Women's Foundation of Montana Grants: 2006 Grant Recipients

2009 Grant Recipients

In 2009, the Women's Foundation granted $56,885 to seventeen organizations.

NARAL Pro-Choice Montana Foundation
Statewide

Provide continuing support for Building a Healthy Future for Young Women in Montana project to promote legislative and administrative approaches to comprehensive sex education.

$8,000

Montana Credit Unions for Community Development
Statewide

Provide continued operating assistance to support current financial education programs, such as Montana Students Save, Rural Montana Saves, Youth Experiencing Security and Success, and payday loan alternatives, individual development accounts, and volunteer income tax assistance.

$5,000

Planned Parenthood of Montana
Statewide

Provide support to meet the increased demand for family planning services in the current economic crisis and to expand education and outreach efforts to teens and women, and to address the problem of pharmacists refusing to fill birth control prescriptions

$5,000

Montana Women Vote
Billings, Missoula, Bozeman, Helena, and Great Falls

Provide operating assistance to support voter education and mobilization, leadership development and policy advocacy efforts.

$5,000

GUTS! YWCA Missoula
Missoula

Continued support for Girls Using Their Strengths (GUTS!) Girls Leadership Project, a Missoula-based leadership and empowerment project designed by and for young women ages 9-18 to encourage young women to explore their personal values and discover their strengths

$5,000

Women's Opportunity & Resource Development, Inc.
Missoula

To support the Bridges to Learning Project, a vocational and educational preparation and support program for pregnant or parenting young women who are at risk for dropping out of high school, have already dropped out or are academically disadvantaged.

$5,000

ExplorationWorks Girl-Tech
Helena

Provide continuing support for Girl-Tech, which encourages young girls to engage in technology and science.

$4,500

Rural Dynamics, Inc. / Consumer Credit Counseling Service
Great Falls

Expand the membership and program offerings of Prosperity Club, a financial literacy education and peer support group for low-income families

$4,000

Big Sky Youth Empowerment Project
Bozeman

Provide continuing support to disadvantaged teenage girls from Gallatin and Park Counties for the opportunity for personal empowerment through Girl Power 2009 featuring outdoor activity and life skills workshops

$3,000

homeWORD
Billings, Missoula

To support the Financial Fitness Program, a financial literacy education course for low income women and families

$2,500

Women's Policy Leadership Institute
Helena

Provide support for a progressive training and mentorship network to facilitate the transfer of practical policy skills and experience from current women leaders to future women leaders.

$2,500

Blue Mountain Clinic
Missoula

Continued support for an outreach campaign to increase awareness of comprehensive family planning services and sexual health options to isolated and underserved populations.

$2,000

Celebrating Women Elected to Serve the State of Montana
Helena

Event sponsorship

$1,385

Missoula Housing Authority
Missoula

Support for the Essential Access Program, which helps low-income homeless women overcome barriers to accessing rental units.

$1,000

Women Making a Difference in Montana

Event sponsorship

$1,000

Thrive - Girls for a Change Conference
Bozeman

Girls for a Change is an empowerment program that builds on the individual strengths of girls and the supports inherent in their family and community to develop awareness, leadership and self sufficiency.

$1,000

Komen Montana Race for the Cure
Helena

Bronze sponsor of Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

$1,000

The Women's Foundation of Montana is the leading funder of change for women and girls in our state. We raise money to build an endowment that provides a reliable, permanent source of grants to invest in economic self-sufficiency for women and brighter futures for girls. Copyright © 2007 Women's Foundation of Montana. All rights reserved.