Recent Grants

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.

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.

2010 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.

Pinay sa Seattle-GABRIELA USA, $1,000: Grant supports their efforts to strengthen and empower their members, Filipino women who are mostly immigrant and working class. Members work to build community in the Seattle area invested in educating, defending and advocating for the human rights of Filipinas all over the world.
The Sophia Way, $2,000: Funds support hiring a consulting firm who would guide Sophia Way in developing a five year plan, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses and creating a funding plan to address short term weaknesses. Sophia Way identifies this grant as being important to help strengthen the organization in its second year of operation.
Tierra Madre Fund, $1,000: Grant supports their work with indigenous communities, particularly work focused on women and girls as they establish their office and a Native women’s corps in Seattle that will build the economic capacity of Native women.

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.

2010 Special Response Grant

Residential Recovery Program for Prostituted Children, $10,000: In January 2010, the Women’s Funding Alliance Board of Directors approved a special, one-time grant to provide critical support for a new, two-year pilot program designed to help juveniles involved in street prostitution. This program, which is a collaboration of the City, County and private entities, will provide youth with comprehensive shelter and residential recovery services.

2010 Unrestricted Operating Grants

WFA partners with regionally based employers through their workplace giving campaigns. Through these campaigns, WFA raises funds which are allocated as unrestricted operating grants to the following organizations:

Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services: Responds to domestic violence and sexual abuse by providing services to Deaf and Deaf-Blind victims and survivors so they can begin to heal.
BABES Network-YWCA: Provides peer support, advocacy, education, and outreach to HIV positive women and families, as well as youth prevention education through their HOPE Project.
Breast Cancer Resource Center Enhances the quality of life of people touched by breast cancer and increases awareness and knowledge of breast cancer and breast health.
Chaya: Supports South Asian survivors and families impacted by domestic violence and engages communities to change societal conditions that enable oppression, especially violence against women.
Citrine Health: Connects women and their families to health care, social services and disease prevention programs in the Puget Sound area.
FaithTrust Institute: Provides religious leaders and community advocates with the tools and knowledge they need to address the religious and cultural issues related to abuse.
Family Planning of Clallam County Works to assure that all individuals in Clallam County have access to quality healthcare, education, and social services relating to human sexuality and fertility.
Harborview Sexual Assault & Traumatic Stress: Prevents and counters the harmful effects of traumatic experiences on victims, families and our community.
Intercommunity Mercy Housing: Creates stable, healthy communities through affordable, service-enriched housing for individuals and families who lack economic resources to access quality, safe housing.
Jubilee Women's Center: Provides women a safe and supportive place to live and an opportunity to learn while becoming self-reliant in housing and employment.
King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence: A membership organization that facilitates regional advocacy and education campaigns aimed at ending domestic violence through social change.
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center: A victim advocacy organization providing comprehensive, free services to child, teen and adult sexual assault victims, plus prevention education to end silence about sexual assault.
Legal Voice: Advances women's rights through ground-breaking lawsuits and advocacy, and by providing self-help information to people with legal problems.
Northweat Indian College: Supports the mission and financial needs of Northwest Indian College by promoting indigenous self-determination and knowledge.
Passages Northwest: Inspires courage and leadership in girls through the exploration of the arts and the natural environment.
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest: Provides routine reproductive health care, contraceptives, pregnancy tests, counseling, referrals, HIV tests and education for women, men, teens and parents.
Powerful Voices: Fosters adolescent girls' development by providing programs and promoting social justice so girls can realize their dreams, engage their communities and shape a better world.
Real Change: Exists to create opportunity and a voice for low-income people while taking action to end homelessness and poverty.
Refugee Women's Alliance: Promotes inclusion, independence, leadership and strong communities by providing refugee/immigrant women and families with culturally, linguistically appropriate services.
Residence XII: Provides high quality chemical dependency treatment programs and services to meet the unique needs of women and their families.
Seattle Girls' School: Empowers middle school girls to think critically and seek creative solutions to real world problems in setting that embraces diversity, collaboration and integrated learning.
Washington CASH: Provides the business training, capital and a supportive community to help individuals with limited financial resources gain self-sufficiency through entrepreneurship.
Washington State NARAL Foundation: Educates the public about reproductive health options, improves those options for women in our state through activist training on civic involvement and grassroots organizing.
Women's Housing Equality and Enhancement League: A non-hierarchical and grassroots organizing effort of homeless and formerly homeless women working, through empowerment and action, on ending homelessness for women.

Justice, health and opportunity for women and girls.