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2015 Grant Award Winners

Career Catchers, CASA de Maryland and Computer C.O.R.E.

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  • $20,000 to Career Catchers for helping at-risk young women who are 17-25 and aging out of the foster-care system. CC helps them develop employment skills.
     

  • $20,000 to CASA de Maryland for their Workforce and Leadership Project, which provides 30 low-income immigrant women with training to pursue higher-paying careers in nontraditional fields, such as the construction trades.  
     

  • $10,000 to Computer C.O.R.E. to provide 10 of their female students with home computers and supplementary training in areas such as accounting/QuickBooks; communication, mentoring and leadership training, which should help them increase their career options and earning potential.

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2014 Grant Award Winners

Sasha Bruce Youthwork and Interfaith Works

 

  • $20,000 to Interfaith Works (Montgomery County) to establish a "Giving Together Women's Fund" that provides education grants to 15-20 homeless women seeking a career path to financial independence.

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  • $20,000 to Sasha Bruce Youthwork (DC) to pay the salary of an after-care specialist for homeless and at-risk youth.

 

Additional membership dollars were split between the runners-up: National Center for Children and Families (MD and DC) and Stepping Stones Shelter (Montgomery County).

 

2013 Grant Award Winners

George B. Thomas School and Urban Alliance

 

  • $20,000 each to the George B. Thomas Saturday School and Urban Alliance to purchase computers and technical equipment for education and job-training programs.  These organizations work with underserved youth, Urban Alliance in DC and George B. Thomas in Montgomery County.

 

Additional membership dollars were split between the runners-up: New Community for Children and Project Create.

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                                                                                         2012 Grant Award Winner

DC Volunteer Lawyers' Project

 

  • $25,000 to the DC Volunteer Lawyers' Project to hire a supervisory attorney to train volunteers representing low-income women in DC.  Clients are generally victims of domestic violence who desperately need legal assistance.

 

2011 Grant Award Winner

Rachael’s Women’s Center

 

  • $25,000 to this DC women's day shelter to expand counseling services for homeless clients seeking to become independent and self-sufficient. 

2010 Grant Award Winner

A Wider Circle (AWC)

 

  • $20,000, augmented by $5,000 from an anonymous supporter, went to AWC in Silver Spring for an additional loading dock and meeting rooms.  This enabled AWC to provide more services and donate more goods to families making the transition out of homelessness. New meeting space is used for parenting and financial management classes that help clients develop life skills.

Giving Together Grant Awardees

2016 Grant Award Winners

Nourish Now, Food for Others, and Crossways Community Food Network

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  • $30,000 to Nourish Now, a Montgomery County, MD food recovery and redistribution nonprofit.  (Our $25,000 GT grant was augmented by an additional $5,000 from anonymous GT donors.) Funds will be used to expand the reach and improve the effectiveness of Nourish Now's family food distribution program, with the number of families served monthly increasing from 500 to 700.
     

  • $25,000 to Food for Others, a food bank/food pantry in Fairfax County, VA, to enhance the scope and nutritional value of its power pack program, providing low-income elementary school students in 29 Fairfax County schools with a pack of food to take home over the weekend. 
     

  • $8,000 in additional funds to Crossways Community Food Network, to purchase necessary equipment for its new community kitchen.  This project is the first of its kind in the local area, to be used by low-income women seeking to build successful food businesses. 

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