Grantmakers in the News
August 1, 2008
Name: Atlanta Women's Foundation
Address: 50 Hurt Plaza, Suite 401
Atlanta, GA 30303
Telephone: 404-577-5000
URL: www.atlantawomen.org
The Atlanta Women's Foundation (AWF) announced in July that it awarded more than $1 million to nonprofit organizations serving women and girls in the metropolitan Atlanta area, the most it has ever given in one year. Since its beginning in 1986, AWF has impacted the community with grants of over $10 million.
These grants include a multi-year grant for $200,000 to Friends of International Community School and a $100,000 multi-year grant to the Women's Resource Center to End Domestic Violence. These are the foundation's first multi-year awards.
The Atlanta Women's Foundation awards competitive grants to nonprofit organizations that serve women heading low-income families in the five metro counties of Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett. Grants are given for both general operating costs and specific projects.
As part of AWF's new strategy, nonprofits who wish to be funded must show that their work meets key strategies for women and girls. For women, these include increasing access to income and assets or increasing affordable, quality child care. For girls, nonprofit organizations must show that their work increases pregnancy prevention, high school completion, career development or the availability of before and after school programs. Agencies must also show their impact beyond their own clients, such as outreach through grassroots organizing and public awareness, training other agencies that do similar work, or developing replicable programs.
"With today's economic landscape, it's no longer good enough for an agency to give out bus tokens for women to travel to job interviews. Mothers need quality affordable child care in their neighborhood so they can go on those interviews. And the children of families seeking refuge in Atlanta from war torn countries must graduate and be able to support themselves," says Karen Elaine Webster Parks, Interim CEO of The Atlanta Women's Foundation. "We have an obligation to find the nonprofit agencies in our community that know what real success looks like for women and girls, and make sure they have the resources to do even more."
The Atlanta Women's Foundation is Georgia's only public foundation dedicated solely to the challenges faced by women and girls. Founded in 1986 as the Atlanta Women's Fund under the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, it became a stand alone organization in 1998.
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