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Our Mission:
We encourage women to develop as philanthropists.

We provide grants to women and girls in our community that enhance education, employment, and self-esteem.

We build the permanent endowment that makes grantmaking possible.
 

About AFFW Grants

A Fund For Women Areas of Focus

  • Keeping elderly or disabled women in their homes, or in community settings
  • Providing services to victims of domestic abuse
  • Helping women achieve economic self-sufficiency and increase their earning potential
  • Reducing homelessness for women and girls.

Grant History

YEAR GRANT RECIPIENT PROJECT AWARD
1994 A Fund For Women Loan Fund for Individual Women $3,000
1994 Bayview Community Center Multicultural Service Network $800
1994 Briarpatch Future Choices Project $1,500
1994 The Business Forum Education Scholarships $2,500
1994 Centro Hispano Choices Initiative $544
1994 Take Our Daughters To Work Take Our Daughters To Work $1,000
1994 YWCA Transport Rural Women to Mammograms $1,000
1994 Youth Impact Adventures, Inc. ZAP Program $8,000
1995 The Business Forum Education Scholarships $3,000
1995 Centro Hispano Media Workshops for J. Fabregas $300
1995 Community Adolescent Programs Partners in Youth Employment $5,000
1995 Community Coordinated Child Care Outreach to Hispanic Providers $300
1995 Kennedy Heights Community Center Southeast Asian Women's Group $1,944
1995 Nehemiah Community Development Corp. ZAP Project $2,500
1995 YWCA Child Care Fund $2,000
1996 Atwood Community Center Girls to Women Program $5,000
1996 Broadway Simpson Waunona Teens in Control Program $2,500
1996 D.C. Advocates Battered Women Rural & Older Women Violence $5,000
1996 Dane County Youth Connection Grrrl Club $3,800
1996 Employment Options, Inc. Revolving Loan Fund $5,400
1996 Over 50 Employment Services Inc. Women in Search
$1,250
1996 Rape Crisis Center Chimera Self-Defense Classes $1,650
1996 The Respite Center Purchase of Books and Videos $450
1996 WI Center for Academically Talented Youth Women in Science $5,000
1996 WI Women Entrepreneurs-Southcentral Girls' Biz $1,500
1997 The Business Forum Education Scholarships $4,000
1997 Bayview Community Center Multicultural Service Network $500
1997 Community Coordinated Child Care Business of Child Care Workshop $1,400
1997 Dane County Youth Connection Grrrl Club $3,000
1997 East Madison Community Center Women's Leadership Development $2,000
1997 Friends of Nancy Denney Community The Nancy Denney House $5,000
1997 Kennedy Heights Community Center Women's Group History Tours $1,242
1997 Madison Metropolitan School District Lincoln School: Portrait of WI Mural $1,000
1997 Neighborhood House Community Center Middle School Girls Group $1,000
1997 Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Occupational Spanish Training $2,000
1997 Sigma Delta Epsilon Expanding Your Horizons Workshop $1,500
1997 YWCA Child Care Fund $2,000
1998 The Business Forum Education Scholarships
$2,000
1999 Lillith Project Middle School Girls-Technology Access $50,000
2000 WI Center for Academically Talented Youth Young Women of Promise $50,000
2001 Dane County Parent Council Safe Homes for Families Project $50,000
2002 Institute for Women's Policy Research Status of Women in Wisconsin Report $2,500
2002 Dane County Parent Council Safe Homes for Families Project $50,000
2003 Atwood Community Center Girl Neighborhood Power $10,000
2003 Bayview Foundation Southeast Asian Girls Project $10,000
2003 East Madison Community Center Girls Development Group $10,000
2004 Bayview Community Center Project T.E.A.C.H. $11,350
2004 East Madison Community Center Junior Girls Development Group $12,650
2004 WI Center for Academically Talented Youth Children of Promise-Madison & Camp Program $16,000
2004 Wexford Ridge Neighborhood Center Women Rise Up! $10,000
2005 Domestic Abuse Intervention Services $25,000
2005 W.I.S.H. Wisconsin Initiatives in Sustainable Housing Home for Life $15,000
2005 Porchlight Housing First $8,000
2005 Interfaith Hospitality Network Second Chance Housing Project $12,500
2005 WAGS Wisconsin Academy for Graduate Service Dogs $4,000
2005 Jewish Social Services Senior Womens Independence $2,000
  Total Projects Funded: 62 Total Funds Awarded: $450,563
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