Recent Grants
Community Response Fund Grants
Community Response Grants are for one year, ranging in amount up to $10,000. They address key issue areas identified by WFA's study, A Closer Look, which examines the realities for women and girls living in the Puget Sound region. Through the Community Response Fund, non-profit organizations serving women and girls in this region may apply for general operating or project support in the areas of Civic Participation and Leadership, Education, Health and Well–Being or Safety and Violence.
Economic Opportunity Grants
Economic Opportunity Grants are for one year, ranging in amount up to $25,000. They address key issues impacting economic opportunity for women and girls in the Puget Sound region as identified through the Women's Funding Alliance's study, A Closer Look. Our goal over the next five years is to invest at least half of our granting into efforts that increase the overall economic well-being of low-income and underemployed women and girls in the Puget Sound region, particularly single heads of households and females from marginalized communities.
Leah C. McCollough Legacy Fund Grants
This Legacy Fund has been created in memory of Leah McCollough, an incredible leader and visionary for WFA and many other non-profit organizations in the Seattle area. Leah passed away unexpectedly in January 2009. One of Leah's many remarkable contributions to our community lives on in the strategic, thoughtful guidance she provided to non-profit organizations and their leaders in helping them grow to reach their full potential. Grants help to develop the leadership of non-profit staff and to increase the capacity of the organizations they serve.
Ripple Fund Grants
Ripple Fund Grants are for one year and range in amount up to $10,000. The Women's Funding Alliance (WFA) facilitates a giving circle, the Ripple Fund, in which individuals contribute $5,000 to fund specific organizations. Each year members of the Ripple Fund collaborate with WFA staff to select a focus area for these grants. In past years, grants have addressed such issues as well-being and development of girls, women's economic security, health, safety, literacy and education, and issues facing refugee and immigrant women.
Special Response Grant
On occasion, the Women’s Funding Alliance Board of Directors will approve one-time special response grants to provide time-sensitive funding for emerging needs in our community.
Workplace Campaign Grants
WFA partners with regionally based employers through their workplace giving campaigns. Through these campaigns, WFA raises funds that are allocated as unrestricted operating grants to the following organizations:
