Women’s Fund awards winter grants

The Women’s Fund of Greater Green Bay announced the grant recipients in the winter grant cycle which saw a record number of applications, including a record amount of funding requested.

Recipients were:

• Bellin Health Foundation | The H.E.R. Health, Empowerment, Resilience Program: This program is designed for rural middle and high school girls in Oconto County to learn and develop healthy lifestyle habits, form peer-to-peer supportive bonds, and build a personal health and fitness program. 
• COMSA | The Women and Youth Empowerment Program: Funding will be used for programming to improve the health and well-being of refugee and immigrant women and girls. 
• Encompass Early Education and Care | Helping Teen Moms Succeed: Funding will support the teen mom program that offers tuition assistance to teen moms who are actively engaged in case management with Family Services. 
• Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin | Sexual Assault Center- Empowering Women to Overcome Program:Funds will support the Sexual Assault Center, which provides free and confidential crisis intervention, advocacy, support, and counseling services to survivors of sexual assault. 
• Foundations Health and Wholeness | School-Based Empowerment, Self-Esteem, & Mental Wellness Groups for Girls: Funding will be used to create School-Based Wellness & Empowerment Groups for girls at four local Green Bay schools over the span of eight weeks.
• Skanikulat | Haudenosaunee Matrilinealism: Empowering Oneida Women through Traditional Cultural Leadership Development: Funding for this initiative will support and expand opportunities for women and girls, promoting their health, safety, learning, achievement, and success in life. Incorporating the principles of the Oneida matrilineal society, the project will reinforce cultural identity and heritage while empowering Oneida women. 
• YWCA | Nkauj Zaj Dance Academy: This program will support Hmong girls to learn about and experience their culture through dance.

The Women’s Fund awards funds two times a year (winter and summer) to organizations that demonstrate how their programs and services will positively impact women and girls in our community. Grants are awarded based on a competitive application process which includes a review by a grants team of community volunteers. Learn more about the grant funds at https://womensfundgb.org/what-we-fund/.

Members of the media interested in scheduling a virtual interview with a representative from the Women’s Fund of Greater Green Bay and one of the grantees about the impact of the grant funding should contact Erika Ritchie at erikaritchie@ggbcf.org.