Women Investing in Nebraska Grants

Women Investing in Nebraska (WIN) provides grants to innovative projects that address urgent needs in Nebraska. Since 2011, WIN has awarded over $1.9 million to various initiatives through a member-driven process. Each fall, two grants are given, one to a University of Nebraska project and another to a nonprofit. Eligible applicants include Nebraska nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status and university departments, focusing on bold solutions to pressing issues.

Since its creation in 2011, Women Investing in Nebraska (WIN) members have pooled their gifts to grant more than $1.9 million to 24 University of Nebraska and Nebraska nonprofit projects. This collective giving group seeks out bold, innovative projects addressing issues of importance to Nebraskans and makes two grants each year through a member-driven vetting and voting processes.
WIN operates in partnership with the University of Nebraska Foundation and the UNF Charitable Gift Fund to support women philanthropists through education, engagement and empowerment.
Women Investing in Nebraska awards two grants each fall, equally dividing members’ gifts between a University of Nebraska project and a Nebraska nonprofit (501(c)3 public charities). While projects can address any issue of importance to Nebraska, WIN seeks out projects that offer bold, innovative solutions to urgent issues in our state.
WIN awards will fund projects that meet at least one of these criteria:

• Does this respond to an urgent and critical need?Is this a bold new venture?Does this offer a new approach to an ongoing problem?
• Funding

WIN’s grants are awarded in the fall and are based on membership gifts made in the previous one-year period, July 1 to June 30. An applicant can expect around $100,000.

Eligibility

Nebraska nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status, and departments or groups at any University of Nebraska campus are eligible to apply for WIN grants. If a project involves collaboration among nonprofits, multiple university departments or a nonprofit-university partnership, the application should be submitted by the entity that will take financial responsibility for the grant. University projects must be sanctioned by the University of Nebraska for consideration. WIN requires that 100% of funding be directed to the described project. This can include necessary administrative costs, but should waive F&A on campus projects.