Rochester Women’s Giving Circle announces grant awardees

Andrea Deckert//June 23, 2023//

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The Rochester Women’s Giving Circle has announced eight recipients of its 2023 grant round totaling $178,000.

Grants are made to organizations in Monroe County that help women and girls living in poverty to gain the education, training, skills and jobs necessary to achieve economic independence.

This is the 16th year that RWGC has awarded grants and in that time the group has distributed more than $2.3 million to nonprofit organizations aligned with the giving circle’s mission.

This year, the programs and services receiving the 2023 grants are:

Agape Haven of Abundance: Urban Youth Empowerment Program;
Center for Teen Empowerment: Young Women’s Leadership and Employment Project;
Friendly Senior Living: Staff Training & Education Program;
Friends of the Garden Aerial: Green Visions: Growing Healthy Futures;
Judicial Process Commission: Women’s Legal Action Project and Employability Project;
Spiritus Christi Prison Outreach: Women Empowerment Program;
Veterans Outreach Center: Female Veterans Program, and
YWCA – Rochester & Monroe County: Equity Through Development Project.

RWGC – an advised fund at Rochester Area Community Foundation – is a community of women who recognize that they have greater strength and potential for positive community impact when they give together. Every member makes an annual donation and has the opportunity to participate in the grantmaking process.

The money donated each calendar year is granted out the following year.

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