2010 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.
- Hilltop Artists, $10,000: Grant supports the "Arts Connect" program which uses evidence-based arts education to work with at-risk, court-involved youth to reduce recidivism through education, mentoring, public presentations and service learning.
- If Project (Seattle Police Foundation), $10,000: Grant supports development of this project designed to help girls stay out of the criminal justice system by using a multi-media curriculum which includes videotaped interviews with incarcerated women at the Washington Corrections Center for Women. These women use their own life experience to answer the question, "If there was something someone could have said or done that would have changed the path that led you here, what would it have been?"
- The Power of Hope, $7,500: Grant supports the Young Women on the Rise project, a year-long creative expression, mentorship, and empowerment program for teen girls encompassed by a three day conference, monthly meetings with adult mentors, a social change project, and a public performance where the girls share the music, poetry, dances and stories created during the year.
