Womens Foundation Of Alabama

Programs: The women's fund (twf) deploys strategy-based philanthropy and grantmaking as a tool to disrupt the cycle of poverty for women. Twf invests in the community in two cycles through community impact grants and collaboration institute. In 2017, through the community impact grant cycle, twf invested in 14 organizations throughout our five-county region that apply to a two-generation lens to serving whole families, an evidenced-based approach to creating economic mobility for low-income families. Such investments resulted in grantee organizations successfully pairing post-secondary education and skills training for low-income women with critical supports such as child care and transportation for more than 430 women and 651 children. Nearly half of women served acquired new employment or promotions, opened savings accounts or secured safe, permanent housing. In 2017, twf launched collaboration institute 3. 0, an 18-month curriculum designed to more effectively align the region's social services and workforce initiatives to disrupt generational poverty for women and their children. By acting as a catalyst, twf gives partner organizations participating in the collaboration institute, the time and resources to build effective programming to comprehensively serving families.

the women's fund of greater birmingham (twf) deploys research as a key strategy to elevate the issues most impacting women in the region and the state. In 2017, twf released clearing the path, an annual research publication to provide a local perspective on a national conversation about the growing number of women, particularly single mothers, in the workforce. The report is a detailed roadmap for the community to simultaneously strengthen the workforce and tackle generational poverty and for employers to boost recruitment and retention of their employees.

the women's fund of greater birmingham supported advocacy causes and served as a coalition member on issues related to child care licensing and predatory lending.