Deadline: 13-Nov-20
Texas Women’s Foundation elevates and celebrates The Voices Of Women Leaders, and presents The Maura Women Helping Women and Young Leader Awards to exemplary trailblazers in community.
Recipients will be honoured at Texas Women’s Foundation Leadership Forum & Awards Dinner, presented by AT&T, in Spring of 2021.
Eligibility Criteria
- Texas Women’s Foundation Maura Award: For 42 years, the Maura “Women Helping Women” Award has recognized those who have led the way in improving lives for women and girls in Texas. Nominees must meet the following criteria:
- Utilizes their role in leadership to advance opportunities to serve the unique needs of women and girls;
- Has spent an extended period of time in service helping women and girls;
- Former or current Texas resident; and
- Must be 40 years of age and over.
- Texas Women’s Foundation Young Leader Award: Texas Women’s Foundation’s Young Leader Award recognizes breakthrough leadership exhibited by a Texan.nNominees must meet the following criteria:
- Achieving success in a field, initiative or sector;
- Creating a path of opportunity for others to follow;
- Former or current Texas resident;
- Must be between 18 – 39 years of age.
About Texas Women’s Foundation
They are a leading driver of meaningful social and economic change for women, girls and families in Texas. They leverage research, advocacy, innovative programs and solutions, and grantmaking to further their mission. They work to achieve their vision of an equitable society where women and girls are full participants. They celebrate every milestone that has helped them reach this point:
- They have awarded $46.6 million in grants over 34 years.
- Since 2013, they have awarded over $27.6 million in grants and over $7 million in strategic grants supporting women’s economic security and leadership.
- Since 2013, they have impacted 90,000 women and families who have benefited from their leadership and economic security initiatives.
- They are one of the largest women’s funds in the world with assets over $36 million.
- They have deployed 100% of their assets – endowments, operating investments and donor-advised funds – in a gendered impact portfolio that yields strong financial returns and measurable social benefits to women and girls.
As a community-supported foundation, under the collective guidance and expertise of Foundation staff and a Board of Directors who represent the diverse interests of the communities they serve, they are sharply focused on achieving their Mission, Vision and Values.
For more information, visit https://www.txwf.org/events/leadershipawards/