Grant Funding Update: A total of 417 grants awarded as of 2024, with the total amount awarded of over $478,212.

A total of 417 Grants have been awarded as of 2024. The 2024 grants were awarded to help support the following projects sponsored by community members and organizations:

• AAUW NCCWSL – To provide two female college students the opportunity to attend the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL). This fully funded opportunity will allow student leaders to experience leadership, advocacy, and equity for college women, with access to dynamic speakers, workshops, and panels.
•  AAUW Period Project – To provide women and girls with the feminine hygiene products needed by working with Fort Wayne Community Schools, local shelters and those who are homeless.
• Bridge of Grace – To provide a Girls and Moms Empowerment Brunch with the goal of improving communication between mothers and daughters. Girls will be provided effective tools that can be used to better their relationships with the adults in their lives. Workshops will be intentional in building identity, problem-solving, and compassion.
• Catholic Charities – To provide safe and affordable legal immigration resources to the community by ensuring all case managers complete the necessary training required to achieve and maintain Department of Justice (DOJ) Accredited Representative Status for Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, (CCFWSB) covering 14 counties.
•  Hispanic Leadership Coalition of Northeast Indiana (HLCNI) – To provide scholarship funding towards one of the selected top ten HLCNI female college scholars who is living in Northeast Indiana and attending a college or University within the state of Indiana.  
• Snider High School – To help fund the new robotics program at R. Nelson Snider High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana which is comprised of a diverse student population in an urban setting. This grant will help introduce and expose students to STEM and robotics and offer learning opportunities to students who may not otherwise have the opportunity to interact with STEM and robotics technology.
• YWCA Northeast Indiana – To fund the purchase of basic needs for women and their children living in the YWCA’s domestic violence shelter, Bonnie’s House. Needs such as food, new clothing, supplies for children, sheets, pillows, and toiletries will support the health and wellness of adults and children residing in Bonnie’s House as they work through trauma, toward healing.