Grants

The Atlanta Women’s Foundation is Georgia’s only public foundation focused solely on the challenges faced by women and girls. Our vision is for all women and girls to live lives of dignity, hope and possibility. We accomplish this through strategic grantmaking, leadership programs, advocacy and public education. The mission of The Atlanta Women’s Foundation is to be a catalyst for change in the lives of women and girls. As a catalyst, AWF considers itself a non-traditional funder, making grants that strategically alter the social norms that inhibit the independence, growth, empowerment, and self-determination of women and girls.

The Foundation’s strategic grantmaking mission is to improve the economic status of women with children heading economically vulnerable households in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties, and to prepare girls for economic empowerment in tomorrow’s world. The Foundation defines economically vulnerable as living at or below 200% of the poverty level. The absence of economic security is at the heart of critical issues faced by women and girls in our community, issues including homelessness, the increased challenge of leaving a domestic violence situation, teen pregnancy, and a lack of access to mental and physical health services. In fact, women experience higher rates and deeper depths of poverty than men. To advance the grantmaking mission, the Foundation will award grants to organizations that implement strategies that foster social change leading to economic empowerment for women and girls.

2009 Key Strategies:

Increasing Women’s Income & Assets
Expanded access to economic opportunity

Increasing Quality Child Care
Increasing the availability of affordable, quality child care

Preparing Girls for Economic Empowerment
Pregnancy prevention, high school completion, career development, increasing the availability of before and after school programs for girls

Click here to view the 2009 Grant Guidelines

The Economic Empowerment Fund for Women and Girls
Grants range from $10,000–$100,000 annually

(On a case by case basis The Atlanta Women’s Foundation will consider requests over $100,000.)

The Economic Empowerment Fund is for organizations with a 501(c)(3) status in Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb and Clayton counties. Applicant organizations should have programs designed to increase women’s income and assets, increase the availability of quality child care, or prepare girls for economic empowerment. The Foundation’s target population is women with children heading economically vulnerable households and girls who are members
of these households. The Foundation defines economically vulnerable as living at or below 200% of the poverty level. Priority will be given to requests specifically designed to foster social change. The Economic Empowerment Fund accepts single or multi-year requests for general operating support, program support or seed grants.

Read the list of 2008 Economic Empowerment Fund Grantees

The Possibility Fund for Women and Girls
Grants range from $2,500–$5,000
(On a case by case basis The Atlanta Women’s Foundation will consider requests over $5,000.)

The Possibility Fund is for organizations with a 501(c)(3) status, or those that are working with a fiscal agent in Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb and Clayton counties. Applicant organizations should have programs designed to increase women’s income and assets, increase the availability of quality child care, or prepare girls for economic empowerment.
The Possibility Fund accepts single-year requests for program support or seed grants.

Read the list of June 2008 Possibility Fund Grantees