Grant Application Guidelines
Applying for grants takes time and resources. Please read these guidelines carefully to determine if it is a wise use of your time and resources to apply.

Type and size of grants
The Women's Fund of Rhode Island (WFRI) has $17,500 available to grant in this cycle. WFRI plans to award multiple grants, ranging from $2,500 and $10,000. WFRI will provide project grants for project specific support, general operating support, planning, and start-up grants for new and emerging organizations that show significant promise for success and sustainability. WFRI will fund advocacy activities.

The application process and due dates
July 23, 2010*
Proposal due at 12 Noon.

August 2010
Site Visits (as needed)

October 2010
Grant Notification

*WFRI will only accept electronic proposals. Please e-mail your proposals to Marcia Coné at mctighe@wfri.org.

About the Women's Fund of Rhode Island

For women and girls in Rhode Island, the playing field isn't level yet. Consider these few statistics:

• On average, RI women earn 76.5% of what men earn. In 1999, median weekly earnings for women in RI were $488, compared to $628 for men.
• Women and children comprise the fastest-growing segment of the homeless.
• 1/3 of women-led single-parent households in RI live in poverty.
• RI women have among the lowest levels of elected representation in state and national offices in the U.S.
• The birth rate for teenage girls is soaring among the Hispanic and Asian teen populations, up almost 50% from a decade ago.

Many of society's problems have a greater impact on women and girls. There is an undeniable correlation between poverty, low self-esteem, poor health and inadequate healthcare, job access and wages, domestic violence, sexual assault - and being female.

The Women's Fund of Rhode Island is part of a global movement to help level the playing field for women and girls. The Women's Fund of Rhode Island is committed to social change grantmaking that focuses on long-term solutions to societal problems. WFRI empowers women, convenes community leaders, and advocates for change.

WFRI does all its work "through a gender lens" - and only funds projects and organizations that reflect a gender lens. WFRI funds projects that focus on the unique needs of women and girls, provide gender-specific solutions to problems facing women and girls, and allow these unique needs to set the pace and determine the content and delivery of projects. (Click here to see information about gender lens and grantmaking).

The Women's Fund is a field of interest fund located at The Rhode Island Foundation. An independent Advisory Council provides leadership and guidance to the Fund. The Rhode Island Foundation provides management and financial support.