THE COMMUNITY FUND
FOR WOMEN & GIRLS
Celebrating 20 years of advancing women and girls
The Community Fund for Women & Girls is our region’s only endowment focused on the social and economic advancement of women and girls. We advance women’s influence and gender equity through education, information and convenings and we make grants to programs and services for women and girls to be successful.
We need you.
Thank you to all who attended our recent event Feminism's Frankensteins. Did you miss it? Click here for photos.
Latest Newsletter Available
Read about:
- the Feminism's Frankensteins event featuring Courtney Martin
- the impact of the Fund on the local Boys & Girls Club
- Advisory Board member, Nancy Yao Maasbach
- what happened at the September meeting of Board and Alumnae members
- who won the first Susan. M. Lewin Leadership Award
Thank you to all who attended our recent event Feminism's Frankensteins. Did you miss it? Click here for photos.
Fund Fast Facts
- Has awarded and committed over $950,000 to advance women and girls since 1995
- Over 17,000 women and girls have participated in fund supported programs
- Grants have reached all ages– girls (20%), teens (25%), women (28%) and mature women and intergenerational programs (27%).
- Grants awarded are in health (33%), economic security – including education (32%), violence prevention, political participation and enrichment programming (22%) and cross multiple issue areas (13%).
- grants by geography: 39% in the Greater New Haven region, 30% in New Haven, 19% in the suburbs and ring communities (including the Lower Naugatuck Valley) and 12% statewide and beyond.
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