majority is neither employees nor relatives of employees.
- Possess a Nonprofit Registration to Solicit Funds (or exemption, if appropriate) from the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection.
- They encourage requests that:
- Provide services or support to the communities located within the 21-town service area
- Support system change and advocacy efforts
- Include support for core nonprofit operations such as staff time, overhead and evaluation
- Support organizations led by Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC)
Ineligibility Criteria
- They do not fund:
- Requests for political or religious purposes
- Requests for capital expenditures on buildings not owned by a nonprofit
For more information, visit Connecticut Community Foundation.