Fund for Women and Girls awards $20,500 to local nonprofits

WEST CHESTER >> The Fund for Women and Girls has awarded $20,500 in grants to three non-profit organizations serving the needs of women and girls throughout Chester County.

Recipients include Black Women of Chester County in Action, Orion Communities, and The Alliance for Health Equity.

For the fourth year in a row, The Fund awarded ‘Moving Her Forward’ Impact Grants, a grantmaking program established to focus on swift responses to pressing needs in the community. Impact Grants are intended to support systems-level changes and leverage impact through collaborative funding with other foundations/donors. The needs identified in The Fund’s 2022 Blueprint Report: Lighting a Path, its fourth comprehensive research report on the state of women and girls in Chester County, are the focus of Impact Grant awards.

Black Women of Chester

County in Action (BWCCA) received $3,000 to conduct its Baker’s Dozen Listening Tour: Dessert for the Body and Soul, a series of wellness programs for women of color (WOC) in Chester County. The series, led by a trained Black therapist and professional baker, will bring WOC together for baking sessions and discussions of mental and physical wellness, gathering data on the needs of WOC in Chester County for future strategic program planning.

Since 2020, The Fund has awarded $116,000 in Impact Grants for 21 projects throughout Chester County. More Impact Grants will be awarded throughout the new year as time-sensitive priorities arise. Last year’s recipients include Community Warehouse Project; Chester County Food Bank; Domestic Violence Center of Chester County; and ChesPenn Health Services. Last fiscal year, The Fund awarded $239,680 in grants to 30 non-profit organizations. See a full list of last year’s grantees here.