Fund for Women announces 2021 grant recipients

The Fund for Women at the Delaware Community Foundation has announced the nonprofit recipients for its 2021 grant cycle.

Since 1994, the FFW has awarded 376 grants totaling over $3.2 million to nonprofits serving women and girls in Delaware.

The FFW’s one-year grant offers organizations an opportunity to obtain seed money for innovative, creative programming, or funding to continue or expand programs where effectiveness has been demonstrated.

For the 2021 grant cycle, the FFW has awarded $209,998 to 15 nonprofits. The agencies listed below will utilize the grant funding for critical projects related to housing, healthcare, career training and education programs. Grants were awarded during a virtual, live webinar held June 8. 

Boys & Girls Club of Delaware received $15,000 to provide  Girls on the Run at the Boys & Girls Club teams and programming for five clubs statewide during 2021.

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Wilmington received $15,000 for Bayard House programs helping young mothers develop life skills to enable them to overcome poverty and homelessness.

Child Inc. received $15,000 to provide permanent, safe, affordable housing for nine victims of intimate partner violence and their 12 children.

Culture Restoration Project Inc. was awarded $10,898 to fund New Castle Poetry, Prose & Power, a trauma-informed series of creative writing and life coaching workshops that is a culturally competent, therapeutic, self-affirming outlet for young girls ages 13-17 in Wilmington.

Delaware Center for Justice’s community reintegration services program received $15,000 to provide 125 women throughout the state with evidence-based case management strategies and other crucial services that foster successful re-entry.

Delaware College Scholars received $15,000 to expand and hire additional summer faculty to support the summer residence portion of the preparatory and persistence program for aspiring first-generation college students.

Delaware Technical & Community College Educational Foundation 866 was awarded $15,000 for the Kent Workforce Development Certified Nursing Assistant Scholarships which give six women funds covering tuition, books, uniforms, equipment and additional costs to attend Delaware Tech’s Certified Nursing Assistant Program.

Fresh Start Scholarship Foundation received $15,000 for partial funding for nine young women of the Class of 2021-22 to be given financial and emotional support to advance their education.

Jewish Family Services of Delaware received $14,500 for its statewide maternal mental health program. JFS will partner with Nemours duPont Hospital for Children to increase the specialized capacity of Delaware's behavioral health workforce to treat perinatal loss and perinatal/postnatal depression among Delaware women.

NCALL Research Inc. was awarded $15,000 for A New Vision: NCALL Financial Education Program for Single Mothers in Need Across Delaware. The funds will provide 100 low- to moderate-income single mothers in Delaware with tools and resources to build financial stability through a 12-week intensive program.

Ronald McDonald House of Delaware was awarded $15,000 for its statewide housing and support services for Delaware mothers with infants receiving care in neonatal intensive care units at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington and Christiana Hospital in Newark.

STEHM Inc. received $4,600 for its New Castle Financial Independence Program providing women experiencing homelessness with core money management skills by attending one-on-one and group workshops to learn how to manage their finances and gain the confidence they need to independently care for themselves and their children in the long term.

The Way Home received $15,000 for New Castle/Sussex WHOLE, Women Having Opportunities 2 Leverage Employment. The program provides 100 incarcerated women prior to release with an innovative, interactive, gender-responsive and trauma-informed cognitive behavioral transformation course and workforce development training grounded in cognitive-behavioral skills necessary for successful employment.

Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective was awarded $15,000 for its New Castle Centering Black Mothers for Birth Equity Project; Empowering Black Mothers, Empowering Black Doulas. This will be a pilot doula project that will provide the value-added benefit of doula care addressing the Black woman pay gap experienced by Black community doulas.

YMCA of Delaware received $15,000 to fund the Sussex Sussex Family YMCA Teen Workforce Development Program. The new effort is designed to provide teen girls with education and experience for their first jobs.

For more information, go to fundforwomende.com/grants.