Community Response Fund Grants
The Community Response Fund supports efforts that address solutions to key issues identified through a study conducted by the Women’s Funding Alliance, A Closer Look. This study examines the realities for women and girls living in the Puget Sound region. Through the Community Response Fund, non-profit organizations serving and advocating for women and girls in this region have the opportunity to apply for funding under any one of these areas: access to health services and information, leadership development and civic engagement or freedom from violence.
Maximum grants awarded will be $15,000.
2012 Community Response Grant Priorities
Applicants must demonstrate the ability to make positive change in one of the following priority areas:
- Access to Health Services and Information: Women and girls have access to a full range of high-quality mental, physical, preventative and reproductive health services and information.
- Leadership Development and Civic Engagement: Women and girls have the opportunity to develop their leadership and become activists and leaders in their communities and in the political process.
- Freedom from Violence: Women and girls live free from the threat of physical, verbal, emotional and sexual violence. This includes ensuring women’s and girls’ rights to live free from discrimination based on gender.
Applicants demonstrate efforts to affect a shift in one of 5 Social Change Indicators:
- Shift in Definitions or Reframing: A particular issue is viewed differently in your community or the larger society as a result of your work.
- Shift in Individual or Community Behavior: Specific behavior changes in an individual or the community you serve occur as a result of your work.
- Shift in Critical Mass/Engagement: People in your community or the larger society have become more engaged as a result of your work.
- Shift in Institutions/Policy: A specific organizational, local, regional, state, national or international policy or practice is changed as a result of your work.
- Maintaining Current Position/Holding the Line: You’ve been able to maintain earlier progress on an issue in the face of opposition.
Download the Letter of Inquiry Application. Applications are due in the WFA office by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, February 13th. Invitations to submit full proposals will be extended in March.
