Grant Funding Update: A total of 422 grants awarded as of 2025, with the total amount awarded of over $484,212.

A total of 422 Grants have been awarded as of 2025. The 2025 grants were awarded to help support the following projects sponsored by community members and organizations:

• Girl Scouts Give Back: Community Engagement Expo (Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michigan) – To Empower and Educate Girl Scouts with the knowledge and inspiration to pursue community service projects that align with their interests. To connect with community by fostering meaningful relationships between Girl Scouts, troop leaders and local nonprofits, opening doors to a variety of fields and service opportunities. To enhance leadership and teamwork by building essential skills such as teamwork, leadership and relationship building through hands-on engagement. To create a replicable model or “How To” guide that will enable service units across the council to replicate the event, broadening its impact over time.

• Hope Alive, Inc: Residential Program Support for Homeless women with Mental Illness – To provide support to women overcoming homelessness and mental illness. To provide the necessary tools and support to help women transition from crisis to stability, empowering them to achieve independence and lasting transformation.

• League for the Blind and Disabled: Helping Women with Disabilities to Gain Advocacy Skills – To provide women with disabilities networking opportunities, while helping to reduce barriers in accessing quality education and professional development opportunities. The League’s Inclusion Institute provides an opportunity to develop community champions as participants as they become changemakers in creating a more connected community.

• Purdue Fort Wayne: Empowering Women on Campus, Expanding Access to Hygiene Products and Nursing Supplies for Student Wellbeing – To increase Access to Essential Products by providing free and easily accessible menstrual hygiene products and nursing supplies to support students’ health and wellbeing. To promote academic success by ensuring that lack of access to hygiene and nursing essentials do not hinder students’ ability to attend classes, focus on their studies, or participate in campus activities. To support student mothers by creating a more inclusive environment and providing nursing supplies in our designated lactation spaces, and resources to support student parents balancing academics and childcare.