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Makers of Pine-Sol Launch the Make a Powerful Difference Contest for Women 
The makers of Pine-Sol cleaners, a product line of Clorox Company, have launched the 2010 Make a Powerful Difference Contest, which will award grants online to women who are helping improve their communities and are making extraordinary change. Deadline: March 22, 2010.

• Channel Foundation 
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.

• Charles B. Keesee Educational Fund, Inc.
The Charles B. Keesee Educational Fund, Inc. was established in 1941 by Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Keesee of Martinsville, Virginia, for the purpose of aiding worthy men and women to obtain an education. You must be a resident of Virginia, North Carolina or South Carolina for a minimum of twelve months immediately prior to entering any educational institution.

• Chrysalis Foundation
Chrysalis promotes self-reliance, economic independence, and leadership opportunities for all women and girls, at any point in their lives. Its key strategy is to remove boundaries - cultural, educational, societal, and political - to effect change in the lives of individual women and girls, and change in the systems and policies that limit their potential.

• Dallas Women's Foundation
Dallas Women's Foundation seeks out and invests in organizations striving to create long-term, positive change. Research has shown that when you help a woman move up in society, you help her entire family. When you help a family break the cycle of poverty, you improve the health of the entire community. We seek to create systemic change by funding programs that meet the needs of our community.

• The Education Trust 
The Education Trust was established in 1990 by the American Association for Higher Education as a special project to encourage colleges and universities to support K-12 reform efforts. Since then, the Ed Trust has grown into an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to make schools and colleges work for all of the young people they serve. We believe that it is impossible to achieve significant change in K-12 without simultaneously changing the way that postsecondary education does business. We also believe that postsecondary education needs improving as much as K-12.

• Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Award
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.

• Exxon Mobil Foundation 
The one of the latest programs to gain the support of the ExxonMobil Foundation and its Educating Women and Girls Initiative (EWGI)1. EWGI provides funding and applies the company’s core business and management expertise to help women and girls realize their full potential. Projects funded by EWGI reduce barriers preventing girls from attending school, and give women training to start or improve businesses and non-governmental organizations.

• FairTest 
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) is an advocacy organization working to end the abuses, misuses and flaws of standardized testing and ensure that evaluation of students and workers is fair, open, and educationally sound.

• Federated Department Stores Foundation (Now Macy's) 
The Macy's Foundation focuses its 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 indicate their focus clearly on their applications.

• Flora Family Foundation 
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.

• Foundation for Women 
The Foundation for Women (FFW) serves impoverished women locally and globally by funding and creating microcredit programs. Each Foundation for Women microcredit participant: 1. Acquires essential capital with which to start a business, 2. Creates a business plan, 3. Uses her loan to buy materials and equipment, or promote her business, 4. Establishes a personal savings account – probably her first ever, 5. Establishes credit history by repaying her loan on time, 6. Qualifies for a renewal loan, perhaps at a higher level, 7. Successfully builds her business, perhaps hiring employees, 8. Gains education in financial and business matters, 9. Builds support among other women in her borrowing circle.

• Fund for Nonviolence 
Focusing on women and girls, this foundation addresses issues of poverty, violence and children's needs.

• Girls Going Places College Scholarship Program 
The Girls Going Places® Entrepreneurship Award Program is Guardian's annual initiative designed to reward the enterprising spirits of girls ages 12 to 18. Guardian awards prizes to 15 girls who demonstrate budding entrepreneurship; are taking the first steps toward financial independence; and make a difference in their schools and communities. Prizes totaling $30,000 are granted to three top winners and 12 finalists each year, to further their entrepreneurial pursuits or save for college.

• General Electric Foundation
We seek to educate - grade school through graduate school and beyond. Education develops resourceful leaders who grow the economy. It produces informed voters and consumers. It fosters understanding and respect for one another. The GE Fund is a catalyst, supporting programs that provide for the education and well-being of men, women, and children around the world.

• Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
Google Anita Borg Scholarship recipients will each receive a $10,000 award for the 2009-2010 academic year; Finalists will each receive a $1,000 award. A group of female undergraduate and graduate students will be chosen from the applicant pool, and scholarships will be awarded based on the strength of each candidate’s academic background and demonstrated leadership.

• Global Fund for Women  
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. We value local expertise and believe that women themselves know best how to determine their needs and propose solutions for lasting change.

• Girls Global Education Fund 
Provides scholarships for girls in developing countries to attend primary, junior high and high school.

• Grameen Foundation 
The Grameen Foundation helps the world’s poorest, especially women, improve their lives and escape poverty through access to microfinance and technology. With a footprint in 36 nations, Grameen Foundation is able to identify local needs and share best practices and lessons learned to enhance and expand local programs that move women from poverty to financial self-sufficiency.

• Iowa Women's Foundation 
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

• Jeannette Rankin Foundation 
The Jeannette Rankin Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds for, and awarding scholarships to, low-income women, ages 35 and older. Each scholarship recipient has a vision of how a college education will benefit herself, her family, and her community. Most recipients are in truly meager financial circumstances and may have other hardships or disabilities.

• The Kentucky Foundation for Women
The goal of the Kentucky Foundation for Women is to change the lives of women by supporting feminist expression in the arts in Kentucky; by publishing The American Voice, a literary journal; and by operating Hopscotch House, a rural retreat for women near Louisville.

• The Limited. Inc.  
Our primary areas of focus include organizations whose major purpose is serving women, children or education. Embedded in this focus is a commitment to inclusion. The foundation will provide monetary and in-kind support to 501(c)(3) public charities that fit within our philanthropic focus, meet our guidelines and serve our home office communities of Columbus and Kettering, Ohio, New York City, New York and Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

• Levi Strauss Foundation 
Consistent with the heritage and values of the company, the grant-making programs of Levi Strauss & Co. and the Levi Strauss Foundation seek to alleviate poverty on behalf of women and youth in communities around the world where our employees and our contractors' employees live and work. Our strategic initiatives range from funding an organization that provides legal aid services to migrant women workers in China to funding a program that provides financial incentives for low-wage earning women and youth in San Francisco to save so that they can buy a home, start a small business or further their education.

• Mama Cash
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.

• Mary’s Pence
Mary’s Pence is a grassroots organization that promotes social justice by directing donated resources to small women's projects in the Americas. Funding decisions are rooted in a Catholic tradition of social justice together with feminist values where all are welcome at the table.

• Mott Foundation
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is a private foundation based in Flint, Michigan. Grants from the Foundation are made in four different programs: Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area and Pathways Out of Poverty. Each of our four programs has funding priorities that are detailed on this site. In addition, the Foundation has established application procedures for organizations that wish to submit a letter of inquiry or grant proposal.

 • Ms. Foundation for Women 
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. The Ms. Foundation does not accept or reply to unsolicited requests that are not sent in response to an RFP.

• The Breast Cancer Fund
Strategic placement of seed funding is made to projects that attempt to fill the wide gaps of knowledge concerning the disease, especially to innovative programs that are not being supported by more traditional sources of funding.

• Long Island Fund for Women & Girls
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.

• Nevada Women's Fund
The Nevada Women's Fund is dedicated to strengthening our community by empowering women to improve their lives and the lives of their families. We identify critical social needs and address those needs through educational initiatives and community grant making. Our vision is to be the compass guiding the community toward nationally recognized solutions that improve the lives of women and their families.

• New Mexico Women's Foundation
New Mexico Women’s Foundation supports organizations and programs that create economic opportunities for New Mexico’s women and girls.

• New York Women's Foundation 
The New York Women's Foundation® is a cross-cultural alliance of women helping low-income women and girls in the five boroughs to achieve sustained economic security through expanded opportunities.

• Noel Foundation 
Encourages and supports the advancement of women around the world by funding entrepreneurial and educational programs. The Noel Foundation does not accept unsolicited inquiries for grant support.

• Nokomis Foundation   
Nokomis Foundation invests in thought and action to advocate for women and girls. We value creativity and experimentation while supporting proven solutions that challenge even the most traditional barriers silencing women and girls.

• NOW Foundation, Inc.
The National Organization for Women Foundation ("NOW Foundation") is a 501(c) (3) organization devoted to furthering women's rights through education and litigation.

• The Open Meadows Foundation  
Funds projects that are designed and implemented by women and girls; projects that have limited access to financial resources and which reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of our society and promote the empowerment of women and girls; and projects for social change that have encountered obstacles in their search for funding. Deadline: February 15 and August 15, annually.

• Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Women's Fund
The mission of the Women’s Fund of the Oshkosh Area Community Foundation is to make resources available for causes of interest to women; to foster among women a sense of empowerment and philanthropy; and to increase awareness throughout the community of the importance of women’s issues.

• Philanthrofund 
Dedicated to Funding Community Organizations that Serve the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Allied Communities of the Upper Midwest. Grant applications are due (postmarked or delivered) by September 15. Scholarship amounts generally range from $2,000 to $5,000 and past winners are today pursuing careers in medicine, teaching/education, law and politics to name but a few.

• Princeton Area Community Foundation - New Jersey
The Princeton Area Community Foundation created the Fund for Women and Girls to promote philanthropy by and for girls and the women who raise them. Since the Fund’s founding over 276 donors have joined together to focus their generosity. A $100,000 challenge from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in 2001 accelerated the Fund’s growth.

• The New Mexico Women’s Foundation
We support and fund innovative (and empowering) programs which enable women and girls to realize their dreams.

• Ellis L. Phillips Foundation 
THE ELLIS L. PHILLIPS FOUNDATION is primarily interested in strategically significant modest project grants to institutions in New England, in the following fields: Informal and Women's Education; advanced training and institutional development in Music and the Visual Arts; Rural Human Services; Rural Historic Preservation; Biodiversity Conservation. Because the foundation’s resources are limited and our giving is personal, we do NOT accept unsolicited proposals.

• Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Remainder Trust 
Geographic areas; Metropolitan Phoenix, Indiana, Arizona. Areas of funding interest include women, children, families, education and health care.

• Rockefeller Family Fund 
At present, the Family Fund has four program areas: Citizen Participation and Government Accountability, Economic Justice for Women, Environment, and Institutional Responsiveness. Within these program areas, RFF supports advocacy programs of national significance that are likely to yield tangible public policy results. Applicants should submit a letter of inquiry of no more than two pages summarizing 1) the goals of the project; 2) the strategy or plan for achieving the goals; and 3) the amount of funding requested. If you are invited to submit a full proposal, you will be provided with guidelines for material to include. The RFF responds to all inquiries. Applicants should allow approximately four weeks for staff to review and answer a letter of inquiry.

• The R.O.S.E. Fund
The R.O.S.E. Fund empowers individual women survivors to rebuild their lives, achieve self-sufficiency and regain their self-esteem by providing them with facial reconstructive surgeries and scholarship monies. We further provide women with inspirational role models who demonstrate the magnitude of what individual women with self-esteem can achieve.

• S. Mark Taper Foundation - Southern California
The S. Mark Taper Foundation will consider a Letter of Inquiry for any program or organization in Southern California. The Foundation field of interest include Art/cultural programs, public education, environment, violence prevention, housing/shelter, children and family services, homelessness, reproductive rights, the disabled, aging, women, people with AIDS, economically disadvantaged and others. See more Foundations in California...

• Libby Ross Foundation 
Sponsors organizations involved in the treatment, research, and prevention of breast cancer and fosters awareness through fundraising events.

• RainbowSauce
RainbowSauce is a website that has gathered various gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender media types and listed them all in one place. Instead of surfing the net for hours on end looking for the LGBT books, films or music you want, we've collected literally thousands of queer media titles and categorized them all for easy browsing. 

• Sara Lee Foundation  
To ensure the most effective use of its grant funds, the Sara Lee Foundation operates within guidelines that direct its support to nonprofit organizations working in the following areas: food-related programs such as food insecurity, nutrition and healthy lifestyles, women’s self-sufficiency and arts and cultural programs.

• Small Business Administration - Office of Women’s Business Ownership 
The Office of Women’s Business Ownership (OWBO) exists to establish and oversee a network of Women’s Business Centers (WBCs) throughout the United States and its territories. Through the management and technical assistance provided by the WBCs, entrepreneurs, especially women who are economically or socially disadvantaged, are offered comprehensive training and counseling on a vast array of topics in many languages to help them start and grow their own businesses.

• TAP: The Ada Project
The Ada Project (TAP) is a clearinghouse for information and resources related to women in computing. TAP serves primarily as a collection of links to other online resources, rather than as an archive. TAP includes information on conferences, projects, discussion groups and organizations, fellowships and grants, notable women in Computer Science, and other electronically accessible sites. The goal of TAP is to provide a central location through which these resources can be "tapped".

• Talbots Women's Scholarship Fund 
Talbots Women's Scholarship Fund, a program of the Talbots Charitable Foundation, will award $100,000 in scholarships to women determined to finally get that college degree. Five women will each be awarded $10,000 scholarships, and 50 women will each be awarded $1,000 scholarships. All applicants must be seeking an undergraduate degree from an accredited two- or four-year college or university, or vocational-technical school. Only applicants seeking a bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university are eligible to receive a $10,000 award. Scholarship awards are based primarily on financial need and previous achievements for women who earned their high school diploma or GED at least 10 years ago.

• Textron Charitable Contributions Program 
Textron's charitable giving program focuses on supporting programs and providing educational opportunities for women and minorities to enable them to achieve success in the workplace.

• The Girls Going Places^® Entrepreneurship Award Program
Guardian's annual initiative designed to reward the enterprising spirits of girls ages 12 to 18. Guardian awards prizes to 15 girls who demonstrate budding entrepreneurship; are taking the first steps toward financial independence; and make a difference in their schools and communities. Prizes totaling $30,000 are granted to three top winners and 12 finalists each year, to further their entrepreneurial pursuits or save for college.

• The Tides Foundation 
Tides awards grants in these issue areas (listed alphabetically): Arts and Culture, Civic Participation, Economic Development, Economic Justice, Environment, Environmental Justice, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Issues, HIV/AIDS, Native American Communities, Women's Empowerment/Reproductive Health, Youth Programs.

• The Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham 
A component fund of The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, dedicated to improving the status and quality of life for women and girls in the Greater Birmingham area through purposeful philanthropy and the establishment of a permanent endowment.

• Third Wave Foundation
The Third Wave Foundation is a feminist, activist foundation that supports the vision and voices of young women and transgender youth.

• Verizon Foundation 
Organizations seeking grants must actively support programs that address the Verizon Foundation's focus areas of education, literacy, domestic violence prevention or technology for healthcare and healthcare accessibility. The Verizon Foundation reviews unsolicited proposals on a continuous calendar year basis from January 1st through November 2nd.

• Whirlpool Foundation:  
Women and Work, Family and Society - To learn more about the complexities of family life and guide future grant making in this area, Whirlpool Foundation embarked on a global research initiative to explore women’s views and attitudes on work, family and society.

• Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation 
The Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation is a charitable private foundation that provides scholarship grants to schools and colleges for deserving female students and operating grants to a small number of institutions serving the needs of elderly women. The Foundation makes scholarship grants to accredited educational institutions in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. In accordance with guidelines prescribed by the founder, the grantee institutions award scholarships on the basis of need to Christian women who reside in one of the specified states.

• The Fund for Women Artists 
The Fund for Women Artists is a non-profit arts service organization based in Western Massachusetts that supports the creation of plays, films, videos and other artworks that reflect the diversity and complexity of women’s lives.

• The Maine Women's Fund 
The MWF was founded in 1988 when 20 women came together to create a permanent resource to fund initiatives that create positive and lasting change for Maine women and girls. 

• The WHO Foundation  
The WHO Foundation was established to address health, education and wellness concerns specifically for women and children. The WHO Foundation: Women Helping Others® nationally supports grass-roots charities serving the overlooked needs of women and children. Grants are provided to organizations serving women and/or children in the United States and Puerto Rico. Specific projects and programs addressing health and social service needs are our priority.

• The Vermont Women's Fund 
No other organization in the state of Vermont makes grants exclusively to support the needs of women and girls! Our grants are helping women and girls to move out of poverty, establish safe relationships, choose healthy behaviors, build communication skills, master non-traditional occupations, and strengthen their physical, emotional, intellectual and financial well-being. We step in where larger foundations do not by funding smaller, grassroots, gender-specific programs.

• Three Guineas Fund 
promotes social justice for women and girls by expanding access to opportunity in education and the economy through targeted grants. Three Guineas Fund does not accept unsolicited inquiries for grant support.

• Third Wave Foundation 
National activist and philanthropic organization created for young women between the ages of 15 and 30.

• United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) East and Southeast Asia 
The Trust Fund provides funding for innovative and catalytic initiatives that seek to prevent and eliminate violence against women.

• Western New York Women's Fund
Our mission is to invest in solutions to issues and needs of special significance to women and girls in Western New York. We believe, with the right resources, women and girls will make informed choices that will forever change their lives and our community. Our goal is to help them seize opportunities, avoid common risks and believe in a successful future…because we believe in them.

• WomensBusinessGrants.com - The fund is a non-profit private foundation which gives business grants to women who wish to start a business, or grow a business they have already begun. 

• Women's Endowment Fund  
The mission of the Women's Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation is to: provide funding for Akron area programs that support women and children,  serve as a catalyst for needed projects,  assist women in their personal growth as philanthropists.

• The Women's Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Vancouver 
The Women's Endowment Fund enables Jewish women to connect with other women through the funding of projects that directly benefit or are of great importance to women in the Jewish community.

• Women & Philanthropy at UCLA  
Recognizing and promoting women's leadership and philanthropy at UCLA. 

• Women's Foundation of California
The Women's Foundation of California is the only statewide public foundation that is investing in women and girls throughout California to create a more just and equitable society. Since 1979, the Foundation has awarded more than $22 million in grants to over 1,200 community-based organizations in every region of our diverse state.

• Women's Foundation of Genesee Valley 
Manages endowment fund for making annual grants to programs that explicitly benefit women and girls in Western New York.

• The Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham
The Women's Fund of Greater Birmingham is committed to improving the status of women and girls by serving as a catalyst for positive social change and by increasing philanthropy among women for women and girls.

• The Women's Foundation of Minnesota - GirlsBEST (Girls Building Economic Success Together) program: a five-year grantmaking and public awareness initiative focused on increasing the readiness of girls, ages 10-18, to achieve economic well-being

• Women's Foundation of Oklahoma 
The Women’s Foundation of Oklahoma is the leading funder of change for women and girls in our state. We raise money to build an endowment that provides a reliable, permanent source of grants to invest in economic self-sufficiency for women and brighter futures for girls. Unlike other nonprofit organizations, the Women’s Foundation of Oklahoma is an endowed, component fund of a statewide community foundation, building agency capacity to accomplish systemic change because when women and girls prosper, communities thrive.

• The Women's Foundation of Southern Arizona has announced the establishment of Go Girls! Sports Grants, a program that will award grants totaling $10,000 over the next year for girls sports teams in southern Arizona that need help with expenses. The funds must be used for team members who would not be able to participate without financial assistance. Grant money may be used for costs associated with uniforms, athletic shoes, and equipment, as well as toward team fees, travel costs, tournament fees, or other related expenses. Grants are available to girls at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Teams must be community-based, not school teams. 

• Women Fund of Texas 
Women’s Fund of Central Texas was established in 2003 as a philanthropic fund to benefit women and children in our community through arts and culture, education, health or human service programs.

• Women's Fund of Winston-Salem 
The Women's Fund of Winston-Salem is committed to providing grants to organizations and initiatives that address the ever changing needs of all women and girls in our community and to building a community of female philanthropists by raising awareness and educating women and girls about the power of philanthropy.

• Woman's Peacepower Foundation   
The Women's Peacepower Foundation Makes grants to grassroots projects that are working to impact issues of violence against women and their children.

• Women Win
Women Win is the first ever international women’s fund that supports sport and physical activities as instruments for social change and women’s empowerment.

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