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Insufficient Income
Women often lack access to resources helping them gain self-sufficiency, such as job skills training and employment placement services.
Women's Fund provides grants to organizations helping women gain economic self-sufficiency by assisting them with gaining and retaining employment. To date, we have awarded $1,302,500 to address insufficient income challenges.
By the Numbers
Women working full-time earn 75% of a man's earnings.
(source: Still on Shaky Ground 2011)
In 2009, an adult living in Marion County with two preschool age children would need to earn at least $36,700 a year to be considered self-sufficient.
(source: Still on Shaky Ground 2011)
29.9% of female-headed families in the Indianapolis metropolitan area with children under 18 lived in poverty in 2009.
(source: Still on Shaky Ground 2011)
Stories of Success
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Business Ownership Initiative - 2006 Amount awarded |
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Supporting programs helping women start or enhance their own businesses. Business Ownership Initiative and it's Central Indiana Women's Business Center use classes and mentoring to promote entrepreneurship among women, many of them with low income.
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Grameen America - 2010 Amount awarded |
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Commiting $100,000 per year for five years to secure Grameen's Indianapolis presence. Grameen will enable women to be self-sufficient through small business ownership. The program includes a five-elemental cycle focused on financial education, savings, mentoring, credit building, and access to capital. Within five years, the organization will be self-sustaining, requiring no additional outside funding.
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Concord Neighborhood Center - 2009 Amount awarded |
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Providing operating support to help women and girls living in Indianapolis’ southside including childcare, after school programs and services for senior women.
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Gennesaret Free Clinics - 2008 Amount awarded |
Supporting the Women's Health Initiative, providing breast and pelvic exams, STD testing and health information to homeless and indigent women in Indianapolis. Gennesaret serves 1,000 women and girls annually.
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Dress For Success - 2009 Amount awarded |
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Providing operating support and board and staff training to help improve the lives of women through self-sufficiency and successful careers.
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Training, Inc. - 2009 Amount awarded |
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To provide consulting services to strengthen board governance, strategic planning and to enhance Training, Inc.'s long-term efforts to train and equip individuals for employment through job training.
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Girls Incorporated
of Greater Indianapolis
"While monetary support is always critical to any organization's success, we have been particularly appreciative of the thoughtfulness behind Women's Fund's support of Girls Inc. Jennifer and her staff ask timely questions to help them determine how support from Women's Fund might be best positioned at any given time. Sometimes their conversations lead them to direct their funding towards core operating support, or sustainable capacity building efforts so that we may become better positioned to serve girls in greater Indianapolis. We value this unique relationship with Women's Fund and are grateful for its strategic support of our mission to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold!"
Patricia Wachtel
President and CEO
