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!