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Women's Fund Grants

Funder: Stateline Community Foundation - Women's Fund

Geographic Scope: Stateline area (Beloit, WI and surrounding region)

Focus Areas:

  • Helping Stateline area women and girls move out of poverty to self-sufficiency

  • Addressing challenges including lack of transportation to programs and lack of childcare options

  • Mental health services for women who have experienced trauma

  • Youth programming for at-risk girls

  • Women's empowerment and development
  • Mission: "We believe that when women thrive, communities prosper"

    Key Statistics on Need:

  • More than 70% of Beloit households below the Federal Poverty Level are headed by a woman with a high school diploma or less

  • Only 57% of this demographic group are employed

  • 78% of children in the School District of Beloit receive free or reduced price lunches
  • Recent Grant Awards (2014):

  • $4,000 to Family Services (mental health therapist for trauma survivors)

  • $3,000 to Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) (pilot program for young women, volunteer driver transportation)

  • $700 to Girls Scouts of Wisconsin Badgerland Council ("Girls Who Rock" after-school program)

  • $600 to Project 16:49 (teen homelessness awareness film sequel)
  • Fund History:

  • Formed in 2011

  • First appeal in 2012

  • Raised nearly $50,000 by 2014 (working toward $100,000 goal)

  • Dispersed $8,300 in 2014
  • Activities:

  • Public awareness forums

  • Periodic status reports on women and girls

  • Project grants to local service providers
    • Contact Information

    • Phone: 608-362-4228 or 608-361-8119
    • Email: info@statelinecf.com
    • Address: 690 3rd Street, Suite 110, Beloit, WI 53511
    • Hours: Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

    Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    womenpoverty-alleviationmental-healthyouth-programschild-care

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