The Women’s Board Grant

The Women’s Board continues to support important initiatives at the University each year. Evidence of the Board’s visibility on campus can be seen in the unprecedented, forty-two project proposals submitted last year requesting a record $1,352,926. In 2010, The Women’s Board awarded $350,000 of funding for fourteen vital projects in the areas of: Faculty Research and Support, the Arts and Cultural Institutions, Quality of Student Life, and Community Outreach. Detailed information about the Women's Board and the projects funded for the 2009-2010 academic year are set forth on our website.

Funding decisions will be made based on the following objectives, as directed by the Women's Board Steering Committee, and this year we expect to do the following:

• commit a portion of our estimated total funding pool (that total pool is currently anticipated to be about $350,000) to support one or more sizable projects in the areas of faculty research or departmental/school/divisional initiatives that have not been able to proceed for lack of all or a portion of the required funding; and

• make grants in sizable amounts when appropriate (our largest grant last year was $53,500 and $75,000 in 2007)

The Women's Board's fundraising and grant making activities are essential to our mission, and we are committed to provide funding to the University community each year. All of the projects we fund are selected by members of the Women's Board who gladly volunteer several days of their time to carefully review all proposals submitted and to hear selected presentations. Additional information about the projects proposal funding process will be sent to you and your staff next week. Funding proposals are due no later than 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 23, 2010.