Grant Making

The Women’s Fund of Weld County’s grant making philosophy is to find, fund, and nurture programs that address the unmet needs of women and girls in Weld County which will enable them to become self-confident, independent and economically self sufficient members of the community.

View a list of the 2011 grantees.

Grant Details for 2011- 12 Applications
The grant application must be received by September 1, 2011 with notification by November 1, 2011. Available grants for this cycle will be from $500-$5000. If this is a reapplication, you must submit an evaluation summary of the current project. 

Note:  Projects will be evaluated using the Women’s Fund criteria, the quality and need for the project.

Please mail 5 copies of the grant application to the Women’s Fund of Weld County, Inc. P.O. Box 336995 Greeley, CO 80633-0617. Questions may be addressed to Maureen Kazmer.

• 2011-12 grant form (Word document)
• Required budget form (Word document)
• Evaluation report (Word document )

Funding Priorities
The Weld Women’s Fund funding priority is focused programming for girls and women and their economic self-sufficiency and self-esteem. Within that priority, the Women’s Fund concentrates its funding in two strategic areas: 1) girls’ futures; and 2) girls’ and women’s education, employment, training and self-development.

Criteria
The Women’s Fund of Weld County values programs that include:
--collaborative partnerships
--innovative approaches
--endeavors which build upon existing resources or services
--involvement of diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups
--potential for additional financial resources and community support
--long term impact on individuals, or potential impact
--appropriate number of participants for maximum impact from funding
--specific, measurable goals and outcomes

The Women’s Fund of Weld County generally will NOT support:
--grants to one organization to be passed to another
--endowments
--debt reduction
--campaigns to elect candidates
--programs to promote religious or sectarian activities
--annual appeals or membership drives
--capital purposes including building improvements and office equipment
--scholarships for course work or conferences for individuals or payments
  to individuals (funding available only to groups, agencies and non-profits)
--fundraisers

Partnerships
The Women’s Fund of Weld County may enter into temporary partnerships with other organizations which promote various women’s programs or issues which the Women’s Fund finds fill a community need.

Did you know...

13.5% of women and girls in Weld County live in poverty?

Almost 25% of the women aged 25 years or older in Weld County never graduated from high school.