Creating a community of philanthropists working together to improve the lives of women and girls in central New Jersey.

Thriving Women, Thriving Communities

Our vision: A community where women and girls reach their full potential

Our mission: To improve the lives of economically vulnerable women and girls in Mercer County through community investment, education and collaboration

Founded in 1998, the Fund for Women and Girls is a group of members dedicated to improving the lives of economically vulnerable girls and women in greater Mercer County. Over the past 20 years, the FWG has raised over $1 million and made over $800,000 in grants to programs supporting women and girls in our community. In 2017, the Fund for Women and Girls invested over $100,000 in organizations that allow women and girls the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Why Give Together?

Fund for Women and Girls members multiply the impact of their giving by studying issues affecting women and girls, pooling their financial contributions to enhance the impact, and collaboratively directing the fund’s grant making. We have the opportunity to:

  • Become better educated about the issues affecting women and girls in our community, and those organizations dedicated to helping them live safe, healthy and productive lives – through site visits, meeting with experts discussing current issues, and networking events designed to make connections to like-minded members
  • Invest our financial resources and professional expertise in making larger and more meaningful gifts to those organizations we support
  • Collaborate with other like-minded members and organizations to engage in the causes and organizations making a meaningful difference to the lives of women and girls in our community

Our Grantee Partners

Read our Grantee Stories

Read our Fund for Women and Girls Newsletter

Research and Reports

View the Fund for Women and Girls Shaping the Future presentation. 

Read the Fund for Women and Girls Shaping the Future Report. 

Read the Fund for Women and Girls Shaping the Future Executive Summary. 

Benefits and Opportunities from Membership

Members who make gifts of $1,000 or more annually are Voting Members; they vote to choose grant recipients and have the opportunity to visit prospective and current grantee organizations with Community Foundation staff.

  • Voting members may join the Grants Committee, which evaluates grant applications and determines the finalist organizations who present at the annual Grantmaking Dinner.

Voting Members and all other annual donors receive the following:

  • An invitation to the annual Grantmaking Dinner with fellow members and nonprofit representatives to hear presentations from finalist grantee organizations (Voting Members will choose our grantee partners at this event).
  • Invitations to members-only educational gatherings throughout the year to learn about issues affecting women and girls as well as best practices in philanthropy.
  • Newsletters with updates on the work of our Fund and our grantees.

Join Today!

To join or to learn more about The Fund for Women and Girls, please

Download a Membership Form
Contact the Community Foundation
SEE OUR UPCOMING EVENTS

Donate Today!

To donate by check, please make your check payable to the Princeton Area Community Foundation with “The Fund for Women and Girls” in the memo line, and mail it to the Princeton Area Community Foundation 15 Princess Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648.

We greatly appreciate your support!

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For more information or support, please contact:

Diana Leighton
Vice President, Philanthropy Programs
Email Diana Leighton