Women’s Giving Fund Announces 2024 Grant Finalists and Celebrates Ten Years of Giving
June 24, 2024
Park City Community Foundation’s Women’s Giving Fund is Granting Out $125,000 and Members Can Vote for the Winner Until July 8
Park City, Utah (Monday, June 24, 2024) – Park City Community Foundation is proud to announce the three finalists for its annual Women’s Giving Fund grant. The 2024 finalists include People’s Health Clinic, Mountain Mediation Center, and Summit Community Gardens + EATS. The finalists will be awarded a total of $125,000 at the annual Grant Celebration on July 10, with one organization getting the high-impact grant and the other two receiving smaller gifts. Women’s Giving Fund members are asked to cast their vote for the high-impact grant now through July 8, 2024. Since its inception, Park City Community Foundation’s Women’s Giving Fund has worked to benefit the lives of women+ and children in Park City and Summit County. The group includes over 2,100 local women, girls, and non-binary, and gender-fluid individuals. Members meet throughout the year at various gatherings and have collectively granted $383,000 to make a positive difference in the community. The annual grant amount has continued to grow over the Women’s Giving Fund’s ten-year history. This year’s total of $125,000 is the most the group has ever given out, increasing its impact by $25,000 from last year. “We are thrilled to have three wonderful nonprofits offering critical support to women+ and children in Summit County,” said Anna Frachou, Women’s Giving Fund Steering Committee Chair. “In the United States, the Women & Girls Index has shown that only 2% of charitable giving goes to organizations focused on women and girls. We know the generative and positive benefits of uplifting women, and we are grateful for the opportunity to amplify the impact of these great organizations with the collective funds from many passionate local women+.” The 2024 grant finalists have submitted proposals that will positively impact women+ and children. If selected for the high-impact grant, each of the finalists has proposed a project:- People’s Health Clinic will provide urgent reproductive health needs for uninsured community members and improve health outcomes for vulnerable women and children through family planning education, contraception access, prenatal care, and postpartum support.
- Mountain Mediation Center will provide low-income families with services to navigate housing stability and family conflicts. This will happen through landlord/tenant and domestic mediation programs that prevent eviction and homelessness and provide a path forward for women facing divorce.
- Summit Community Gardens + EATS will instill lifelong healthy eating habits and provide 1-2 servings of fruits and vegetables per lesson to more than 2,000 local school-aged children through hands-on cooking, nutrition, and gardening programs.
