Qurate Retail Group: Community & Social Impact Grant

The Qurate Retail Group Community & Social Impact Grant aims to empower women globally by investing in initiatives that enhance health and economic opportunities. The grant supports businesses that focus on women's entrepreneurship, health education, and removing barriers to financial security. By promoting gender equality and sustainable practices, QRG seeks to foster inclusive societies where women can thrive. Organizations aligned with these goals are encouraged to apply for partnership opportunities.

Background
Qurate Retail Group’s Global Impact team seeks to embed inclusion, sustainability, and social responsibility into all aspects of our business. Our strategy is to inspire a more sustainable way to retail by sparking actions that accelerate business growth and positively impact team members, customers, communities, business partners, and the planet. This strategy prioritizes actions in three key areas that the company’s stakeholders have deemed to be important, and where the company believes it can deliver the largest impact:

• Protecting Our Environment to reduce our impact on the climate and ecosystemsChampioning Empowerment and Belonging to include everyone in the future of retail
• Curating Product Responsibly to ensure that what we sell respects people and planet

Our Strategy & Commitments
At Qurate Retail Group, we are committed to the well-being of women and opportunities that empower them to be their best selves.
Through our corporate philanthropy, cause marketing and team member giving and volunteering, we aim to deliver measurable and differentiated social and community impact.
Our Strategic Focus Areas
Despite a near-even worldwide gender distribution, disparities between men and women in wealth, representation, and health care access persist. Qurate Retail Group’s Together for Good initiative seeks to bridge these gaps by empowering women globally. In any given year, we seek to focus 60% of our direct and in-kind contributions to causes that support key health issues facing women today, as well as remove barriers to improving their financial security.
Objective
Improve health outcomes by providing women with the knowledge, resources and support they need to make informed decisions concerning their health & well-being.
Focus Areas
Promoting equitable access to quality healthcare and preventative services for early cancer detection and heart diseaseIncreasing menopause awareness and support to improve perceptions and highlight the importance of self-careAddressing social and economic determinants of health that disproportionately affect women (e.g. gender-based violence)
Wealth ( Economic opportunities, Independence and Prosperity)
Objective
Break the cycle of economic inequality by removing barriers to help unlock the earning potential of women.
Focus Areas
Supporting women's entrepreneurship and small business, particularly from underserved communitiesInvesting in career/leadership development & training programs that prepare and support women for meaningful jobs and careers (including in emerging industries

Ineligibility

Currently, we are not accepting requests for individuals, schools or school activities, religious-based or political gatherings.