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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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AAUW Educational Foundation
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| The AAUW Educational Foundation provides funds to advance education, research, and self-development for women and to foster equity and positive societal change. The Foundation funds: Groundbreaking Research, Fellowships and Grants,
Special Awards, Vital Community Action Projects, Symposia, Roundtables, and Forums, AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund. |
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Women Grants |
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African Women's Development Fund
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| The African Women's Development Fund supports organizations that further the work of the African women's movement. Currently, AWDF funds women’s organizations that focus on capacity-building through strengthening existing projects and national or regional civil society organizations engaged in women-specific projects. AWDF provides technical assistance and capacity-building grants. Funding is limited to organizations that have been in operation for at least three years and women-led organizations. It does not fund individuals, political parties, government agencies, scholarship/fellowship funds, or organizations that aim to convert people to any specific religious belief. |
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Women Grants |
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Anne Bancroft Foundation
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| The Anne Bancroft Foundation supports girls and women to realize their highest dreams and potential. The Foundation endeavors to live this mission by recognizing individual achievement and by promoting initiatives that inspire courage, risk-taking, integrity and individuality in girls and women. |
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Women Grants |
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Arcus Foundation
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| The Arcus Foundation lends special emphasis to programs and organizations which recognize that members of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) community deserve to be welcomed and celebrated. Located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Arcus Foundation devotes many of its philanthropic resources to improving the quality of life in Southwestern Michigan. The Arcus Great Apes Fund - The Arcus Great Apes Fund supports conservation efforts that promote the survival of the Great Apes in the wild and sanctuaries that offer safety and freedom from invasive research and other forms of human exploitation. Support from this fund is limited to activities that specifically impact gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, bonobos and/or gibbons. |
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Women Grants |
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Astraea National Lesbian Action Foundation
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| Today, Astraea is the largest lesbian organization in the world. We raise funds and issue grants based on the belief that all women can participate in the philanthropic process-from giving to grantmaking. The International Grants Program includes the following: International Panel Grants, Social Change Opportunity Fund, International Interim/Emergency Fund, International Collaborative & Philanthropic Grants, International Donor Advised Grants, International Grants Panel and Advisory Board. |
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Women Grants |
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Avon Foundation
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| The Avon Foundation, an accredited 501(c)(3) public charity, was founded in 1955 to improve the lives of women and their families. As it passes the half century milestone, the Avon Foundation brings this mission to life through two key areas of focus: breast cancer and domestic violence. |
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Women Grants |
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Boston Women's Fund
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| For the past twenty years, the Boston Women’s Fund has been the only foundation in northeastern Massachusetts to exclusively support community-based organizations run by women and girls. We fund low-income women, women of color, lesbians, women with disabilities, older women, and girls who are working to create a society based on racial, social and economic justice. |
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Women Grants |
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Chahara Foundation
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| The Chahara Foundation offers general operating funds to Greater Boston-based nonprofit institutions working with and run by lower-income women. |
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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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Colin Higgins Foundation
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| The Colin Higgins Foundation focuses its support on organizations and projects that work with youth; rural and reservation communities; communities of color; transgender communities; and low-income communities. |
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Women Grants |
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David N. Lane Trust for Aged & Indigent Women - Connecticut
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| The David N. Lane Trust for Aged & Indigent Women was established in 1964 to support and promote quality human services and health care programming for underserved older women living in Fairfield and New Haven Counties, Connecticut. The deadline for application to the David N. Lane Trust for Aged & Indigent Women is July 1. Applicants will be notified of grant decisions by letter within 2 to 3 months after the proposal deadline. Applicant organizations must serve senior women in the counties of Fairfield or New Haven, Connecticut. |
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Women Grants |
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Eleanor Foundation
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| The Eleanor Foundation is a research-driven public grantmaking fund that helps create the conditions for working women to achieve sustained economic independence. The Eleanor Foundation is a catalyst—serving as Chicago's only public grant-making fund focused exclusively on helping working women achieve sustained economic independence. We take a social venture approach to philanthropy: Research-Driven Programs, Engaged Investor and Fellow Problem-Solver, Comprehensive, Integrated Services: Our Self-Sufficiency Initiative. |
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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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Federated Department Stores Foundation
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| The Federated Department Stores Foundation focuses giving primarily in the areas of education, arts/culture, women's issues, HIV/AIDS, and programs to assist youth and minorities. Applicants seeking funding for programs or projects that directly benefit one or more of these areas of strategic focus should make that clear on their applications. |
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Women Grants |
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