The Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley (CFOV) is currently accepting proposals for the Women’s Giving Circle Grant Program.

Goals: The Women’s Giving Circle makes strategic, researched-based grants that facilitates systemic change to improve how women and girls are served in its community, applies creative solutions to critical needs, and produces lasting and measurable impact on the lives of women and girls.

The Women’s Giving Circle, a component fund of the Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley, welcomes grant applications for organizations in Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio, Tyler and Wetzel Counties in West Virginia and Belmont and Jefferson Counties in Ohio. Organizations must address the following needs of women in the community:

• Increasing life skills of women and girls, ie: Pre-K through 12 Education, Economic Empowerment, Physical and Mental Health, Violence and Crime
• Encouraging the healthy development and personal authority of young girls
• Raising awareness of gender disparities in the community

Criteria

• Applicant organization must be a non-profit tax-exempt organization pursuant to IRS section 501(c)(3)
• Grants submitted by applicant organizations must meet the mission of the Women’s Giving Circle
• The following are excluded from consideration: organizations that promote a particular religious or political ideology; capital campaigns or endowments; dinner galas, advertising and other special fundraising events; contributions to the general fund of an organization; intermediary funding agencies; and scholarships.

For more information, visit CFOV.