The Foundation is pleased to announce the following awards to some very amazing organizations:

• Wings for Widows, Financial Literacy Program, which helps widowed persons learn to overcome financial burdens they may now face when their spouse has passed away.
• Waymark –Pathway to Purpose Program in the Atlanta area that supports children in foster care by running a camp by providing support to these children. They also have a focus helping girls who have experience sex trafficking.
• Family Service of Roanoke Valley –They work with folks affected by domestic violence.
• Reclaim Childhood – this organization works with refugee women in Jordan, working to help them overcome the barriers to success they face. They primarily do this through sports.
• Ready Set Read!  California Org who focuses on children’s literacy. Their programs provides books to kids and workshops to parents and educators to help teach kids how to read and bring up their reading levels.
• Forever Yellowstone-Scholarships for Expedition Yellowstone (EY),   a curriculum-based, residential education program for students in grades 4–8, offering a unique opportunity to learn and explore in one of the world’s premier outdoor classrooms—Yellowstone National Park.
• Porter-Leath – Parent Leadership Training Institute- aTenn org.  that works with children and their families, helping with early childhood education and literacy programs. 
• The University of Fondwa – They provide scholarships to Haitian women. Women are not prioritized at all in Haiti.
• Students Run Philly Style – They work with marginalized students across the Philadelphia area providing outlets for them through running and other sports.
• Tutoring Chicago – an org. who specializes in tutoring disadvantaged students in the Chicago area.
• Shine Together –a California org that works with young, single and disadvantaged mothers and mothers to be, providing comprehensive services that help them navigate motherhood and enrich themselves and their children.
• CrossRoads Corporation  – A Charlotte , NC based org that works with the most disadvantaged community in the city. They run various programs and asking for their program working with girls offering STEM related services.

The Foundation is pleased to award the following grants in January and February:

• The Emmanuel Osemota Foundation, Miramar, FL- works with marginalized women in Nigeria, Africa, helping with education and health needs, such as menstrual products.
• No Kid Behind, Indianola, IA -works with children in need, providing STEM related services.  This grant will that children with autism, in Cameroon.
• Charis Eating Disorder Care, Yulee, FL- works with women and girls who are suffering from eating disorders. They are a one of a kind organization that solely focuses on this issue.
• AHALA Children’s Rights Foundation, Roanoke, VA- This funds a scholarship for street children in Mexico.
• Women’s Global Empowerment Fund, Denver, Co- Empowering women and girls in Uganda
• Gibson Soto Foundation, Davie, FL- works within Mexico and helps young bright women overcome financial barriers to achieve academic success. The program they are asking for helps with tuition and fees as well as provides human development workshops.
• Strategies for Intenational Developement, Washington, DC-supporting Uganda women and working to help them overcome the inequality they routinely face. They help them with business practices, particularly in the cultivating and selling of coffee
• The Kwek Society, Arlington, VA-Funding support for their menstruation programs that help indigenous female students.
• Hope Horizons, Beaufort, SC- that supports children who are victims of child abuse.
• Supporting Area Families Everyday, Towanda, PA-They support women and children facing domestic abuse and asking for their program that creates safe places for children exchanges.
• Above and Beyond the Classroom in Teton Valley, Driggs, ID- provides afterschool programs in this area.
• Chop out Hunger, Towanda, PA-works with children and their mothers and grandmothers to help provide for needs related to hunger.
• Sonoma Valley Education Foundation, Sonoma, CA-  funding for their empowerment academy, which offers on-site afterschool programs to students in need.
• World Youth Clubs,  Orlando, Fl- works to support over 4,000 youth clubs in 50 countries, benefitting 500,000 youth. They support these clubs providing training and needed resources.

We had hoped to keep the submission window open through March: however, due to the large number of applications we have recieved since the beginning of the year, we must close the application process.  We will evaluate our ability to reopen the window at a later date.  

These are unpresidented times of need and I regret that we must close the process at this time.

I do need to remind everyone seeking Grants:

• Please read and review the website carefully.  It answers almost all the questions I get asked in emails.  Spending time rsponding takes away from evaluations.
• Submissions are evaluated on First Come basis, if you have questions or multiple programs we can work through priorities at the time we evaluate the request.
• We do not accept an application from a narrative in an email.  All Applications must be propertly completed and submtted as indicated on the website.

The following organizations were awarded grants in November and December:

• Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation –  this organization provides free legal services to those most in need. Their ask is to help with legal services to those who are experiencing domestic abuse .
• Guardian Angels Foundation –  from Pennsylvania that works to provide various different needs and resources to their community, in-particularly for women and children in need.
• FareStart –  from Seattle who works to helps adults who experiencing employment issues. Their wraparound services offer various way for folks to gain employment.
• Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada –  funding for their Immigration Services Program .
• Healing Hands of Joy – from Charlotte and works with women in Ethiopia who have undergone trauma while giving birth. Healing Hands works to help these women get physically better and gain financial independence.
• Justice Rising International – this organization works with folks in the Congo, primarily working to open and operate schools. They are asking for their SMoLL steps programs that teaches safety in these dangerous areas and how they can continue in school and with their education even when conflict is high.
• One Yard Away –They serve a  niche area in that they come in and help maintain yards and landscaping for folks who undergo serious illness. 
• Global Learning Exchange – from Missouri and works with teachers and trainers in Guatemala, helping bridge the learning gap that students in this country face.
• Science Buddies – from California, and focuses of STEM related education. They work to provide STEM education while trying to keep it relevant and interesting to students, who often lose interests in STEM related fields. They work with schools and organizations across the country.
• UNFCH – from NY works with women within larger cities, working to help the most marginalized of them (many of whom are immigrants) to provide them with skills to help with their economic livelihood.

All doing munch needed work during these difficult times,

I’ve not been timely with my posts, but the Foundation has been making awards. Hopefully I,ve captured them all.   The following grants have been awarded from June to now:

• Augusta Locally Grown –  their Nourishing Moms Program and in particular for the fresh food boxes for mothers. The boxes are specially designed to provide nutritious foods for expectant mothers.
• Hope Alive – to help children not currently enrolled in school in Uganda. Funds specially will be used for supplies for a new school house/meeting space to enroll 50 new children.
• The Chica Project is out of Massachusetts and they work to support women of all aspects of life who are facing oppression, looking to support them with counseling needs and help them enroll back in school. They are asking for salary needs of their executive director and program director, as well as benefits.
• Finemind – they are returning to us, post grant report attached. They work with individuals in Uganda, focusing on their mental health. They in particular help women and children.
• She Can Global – this organization works with women from conflict and climate affected regions around the world, working to empower women for employment and leadership positions through scholarships in US based colleges and universities.
• Hope for Learning – this organization is out of the Richmond, VA area working to help children with educational, literacy and hunger based needs. They are asking for their hunger program helping children most in need.
• Etta Projects – works in Bolivia helping them overcome health disparities that they face through training community heath promoters that not only can help with physical health needs, but also teach how to better take care of yourself. They work primarily with women and children.
• Find Feed & Restore  – this organization inFlorida works with folks who face homeless and housing issues. They offer mobile type housing options to folks to offer them temporary housing while they work to get back on their feet. While they house folks, they offer case management services and job search assistance.
• Hope’s Door –They are a domestic violence organization working to help women in particular who are in need. They are asking for their S.A.V.E. program, which is a multi-step program to help women get out of the abuse they are facing and work to heal from abuse they have faced.
• Terrie Hess Child Advocacy Center – in North Carolina, whose mission is to support children who have been victims of child abuse. They work to help prevent the abuse before it happens and provide children and adults with the tools needed to identity and stop abuse.
• CSJ Learning Center – Brentwood, NY,  They work to help undereducated women (particularly immigrant women) gain literacy and employment. The grant will help women with transportation needs to the center.
• Mill Mountain Zoo –  Their ask is 2 parts, one for their K-12 education programs and the other for Wildlife conservation efforts.
• Captivating International – this organization works with the most improvised women in China helping them overcome the barriers to poverty and independence. This grant will help women obtain the skills needed to start and maintain chicken raising methods and businesses.
• She’s the First is an organization that works with girls around the world to provide training and mentorship to those who are underserved and looking to gain decision making powers over themselves. They  give girls and women a voice and become leaders.
• Flying Kites – works with marginalized girls in Kenya who constantly have to undertake gender based violence and discrimination. The grant would help hire and train child protection volunteers and run workshops so they folks can better identify and help the girls who are experiencing this.
• Interfaith Prison Partnership – this organization is out of New York and works with incarcerated and formally incarcerated women in the area. The grant will support  their wellbeing workshops.
• Alliance for Children’s Rights  – this organization is out of Los Angeles and works with kids in foster care. The grant will support the program that works with kids who are experiencing developmental delays, which often happens to kids in the foster care system.
• Sew Powerful – this organization works with girls and young women in Zambia.  They work to keep girls in school and not have to worry about menstruation products. As we know, many choose to stay at home because they do not have access to these products. They also serve other needs as well.
• Shooting Touch – a organization started in Boston and realized the need for what they do in Africa, specifically in Rwanda. They work with women to help them with health related needs through the game of basketball.
• Georgia Appleseed – helps girls and children who have issues with staying and finishing school and have legal needs getting back into school. Curious to your thoughts on this one.
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia’s support the Club’s annual STEM program.
• American Indian College Fund, scholarships
• One Acre Fund assists farm families in Sub-Saharan Africa with the knowledge and means to achieve big harvests, support healthy families, and cultivate rich soil.

The Foundation is pleased to award grants to the following organizations and I am always amazed at the wonderful organizations working hard to make a difference:

• Aspire Afterschool Network, who help kids with educational needs in the Arlington, VA area. They particularly focus of reading and helping kids get back to where they need to be.
• Bras for Girls, out of Seattle work to provide appropriate sports bras to girls in need. One of the largest barriers for girls in need to participate in sports is the lack of an appropriate bra.   This grant will help Middle School teachers identify those in need and help these girls receive a sports bra.
• MicroLoan Foundation,  out of Massachusetts works with disadvantages women in Zambia and Zimbabwe. They  provide Microloan to help with financial independence and also provide financial literacy programs.
• Working for women,  out of New York who works to help women in need gain financial independence. This grant is aimed to help women in the non-profit sector advance their economic mobility.
• Awakening Recovery  -Out of Los Angeles, opened their first women’s home to help women who are struggling with addiction. Funds will be used for this home.
• MOSTe,  (motivating our students through experience) out of LA. They work with girls to help mentor and help them get college readiness, through mentorship and as their name states, real life experiences.
• Limbe Wildlife Center- The Green Project, created to provide an alternative livelihoods to hunting and animal trading while alleviating local poverty and increasing community wellbeing. LWC focuses on mainly purchasing products from women in the community which increases their financial independence and improves the value of their lands. Also, the plants grown provide nutrition to the primates in the community and reduces pressure on the surrounding wildlife.

The Foundation regrets that we must CLOSE the submission window for new grant applications.  In the first 3 months of 2025, we have recieved a very large volume of requests.  In order to keep our commitment to evaluate and respond to each request in a timely manner, we must close off the pipeline.

It is unclear at this time if we will be able to open it again in 2025.  That decision will depend on the quality of the applications that have already submitted and the stock market’s performance,  which is crucial to our cash flows.

I am always so humbled by the huge need by so many caring and deserving organizations.  I only wish I could do more.  I will keep you posted on when we can again accept applications.

Kathryn