Grant funds will be awarded for a program targeted toward at least one of four services that help women in need of stabilizing their economic well-being:

• access to affordable housing, 
• jobs and job training, 
• affordable health care, 
• and finding the help she needs to stabilize herself in a time of unexpected crisis

Available funding, between $75,000 and $100,000, will be awarded as a single, one-year grant for a high impact solution.  Applicants are encouraged to be innovative and creative, designing answers for a specific population whose lives will change as a result of the program.

Eligible applicants are Bergen County non-profit organizations, including hospitals and educational institutions that have past experience and demonstrated effectiveness in stabilizing the economic well-being of women and their families.  Individuals are not eligible.  Applicants must provide evidence of their ability to accept tax-deductible contributions under current IRS law.

Applicants must demonstrate sufficient resources, both cash and in-kind, to operate their proposed program. Furthermore, proposals must demonstrate their ability to sustain the program beyond this grant period, as the WUIP grant is one-year, non-renewable.

Executive staff for all Finalists must be available to attend an event in Hackensack, NJ on the evening of Thursday, October 16, 2008.

Click HERE for the application!