Can we split funds between two charities on Just Giving?
Rebecca Gibson
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50+ Funders - Women & Girls
Ian McLintock Founder at Charity Excellence Framework Posted 4 years ago
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- Heinz, Anna and Carol Kroch Foundation - charitable UK organisations working with individuals suffering from poverty and hardship, including domestic violence.
- Bath Women's Fund - £10k grant to improves the lives of disadvantaged women and girls living in Bath and NE Somerset.
- Clothworkers Foundation - domestic and sexual violence.
- Community Fund - Women and Girls Initiative - empowers women and girls facing issues such as violence, abuse, exploitation, and multiple and complex needs. Also aims to provide quality evidence that shows what empowers women and girls.
- Community Foundations - each county has its own and many have women's funds. This one is Tyne and Wear.
- Coutts Foundation - current focus on women and girls.
- Dr Meena Sharma Memorial Foundation - disadvantaged women in India and UK, and collaborations helping women and children in India. Individuals, not organisations. Apply to MSM Foundation, 14 Magdalene Road, Walsall, WS1 3TA.
- Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust - charities benefiting women and unpopular and neglected causes, but avoiding those with a sectarian interest.
- Evan Cornish Foundation – UK and overseas. Supports the most marginalised and promoting human rights, particularly smaller organisations and projects which prioritise women
- Feminist Review Trust - Grants for projects in the UK and internationally that transform the lives of women.
- Funderbirds - projects which empower women attempting to redress social inequality. Aim is to fund projects that will work towards creating self-reliance, safety and well-being for women.
- Funding for Women Graduates - living expenses for women, during post graduate studies.
- Futures for Women - interest free loans £1000 for training for professional, commercial or technical work. Repaid monthly.
- Foootball Foundation - Grow The Game - to support the growth of new Female and Disability teams; grants of £1.5k to create new affiliated teams.
- Hadrian Trust (North East England) - organisations working to improve the peoples' lives in NE England. Main donations - social welfare, youth, disability, the elderly, women, ethnic minorities, education, arts and the environment.
- Heinz, Anna and Carol Kroch Foundation - charitable UK organisations working with individuals suffering from poverty and hardship, including domestic violence.
- Hilden Charitable Fund - UK charities; homelessness, penal affairs, asylum seekers and refugees, disadvantaged young people and projects in developing countries working on community development, education, and health (with particular interest in projects that address the needs and potential of girls and women). Both project and general running costs.
- Housing for Women - affordable housing, help women and children escaping domestic abuse, survivors of trafficking, women leaving prison and older women.
- Kelly Family Trust - interested in involving all or most family members, including families affected by sexual abuse, physical abuse and domestic violence.
- Margaret's Fund - financial assistance to women in need in the UK who are suffering from any illness.
- Mary MacArthur Holiday Trust - up to £350 towards holidays for women who are in need of a period of rest or holiday.
- Oak Foundation - addressing violence against women and supporting movement building.
- Pilgrim Trust – improving the life chances of vulnerable people, particularly women and girls.
- PRS Foundation - women, trans and non-binary songwriters and composers of all genres and backgrounds at different stages of their career. No longer supports organisations.
- Rosa – initiatives that benefit women and girls in the UK.
- Royal Society for the Support of Women of Scotland - hardship funding for individuals.
- Sigrid Rausing Trust - women's rights.
- Smallwood Trust - women on low incomes, women led/focussed charities/projects, policy and solutions to gender poverty.
- St Andrews Society for Ladies in Need - one-off and regular grants to women who are of working age and who cannot earn a living or those who have retired.
- Staples Trust - Women's rights, domestic violence, tend not to accept unsolicited approaches.
- Tampon Tax Fund - disadvantaged women and girls. Violence against women and girls, female homelessness and rough sleeping, women in music, and a general programme.
- The Hilda Martindale Trust - up to £3000 for training or courses to follow a profession in areas where women are under-represented.
- This Girl Can Community Fund - women aged 16+ to get active for local projects that will contribute to overcoming the barriers some women face in getting active.
- Violence Against Women & Girls Grassroots Fund - supporting existing VAWG-specialist grassroots organisations operating deep in London’s communities.
- Vulnerable Women and Girls UK - issues such as period poverty, domestic and sexual abuse, mental health and long-term unemployment
- WISE - Women in STEM - whole range of different opportunities, including grants, mentoring, professional development and visits to industry.
- Womens Foundation - gender specific issues arising from abuse, disease or social exclusion due to isolation, neglect, loneliness or lack of education.
- Womens Fund for Scotland - One of the oldest funds for women in the UK. Has given away over £2 million of funding. In Scotland you are never more than 50 miles away from a project supported by the Fund.
- Woodward Charitable Trust – core costs, small to medium charities, children, disability, disadvantaged women and families, prisoners, minority groups.
- Womens Holiday Fund - recuperative holidays for women in Greater London.
Africa
- Peak Proposals Funding Sources – links to foundations, scroll down to the bottom for women.
Asia
- Asia Foundation - expanding women’s economic opportunities, increasing women’s rights and security, and advancing women’s political participation.
- Hoshyar's Foundation - works to increase girls' and women's access to education, especially beyond primary school and primarily in remote communities in Pakistan.
- NGOs India - list and links to foundations that support NGOs in India.
- Women’s Fund Asia - regional fund, supporting women and trans people led interventions to enhance and strengthen their human rights.
Global
- Avon Foundation for Women - scientific, educational and humanitarian work that improves the lives of women and their families.
- Girls Not Brides - nice piece of work, with a long list of useful funding sources.
- Global Fund For Women - funding for women-led organisations who are fighting for justice in their own communities.
- Mental Floss - links to 15 organisations helping women around the world.
- Madre - US based, but funding for global organisations with income under US $100k pa.
- The Back Her Toolbox - global, with sections for Europe, the US, Africa and Asia.
- Urgent Action Fund For Women's Human Rights - for women who are women’s rights defenders in Asia, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, and North America.
- Purposeful - grants and awards to girls and their allies fighting on the front lines of oppression. We support a host of grassroots partners, many girl-led, unregistered or receiving formal funding for the very first time.
US
- Society for Non Profits - long list of US foundations that support women, with details.
- Women's Funding Network - mainly US, but some global.
- 100 Women Charitable Foundation - US only.
Charities that support women and girls
You can find a dozen here.
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