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Women’s Foundation Announces 2011-2012 Grant Recipients

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:    April 26, 2011
CONTACT:    Laura Penny (520) 622-8886

(Tucson, AZ) The Women’s Foundation of Southern Arizona awarded $115,000 in grants to seven organizations helping women and girls in southern Arizona to become economically self-sufficient.

The following organizations were selected by a panel of community members to receive a one-year grant award:
•    Literacy for Life Coalition, for the Women’s Literacy Network (WLN), to increase women’s social and economic capital in the Sunnyside neighborhood.
•    International Rescue Committee, for the Refugee Well-Being Project, which uses a promotora model to help refugee women build skills to becoming thriving Americans.
•    ACCION, for Creating Systemic Change for Southern Arizona’s Women Entrepreneurs, to provide 45 business loans to women entrepreneurs.
•    Chicanos por la Causa, for a Young Women’s Literacy and Empowerment Project to provide high-school-aged girls with tutoring and service learning/civic engagement activities.
New Beginnings for Women and Children and the Primavera Foundation were the recipients of multi-year grants in 2009, and will receive their third year of funding in 2011-12.
Participants in the Foundation’s girls’ philanthropy and leadership program, Unidas, which teaches high-school-aged girls philanthropy, grant-making, fundraising and civic engagement, awarded a grant to the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault for their Youth Advocate Program.
The mission of the Women’s Foundation of Southern Arizona is to foster equity and opportunity for women and girls. Since 1993, the Foundation has awarded more than $1.7 million to southern Arizona organizations serving women and girls.