Now Accepting Grant Applications

Applications are now being accepted through the Fund for Safety. Online application with attachments must be submitted by September 20 at 11:59 p.m. Applicants may preview the instructions and request for proposals – all applications must be submitted via the grant portal. View the 2023 informational webinar about the RFP and process.

If you have any issues accessing the grant portal, please email Hannah Elias, Grants Manager, at hannah@wfmn.org. For program/grant proposal questions, please email LaCora Bradford Kesti, Vice President of Community Impact, at lacora@wfmn.org. 

Grantmaking & Grantee-Partners

As the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota has transformed our role from a catalytic leader with MN Girls Are Not For Sale to supporting partner, we continue to expand our strategic focus on safety and work with communities to end gender-based violence. Grants resource innovation to end gender-based violence, a continuum that includes including sex trafficking, domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, as well as state and structural violence. We invest in the organizations, leaders, and the movement to create a Minnesota where girls and women are free from every form of violence and can experience their homes, schools, and communities as safe places.

Learnings from our Road to Transformation Listening Series inform and evolve our grantmaking strategies, in response to community concerns and needs. Current funding through the Fund for Safety invests in organizations that innovate and strengthen their communities, staff and leadership, operations, and programs in response to the pandemic and the uprising for racial justice.

In partnership with community leaders, the Women’s Foundation follows an ethos of listening and responding to community concerns to drive strategic, cross-sector plans and create collective impact.

Explore our grantmaking timeline to see other recent and upcoming grant opportunities.

Fund for Safety Evaluation

The Fund for Safety is working toward ending gender-based violence through:

• Strengthening systems and infrastructure to sustain the movement to end gender-based violence including sex trafficking, domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment
• Investing in and elevating leaders and organization working with communities of color, American Indian communities, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, Greater MN communities, and immigrant and refugee populations

Grantee-partners deepen community leadership and organizational capacity, raise awareness about gender-based violence, lay the foundation for positive systems change, and contribute to the safety and wellness of community members and staff. Learn more about our partners’ impact through youth leadership, healing and wellness, advocacy and systems change, and direct assistance in the 2023 evaluation.

• 2022 evaluation

• 2020 evaluation