The Community Fund for Women & Girls awards more than $111,000 in grants for advocacy
Event planned for June 19th to highlight persistent issues that impact the advancement of women and girls; preview of report on status of women and girls in New Haven
New Haven, CT (May 25, 2012) – The Community Fund for Women & Girls, a component fund of The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the region’s permanent charitable endowment dedicated solely to advance women and girls, has awarded $111,824 in grants to 20 organizations. Among the grant recipients is Women’s Health Research at Yale, which received its second year of funding from a 2011 multi-year grant to address inequities in women’s health research.“Grants from The Community Fund for Women & Girls support projects and programs that demonstrate the potential to make a significant change in one of the core issues on which it focuses: economic security, health, violence, and political participation.” says Helene Robbins, Chair of the Community Fund for Women & Girls. “Accordingly, recent grants from the Community Fund for Women & Girls have been awarded to programs that work to ensure that gender-based health data is factored into medical research and support for advocacy work in economic security - pervasive issues that have historically and disproportionately impacted half of this community’s population. These programs not only have the potential to benefit women and girls in our region, but those in our State, our country and the world as well.”
Each year the Fund awards a Strategic Investment Grant to a project or program that can have a positive ripple effect in advancing women and girls. In 2012, that grant was awarded to the Diaper Bank to continue the Fund’s support for the Bank’s Basic Human Needs Policy Project. At its core, the Project is designed to change the systems that assist economically vulnerable women and families living in poverty. Funding will be used to support the third phase of the Project aimed at getting diapers and diapering supplies to be included in federally funded programs for low-income working families.
On June 19, the Community Fund for Women & Girls in partnership with The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, New Haven Independent and others will host a Convening for Women at the Omni Hotel in New Haven, CT. The event will highlight data from the first “Status of Women and Girls in New Haven” report, funded in part by the Community Fund for Women & Girls and conducted by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. A panel discussion on health, economic security and civic engagement will take place followed by break-out discussions. Participants will be inspired to create a personal action pledge of what they, as individuals, can do to advance women and girls and what we, together as the community, can do to achieve the same. For more information about the Convening and to register, visit www.cfgnh.org/convening or call 203-777-2386.
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