The Women’s Foundation of Montana provides $60,000 in new grants to organizations that serve women and girls across the state.

Officials say nearly $60,000 in new grants were given to organizations that serve women and girls across the state.
The Women’s Foundation http://wfmontana.org is working toward a goal of investing $100,000 for Montana women.

The grants made include:

Hopa Mountain, Bozeman, statewide – $10,000

CodeMontana, Bozeman, statewide – $10,000

Montana State University Billings, Women’s Economic Research, Billings – $5,900

Bitterroot Economic Development District (BREDD), Missoula – $5,000
Montana Women Vote, Missoula, statewide – $5,000

Women’s Resource Center, Dillon – $5,000

Girl Scouts of Montana, Billings, statewide – $5,000

Girls Using Their Strengths (GUTS!), Missoula – $4,704

AAUW Start Smart Trainings, statewide – $4,000

Montana Girls STEM Collaborative, Bozeman, statewide – $2,000

Montana GEMS, Butte – $2,000

"We are incredibly excited about the potential for advancement for Montana women represented by this substantial and strategic investment of nearly $60,000 in fine programs across the state," said Jen Euell, Women’s Foundation Program Director. "We can’t wait to see the positive impact generated by our investment."

The new grant funding is focused on creating systemic change to improve the economic status of women, supporting initiatives that give girls the tools to be financially successful, and programs that improve women’s economic security and equalize the pay gap. The foundation advisory board gave preference to programs that showed innovation, collaboration, and tangible, measurable results. The end result will be new opportunities for hundreds of Montana women and girls in financial education, leadership, entrepreneurship, wage-negotiation training and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programming.

The $100,000 for Women Initiative aims to leverage these new grants through a matching gift challenge to double the impact of the funds, investing more than $100,000 in Montana women in this 100-year anniversary of women’s suffrage in the state. This grant cycle is the largest investment of funds the Women’s Foundation of Montana has ever made in a single year.

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