Our
Mission
The Wyoming Women's Foundation is an endowed fund of the WYCF
that supports economic self-sufficiency and access to opportunities
for women and girls in Wyoming by raising funds, making grants,
and providing leadership.
The
Foundation Is
creating a permanent endowment that will ensure funding
to enhance the lives of women and girls for generations
to eome;
seeking to remove barriers that discourage women and
girls from attaining economic self-sufficiency and realizing
opportunities;
making grants to organizations that promote systems
change;
expanding the role of women in philanthropy.
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Our
History
On July 1, 1999, Chambers Family Fund, a private foundation,
established the Wyoming Women’s Foundation as a field-of-interest
endowment fund in the Wyoming Community Foundation, providing
new monies to help improve the economic status of women and
enhance the economic futures of girls in Wyoming.
Funding Focus
The
Wyoming Women's Foundation's funding priority is to build
the capacity of organizations encouraging long-term change
for women and girls. We are especially interested in funding
organizations with programs addressing any of the following
issues:
Continuing Education
Job
training, Development & Placement
Access
to and Affordability of Childcare
Wage
Inequity Strategies
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Wyoming’s history tells a story of strong women in
an “Equality State.” But reality for the state’s
women and girls can be as harsh as the climate. Poverty,
teen pregnancy, lack of education and job training, and
the isolation of rural life can prevent women from earning
a decent wage or escaping untenable social situations. Many
of Wyoming’s women and children will continue to lead
impoverished lives unless we change the structures that
create these obstacles.
Women
are more likely...
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to
be homeless,
live
in poverty,
to
be unemployed or underemployed,
face
violence and fear,
suffer
inadequate housing and health care
disproportionately
own the burden of working,
caring for children, and elderly family members.
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The
Facts
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Women
in Wyoming earn 63 cents to every dollar earned by
men
Wyoming
has one of the largest salary gaps between men and
women in the United States
In
Wyoming nearly 27% of families are supported, many
inadequately, by a single parent
One
of three women in Wyoming exist in abusive relationships
Three
of five teen mothers don't graduate from high school
One
of every four babies in Wyoming is born to an unwed
mother
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About
Us