If you are working to increase women's rights in our region by:
-Changing how people are thinking and talking about an issue-
- Engaging communities in civic action-
-Developing or changing public or corporate policy to increase women’s rights-
-Fighting back opposition to equity-
We want to fund your work
Creating change for women and girls in Southwest Pennsylvania
The mission of the Women and Girls Foundation (WGF) is to achieve equity for women and girls in the eleven counties of Southwest Pennsylvania (Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Mercer, Washington and Westmoreland Counties). To achieve equity, the Foundation invests in women’s rights and policy initiatives that increase the rights of women and girls in our region for generations to come. Through its grantmaking, WGF strives to seed positive, long-term, systemic change able to endure political, social, cultural and economic fluctuations.
Thank you for casting your vote in the 2009 WGF Online Vote Initiative!
The community response to the first-ever WGF online voting initiative, designed to engage our community in the selection of the 2009 grantees, was overwhelming with more than 2,600 votes being cast. In the online vote, we asked the community to tell us which of the Top 10 proposed projects, selected by the Grantmaking Committee from a pool of 31 applications, would increase rights of women and girls in the region. For a list of 2009 grantees, please see here.
Resources
For additional information about the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, stimulus package) and its distribution on national, state and local level, please click here.
For a quick reference to Greater Pittsburgh service providers, please click here to see this document. For a more exhaustive list of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County service providers, please access HumanServices.net created by the Allegheny County Department of Human Services.
Last Updated: June 2010
