Apply for a Grant: Letters of Interest

Sector Focus: Economic Self-Sufficiency and Security of Women in San Diego County

Priority Action Areas

Based upon the assessment, strategies and organizations that we are looking to fund include those that:

1. Support policy and system change that improve women's financial success and stability and affect women's ability to achieve immediate and long-term economic self-sufficiency (e.g. pay equity)
2. Equip women for self-employment an entrepreneurship
   
3. Prepare women to work in higher paying fields (e.g. job skills development and training, career planning and development)
4. Support family economic self-sufficiency and asset building among women and their families (e.g. financial literacy, poverty prevention)
5. Utilize economic development strategies that demonstrate consideration or the intersection of race, gender, and class in program planning and implementation.

Grant Eligibility Criteria:

• The organization and program requesting funding is dominantly women centric.
  
• Demonstrate a commitment to women's economic self-sufficiency and security.
• Are working for change in one or more of the WGSD priority action areas.
• Listen to the voices of women and girl constituents at all levels and are willing to implement their ideas for change within the organization's structure and programs.
• We encourage collaborative efforts between non-profit organizations that result in greater impact than can be achieved individually.
• Priority will be given to organizations or groups in which women are the primary decision makers.
  
• Formal 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, as well as informal groups of women or emerging grassroots organizations that would be able to secure the cooperation of a 501(c)(3) organization willing to serve as a fiscal agent are eligible to apply for WGSD funding.
• Geographic Range: San Diego County

Size and Duration of Grants

Grants will typically range between $5,000 and $20,000 per year for two consecutive years.  We accept funding requests for ongoing or one-time expenses that will promote your work. 

We will not fund

• Health-care programs or concerns
• Religious activities
• Retro-active funding
• Reduction of an operating deficit or to liquidate existing debt
• Agencies of state or federal government
• Organizations or groups that oppose a women’s right to self-determination
• Fundraising events
• Individuals
• Capital campaigns
• Organizations outside of San Diego County
  

Submission

Grant funds will be available by December 31, 2011.

•  For instructions on how to complete the application, click here.

•  For an application, click here.