At Washington Women’s Foundation (WaWF), one of our cherished values is to elevate and amplify the power of all who identify as women. Supported by the Women’s Funding Alliance’s Fund for Women, we offer the Women & Girls Grant to organizations focused on women and girls within the year’s chosen priorities. These grants aim to support organizations that foster more equitable opportunities for women and girls and fund with an intersectional lens.
During the fall of 2025, a group of WaWF members met to review applications. The Women & Girls Grant Committee split into three subgroups to review and research organizations in our 2025 priorities: Adult Educational Opportunities, Youth Mental Health, and Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change. Together they researched organizations and selected nine finalists for consideration at the PopUp event. 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.
Adult Educational Opportunities: Mujer al Volante (Woman Driving)
Mujer al Volante transforms the lives of immigrant, refugee, and asylee women and mothers by providing life-changing mobility access. The core program, Taking the Steering Wheel of My Life, offers culturally tailored driver’s license test prep, behind-the-wheel instruction, licensing navigation, and multilingual case management. Four complementary initiatives—Driving My Business, Driving My Finances, Driving My Computer, and Driving My Democracy—expand women’s economic mobility, digital skills, and civic participation, helping them gain independence, opportunity, and long-term stability.
Youth Mental Health: Organization for Prostitution Survivors (OPS)
The Organization for Prostitution Survivor’s mission is to accompany survivors of prostitution in creating and sustaining efforts to heal from, and end, this practice of gender-based violence. OPS is survivor-founded, survivor-led, and staffed predominately by survivors. OPS helps heal women from the trauma of prostitution trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation through trauma-informed services, expands survivor-centered and -led education, and advocates for equitable systems to increase decision making power for survivors.
Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change: Community Health Worker Coalition for Migrants and Refugees (CHWCMR)
CHWCMR works to ensure that migrant and refugee communities across the state have equitable access to critical health, social, and environmental justice resources. Their mission centers on strengthening a network of Community Health Workers and Community Partner Organizations that together address the complex, intersecting challenges faced by immigrant communities.
Finalists
We also encourage you to get to know the other six finalists selected by the Women & Girls Grant Committee and featured in our 2025 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!
Adult Educational Opportunities
FEAST World Kitchen: Feast World Kitchen is a downtown Spokane restaurant that empowers Immigrants and former Refugees as leaders as they share their culture through excellent international cuisine.
Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS): FEPPS provides a rigorous college program for incarcerated women, trans-identified and gender nonconforming people in Washington and creates pathways to higher education after students are released from prison.
Youth Mental Health
Girls on the Run of Spokane County(GOTR): of Spokane County inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience based curriculum, which creatively integrates running.
Powerful Voices:(PV): PV creates brave spaces with girls and gender expansive youth of color to take charge of their own power as leaders, igniting their abilities to confidently express themselves, build community, and act against injustices affecting their lives.
Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change
Mother Africa: Mother Africa advances racial equity through supporting African refugee and immigrant women and their families to reach their highest potential.
Soapbox Project: Soapbox Project creates joyful community spaces to transform climate anxiety into connection, learning, and action.
Next year’s PopUp is your chance to participate in our collective grantmaking process – don’t miss it! We hope you’ll join us in early December 2026. Tickets and tables will be available in early fall.