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2008 Civic Engagement & Leadership Development Grantees
The Women’s Funding Alliance recently awarded grants to four organizations for their efforts focused on one or both of the following:
- Developing women who are marginalized to be leaders within their own communities through their involvement in the political process
- Voter registration efforts coupled with additional efforts to increase female voter turnout in marginalized communities
Grantees include:
Hate Free Zone - $25,000:
- The WFA grant will support Hate Free Zone’s civic engagement program which will result in increasing engagement in the political process among refugee and immigrant women.
- During 2008, this civic engagement program will reach thousands of refugee and immigrant individuals and focus on year-round efforts with newly registered women voters, out of which, at least 10 new women leaders will emerge.
Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights (POWER) - $15,000:
- POWER will lead civic engagement efforts to educate and register new women voters and develop low-income, politically involved female leaders within WA State.
- With this WFA grant, POWER plans to register approximately 300 new voters and involve up to 100 new individuals in ongoing civic engagement work.
Statewide Poverty Action Network, a program of Solid Ground - $10,000:
- The grant from WFA will be used to fund their Vote for a Change campaign in order to increase voter turnout and participation among low-income citizens in WA State, nearly 60% of which are women.
- Through this project, Poverty Action aims to increase voter turnout in target districts by 10%, contact 30,000 low-income voters through calls and direct mail, and provide training and leadership opportunities for up to 40 Poverty Action members with specific leadership development efforts focused on women.
Equal Rights Washington (ERW) - $25,000:
- Equal Rights Washington will use WFA funding to build leadership and civic engagement skills in lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (LBTQ) women in order to create social change and eliminate heterosexism and homophobia throughout health care and public health systems.
- As part of this project ERW will engage in voter registration outreach and education and will reach a minimum of 7,500 LBTQ women.
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