Iowa Women's Foundation's
2008 Grant Applications
(to be awarded in 2009)

The Iowa Women's Foundation Announces 2 Areas of Focus in its Fourteenth Annual Grant-Giving Cycle

The Iowa Women's Foundation (IWF) is accepting grant proposals for its fourteenth annual grant-giving cycle. In this year's cycle, the Foundation is seeking applications for projects that address one of two specific areas of focus:

1) Assisting girls and women in the justice system, and

2) Skill-building in women and girls to help give them economic and personal success in life.

Area 1: Women and Girls in the Jusice System: To identify and intervene in certain at-risk factors that prevent successful rehabilitation of women and girls in the justice system. This may include projects that assist women who are currently incarcerated and/or girls in the juvenile justice system, or those identified as at-risk for entering the systems. This includes interventions that improve the health and mental health for these women and girls. Projects that address mental health are especially sought.

Area 2: Skill Building in women and girls: To develop and implement programs that encourage and educate/provide training to women and grils to develop skills that promote employment and economic success. This area will compliment the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women's goal to encourage non-traditional training and for skill-building, education, and recruitment of women for key industry sectors that have a skilled worker shortage in Iowa.

Related Links:
    1) Girls and the Juvenile Justice System
    2) Iowa Commission on the Status of Women

*The deadline for applications is May 30, 2008 at 5 p.m.

All projects applying for funding from the IWF must be specifically for women and/or girls in Iowa and not-for-profit in nature. Informal groups of women and/or girls, grassroots organizations, and formal not-for-profit organizations may apply for funding. The IWF seeks to fund projects that go beyond the provision of direct services to create underlying social change.

For more information about the Iowa Women's Foundation or to request a hard copy of the Foundation's grant guidelines, contact the IWF Office.

Past Grant Recipients
Chart Showing Grant Dollars by Issue Area

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