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Washington Women’s Foundation (WaWF) is a learning organization but implementing Collective Grants this year ramped up the learning curve! Implementing a brand new process was invigorating, but we also dealt with many challenges along the way. Preconceived notions about priority granting areas were tested and challenged. Dealing with a new and less structured process meant […]
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 […]
We’re delighted to share another update from the 2022 Collective Grants Committee! Since our last update, the committee has been conducting conversations with 15 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 made […]
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 […]
This January, 2022 Collective Grants Committee has been deeply engaged in the work of reviewing Letters of Inquiry and discussing 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 made significant changes to our grants program. […]
Background In 2019, Washington Women’s Foundation (WaWF) members expressed a strong interest in exploring grantmaking around a specific topic. The Board of Directors allocated $50,000 from member contributions made in 2019 to fund this pilot initiative. In January 2021, we first invited members and community members to participate in the Issue-Based Grant Pilot by participating […]
Washington Women’s Foundation (WaWF) is excited to announce the priorities for our 2022 Collective Grants! As year one of our two-year grantmaking cycle, the funding themes for the 2022 Collective Grants are: 1) Law, Justice, & Incarceration; 2) Housing & Hunger; and 3) Arts & Community Culture. In late September and early October, we surveyed WaWF members, grantees, grant […]
We’re delighted to introduce the Collective Grants! As a strong and inclusive collective of informed women, Washington Women’s Foundation’s (WaWF) mission is to influence community transformation. We do this by learning, grantmaking, and listening. Our new grantmaking framework, the Collective Grants, is the product of our learning and listening to what the nonprofit community needed […]
Our founders built this foundation by bringing a group of women together to learn how to be better philanthropists, make change happen in the world, and be more deeply involved in their community. They believed that through learning, and by pooling smaller gifts into larger ones, collectively the women of the Foundation would be a […]