Application Deadline September 30
St. Cloud, Minn. – The Central Minnesota Community Foundation (CMCF) announced two grant rounds are now accepting grant applications to benefit women and young girls in the community. The first grant opportunity is from the Women’s Fund of the Central Minnesota Community Foundation. The Women’s Fund provides funding to projects and programs that focus on the following three areas: girls ages 10-18, women in transition and elder women.
The second grant opportunity is from the Julianne Williams Fund. The Julianne Williams Fund was established to honor the life of Julianne Marie Williams, and reflect the essence of Julianne by promoting self-esteem, safety, confidence and overall empowerment of girls and young woman through outdoor activities.
For both grant rounds, programs or projects must be a 501(c)3 nonprofit, school or government entity and serve within 30 mile radius of St. Cloud. Online applications are due September 30 and can be found at www.communitygiving.org/grants.
The Women’s Fund granted $47,500 last year and the Julianne Williams Fund granted $11,500. Previous grants awarded from the Women’s Fund included $8,000 to the St. Cloud Crisis Nursery, $8,000 for childcare training program at Hands Across the World and $7,835 for transportation and health education for elder women at Helping Hands Outreach. In addition, the recent Women’s Fund Dancing with Our Stars event raised over $151,000 for local organizations that benefit women and girls.
Since 2002, the Women’s Fund of the Central Minnesota Community Foundation has been dedicated to strengthening the community by improving the lives of women and girls and has granted over $1.1 million to support local programs.
The Central Minnesota Community Foundation (CMCF), in affiliation with CommunityGiving, is a public charity that attracts and administers charitable funds for the benefit of the local community. Since 1985, CMCF has grown to over $89.6 million in assets and awarded over $93.1 million in grants to non-profits. CommunityGiving is a collaboration of community foundations united under a single framework to create efficiencies that maximize the impact of our donors. The core foundations working with CommunityGiving include the Alexandria Area Community Foundation, the Brainerd Lakes Area Community Foundation, the Central Minnesota Community Foundation and the Willmar Area Community Foundation. Collectively, CommunityGiving administers more than 700 funds totaling more than $140 million. Learn more at CommunityGiving.org/CentralMN
