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Grant Cycle 2023

On Wednesday June 21 more than 90 members and guests joined representatives from the 8 organizations receiving grants this year at the Grant Breakfast celebrating this year’s grantees and the dedicated work of the 2023 Grants Committee. The Rochester Women’s Giving Circle is proud to be celebrating 16 years of grant making focused on enabling women and girls living in poverty to transition to a lifetime of economic self-sufficiency. Grants are made to nonprofit 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 year’s grants total $178,000. In its 16 years of making grants, the Rochester Women’s Giving Circle has distributed more than $2.3 million to nonprofit organizations in our community whose work is aligned with the RWGC’s mission.

This year’s Grantees are: Agape Haven of Abundance – Urban and Youth Empowerment Program, Center for Teen Empowerment – Young Women’s Leadership and Employment Project, Friendly Senior Living – Staff Training and Education Program (STEP), 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’s Empowerment Project, Veterans Outreach Center – Female Veterans Program, YWCA – Rochester and Monroe County Equity Through Development Project.

This event was all the more of a celebration because it was the first time since 2019 that the Rochester Women’s Giving Circle held its Grant Award Breakfast in person.