Women’s Giving Network of Wake County presents $128,000 in local grant awards at annual Impact Luncheon

The leadership team of the Women's Giving Network of Wake County

The members of the Women’s Giving Network of Wake County recently announced $128,000 in local grant awards at the 13th annual Impact Luncheon.

The grants committee of the Women's Giving Network of Wake County.

This year the Network granted:

$14,000 to Bloom Here to cover house rent for a year. Their program is the only one of its kind in Wake County designed to support women survivors of trafficking, prostitution and addiction.
$25,000 to Read and Feed for the Feed the Reader Summer Program. The Feed the Reader Summer program strengthens literary skills for grades K-5, providing the children of families with limited resources with meals, books, tutoring and mentoring.
$40,000 to StepUp Ministry for life changing opportunities for Wake County women and children through comprehensive training programs and mentor relationships.
$20,000 to the Gifted Arts, Inc. for the GiftedImpact program which strengthens the character, confidence and leadership skills of youth through the arts.
$29,000 to the Green Chair Project for extension of their Sweeter Dreams program which will provide cribs to low income families to promote safe sleep for infants.

Representatives of this year's grant recipients from the Women's Giving Network of Wake County.

Hayden Constance, Network president, thanked the community for its continued support of the Women’s Giving Network of Wake County. “We are proud to support these nonprofit programs that are so vital to our community,” she said. “We are grateful to our members and the many generous individuals that have supported our work to inspire philanthropy and collective giving across our community.”