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Community Fund for Women & Girls

                

The Community Fund for Women and Girls is a component fund of The Community Foundation that promotes social and economic advancement for women and girls through strategic philanthropy, grants, advocacy and collaboration. Join us on Facebook.

What we're doing with your support:

  • Advancing Health Equity for Women: The Fund's single largest and first-ever multi-year grant to inform conversation about gender and health equity was awarded this year to Women's Health Research at Yale.
  • Promoting Political Parity for Connecticut Women: Our partner the PCSW issued  the first report on the status of women in high-level positions within Connecticut’s Executive Branch and continues to monitor gubernatorial appointments and re-appointments.
  • Advancing Women's Economic Security:  A study by the Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis shows that All Our Kin’s Tool Kit Licensing Program has created $18.4 million in additional tax revenue for the state, increases the earning potential of women and provides high-quality, culturally-competent child care. The Fund has supported All Our Kin and its Toolkit project since inception.
  • Advocating Positive Change: With a $10,000 grant from the Fund, Mother's for Justice created videos to influence the State legislature on how best to use TANF resources.  

         		    

    Watch the Fund's new documentary about women's philanthropy...selected to receive a 2011 Telly Award from over 13,000 entries from ad agencies, production companies, tv stations and corporations worldwide

    Attention Grantseekers

    The application deadline for the 2012 grant cycle has passed. There are two types of grants available from the Fund. Each type has a separate online application. Click on the link above for more information about the grants process.
      

    More than $100,000 in total was awarded in 2011 to programs in the region focusing on women’s economic security, health and education. Read more about the 2011 grant recipients. View a list of projects funded since the inception of the Fund.

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