General Operating Fund

General Operating Fund is sponsored by WOMEN'S WAY. This fund provides unrestricted, 2-year grants to organizations primarily serving women, girls, and/or the gender-expansive community, with a focus on empowering participants to build resilience, self-esteem, and advocacy skills while discussing systemic inequities that impact body image, mental health, and broader social determinants of health.

General Operating Fund - Women's Way Gender Economic Equity Program Immediate Response Action Fund 2025 Rapid Response General Operating Fund Closing the Gender Wealth Gap Series WOMEN’S WAY 50th Anniversary Sponsorship Opportunities YWI Philanthropic Community Program Home General Operating Fund Immediate Response Action Fund Following our commitment to equity in grantmaking and in direct response to input from our community partners, WOMEN'S WAY launched the General Operating Fund in 2022 to provide 2-year grants to organizations primarily serving women, girls, and/or the gender-expansive community.

For its 2nd round of funding, WOMEN'S WAY implemented a Participatory Grantmaking framework to evaluate, select, and fund the new cohort of grantees. At its core, Participatory Grantmaking is an approach to grantmaking that reorients decision-making power to the communities most impacted by funding decisions.

Current 2022 grantees played an integral role in building this new grantmaking structure alongside WOMEN'S WAY and served on the Grant Application Review Committee. The 2023 application cycle to fund the second cohort of General Operating Fund grantees is now closed.

Up to $10,000 / year for 2 years Grantees will be asked to identify annual goals and to report on progress and challenges every 12 months for the duration of the grant Decisions will be made and communicated by mid-March 2023 Priority was given to organizations that: are led by women of color that have budgets of less than $500,000 have not received funding from WOMEN’S WAY between January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022 Out of the 11 organizations that received funding, 8 are led by women of color and only 2 have budgets of over $500,000.

8 of the organizations have budgets under $200,000. Read our General Operating Fund 2022 Report here.

Along The Way | Ardella's House | Coalition for Restaurant Safety and Health (CRSH) | Girls Justice League | Girls on the Run Philadelphia | National Domestic Workers Alliance | The Evoluer House | The Greater Philadelphia Diaper Bank | The Womanist Working Collective | Three Little Birds Perinatal | we REIGN Inc. Out of the 13 organizations that received funding this year, all 13 are led by women of color.

12 of the organizations have budgets under $200,000 and all 13 have budgets under $500,000. Read our General Operating Fund 2023 Report here.

Alianzas de Phoenixville | Body Empowerment Project | Philly BOLT Centro Integral de la Mujer Madre Tierra | Collective Success Network | Hibiscus Rose Therapy Fund | Once Upon A Preemie, Inc | Prevention Meets Fashion, Inc | She Can Win | The Mama Tee Community Fridge | The Women's Coalition for Empowerment, Inc | Tia's Place | Women In Dialogue Unite with us to support women, girls and gender equity.

WOMEN’S WAY is the Greater Philadelphia region’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to achieving gender equity through education, research, advocacy, and grantmaking, ***When we refer to women, we mean cis and trans women and femme-identified people (which includes anyone who is not a cis or trans woman but who identifies as feminine), and also those who identify as gender-expansive, nonbinary, and/or gender-nonconforming.

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Contributions to the 50th Anniversary Fund will strengthen YWI members’ capacity to deepen impact and create a more just and equitable future where all young people have the opportunity to thrive. To make a donation, please use the form below. For more information or questions, please contact Mary Scout at mscout@womensway.

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