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