Annual Request for Proposals
We’re proud of our legacy of investing in women and girls. Since 1998 we have made a total of $1,000,000 in grants to 85 organizations, benefiting more than 20,000 women and girls in the four
counties of western Massachusetts. This year we’re excited to expand that legacy by increasing our annual grant amount to $100,000.
Request for Proposals—available for download by clicking the link below. All questions will be answered in the Pre-proposal Meetings—please plan to attend. If you still have questions after that, you may direct them to Julie Kumble, Coordinator of Grants, Programs, and Volunteers.
2008 Funding Guidelines and Application
Deadline for applications has passed. Grant applications are now under review by the Grantmaking Committee. Awards will be announced in June 2008.
PRE-PROPOSAL MEETINGS—The RFP has changed significantly from previous years. We highly encourage you to attend a pre-proposal information session before applying for a grant. Click the link below for scheduled meetings in each of the four counties:
Pre-proposal Information Sessions
Click here for scheduled meetings.
Seeking Common Ground Initiative
This new project of the Women’s Fund
will bring together members of the faith
and secular communities to focus on
women’s holistic economic security. As a
demonstration project, Seeking Common
Ground will create opportunities for
women from these two communities to
identify their common values and generate
action that transcends traditional
faith-secular boundaries, particularly to
help women and their families to move
out of poverty and achieve long-term
economic self-sufficiency. $150,000 was
available in 2007 and will be again in 2008 for
these collaborative project proposals.
Click here for 2007-08 Seeking Common Ground Funding Guidelines and Application
Deadline for applications has passed. Seeking Common Ground grant awards will be announced shortly.
2007 Seeking Common Ground Grantees: [doc]
For more information about our grantmaking activities, please contact Julie Kumble,
Coordinator of Grants, Programs and Volunteers,
at 413-529-0087, ext. 12 or juliek@womensfund.net .
CAPACITY BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES:
Past Events:
Capacity Building Conference - September 20, 2007
Brown Bag Lunch - December 12, 2007
Topic: Social Entrepreneurship
Workshop - February 12, 2008
Topic: Effective Training and Facilitation
Brown Bag Lunch - March 12, 2008
Topic: Understanding Financial Statements
Seeking Common Ground Summit and International Women's Month Luncheon - March 27, 2008
For 2006 grantee Voices from Inside, their mission is two-fold: to facilitate creative writing workshops where women prisoners and ex-prisoners write their own stories in their own diverse voices, and to bring these stories to the larger community to increase awareness of the human and financial costs of prisons to our society.
List of All Grantee Partners 1998 - 2007
The Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts Announces Seeking Common Ground Demonstration Project: Local group is selected as a one of five women’s funds from around the country to participate in a three-year national initiative; project to link communities of faith with the WFWM.
Ruth Ray Hunt Memorial Fund Project: Seeking Common Ground Q&A: [doc]
August 24, 2006 Seeking Common Ground Press Release: [doc]
