Deadline: 11-Jan-21
The Women’s Fund of Essex County raises funds and awards grants to nonprofit organizations that serve women and girls in need and at risk within Essex County.
Grants are awarded annually to organizations that have demonstrated success but require an additional infusion of funding to maximize their impact.
The Women’s Fund seeks to support nonprofit organizations with proven track records, clear objectives and established budgets. For the 2021 grant cycle, The Women’s Fund will focus on organizations that serve at-risk women or girls in Essex County with services and/or programs addressing needs related to the impacts of Covid-19 and/or societal inequities in three fields of funding:
- Economic self-sufficiency and security;
- Health and well-being;
- Leadership and empowerment.
Funding Information
- They will be offering one-year unrestricted grants of up to $10,000 to Essex County nonprofit organizations addressing the significant needs & impacts of Covid-19 and/or societal inequities, primarily as they relate to women and girls.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Women’s Fund is limited to nonsectarian programming for Essex County women and girls of all religious, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
- Programs sponsored by religious organizations are eligible provided that enrollment is open to all qualified women and girls and the program is free of mandatory sectarian religious instruction.
Selection Process
- The Women’s Fund Grants Allocation Committee will carefully review applications beginning in mid-January and will schedule any necessary follow-up conference call visits in February and March to qualifying nonprofit organizations. Given Covid-19, they will not be making any site visits for the foreseeable future.
- The Committee will vet final funding decisions in early April and make recommendations for approval by The Women’s Fund Advisory Board and by the Essex County Community Foundation Board of Trustees.
- Grant Awards are announced no later than May 1st.
Reporting Requirements
- Grant winners will be asked to submit a brief report by December 31, 2021, outlining the use of the grant.
- This information is useful to The Women’s Fund for their fundraising efforts as they look to expand their capacity to aid organizations assisting women and girls across the county.
- They will also request that their logo be displayed on grant winners’ websites as a funding partner and be featured in a press release on their social media platforms.
For more information, visit https://www.thewomensfundec.org/grantprocess
