2024 Grant Recipients


2024 Premier Multi-Year Grant



2024 Multi-Year Grant: 

Upper Room $50,000

This was our pilot program and nonprofits were invited to apply for our first ever capacity building grant.  The committee received 6 proposals and put 3 of them to the members to vote on.  Women’s Fund El Dorado (WFED) members selected the Upper Room Dining Hall as the first Multi Year Grant recipient. The $50,000 grant will be used to serve more individuals and families by implementing a Mobile Meal Program, giving the Upper Room the flexibility to be “where we need to be when we need to be there.” The Upper Room previously raised funds to purchase a new Ford F59 truck. The WFED grant will be used in the coming months to build out the kitchen in their new food truck. Upper Room expects to put the food truck into operation in early 2025.

The two-year grant cycle begins on August 12, 2024 and ends on August 11, 2026.



Inspiration Grants


INSPIRATION GRANTS

Inspiration Grants  do not have a specific focus, thereby inspiring nonprofits to identify and address our community’s most pressing needs. 


El Dorado Peace & Justice Community Program $26,000

  •  La proMesa familial-addresses food insecurities in our Spanish-speaking community through growing and distributing culturally informed foods.

  Assistance League Sierra Foothills $26,000

  • Operation School Bell- provides new school clothes to disadvantaged El Dorado County school children in grades K-12.


Acorn Grants

Acorn Grants (4 total awarded in 2024):  for any new western slope nonprofit or a nonprofit that has never received a grant from the Women’s Fund.

Sierra Wildlife Rescue $8,00

  • Sierra Wildlife Rescue Grant- expanding animal ambassador programs.

Fostering Success and Significance Project $8,000

  • Workshops for Student Success- to provide workshops to current/former foster youth like financial literacy, personal development and mental health care and many more.

Catalyst Community $6,000

  • Family Supply Closet- including toiletries, feminine hygiene products, and supply kits.

Community Emergency Radio Association $2,000

  • Auto Start Generator - to maintain communication in an emergency situation, even when PG&E Power goes down.



Impact Grants

 

Impact Grants (3 total awarded in 2024):  for nonprofit organizations offering direct impacts on the western slope of El Dorado County. This includes but is not limited to human services, such as those pertaining to mental or physical health, education, youth development, or services to children, families or seniors, arts, community beautification, animal welfare, or community development.


CASA El Dorado $8,000

  • Casa El Dorado-training new Casa’s to support foster youth.

  Hands4Hope-Youth Making a Difference $8,000

  • Growing Impact through Expansion and inclusion of more youth and opening service learning club at Pleasant Grove Middle School.

Asociacion Guadalupana Project $8,000

  • Asociacion Gudalupana Literacy & Community Outreach to expand literacy services by purchasing a curriculum for adult English as a second language.


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