The Foundation will again accept application requests starting April 1, 2022.

We appreciate your patience as we worked through the backlog.

Kathryn

The following organizations were awarded Grants:

-The Mooncatcher Project, this is an organization that operates in Uganda, Malawi, and Kenya whose their primary mission is to remove barriers for young girls related to menstruation.

-Exodus Road – is a non-profit working primarily with women who have been victims of sex trafficking.

-CENCUDER (Centre for Community Development and Environmental Restoration) – Their goal is to empower youths and women overcome the barriers of poverty, as well as protecting the environment.  The grant provides funding for a footbridge for a rural area of Cameroon that will allow folks to be easily pass over a water system that at times can be very dangerous.

-Foundation for Tomorrow, providing funding for their programs which benefit students in Tanzania.

-Molly’s Bridge,  this organization in Savannah GA that helps  single mother’s transition to independent lives.  Funding will  help pay for one of their family home units.

-Strategies for International Development works with the poorest of the poor farmers in Guatemala. Funding supports a women’s coffee program to help these women grow and thrive in their coffee businesses.

-Girl Up is an organization that pursues gender equality for all women and girls. Funding will help establish strategic expansion Girl Up leadership programs in Africa.

-Chicago Jesuit Academy –  This is a middle school who helps predominately underserved black young men in Chicago be successful when they transition to high school and choose careers.  Funding will focus on technical training and certifications and job placements.

The Foundation closed 2021 with a large increase in Grant requests.  Times are so difficult for so many people across the globe and the complexities of COVID have stretched many organizations.   We have always strived to be timely with responding to the many deserving organizations, but we have fallen behind on the grant process.

As a result, we are closing the application process to any new requests for the first quarter 2022.  Any requests received will not be processed and will have to be resubmitted after March 31.  This will allow us to workdown the backlog of requests already received.

Please also note that anyone seeking a Grant MUST be a qualified 501(c)(3) as defined by the US Tax Code, with the appropriate number and documentation or have a qualified 501(c)(3) sponsor.  Having the appropriate documentation when submitting your application will speed the grant process for everyone.

Thank You, and I wish everyone a better 2022,

Kathryn

The Foundation closes the year with Grants to:

-Flying Kites  Network School  Feeding Program in Kenya.

-Nurture Africa, Sustain Programing in Districts of Uganda.

-Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, Patient Assistance Fund.

The Foundation is pleased to announce the following grants awarded in October and November:

• College Guild, to help incarcerated women inmates receive access to education they otherwise wouldn’t have.
• Divine Foundation; initiatives in entrepreneurship, educational/academic support, social skills and community development.
• Blink Now Foundation’s, KVS Scholarship Program.
• Boys & Girls Club of the Piedmont, in NC, their “Smart Girl” Program.
• International Rescue Committee,
• Duke University – Duke Lemur Center, Women’s development opportunities in sustainable agriculture
• Finemind, providing mental health services to women in northern Uganda.

The Foundation is pleased to announce August grants.  Even in these difficult times with COVID restrictions, organizations are finding creative ways to continue their missions.

-Squash Dreamers, Helping girls in Jordan gain access to education through sports.

-Mother2Mothers, trains and employs women living with HIV across ten sub-Saharan African countries as “Mentor Mothers” who help  families access essential services and medical care, initiate any treatment they need.

-Circles RVA,   provides the social network, financial tools and emotional encouragement that activate economic growth in Richmond VA.

-Roots & Wings, providing assistance to Foster youth aging out of the system in NJ.

The Foundation awarded grants in June and July to the following organizations:

-IDE Foundation, Farming Facilitator Program for women in Nepal,

-Hope’s Door, providing domestic violence assistance to women in Alabama.

-FINCA Emergency Response Fund in Uganda due to COVID

-AmericanIndian College Fund, Scholarship Program and Indigenous Visionaries Women’s Leadership Program,

-AHALA Children’s Right Foundation, Life Projects

-ForKids, Inc., Rapid Rehousing and Economic Mobility Programs in Norfolk, VA

The Foundation is pleased to announce grants awarded in May 2021.

• YWCA Central Carolina, Women In Transition, providing housing for single women who suffer homelessness.
• Prevention Council of Roanoke County, The Kindness Project, providing area schools with coping methods to fight hate, violence, stress, anxiety and loneliness for K-8th.
• International Anti-Poaching Foundation, Akashinga (meaning Brave Ones), empowering disadvantaged women to restore and manage a network of wilderness areas as an alternative economic model to trophy hunting.