For information about our grantmaking programs, please visit our Grantmaking page.
9to5 Milwaukee
$13,500 | Social Change Grantmaking
Unrestricted Support: Supports low-wage working
women advocating for economic justice.
The Alliance School
$3,000 | Lesbian Fund
Health Services for Lesbian Youth: Funds a part-time nurse practitioner for lesbian youth to avail of confidential and accepting nursing services in the school environment.
Benedict Center
$10,000 | Social Change Grantmaking
The Sisters’ Diversion Project: Expands current municipal diversion practice with the long-term goal to win broader policy change in expanding use of deferred prosecution and diversion.
Cientificas de Milwaukee (a program of Hayes Bilingual Elementary School)
$2,750 | Latinas en Acción
Unrestricted Support: The only extracurricular program that offers bilingual STEM education to elementary school-aged girls in the Milwaukee Area.
CORE/El Centro
$20,000 | Reproductive Justice Project
$13,500 | Social Change Grantmaking
Proyecto Salud: Engages women as community health leaders to increase access to culturally competent reproductive health care to low income Latinas.
$1,000 | Latinas en Acción
Latina Leadership Development in Movement: Develops community leadership to address healthcare disparities among low-income people with an emphasis on the predominantly Hispanic Walker’s Point and Clarke Square neighborhoods.
Diverse & Resilient
$20,000 | Reproductive Justice Project
Reproductive Justice Initiative: Increases engagement and leadership of lesbian and bisexual women to address reproductive justice, health care, and oppression issues.
$4,000 | Lesbian Fund
Lesbian & Bisexual Women’s Health Leadership Initiative: Increases the engagement of lesbian and bisexual women in health and reproductive justice leadership and advocacy.
Equality WI Fund
$1,000 | Lesbian Fund
Lesbian Latina Organizing Project: A grassroots project led by Latinas organizing for LGBT rights and immigration reform that works to increase the visibility of Latina lesbians as leaders in the LGBT community.
Fair Wisconsin Education Fund
$1,000 | Lesbian Fund
Fair Wisconsin Leadership Conference: A conference to build a skilled well-connected community of LGBT and allied leaders in Wisconsin who feel empowered to advance the movement for equality in Wisconsin.
The Healing Center
$10,000 | Social Change Grantmaking
Milwaukee Advocacy Response Network Project: A community-based advocacy response effort to improve access to 24/7 services for underserved victims of sexual assault and to increase access to culturally competent advocacy and services.
Hmong Women’s Council of Central Wisconsin (Fiscal Sponsor: Eau Claire Area Hmong Mutual Assistance Association)
$1,000 | Viv Ncaus: A Hmong Women’s Giving Circle
Unrestricted Support: Creating a network of Hmong women community leaders to inspire social change and establish a supportive sisterhood.
Journey Through Threading Sewing (Fiscal Sponsor: Eau Claire Area Hmong Mutual Assistance Association)
$2,000 | Viv Ncaus: A Hmong Women’s Giving Circle
Unrestricted Support: Hmong women (including elders) showcase and teach the younger generation of Hmong women, the skill of Hmong sewing and creates an opportunity to engage in conversations around history and identity.
Lead2Change
$504: Young Women Leading Change
Unrestricted Support: Engages teenage women in service projects that promote social change. Young women take the lead in the entire decision making process, including grant allocations.
Milwaukee Christian Center
$1,500 | Latinas en Acción
GIRLS (Girls in Real Life Situations): Developing leadership capacity among Latina girls in Milwaukee’s impoverished communities to engage them in preventing teen dating violence.
Milwaukee Mijas (Fiscal Sponsor: Walker’s Point Center for the Arts)
$750 | Latinas en Acción
Dia De Los Muertos Parade Project: Offers free month long workshops on specific Dia De Los Muertos projects that teach people the history with lectures and art projects.
Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition
13,750 | Social Change Grantmaking
Unrestricted Support: The only Muslim women’s organization in Wisconsin, MMWC empowers Muslim women through building leadership and advocacy skills and by addressing external challenges such as Islamophobia.
Nkauj Hmoob (Fiscal Sponsor: Freedom Inc.)
$2,925 | Viv Ncaus: A Hmong Women’s Giving Circle
Unrestricted Support: Develops leadership skills among elementary, middle school, and high school Hmong girls, and engages them in social justice work.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin
$10,000 | Social Change Grantmaking
Patient Engagement Project: To educate and empower women who have been most affected by recent legislative and budgetary changes - young women, low-income women and women of color - to make their voices heard and become active participants in the public discourse about a woman’s right to reproductive justice.
Reproductive Justice Collective
$13,500 | Social Change Grantmaking
$20,000 | Reproductive Justice Project
$3,000 | Lesbian Fund
Unrestricted Support: Organizes women and girls to change structural power and inequities by engaging women who experience the greatest reproductive health disparities, including women of color, low-income, young, rural, immigrant, incarcerated, and lesbian/bisexual women.
Voces de la Frontera
$10,000 | Social Change Grant Program
Unrestricted Support: Creating a culturally sensitive, safe-space for women to explore gender-specific topics related to immigration and workplace rights and creating a grassroots leadership program for women.
Wisconsin League of Young Voters
$10,000 | Social Change Grantmaking
SWAG (Sisters with Amazing Gifts) Civic Engagement Program: Working with young women leaders in high school to organize around the Photo ID law.
Women’s Fund of Greater Milwaukee
$1,000 | African American Women’s Fund Project
$1,000 | Latinas en Acción
$1,000 | Lesbian Fund
Reproductive Justice Project: Meets a matching grant from Groundswell’s Catalyst Fund of the Tides Foundation to support Milwaukee’s reproductive justice movement.