A Brighter Future for Children & Youth
Overview
The Women's Division offers grants of up to $4,000 for projects and programs addressing the needs of children and young people between the ages of 5 to 18 in the areas of violence prevention, anti-abuse and relationship abuse.
Priority Criteria
Preference will be given to projects that:
- Have significant involvement of women and youth at the grass-roots level.
- Demonstrate the ability to raise additional funds from other sources.
- Provide direct and comprehensive services to young people.
- Promote respect for and appreciation of racial and ethnic diversity.
- Cultivate spiritual lives and values.
General Criteria
- The Women's Division funds small-scale, community and church-based programs and projects. For this reason, groups affiliated with national organizations, hospitals and organizations with budgets totaling more than $3,000,000 will not be reviewed.
- Building improvements, computer hardware, one-time only events, or summer events and activities are not eligible for funding.
- Projects should demonstrate the ability to raise additional funds from other sources.
- This is a nonrenewable grant.
- New or existing projects are eligible to apply.
- About 10 percent of the applicants each year receive funding. The average grant is about $2,500.
