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Grants For Women R-V
Grants For Women R-V
Our mission at Raise The Nation is to provide economic support to single parent women who
want to continue with their education or repay student loans. We believe, through education,
single parent women will be able to achieve independence for their families and will be
successful in their goal of raising the nation - their children.
The Mary Louise Roller Panhellenic Scholarship is an annual award of $1,000 awarded to an
undergraduate woman who plans to attend graduate school the following fall.
R.O.S.E. Fund
The R.O.S.E. (Regaining One's Self-Esteem) Fund is a national non-profit organization committed
to ending violence against women and their children by assisting women survivors of violence to
regain their self-esteem. By helping women to achieve a positive self-esteem, The R.O.S.E. Fund
hopes to empower individual women victims to achieve self-sufficiency, rebuild their lives, and
ultimately help end violence within society.
The mission of the Sisters of Charity Foundation and its Ministry Fund is to provide support for
and financial assistance to community initiatives that will benefit the poor and underserved.
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.
Textron is committed to helping prepare both adults and young people to achieve gainful
employment and ultimately, success in the workplace. We support all levels of education, from
early childhood to higher education and a variety of innovative job training programs for people
of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds.
We offer financial support in the form of grants, technical assistance in the form of trainings,
workshops, and connections with experts, as well as networking opportunities for young leaders
to meet and collaborate with one another to build a larger movement. Our two grant-making
areas: Organizing and Advocacy Fund, and the Reproductive Health and Justice Initive, offer the
above in varying forms.
The Fund is presently engaged in a process of reflection and reevaluation of its strategic focus
and operating model. We expect to emerge from this period with renewed commitment to an
effective philanthropic approach to social justice issues for women.
Tides Foundation
Tides Network actively promotes change toward a healthy and just society, one which is founded
on the principles of social justice, broadly shared economic opportunity, a robust democratic
process and a sustainable environment. Tides Network believes healthy societies rely
fundamentally on respect for human rights, the vitality of communities, and a celebration of
diversity.
Travel Grants For Women through the National Science Foundation and the Association for
Women in Mathematics
This program enables women to attend research conferences in their fields, thereby providing a
valuable opportunity to advance their research activities and their visibility in the research
community.
Grant Amount: Up to $2,000
UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance
to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality.
Verizon Foundation
This Foundation concentrates its funding in the areas of literacy, digital divide, women and
economic development, people with disabilities, education/scholarships, and community
development.