Foundation / Corporation
Women in Northfield Giving Support (WINGS)
03/02/19
03/15/19
Grants to Northfield, Minnesota qualified nonprofit organizations, public schools, and government organizations for programs in the areas of basic needs, entrepreneurship, mental and physical health, and education. Funding is intended to encourage women and youth of all cultures, denominations, and abilities to reach their full potential. Projects funded must benefit residents of the Northfield School District.
WINGS grants contribute to the health, safety, education, socialization, artistic growth, and economic stability of the community. WINGS strives to increase access to opportunity through grants to both new and existing projects, taking into consideration financial need, impact, and capacity building. WINGS encourages innovative initiatives.
Basic Needs
- Housing Stability: Provide shelter and/or housing services to women and youth who are homeless or are at risk of homelessness.
- Food Stability: Increase access to healthy food for women and youth.
- Economic Stability: Increase economic stability for women and youth.
- Safe Environments: Support safe environments for women and youth.
- Elderly: Support safe environments and increase housing, food, and economic stability for the elderly.
Education
- Early Learning: Support early learning efforts in preschool and elementary school for children facing economic barriers or from under-represented populations.
- Out-of-School Programs: Support access for youth with economic barriers or from under-represented populations to quality out-of-school programs to enhance academics, athletics, or artistic endeavors.
- Special Needs or At-Risk Youth and Adults: Support the learning of vocational and life skills for special needs and/or at-risk youth and adults.
- Adult Learning: Support educational and developmental efforts of women facing economic barriers or from under-represented populations.
Physical and Mental Health
- Healthcare: Enable access to healthcare for women and youth who face economic barriers, a lack of insurance, or come from under-represented populations.
- Healthy Behaviors: Help engage youth and women in healthy, preventive behaviors.
Entrepreneurship
- Technical Assistance: Support programs that deliver education and training to women and youth business owners/potential owners in areas such as business and financial planning, marketing, and operations.
- Networking and Mentoring: Increase access to networking, mentoring and collaborative opportunities for women and youth business owners/potential owners.
- Funding: Support organizations that provide access to funding for businesses to women and youth through micro-loans and/or micro-grants.
WINGS prefers to fund programs/projects that:
- Address financial need and increase access to opportunity.
- Offer a proactive, innovative approach to solving a community problem.
- Address systemic change.
- Build capacity by leveraging resources through partnerships with other funders.
- Enhance an organization’s abilities to carry out its mission.
- Result in tangible outcomes.
- Significantly impact the organization or the program.
GrantWatch ID#: 179900
Approximately 20 annual grants of varying amounts are given each year.
WINGS gives grants to qualified nonprofit organizations, public schools, and government organizations for the purpose of general community support.
Grants will not be awarded for any of the following purposes: endowment campaigns, debt reduction, lobbying or sectarian purposes/programs. In addition, the Foundation typically will not award for capital development/improvement projects.
An open house for answering grants-related questions will be held at the Northfield Public Library, upstairs reference meeting room, on Thursday, February 28, from 5:30-7:00 p.m. and Saturday, March 2, from 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Applications must be submitted electronically by March 15, 2019.
Grants are awarded in June.
The WINGS Grant Application consists of two parts:
- When applying for multiple grants, the applicant needs to submit a new Online Data Form with each application.
- Applications should be downloaded, saved as a PDF, and emailed the WINGS office. Enter both the name of the applicant's organization and the project title in the subject line of the email. Verification that the grant application was received will be emailed to the applicant within two weeks after receipt.
Contact Grants Chair, Sarah Swan McDonald with any questions.
Northfield Promise Benchmarks:
https://northfieldpromise.org/benchmarks/
Before starting your grant application, please review the funding source's website listed below for updates/changes/addendums/conferences/LOIs.
Online Data Form: https://goo.gl/forms/EMqS17pXK1HCpb2F3
Sarah Swan McDonald
grants@wings-mn.org
507-301-6610
WINGS
P.O. Box 845
Northfield, MN 55057
Phone: 507-301-6610
Email: president@wings-mn.org
USA: Minnesota: Northfield
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