GET Grantees Reflecting on the Grantee Engagement Team’s First Year August 31, 2022 by WA Women's Foundation This was the first year for the Grantee Engagement Team (GET). Learning was one of our major goals, and we learned a lot! GET was formed to develop relationships with WaWF grantees in alignment with our grantmaking and community outreach strategies. Supporting grantees is a key part of relationship building, so we started this year focused […] Read more »
Grantees Grantmaking Introducing our 2022 Grantees June 14, 2022 by Isabelle Shively Washington Women’s Foundation (WaWF) is proud to announce our 2022 Collective Grants, totaling $453,000, to 29 Washington organizations! We’re especially thrilled to announce the recipients of this year’s unrestricted $100,000 Collective Grants and $25,000 Merit Grant Awards. The three Collective Grantees and three Merit Award Finalists work to increase equity in Washington State in our […] Read more »
Grantees Grantmaking Collective Grants Committee Update: Final 15 Organizations April 8, 2022 by Isabelle Shively We’re delighted to share another update from the 2022 Collective Grants Committee! Since our last update, the committee has been working to thoughtfully research 29 organizations in our three priorities: Mental Health and Housing, the School to Prison Pipeline, and Community Cultural Preservation. This year, informed by WaWF members, grantees, and the broader community, we […] Read more »
Community Blog Grantees Celebrating Black History Month February 22, 2022 by Isabelle Shively This month we’re celebrating Black culture and history in the United States. As Washington Women’s Foundation, Black History Month is a time to highlight the history of Black giving – a legacy that is rooted in tradition, the value of the collective, and the importance of community. As we honor this history, we also recognize […] Read more »
Grantees Grantmaking And the 2020 Grantees are… June 12, 2020 by Aki Shibuya Earlier this week, Washington Women’s Foundation members announced five recipients of $100,000 grants from the Foundation’s Pooled Fund and five $10,000 Merit Award winners, totaling $550,000 in grants, our largest single day of grantmaking in our history. In the 25 years since the Foundation’s inception, our members have influenced transformation in communities across Washington State […] Read more »
Grantees IAC Year-End Report: What We Learned June 28, 2019 by Aki Shibuya The mandate of IAC is to monitor the progress of our grantees for a period of three years, communicate the impact of our grants to our membership, and provide feedback to the grant committee. We visit the grantees to appreciate and learn more about the work they do, celebrate their successes, and understand their challenges, […] Read more »
Grantees Grantmaking And the 2019 Grantees are… June 12, 2019 by Aviva Stampfer Yesterday, Washington Women’s Foundation members announced five recipients of $100,000 grants from the Foundation’s Pooled Fund and five $5,000 Merit Award winners, totaling $525,000 in grants. In the 24 years since the Foundation’s inception, our members have influenced transformation in communities across Washington State by collectively granting over $17 million. Our focus this year was to […] Read more »
Grantees Partner Grant And the International Partner Grant Goes to… January 18, 2019 by Aki Shibuya Partners Asia received the 2018 International Partner Grant in a vote by a committee of more than 20 members, led by co-chairs Amy Corey and Patricia Kiyono. Partners Asia supports community initiatives to improve the lives of Myanmar’s most vulnerable. Many of these people are ethnic minorities living in unstable areas within Myanmar and along […] Read more »
Grantees Membership Member Perspectives: Visiting the Old and New Burke Museums August 10, 2018 by Aki Shibuya In this blog post, Ginny Trethewey shares her experience of visiting the old and new Burke Museums during the morning of our Annual Summer Outing at the University of Washington. Ginny has been a member of WA Women’s Foundation since 2013 and has served on the Pooled Fund Grant Committee (Arts, Environment, and Education) as […] Read more »
Grantees IAC Year-End Report: Going Deep June 28, 2018 by Aviva Stampfer For members of the Impact Assessment Committee, the announcement of this year’s Grant Award winners is particularly exciting, as these five new grantee organizations will become the subject of our work for the next three years. Over the course of our three site visits, we will monitor the progress and the impact of our new […] Read more »
