Our Programs
Our collective donations make the greatest impact when our program grants reach women and girls at the grassroots level that foster good health, education, and economic self‐sufficiency.
Your program donations support the board approved Program Funding Model and cannot be restricted to an individual organization or program grant.
For grant funding model FAQ's click here.
Featured Programs
Sustained Program Funding
In September 2012 DFW added a sustained program grant to support programs featured in the past. We will provide a 3-year grant for $15,000 each year (total $45,000) to a previously featured program. These programs have been vetted by the Program Selection Team and are required to submit follow-up reports each year prior to receiving funding for the next year.
| 2012-2014 | |
| September | INMED, Peru |
| October | Oxlajuj B’atz’, Thirteen Threads, Guatemala |
| November | Rubia, Afghanistan |
| December | Lotus Outreach, Cambodia |
| 2013-2015 | |
| January | The BOMA Project, Kenya |
| February | Matrichaya, India |
| March | Friendship Bridge, Guatemala |
| April | Village Enterprise, Uganda |
| May | PINCC, India |
Member Choice Funding
DFW members vote to award grant funding of up to $30,000 to one of three vetted programs, after our grant and reserve obligations are met. Our monthly Featured and Sustained Programs grants are the TOP priority prior to funding other types of grants. Our goal is to build a reserve fund to meet future grant obligations in the event that monthly net donations are not sufficient. Once excess funds up to $30,000 have been accrued in addition to our reserve, members will be given an opportunity to vote on a Member Choice Funding grant. Please look for more information in 2013 - to be posted on the DFW website, Facebook, Twitter and in newsletters.
To answer questions you may have about the funding model, check out our FAQ’s.
Our Impact
A snapshot of just some of the women's and girls' lives we've touched.
With their collective investments, DFW members have:
- Helped hundreds of girls escape sex trafficking and receive safe havens, counseling, and education in the Philippines, India, and Cambodia
- Dramatically reduced maternal and infant deaths by providing sterile birth kits and trained obstetric workers to hundreds of women in remote Tibetan villages.
- Trained dozens of healthcare workers in El Salvador to detect and treat cervical cancer with an innovative, low-tech method. Cervical cancer is the #1 cancer killer of women in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
- Funded teachers, social workers, students, and expanded a Kenyan girl-led school and its women's empowerment programs.
- Launched 60 female-led businesses, boosting the incomes and livelihoods of 300
women and about 1,500 children in drought-stricken Kenya - Financed one year of adult literacy education, teachers' salaries, and books and supplies for 75 women in India.
- Helped train more than 500 rural and indigenous Guatemalan women to harvest
and propagate the Maya Nut, equipping them with the means to earn income, feed their children, and to protect the rain forests. - Supported a women's crafts cooperative for Afghan women, who normally have few markets or opportunities to work.
