The Women’s Fund is Looking for Grant Recipients

The Women’s Fund is looking for non-profit organizations that are in need of assistance and can benefit from their grants. The Women’s Fund provides focused grants to local non-profit organizations throughout Oakland County that support women.

Grants are awarded once a year and applications must be submitted by October 14 to be considered. Requests for funding must be submitted on a Women’s Fund Grant Application. For grant requests of $1000 or less, use the Short Form Application and for grant requests in excess of $1000, use the Long Form Application. Both forms can be found at https://www.womensfundrochester.org/who-we-help/grant-seekers/

RANH Board President, Kathy Losinski; RANH Executive Director; Judy deSteiger; WF president Penny Crissman and Maria Trahan; Womans Fund Board Members Present a Check to Neighborhood House

In 2015, The Women’s Fund awarded $25,000 in grants that empowered women in need with job seeking/job keeping skills, education, specialized training, women’s health support and inspired women to pursue a better future for themselves and their families; including American Association of University Women/Rochester, Assistance League of Southeastern MI, Burnstein Clinic, Crossroads for Youth, FaithWorks Michigan, HAVEN, Lighthouse – Career Dress, New Day Foundation for Families, OPC, Paint a Miracle, Rainbow Connection and Women’s Alliance of Oakland County as well as scholarship funding through the Community Foundation and an additional commitment to Rochester Area Neighborhood Houses’ Capital Campaign.

Over the past 16 years, the Women’s Fund has donated more than $300,000 to organizations helping women. The fund is a permanently endowed fund owned and administered by the Community Foundation of Greater Rochester. Through grant-making, the Fund provides ongoing and future support for programs that aid women while preserving and managing its donations in perpetuity by spending only the fund’s income and annual earnings.

For more information on the Women’s Fund, please visit their website at www.womensfundrochester.org or for questions please call (248) 812-0763 or emailwomensfundrochester@gmail.com. You can also follow them on Facebook at “The Women’s Fund.”