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Grants awarded in January and February 2025

Published March 5, 2025 | By Kathryn McQuade

The Foundation is pleased that we are now acceptng new grant submissions and have awarded the following grants..

Project Next, Xcelerate program, San Marcos, CA -works with juniors and seniors to help prepare them for a job after school.
Sonoma Valley Education Foundation – Empowerment Academy after school programs for at risk youth to do their homework,nlearn skills around job readiness and financial literacy classes.
Kitchens for Good – provides culinary apprentice programs and business programs to women who have been impact by incarceration. A grant would support women enrolled in these programs.
Ufondwa USA – this organization was formed to support the University of Fondwa. This grant would provide scholarships and housing for women attending the University in Haiti.
Los Angeles Team Mentoring – works with middle school aged youth offering mentoring programs to those most in need.
Children’s Place International -helps young women living in the Dominican Republic and Haiti who face many challenges by offering them a number of different services for their health and wellbeing along with education and career support.
Start Lighthouse – Bronx, NY works to address childhood literacy by offering workshops and family engagement programs.
Duke Lemur Center – organization because their focus is on non-invasive research and conservation of Lemurs in Madagascar by helping the community as well. Their association workshops help women in Madagascar become more independent and have a voice in their homes and communities through skills in farming and animal husbandry and also helps them with businesses with micro loans.
Ancient Secrets Foundation – help orphans in Nepal who are subject to trafficking and other horrible issues. Their programs work with these kids helping them with self care and education and medical needs.
Women’s Global Empowerment Fund – supporting women through economic, social and political programs, creating opportunities while addressing inequality; strengthening families and communities in Uganda.

The demand and need is great and I hope if you are reding this post that you too will learn more about the amazing work that these groups are doing and consider support if their mission moves you.

April Grants

Published May 10, 2024 | By Kathryn McQuade

The following organizations were awarded Grants in April, 2024:

The Drake House – In North Georgia supporting women and their children who are experiencing homelessness. They offer a series of life skills programs that help women develop needed the skills they use to obtain employment and housing and childcare while these ladies are in classes.
Missouri Girls Town – works with neglected women, helping them over come severe trauma they have faced.
Society for Women Engineers – supports girls in the field of engineering, a field typically dominated by men. They work with girls in grades 9-12 who are looking to pursue a degree in engineering.
Community Youth Advance – They work to overcome a huge problem that has developed with COVID, which is students who have fallen behind in school. They offer academic and mentoring programs that work with these students to bring them back up to grade level.
Girls of Alameda County Inc. – this organization is out of Oakland, CA whose focus is helping girls, overcome academic obstacles they face.
City Care –Oklahoma City, operates a program to help bring 1^st through fifth graders up to reading level. Kids who fall behind in reading typically fall behind all throughout school and have a hard time ever catching up.
The Women’s Home -Houston, TX, who work with women who have mental illness and victims of substance abuse looking for help. They are developing a new outpatient program to help these women.
New Morning – Columbia, SC , who works with women to educate them about unplanned pregnancies and provide contraceptive methods.
Women Global Empowerment Fund – continuing and expanding their agriculture, women in agri-business, farming program, supporting Gulu Women’s Resource Centre and expanding the Healthy Periods Initiative to include additional schools and communities and re-igniting our literacy program which has been limited due to regional health risks.