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Competitive grants for local programs which support girls and the women who raise them

Grants support projects that help girls ages 5 to 18 years who reside in Greater Mercer attain success in their personal, academic, family and community lives.

The Princeton Area Community Foundation created the Fund for Women and Girls to promote philanthropy by and for girls and the women who raise them.  Since the Fund’s founding over 276 donors have joined together to focus their generosity.  A $100,000 challenge from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in 2001 accelerated the Fund’s growth.

The Fund for Women and Girls supports projects that help girls ages 5 to 18 years who reside in Greater Mercer attain success in their personal, academic, family and community lives.  The Fund also encourages women to think of themselves as philanthropists, and provides them with an effective vehicle to collectively make a real difference in their communities.

Contributions by check should be made out to the Princeton Area Community Foundation with  “The Fund for Women and Girls” in the memo line, and mailed to the Community Foundation 15 Princess Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

To make an online contribution to the Fund for Women and Girls at the Princeton Area Community Foundation through JustGive.org, click here.  

The Fund for Women and Girls’ Grants Program is competitive, and designed to support programs that benefit girls and the women who raise them in Mercer County, New Jersey, and the immediately adjoining areas of surrounding counties. 

The Fund for Women and Girls 2008 grantees included:    

• Dress for Success, Hamilton 
  • Workplace attire, mentoring and career guidance for disadvantaged women
• HiTOPS, Princeton
  • Latina Health Education and Empowerment Project for Trenton girls
• Women’s Heart Foundation, Trenton
  • Teen Esteem: health & fitness for Trenton High School girls
• Lawrence Neighborhood Service Center, Lawrenceville
  • STARS Safe Dates violence prevention program for teen girls
• Mill Hill Child Development Corporation, Trenton 
  • PEERS peer education program for at-risk teen Trenton girls