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Scholarships for Moms
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| Balancing motherhood with your career can be overwhelming. Give yourself the tools you need to go back to school and become financially independent. View information available from schools offering online and campus courses and if you like, request information or search for a student loan. |
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Women Grants |
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Channel Foundation
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| The Channel Foundation promotes leadership in women's human rights around the globe by supporting organizations engaged in combating gender inequality. Through grantmaking, advocacy, and collaboration with an international network of women's rights organizations and funders, we create opportunities in order to ensure that women's rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled. |
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Women Grants |
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Chicago Foundation for Women
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| One of the largest women’s funds in the world, Chicago Foundation for Women believes that all women and girls should have the opportunity to achieve their potential and live in safe, just and healthy communities. |
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Women Grants |
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Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Award
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| Established in 1989, the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Award honors an individual, project, organization, or institution for outstanding contributions to equity and education for women and girls. The award is given for a broad range of activities including classroom teaching, educational and research contributions, and legal and legislative work in equity for women and girls. While the award focuses on education, the recipient need not be an educator. |
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Women Grants |
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Flora Family Foundation
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| The Flora Family Foundation supports public benefit organizations working throughout the world in education, health, arts and culture, the environment, global security, civic engagement, and the advancement of women. |
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Women Grants |
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Global Fund for Women
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| The Global Fund for Women supports women's groups that advance the human rights of women and girls. We strengthen women's right groups based outside the United States by providing small, flexible, and timely grants ranging from $500 to $20,000 for operating and program expenses. |
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Women Grants |
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Hadassah Foundation
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| The Hadassah Foundation is dedicated to refocusing the priorities of the Jewish community through innovative and creative funding for women and girls in the United States and Israel. The foundation's mission is to improve the status, health, and well being of women and girls; bring their contributions, issues, and needs from the margins to the center of Jewish concern; and encourage and facilitate their active participation in decision-making and leadership in all spheres of life. |
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Women Grants |
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Iowa Women's Foundation
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| It is the mission of the Iowa Women's Foundation (IWF) to bring about a just society by supporting the empowerment of all women and girls throughout the state of Iowa. |
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Women Grants |
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Kentucky Foundation for Women
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| The mission of the Kentucky Foundation for Women is to promote positive social change by supporting varied feminist expression in the arts. When women and girls advance, so does Kentucky. |
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Women Grants |
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Long Island Fund for Women and Girls
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| The Long Island Fund for Women & Girls encourages all women and girls to become philanthropists, thus enlarging Long Island's donor pool. The impact of pooled small and large contributions has made, and will continue to make a difference in the lives of Long Island women and girls. The Long Island Fund for Women & Girls is a vehicle for encouraging, and where possible, funding the grassroots initiatives organized by women and girls in response to unmet needs. |
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Women Grants |
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Macy's Foundation
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| Collectively, the Macy's Foundation, the company and its divisions (and the May Foundation in 2006) contributed more than $36 million in 2006. Gifts were directed in large part to our core giving areas of arts and culture, education, HIV/AIDS awareness and research, minority issues and women's issues. |
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Women Grants |
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Mama Cash
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| Mama Cash supports pioneering initiatives by women worldwide that contribute to strengthening the women's position and improving their rights. By financing women’s initiatives in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Mama Cash helps give women greater influence in their own lives and environments. Mama Cash is investing in a better future for women and girls worldwide. And men benefit as well. |
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Women Grants |
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Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation
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| Each year, the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation has grown steadily in its mission to eradicate cancers affecting women and to prevent violence against women. Our vital grant programs for women’s cancers and efforts to stop domestic violence have increased significantly each year, from $500,000 in 1997 to $2.1 million in 2003, $3.6 million in 2004, and now to $4.7 million in 2005. |
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Moriah Fund
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| The Moriah Fund is a private foundation that was established in 1985 to perpetuate the lifelong philanthropic commitment of its founders, Robert and Clarence Efroymson. Their philosophy of giving was rooted in fundamental Jewish values: a concern for the disadvantaged and an emphasis on self-help; a commitment to equity and justice; and a desire to improve the quality of life for Jews and non-Jews alike. Moriah seeks to promote human rights and social justice, help disadvantaged people gain self-sufficiency and control over their lives, foster sustainable development, and promote women’s rights and reproductive health. |
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Women Grants |
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Ms. Foundation for Women
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| The Ms. Foundation for Women funds in the areas of economic security; health and safety; and girls, young women and leadership. We also support organizing and public policy advocacy work that cuts across these issue areas. |
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Women Grants |
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Nike Foundation
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| The Nike Foundation seeks to empower disadvantaged girls ages 10 to 19 years, the age group defined as adolescents by the World Health Organization. We also plan to reserve a portion of funds to support projects such as relief donations and other programs that we initiate. |
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Women Grants |
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Noel Foundation
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| The Noel Foundation funds programs that include: Missionaries of Charity who work with the "poorest of the poor" assisting homeless mothers and children and those afflicted with HIV/AIDS, adoption programs, supplies and meals for Skid Row families, healthcare for needy women and children, after school education and mentoring for disadvantaged children, specialized training for teachers in under-resourced schools, and cancer treatment and research programs. |
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Women Grants |
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Open Meadows Foundation
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| Open Meadows is a grant-making organization for projects that are designed and implemented by women and girls, which does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion or sexual orientation. It offers grants of up to $2,000 to projects that: Are designed and implemented by women and girls; Promote the empowerment and well being of women and girls; Reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of our society; Promote social change; Have limited financial access or have encountered obstacles in their search for funding. Organizational budget should not exceed $150,000. |
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Women Grants |
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