Health & Comfort Program

The DVNF Health & Comfort Program expands DVNF’s reach into veteran communities throughout the United States, bringing tangible aid to veterans who are disabled, low-income, or homeless, in ways we otherwise could not.

Through our Health and Comfort program DVNF distributes our signature Comfort Kits to struggling veterans throughout the country. These kits provide vital necessities such as health and hygiene items, clothing, and more to veterans of all walks of life. The contents of our Comfort Kits vary based on our inventory, however, we always strive to include quality and full-sized items such as shampoo, conditioner, soap, a toothbrush, toothpaste, razors, deodorant, a t-shirt, a pair of socks, sunscreen, Band-Aids, etc…

DVNF has also recently created our own signature Women’s Kits. These kits were created to supplement our Comfort Kits and make sure our too often overlooked female veterans have the personal care items they truly need. Our Women’s Kits always include feminine hygiene items as they can be especially difficult and expensive for struggling women to obtain. Whether it’s a year-round veteran program, homeless shelter, veteran Stand Down event, or an outreach event like the Warrior Games, DVNF is here to make a positive impact on the lives of the men and women who stood in defense of our nation.

About When Georgia Smiled: The Robin McGraw Revelation and Dr. Phil Foundation

We support organizations and programs that build awareness, offer solutions and address the needs of children and families to live healthy, safe and joy-filled lives free of domestic violence and sexual assault.

What We Fund

The following areas are eligible for grant consideration from the foundation: 

Domestic Violence

Emphasis is given to programs that help domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual traffic victims live healthy, safe and joy-filled lives by providing shelter, support, education, counseling and healing. Preference is given to prevention of domestic violence, the expansion of services and improvements to infrastructure or buildings that positively impact survivors.

Children and Foster Care

Emphasis is given to organizations that seek to provide a strong foundation for the social, emotional, educational and spiritual well-being of children, providing them with access to critically needed services, including safe and loving homes, hunger relief, medical and mental health services, education and job training. Additionally, we support the importance of family reunification and adoption. Priority is given to organizations affecting change in the foster care system to improve outcomes and create positive experiences for children

Disaster Relief

In the event of national and international crises, resources will be made available for restricted donations to be received. Support may not be solicited.

AKC Humane Fund: Uniting animal lovers

Pets touch our lives in so many ways. That's why the AKC Humane Fund's mission is to support various pet related causes across the nation. The AKC Humane Fund unites all animal lovers by promoting the joy and value of responsible pet ownership through education, outreach and grant-making. Every day, we work hard to give back to dogs on a broad and sustainable scale but nobody can do it alone. It takes a community of dog lovers working together to make a difference.

Women’s Shelters Grant

The AKC Humane Fund is proud to be the leading organization that provides financial assistance to domestic abuse shelters that accept pets. Our grants make it easier for women’s shelters to welcome pets and help break the cycle of domestic abuse. Apply for a grant and tell us how you are helping pet owners at your facility.

Purpose of Grants

Jewish Helping Hands launched its Tikkun Olam Grant program in 2012 to advance our goal of inspiring and supporting tzedakah, justice and righteousness, throughout the world. Our goal is to help vulnerable populations in the United States and abroad through a variety of programs focused on economic development and social empowerment, with a particular focus on those demographics that have been overlooked and/or marginalized.

In cooperation with local communities, JHH supports programs that are sustainable and scalable through financial and hands-on support. Our objective is to promote organizations and projects that will make a tangible and lasting difference in the lives of the populations they serve. With each of our grants, JHH also intends to share its experience and expertise, so as to help further our joint mission.

Criteria for Grants

JHH values programs and projects that aim to bring about positive change for groups of all backgrounds and religious affiliations.

JHH will consider making grants to individuals or organizations that show clear promise to achieve one or both of the following:

• Respond to unmet needs of those who are poor and/or marginalized
• Promote self-help and empowerment within communities

In the 2022/2023 Grant Cycle, we are focusing primarily on projects that provide the basic necessities for a decent life:

• Women’s Empowerment
• Education
• Food
• Shelter
• Clothing
• Water
• Health
• Internet Connectivity
• Gender Equity

We are also focusing especially on projects in these areas:

• East Africa
• Central America
• North America
• Any Impoverished Jewish Communities
• Israel

JHH especially seeks to partner with grassroots organizations who utilize resources local to their communities especially when those projects support the safety and health of the community members.

The FAWCO Foundation Development Grant

The purpose of the program is to fund projects that can make an immediate impact and lead to success for the people they support. The assistance offered should be direct, with a goal of sustainability.

Through The Foundation, FAWCO Member Clubs and FAUSA have been aiding worthy and reputable charitable projects around the globe for over 50 years. Some clubs are working “hands-on” with their projects while others make financial contributions or donations of goods. The Development Grants provide the financial assistance that can help the recipients achieve their goals.

The Foundation encourages FAWCO clubs to nominate grassroots organizations that receive little to no sponsorship or support from other sources.

Grant Categories

Education

For projects:

• promoting literacy and supporting academic studies,
• that build or provide classrooms, libraries or general learning facilities for disadvantaged women/children, 
• that provide training designed to lead to economic and social empowerment for women and girls.

Human Rights

For projects:

• providing vocational training, teaching practical skills, promoting social entrepreneurial initiatives for at-risk/marginalized population groups,
• addressing the critical problems of violence, food and shelter, healthcare, education, poverty, advocacy, human trafficking, prostitution, refugees, including all those impacted by economic, political or other forced migration,
• promoting cultural understanding

Global Issues

For Projects:

• that fall within any of the FAWCO focus areas with which we align our Development Grants i.e., Education, Environment, Health or Human Rights.
• that recognize club’s local charities often overlooked on the world stage, 
• that take place in the nominating club's home country.

Our Story

The Hadassah Foundation was established by the Hadassah National Board in 1998 as a supporting organization to refocus the priorities of the Jewish community through innovative and creative funding to improve gender equality in the United States and Israel.

Today, the Hadassah Foundation is one of the largest Jewish women’s funds in the country. We have awarded $10 million in grants to nearly 110 non-profit organizations that work with women and girls of all backgrounds in Israel and in the Jewish community in the United States. Our grants and programs:

• Support the leadership advancement of women and girls.
• Break glass ceilings to allow women and girls opportunities to succeed in all spheres of life.
• Increase female political representation.
• Eliminate religious barriers that create unequal or separate playing fields for women.

Core Grants

Continue our tradition of supporting leading organizations and programs that promote gender equity.

Advancing Women and Girls

We fund organizations and projects that advance the status of women and girls in Israel and the American Jewish community. In 2023, we are focusing on projects and/or organizations that accelerate progress toward the advancement of women and girls in public and private spaces, such as workplaces, corporate and nonprofit boards, schools, social settings, and religious institutions. In Israel, this could also include government and military institutions. Funding is available for a variety of strategies and activities that address biases in hiring and advancement or that increase the number and influence of women in leadership. These might include (but not limited to) creating research and position papers; training, mentoring, and network building; advocacy, education, and community organizing; and building and strengthening institutional and communal alliances.

Social Change

Social change philanthropy focuses on the root causes of problems, working to improve the conditions that lead to inequality. HF seeks to promote lasting change by addressing the underlying obstacles that impede the full participation of women and girls in society. This approach is unlike traditional charity, which often seeks to ameliorate the symptoms of societal problems—for example, by providing medicine and treatment for the sick, funds for the poor, or shelters for the homeless and battered. We are interested in how your program influences and brings about change in: how an issue is defined, individuals’ behaviors, increasing community engagement, policies and systems, and/or maintaining past gains in these areas. As part of this mission, we strongly encourage the active participation of women and girls in the governance of organizations that we support.

Mission Statement

The Harris Foundation envisions making the world a better place for the well-being and safety of plants, animals and human beings.

Areas of Support

The William H. and Mattie Wattis Harris Foundation funds organizations that qualify for 501(c)(3) status in five areas:

• Animal Welfare: sanctuaries, no-kill animal shelters, rescue, adoption and population control.
• The Arts: children’s theater, documentaries, videos, and Community outreach.
• Conservation: animal field research, protection of natural resources including conservation education programs, documentaries, videos, and community outreach.
• Educational Camps: environmental, health and special needs camps.
• Preventative Health: animals for the physically challenged, children’s health, global populations, women’s health.

Geographical Focus

The geographical focus for giving is concentrated in the western United States including the Rocky Mountains and intermountain regions. International Conservation & Global Population programs are also of interest.

Criteria

The Directors consider projects for funding which identify root causes and develop innovative solutions.

Other criteria for funding are as follows:

• That the project be unique and have a far reaching impact with lasting benefits.
• That the organization be able to fulfill the goals set, and
• That there are specific plans for continuing the work started by this project.

NOTE: This is the page for funding in the United States. You can find the page for Canada funding here.

The Mary Kay Ash Foundation Domestic Violence Shelter Grant Program was started in 2000, awarding grants to shelters across the country providing critical, life-saving services to women and children seeking safety from an abusive situation.

We are unwavering in our pledge to carry on the good work of assisting excellent programs that provide hope and refuge for women and children experiencing violence. With persistence and determination, together we can surely achieve our shared goal of eradicating domestic violence from the world!

NOTE: Eligibility Quiz Deadline designated as the Letter of Inquiry Deadline above. RFP submission deadline designated as Full Proposal Deadline above.

Circle for Justice Innovations

Mission

CJI’s mission is to end mass criminalization and incarceration by building and strengthening the infrastructure of the grassroots criminal justice movement to fundamentally transform the U.S. criminal legal system. We fund where the movement is developing, shifting, and growing. We believe this movement should be led by those most impacted by the injustices of the current system, working in alliances across race, class, faith, gender, gender identity, sexuality, immigration status, and age.

Until She’s Free

The CJI Until She’s Free Fund is an innovative, participatory grant making circle comprised of community organizers, many of whom have experienced incarceration, donors, and donor activists. We share a passion for ending the racialized carceral state, a commitment to developing a new way of securing safety and addressing harm while reimagining structures of accountability. Understanding the limited funding available to specifically addressing the impact of the criminal legal system on women, girls, and gender-expansive people, this Circle was launched to create a new source of support for this critical work.

Until She’s Free is a grantmaking initiative strictly supporting women-led organizations addressing state-sanctioned violence against women and girls, including trans women and trans girls, and gender-nonconforming people, and their criminalization and subsequent incarceration, while also elevating their leadership in bringing about foundational change.

CJI’s Until She’s Free Funding Circle is requesting proposals from eligible grassroots organizations led by women, girls, and gender-expansive folx working to end the criminalization and incarceration of women and girls, including trans women and girls, and gender-expansive people. The fund will support grassroots organizing that is based on the awareness of the current political environment’s hostility toward the rights of women, girls, trans and gender-expansive people; is led by women, girls, trans and gender-expansive people directly impacted by the criminal legal system; and is working to restore or expand the rights of currently and formerly incarcerated women, trans and gender-expansive people.

Considering the increased criminalization of those who exercise rights over their own bodies and those who support people who do so, CJI has dedicated an increased percentage of our docket resources to supporting organizations working to challenge and end the retraction and blatant trampling of reproductive rights. Given the spike in violence against Asian, Black, and Muslim women, activists, and LGBTQI folx, as well as the determination of homicide as the leading cause of death for pregnant people, CJI’s Until She’s Free Fund will also support organizing that explores community-based, innovative solutions to keep these communities safe.

Funding Priorities (not restricted to the following)

The Until She’s Free Circle will continue to fund women and gender-expansive led organizations addressing state-sanctioned violence against women and girls, including trans women and trans girls, and gender-expansive people, and their criminalization and subsequent incarceration. Within that framework, the Circle is doubling down on its support to lessen the ways the system harms these communities by supporting:

• Ending the abuse-to-prison pipeline; ending patriarchal policies that inadequately protect women, girls, and gender-expansive people from abuse and violence; and those that criminalize them for self-defense.
• Organizing to demand an end to the routine separation of families, such as:
  • Abolition of immigrant detention, family separation, and ICE deportations.
  • Abolition of the family policing system, with the creation of a system truly designed to support and strengthen families in its place.
  • Ending cash bail, sentencing reform including clemency for women and gender-expansive people.
  • Moving birth outside of prisons and providing supportive services such as prenatal care, adequate and appropriate diets, and/or doula services, and other prenatal care to pregnant people with sentences.
• Organizing that supports reproductive justice, especially organizing to end the criminalization of people who exercise their reproductive rights and those who support their right to do so.
• Organizations that provide clear, leadership training and leadership opportunities for their members or supporters.
• Efforts to decriminalize drug use and provide community-based, culturally appropriate programs and treatment for women, girls, and gender-expansive people and pregnant people. 
• Transformative changes in systems of supervision for people with convictions.
  • Drastically reducing supervision of people released from jails or prison unless a proven reason for said supervision is evidenced, eliminating the use of electronic surveillance.