HOW WOMEN GIVE | howwomenlead

Only 7% of charitable dollars go to women and girls globally.

With your help, we can change that.

How Women Give is a platform for women to give together! We provide grants, visibility and volunteerism to organizations solving critical community problems impacting women and girls in marginalized bay area communities.

We believe that women and girls deserve equal opportunities and together we are committed to their justice and equality.

Our areas of focus include: leadership and empowerment, economic security, violence prevention/anti-human trafficking, and health/reproductive justice. To date we have provided $230,000 in grants to women and girls organizations in the last two years. To apply for a grant, see details below.

Interesting in joining How Women Give by donating $1,050?

Grant Process

Please apply if you are a Bay Area 501(c)3 designed for, and providing direct service in the Bay Area to (75%) low income women or girls. We have quarterly grant cycles with an intentionally very simple grant application for general operating grant of $10,000. We want to know that our grant support and access to our network of leaders will make a difference in your organization. Show us some impact in your application in the following categories:

Leadership & Empowerment (Including Arts, Sports and Technology)
Economic Security
Health & Reproductive Justice
Violence Prevention & Anti-Human Trafficking

We are a network of people who research, vote and give together. We have designed this process to be simple, lean and scalable therefore the voting is democratic and no one is available to answer questions beyond what is laid out in this website. We hope to scale to fund every organization we love who comes to our doors but alas, today we are still small and we won’t fund even the most beloved, exciting organizations due to the volume of requests. We will notify you as soon as we can if you are not funded, and ask that you please try again, as more funds may come available in the future.

Grant application

2018-19 Deadlines

Grant recipients must meet the following requirements:

Organization and clients served must be located in the Bay Area.
Organization must be a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Organization's mission must promote and be designed for girls and women in one or more of the following areas:
- Leadership & Empowerment (Including Arts, Sports and Technology)
- Economic Security
- Health & Reproductive Justice
- Violence Prevention & Anti-Human Trafficking
Organizations must provide direct services, at least 75% of which target low income women and girls.
Organizations have an an operating budget of less than $3 million.
A grant of $10,000 will make a significant difference to the organization.