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


ANNOUNCING OUR 2021 GRANT RECIPIENTS


2021 GRANTEE SITE VISIT REPORTS

INSPIRATION GRANTS

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


New Morning Youth & Family Services

newmorningyfs.org

Program: Queer Youth Advocacy Project

Amount Awarded: $26,000


Program Description: Providing early mental health support to youth who are struggling, is an absolutely critical component to their successful development as human beings. With this said, research indicates that LGBTQ+ youth are almost six times more likely to attempt suicide AND experience homelessness than their heteronormative counterparts. These same youth also complain of peer-harassment, severe anxiety, depressive symptoms, identity dysphoria, dissociation, strong inclinations toward substance use, feelings of extreme isolation and more. This project will enable New Morning to establish a multi-pronged program specifically geared toward this cross-section of our county’s most at-risk youth population. The program will not only support NM in re-establishing its long-standing LGBTQ+ Youth Support Group (via virtual platform), but it will also support our agency in providing the El Dorado County region with up-to-date, population-specific education and support resources for LGBTQ+ youth. This program will maintain and strengthen our culturally-informed LGBTQ+ therapeutic and case management services, allow us to continue providing safe emergency shelter for these youth, and will allow us to strengthen collaborative efforts with our incredible community partners in working to keep the LGBTQ+ youth of El Dorado County safe.




Snowline Hospice of El Dorado County

snowlinehospice.org

Program: A Nurse-Led, Home-Based Palliative Care for patients with Advanced Dementia

Amount Awarded: $26,000


Program Description: The goal of this pilot program is to focus on the unique needs of dementia patients and their families living in rural areas. By providing specialized in-home care, dementia patients are ensured a higher quality of life including the option to remain in their most sacred place, their home. Most home-based palliative programs focus primarily on patients with three diagnoses, Cancer, COPD, and Cardiac disease; few provide care that recognizes the unique needs of patients and caregivers living with dementia.


Utilizing a full interdisciplinary team that includes physicians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, medical social workers, spiritual care providers, and home health aides, this program will demonstrate that personalized home-based palliative care will significantly improve the patient care experience and clinical outcomes for patients with dementia and their families.


Through nurse and social worker-led assessments, our program will use a holistic approach to better serve patients and families living with this dementia. Our program will provide regular visits between nurses and families to discuss the disease and its burdens, so the families have an improved understanding of the patient’s disease trajectory. With better understanding, families will be able to complete advanced care planning, including POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) forms. Through 24/7 access to nurses, development of symptom management action plans patients will have fewer symptoms that need to be managed, families will demonstrate reduced utilization of emergency departments, there will be fewer hospitalizations, reduced caregiver burden, and increased utilization of supportive community resources.


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 2020): 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.



El Dorado County Office of Education

edcoe.org

Program: McKinney-Vento Urgent Needs Fund

Amount Awarded: $8,000


Program Description: McKinney-Vento students are those whose families can offer no, "...fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence..." for their children. This childhood adversity is challenging enough independent of other life challenges that occur for all people at some time or another. The difference being that McKinney-Vento youth often have living situations that do not allow them the luxury of time; time to wait for the resources that their caregivers might otherwise be able to access on their behalf. While resources are available for a wide variety of needs for these youth, the expediency of access to funds is not always feasible when the need to address unforeseen and unexpected needs is urgent or does not fall into a "typical" needs category. The McKinney-Vento Urgent Needs Fund has arisen from a series of events that provide powerful examples of the need to be able to respond quickly and efficiently to this "invisible" population's needs as they arise. In this way minimizing the interruptions to education and social experiences while at the same time mitigating the effects of what at times, might otherwise be traumatic experiences for children who are already in the throes of the trauma of being without a home of their own.


MORE, Mother Lode Rehabilitation Enterprises, Inc.

morerehab.org

Program: Feeding El Dorado County

Amount Awarded: $8,000


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