Introducing our 2024 Women & Girls Grantees
At WA Women’s Foundation, one of our cherished values is to elevate and amplify the power of all who identify as women. Supported by the WFA Fund for Women, we offer the Women & Girls Grant to organizations focused on women and girls within the year’s chosen priorities. These grants program aim to support organizations that foster more equitable opportunities for women and girls and fund with an intersectional lens.
During the fall of 2024, a group of WaWF members met to review applications submitted for the Collective Grants that also indicated an interest in being considered for our Women & Girls Grants. The committee split into three subgroups to review and research organizations in our 2024 priorities: Access to Art in Schools, Re-Entry Support, and Mental Health & Housing. Stay tuned for more lessons learned from the grant committee coming soon!
At the PopUP! For Women & Girls event in early December attendees selected three organizations to each receive a $15,000 grant. We are delighted to introduce them to you today and encourage you to visit their websites and support their work.
Access to Art in Schools
First Sight Productions: First Sight Productions created SHARE: Screenwriting for Healing, self-Actualization, Redemption, and Empathy—a transformative program for incarcerated woman/youth that uses the art of screenwriting and filmmaking as powerful tools for healing and personal growth.
Re-Entry Support
Arms Around You: Arms Around You programs are designed to address the culmination of barriers that formerly incarcerated Black women face in reintegration.
Mental Health & Housing
Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative: IHTC is a survivor-led organization deeply rooted in indigenous communities and communities of color. IHTC helps survivors escape trafficking by providing access to culturally appropriate safe shelter/housing, food, health care, mental health services, employment, and other vital support.
- Finalists
We also encourage you to get to know the other six finalists selected by the Women & Girls Grant Committee and featured in our 2024 Giving Guide. All finalists will receive a $5,000 grant in recognition of their hard work and participation in our grants process. We’re grateful for all they do for women & girls in Washington State!
Access to Art in Schools
Spark Central: Girls Rock Lab is a Spark Central program that provides workshops, mentors, and a space where girls are empowered as leaders in musical creativity. Spark Central values diversity and welcomes girls, non-binary, and transgender kids of any identity and background to participate.
Rain City Rock Camp: RCRC empowers girls, women and gender nonconforming individuals to engage their creative potential through music, champion equity, and thrive in a community of allies and activists.
Re-Entry Support
FEPPS: FEPPS addresses the systemic inequities that prevent incarcerated women and gender nonconforming individuals from accessing transformative education and career development opportunities.
YWCA Seattle/King/Snohomish: YWCA’s vision is as a healthy and joy-filled community, transformed by racial and gender equity, where women and girls of color have equal access to opportunity and resources to pursue their full potential.
Mental Health & Housing
Hope Street: Hope Street exclusively serves women, many of whom are low income, have experienced trauma, and have faced barriers to equitably accessing resources and support that could help them overcome addiction and homelessness.
YWCA of Kitsap County: Their mission is to eliminate racism and empower women by providing supportive services to survivors of domestic violence and educational opportunities.
We hope you’ll join us at the PopUP! next year to participate in our collective decision-making process!