Women in Health Collaborative Fund Grant

The Women in Health Collaborative Fund, launched by the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana, empowers women in healthcare to make impactful grant decisions. Focused on improving health outcomes for women and girls, the initiative invites 501(c)(3) nonprofits with majority female boards to seek funding, prioritizing reproductive health and the mental health of Black girls. Grants of up to $50,000 will be awarded based on community-driven voting, fostering innovative and collaborative approaches to pressing health issues.

The Women in Health Collaborative Fund is a pilot initiative of Women’s Fund of Central Indiana that empowers women working in all areas of healthcare (nurse practitioners, administrators, doulas, doctors, behavioral therapists, etc.) to make granting decisions that improve health outcomes for women and girls in Central Indiana. Together, these women will raise funds and determine which initiatives will receive grant dollars.
The Women in Health Collaborative Fund will harness the work, wealth, and wisdom of women in healthcare to improve health outcomes for Central Indiana women and girls. Combined with a generous grant from Indiana University Health and grant dollars from Women’s Fund, funds that are raised will be granted to an initiative(s) voted on by all Collaborative Fund members. Every donor to the fund, at every level, will have an opportunity to cast a vote and help decide first-round grantee partners.
Women’s Fund of Central Indiana created the Women in Health Collaborative Fund to provide funding to organizations providing health services. The first Women in Health Collaborative grant round will focus on reproductive health and Black girls’ mental health.
Funding
The maximum allowable request is $50,000.

Eligibility

The applicant organization must be a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and have a board composed of at least 50% individuals who identify as women.Organizations must serve self-identified women and/or girls in central Indiana (Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan, and Shelby Counties).Applicants can apply for a program grant only (not an operating grant).Staff and indirect costs are allowable.Women’s Fund is interested in innovative and collaborative solutions in the following areas:Reproductive health:Improved access to reproductive care
Increased/improved education on reproductive health
Increased/improved services for vulnerable self-identified womenBlack self-identified girls’ mental health:Increased/improved programming focused on image and identity

Decreased impact of racism and trauma
Providers that are culturally competent and provide trauma informed services

Ineligibility

Women’s Fund will not consider funding for the following items:Organizations not committed to gender equity
Programs promoting religion, including proselytizing, religious training or prayerWomen and girls in Central Indiana have a variety of spiritual practices and religions; some practice no religion at all. Women’s Fund of Central Indiana remains neutral regarding women and girls’ chosen religious expression. Therefore, it is our policy not to fund programs that include prayer, the promotion of religion, religious preferences, objectives, education, and/or training. If your organization’s mission statement is religious in nature, you must describe the role that mission and presence have in the grant activities for which you are seeking Women’s Fund support.Fundraising activities (such as golf tournaments or galas)
Schools
Organizations whose board of directors or advisory group is composed of less than 50% self-identified womenAs a good steward of donor dollars, Women’s Fund is required to closely examine organizations’ financial and governance structures. Women’s Fund understands that some executive directors serve on an organization’s board of directors according to the organization’s bylaws. However, no paid staff or their family members should be a board officer or compose 50% or more of the organization’s board of directors. If an organization’s staff or board members own a for-profit organization and the for-profit interacts with the not-for-profit, there must be a clear financial and governance delineation between the two and separate books kept for the for-profit and not-for-profit organization.