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Stepping Stones

Washington Area Women’s Foundation’s “Stepping Stones” is our most ambitious effort yet. The initiative’s objective is to build the long-term economic security and financial independence of low-income, women-headed families, a critical need brought into sharp focus by A Portrait of Women & Girls in the Washington Metropolitan Area. In the coming years, Stepping Stones programs will focus in four areas:

  • Financial Education and Wealth Creation;
  • Jobs and Business Ownership Fund;
  • Child Care and Early education;
  • Health and Safety

Stepping Stones will create financial independence for low-income, women-headed families through investments in:

  • Non-profit community-based programs that serve low-income, women-headed families in the above four issue areas;
  • Community education;
  • Policy change and advocacy efforts;
  • Leadership development among women.

The following Stepping Stones Funds are currently operating:

Please click here to download a copy of the 2007 Stepping Stones report.

Check out the audio and presentations featured at the 2007 Stepping Stones Research Briefing!