Grant Category: Women and Girls
Mind Body Moms
Los Altos, CA
Amount granted: $20,000
Grant year: 2018
Grant categories: Human Services, Women and Girls
To support a health and wellness program for low income Spanish speaking mothers in East Palo Alto and Half Moon Bay, California.
The goal of Mind Body Moms is to provide a venue that works to increase social-emotional support, boost physical health, reduce stress, and equip mothers with positive discipline tools. The expected result is improvement in maternal health and wellness for disadvantaged mother.
The Resource Center
Dacatur, GA
Amount granted: $25,000
Grant year: 2017
Grant categories: Education, Human Services, Women and Girls
To support The Fresh Start Program.
The Resource Center ‘s mission is to empower struggling women and mothers by providing the education, training, access, and support they need to escape the cycle of generational poverty, build brighter futures, and initiate fresh starts for themselves and their families. The Resource Center (TRC) serves residents in the Greater Atlanta Metro Area. Programs include Academic Coaching for Students, Healthy Resource for Children and Families, Little Women Rites of Passage, Moms Run Georgia, and Stand Down for Veterans. TRC’s Fresh Start Program, a new program about to enter its “pilot phase”, will provide expedited, effective job training, career development, and job placement services that transition working mothers from poverty-level jobs, to self-reliant, living wage jobs.
Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill
Hyde Park, NY
Amount granted: $25,000
Grant year: 2017
Grant categories: Education, Women and Girls
To support scholarships for the Girls and Boys Leadership Workshop.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill works to continue Eleanor Roosevelt’s legacy and focuses on promoting human rights, especially of women, minorities and youth; combating racism; nurturing education and the arts; and the promotion of responsible citizenship. Among ERVK’s programs are the Race Relations Project, the Welfare Reform and Human Rights Monitoring Project, a lecture series, and the Girls Leadership Workshop. Specifically, the Girls and Boys Leadership Workshop is an international leadership development program intended for girls and boys entering their sophomore and junior years in high school. Its objective is to help young adults develop self esteem, confidence, and the skills needed to exercise leadership; to provide opportunities for self-awareness, self definition and growth; to nurture sisterhood, citizenship and social responsibility; and to celebrate the life and legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Womankind
Wayland, MA
Amount granted: $7,500
Grant year: 2000
Grant categories: Education, Technology, Women and Girls
To Support Financial Literacy Project
Deborah’s Place
Chicago, Il
Amount granted: $15,000
Grant year: 2000
Grant categories: Human Services, Women and Girls
To Support Business Venture, Women Craft , a Program for Homeless Women
Northern New England Tradeswomen
Barre, VT
Amount granted: $9,500
Grant year: 1999
Grant categories: Rural Human Services, Women and Girls
To Support Gear Up for Women Training Program in the Automotive Industry
Circle Program
Plymouth, NH
Amount granted: $7,200
Grant year: 1999
Grant categories: Rural Human Services, Women and Girls
Scholarship Program for Girls Summer Camp and Year Round Follow-Up
Women’s Rural Entrepreneurial Network (WREN)
Littleton, NH
Amount granted: $10,000
Grant year: 1998
Grant categories: Rural Human Services, Women and Girls
To Support Scholarships for Entrepreneurial Training for Rural Women