The Women’s Foundation is proud to announce the 2007 Leadership Awardees. 

The Leadership Awards is an innovative, grassroots grantmaking program that recognizes local nonprofits that demonstrate innovation and/or measurable success in their services to women and girls. Led by a team of The Women’s Foundation’s volunteer donors, the 2007 Leadership Awards program focused on health and safety programs.

In November 2007, The Women’s Foundation awarded eight Leadership Awards of $10,000 to outstanding organizations serving the health and safety needs of women and girls throughout the Washington metropolitan region.

Past Leadership Awards recipients.

To learn more about the Leadership Awards or to become a volunteer for the 2008 selection cycle, contact Sherell Fuller.

2007 Leadership Awardees

Ascensions Community Services
Ascensions helps disempowered children and families rise above past and current difficulties to a place of renewed wellness, competency, and stability via holistic psychological interventions. Because they believe mental health is often overlooked, they focus on stress, depression, and decision making.

A Wider Circle
A Wider Circle empowers children and adults to break the cycles of poverty and poor health.

DC Abortion Fund
The DC Abortion Fund is improving the health and safety of women and girls in DC by covering the gap between what they can afford and the cost of an abortion.

Divine Images Network, Inc.
Divine Images, Inc. works with at-risk youth and their families living in Ward 8 to strengthen and enhance their community, and to prevent violent crime behaviors, substance abuse, and dropping out of school.

FAIR Fund
Fair Fund engages youth, especially younger women, in civic activism to prevent sexual assault, human trafficking, and domestic violence in their own lives and communities.

Nueva Vida
Nueva Vida is supporting, informing, and empowering Latinas, whose lives are affected by cancer, and helping them to advocate for and facilitate the timely access to state of the art cancer care.

Pregnancy AID Center
PAC’s mission is to provide culturally sensitive, individualized medical and mental health care to low-income women and adolescents.

The Women’s Collective
The Women’s Collective meets the self-defined needs of women and their families living with and at risk for HIV/AIDS, reducing barriers to care and strengthening their network of support and services.