2010 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.
- Economic Opportunity Institute, $20,000: Grant supports efforts of the Family Leave Coalition to engage new supporters and further advance municipal, state and national policies to establish minimum workplace standards for paid sick days and paid family leave.
- Enterprise for Equity, $25,000: Grant supports reaching increased numbers of low-income and rural women in Thurston County as they develop women-owned businesses.
- Latinos for Community Transformation, $10,000: Project supports delivery of a program designed to develop the leadership, organizing and economic development skills of Latina women in the Puget Sound region.
- Legal Voice, $20,000: Grant supports the Economic Justice & Workplace Equity program which uses advocacy, litigation and education to shift institutional and public policy to create just workplaces for all women, and particularly women who are pregnant, have family responsibilities or are victims of gender violence.
- Nonprofit Assistance Center, $15,000: Grant supports a pilot project designed to promote entrepreneurial skill development and self-employment for women from the Bhutanese and Burmese Refugee community.
- Northwest Health Law Advocates, $20,000: Grant supports efforts to ensure that women in Washington state have appropriate, affordable health insurance and to engage women in the redesign of coverage as health reform is implemented in our state.
- Northwest Indian College, $25,000: Grant supports expanded provision of financial literacy and asset building education within Native American communities in our region.
- Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights, $15,000: Grant provides unrestricted operating support to develop the leadership of low-income women in advocating for continued development of public welfare policies, particularly focusing on eliminating barriers within TANF and WorkFirst legislation.
- Powerful Voices $10,000: Grant supports a summer youth employment program that engages at-risk teen girls in comprehensive activities to develop job-readiness skills and to cultivate positive career goals and pathways.
- Washington Community Alliance for Self Help, $23,000: Grant provides unrestricted operating support to work with low-income women in King County around the development of their own businesses.
- Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, $20,000: Grant supports efforts to ensure that critical aspects of economic security for domestic violence survivors are built into TANF and Workfirst legislation.
- Washington Women's Employment & Education, $25,000 Grant supports a pilot project, REACH Higher, to expand upon efforts to place women on a supported path to higher education and living wage jobs.
- Women in Transition, $2,000: Grant provides unrestricted operating support to deliver basic, stop gap services to incarcerated women re-entering the community in order to promote longer-term economic security.
