Grantmaking & Grantee-Partners

The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota continues to expand our strategic focus on safety and work with communities to end gender-based violence. Grants resource innovation to end gender-based violence, a continuum that includes including sex trafficking, domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, as well as state and structural violence. We invest in the organizations, leaders, and the movement to create a Minnesota where girls and women are free from every form of violence and can experience their homes, schools, and communities as safe places.

Learnings from our Road to Transformation Listening Series inform and evolve our grantmaking strategies, in response to community concerns and needs. Current funding through the Fund for Safety invests in organizations that innovate and strengthen their communities, staff and leadership, operations, and programs in response to the pandemic and the uprising for racial justice.

In partnership with community leaders, the Women’s Foundation follows an ethos of listening and responding to community concerns to drive strategic, cross-sector plans and create collective impact.

Explore our Grants page to see other recent and upcoming grant opportunities.

Fund for Safety Evaluation

The Fund for Safety is working to end gender-based violence by advancing these strategies:

• Strengthen systems and infrastructure to sustain the movement to end gender-based violence, including sex trafficking, domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, and state and structural violence.
• Build and sustain the movement for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and relatives, and missing and murdered Black women and girls to address systemic inequities and reform policies that perpetuate gender-based, state sanctioned violence.
• Prevent cycles of gender-based violence with young women, men, and gender-expansive people to address misogyny, misogynoir, and toxic masculinity through education to promote healthy gender norms and relationships, in-person and virtually.

Grantee-partners deepen community leadership and organizational capacity, raise awareness about gender-based violence, lay the foundation for positive systems change, and contribute to the safety and wellness of community members and staff. Learn more about our partners’ impact through youth leadership, healing and wellness, advocacy and systems change, and direct assistance in the most recent evaluation.

• 2023 evaluation
• 2022 evaluation

• 2020 evaluation