2010 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.
- Church of Mary Magdalene, $10,000: Grant provides unrestricted operating support for ongoing work of this day center which offers safety, support and services for homeless and formerly homeless women.
- Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services of Whatcom County, $10,000: Grant supports Nueva Amanecer, which offers individual, advocacy-based counseling, support groups and outreach services to rural and Spanish speaking women in Whatcom County.
- Family Planning of Clallam County, $10,000: Grant supports Honoring Women's Health, a project that exists to improve the health and well-being of rural, underserved and low-income women in Clallam County.
- King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence, $10,000: Grant supports ongoing work of this membership-based organization to end domestic violence by engaging domestic violence agencies and their allies in collective action for social change.
- Legal Voice, $10,000: Grant supports Legal Voice's work to advance and enforce the safe housing and employment security rights of women who have been victimized by partner violence, sexual assault or stalking.
- Nonprofit Assistance Center, $10,000: Grant supports a project to build the leadership of Burmese and Bhutanese women to empower them as advocates for social change around the issues of gender equity and domestic violence.
- Northwest Indian College Cooperative Extension Office, $10,000: Grant supports their annual Native American Women and Girls Conference which provides educational opportunities to improve participants' individual and collective health and well-being, leadership abilities and overall knowledge of wellness and tribal culture.
- Seattle Counseling Service, $10,000: Grant supports a new phase of a project that connects underserved lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer women with a safe space and support, treatment and recovery from the use of methamphetamines.
- YWCA Pierce County, $10,000: Grant supports work in Pierce County to establish a community-wide, coordinated effort to respond to and prevent domestic and dating violence.
