VermontWomensFund.org
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No other organization in the state of Vermont makes grants exclusively to support the needs of women and girls! Our grants are helping women and girls to move out of poverty, establish safe relationships, choose healthy behaviors, build communication skills, master non-traditional occupations, and strengthen their physical, emotional, intellectual and financial well-being. We step in where larger foundations do not by funding smaller, grassroots, gender-specific programs. Our grants:
The Vermont Women's Fund is the only statewide organization in Vermont making grants targeted solely to women and girls. The Vermont Women's Fund has awarded 146 grants totaling $568,020, beginning with seven grants worth $16,400 in 1998 and growing to nineteen grants in 2006 totaling $90,740. While we celebrate this success, we are aware of the pressing need to do more: we have received more than $3 million in grant requests in our first nine years. These grant applications provide a sobering, close-up view of the real lives led by many of the women and girls in our communities.
Women now control more than sixty percent of the nation's wealth. Never before have women had such financial power and thus the opportunity to shape society's future. Women's philanthropy is often the key to important social change. Yet, many women lack the confidence, comfort, or experience to make philanthropic decisions. An essential part of our mission is to encourage and support women so that they may become philanthropists who give to their full potential so that other women can discover theirs.
