Women’s Development Fund

The Freeport-McMoRan Women’s Development Fund supports organizations providing women and girls with opportunities to:

• Advance attainment, matriculation, or graduation via college and career readiness and leadership and character development
• Create or expand businesses via small business development training and access to capital programs
• Increase financial capability and employment via education or workforce skills training

To be eligible to submit an application to the Women’s Development Fund, the program must:

• Benefit women and girls in a Freeport-McMoRan operating community
• Deliver on one of the Priority Social Impacts below:
• Progress to the next grade on time: Number of children promoted to next grade or without summer learning loss
• Access post-secondary education: Number of students that matriculate in two- or four-year colleges or professional credentialing programs
• Earn a post-secondary degree or credential: Number of students that earn a degree, certification, or credential from a two- or four-year college or professional credentialing program
• Improve income: Number of beneficiaries that substantially improve their income
• Attained, retained, or improved employment: The number of beneficiaries that gain or sustain a job with a defined threshold for salary, retention, upward mobility, and other traits
• Jobs created or saved: Number of jobs created or protected against disappearing
• Dollars generated, saved: Additional revenues generated or cost savings achieved
• Businesses created, saved, or strengthened: Number of businesses created, saved, or materially strengthened (e.g., through expansion or increased revenues)

Preference is given to these programs:

• Serve rural operating communities (vs. urban)
• Use Freeport-McMoRan’s DreamBuilder courses in program implementation
• Provide measurable results of program impact
• Demonstrate collaborations or partnerships that establish increased opportunities for women
• Are sustainable beyond the life of this funding

Freeport-McMoRan Dreambuilder Program: https://dreambuilder.org/

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)

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