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The CTA(Chicago Transit Authority) is making an effort to help small business’ ran by women and minorities by giving them grants, but there are business services behind them, instead of money. This mostly due to the fact that the CTA allocates it transportation services among different groups evenly, but there is a low percentage of [...]

Mary Kay is know among women as a provider of great make-up and beauty products, but now she will be know as providing another service to women, grants. The Mary Kay Foundation’s annual shelter grant giving program has just recently granted 150 domestic violence shelters in each state with $20,000, coming out to a totaled [...]

Santa Cruz will be seeing some major budget cuts to their programs that aid battered and homeless women. One organization that is being greatly affected is Women’s Crisis Support-Defensa de Mujeres(meaning Defending the Women) has already seen employees let go, work days/hours being, pay cuts at 20% and they even won’t be able to hire [...]

Members of the Fund for Women non-profit organization and the Girls Just Wanna Have Funds! event were guest at Linda Dickey’s house as part of a recent charity drive that took place on September the third. Linda is a renowned watercolor painter and also a member of the Fund for Women, so the Girls Just Wanna [...]

Low-income single mothers and fathers can receive a break, thanks to the Center for Work Education and Employments grants to help them obtain steady jobs. The CWEE(Center for Work Education and Employments) has received major funding from both Rose Women’s Organization for $6,500 and the Daniels Fund for $30,000. The Rose Community Foundation or RWO(Rose [...]

Science students of Dade College’s North Campus helped the school receive a grant of nearly $1 million to go towards recruiting minorities into more science and engineering fields, as well as  a mentoring program designed to recruit and train mentors that can bring in more minorities to these fields.  As a stipulation of the funds, the [...]

The ratio of women to men in computer sciences is very bleak, but Microsoft and The National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT, have brought together $220,450 in grant funds that will be awarded to the round 5 winners of their NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund. As stated before, not many women partake in [...]

Caroline Boudreaux is at the head of The Miracle Foundation, which recently raised $4,000 in one month from only 50 donors. In doing this, they have now made themselves eligible for a $3000 to $6000 grant from the Global Giving foundation, who is taking applications and giving information on their home site. Currently placing 3rd out [...]

Six Ohio non-profit organizations dedicated to helping women and children received $9,500 to help with causes from child abuse to the Vial of Life Project, which stores medical information for the elderly in event of an emergency. The grant recipients follow as the Young Women’s Christian Association Medina County was given $1,000 to purchase gymnastics [...]

It is hard to believe that women still struggle twice as hard as men do in this day and age, but it is true. Women have come through many milestones towards equality in business, work and social society and will eventually strive past them. During that time and now, there are non-profit organizations like Soroptimist, [...]