Women's Fund Endowment
The Women’s Fund is a permanent fund of the FM Area Foundation. Income from this fund will support women and girls within the counties of Cass and Clay in perpetuity.
· 2000 - The Women’s Fund Endowment was created by the F-M Area Foundation Board of Governors.
· 2002 - An Advisory Committee of volunteers was created to advocate for and support the endowment through fundraising and recommending grants to be made from the fund.
· 2006 - Otto Bremer Foundation awarded the FM Area Foundation a Challenge Grant of $100,000 to build the Endowment.
· 2008 - The Chambers Family Fund committed $25,000 a year for four years to support fundraising for the Women’s Fund Endowment. The Chambers Family Fund also awarded the Foundation $200,000 for the Women’s Fund Endowment to be paid out over five years. Interesting Facts:· Through recommendations of the Women’s Fund Advisory Committee, nearly $70,000 has been awarded in grants to organizations that serve women and girls in Cass and Clay counties. · Nearly 600 donors have made contributions to the Women’s Fund Endowment over the past years. · The three focus areas for grantmaking, as determined through research conducted by the Women’s Fund Advisory Committee are:
· Children in need of care
· Economic wellbeing of women and their families
· Opportunities for women in leadership
To learn more about the Women's Fund Endowment or to schedule a presentation for your club or organization contact:
Pat Jorgensen, Fundraising Manager
701-234-0756 or womensfund@areafoundation.org
2009 Grants Childcare Resource and Referral, ND Quality Rating and Improvement System Pilot,
$2,000 Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity, Women Building for Women, $2,000 Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota, Women’s Income Initiative, $3,000 Boys and Girls Club of the Red River Valley, SMART Girls, $1000 CHARISM, Living, Learning and Leading, $686 Tri-College University, New Leadership Development Institute June 5-9 2001, $500 Village Family Service Center, Nokomis Scholarship Program, $1,000 YWCA Cass Clay, Shelter Children’s Services, $1,000
A quote
from Julie Gunkelman, Executive Director of CHARISM
“For the at-risk child, finding personal success in and/or out of school is especially difficult. CHARISM’s skill-based after-school and summer outreach programs build healthy social and literacy skills into children that otherwise would be left to fend for themselves. Funds from the Women’s Fund support this intervention. The first grant awarded by the Women’s Fund was to Ronald McDonald House for $1,500 to remodel the south campus in 2004. Since then nearly $70,000 in grants have been awarded to 37 agencies ranging in amounts from $100 to $5,873. In 2009 the grant requests totaled $112,360.00. The Endowment was able to fund $11,185.00 Grant Recipients American Cancer Society * Boys and Girls Club of the Red River Valley * Cass County Public Health * Catholic Family Charities * CHARISM, * Child Care Resource and Referral * Churches United for the Homeless * Clay County Public Health * Red River Children’s Advocacy Center * Dress For Success Northwest Minnesota, * Fraser Ltd., * Heritage Hjemkomst Center * Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest, * Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity * Legal Services of North Dakota * Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota * Lutheran Social Services of ND Great Plains Food Bank * Make-A-Wish Foundation of ND * Meritcare Children’s Hospital * Moorhead Community Education * Mujeres Unidas, * Nokomis Child Care Center * People Escaping Poverty Project * Rainbow Bridge * Rape and Abuse Crisis Center * Ronald McDonald House Charities * SENDCAA Head Start * Share House of Fargo, Inc. * Tri-College University * VFW Post 7564 * Village Family Service Center * Women’s Business Exchange * YWCA of Cass Clay * Women’s Network of the Red River Valley Italics designate multiple awards |
