Apply for Grants: Women for Women of Pitt County

Women for Women of Pitt County seeks proposals from charitable organizations in Pitt County for services benefitting women and girls. Applications for this program will be accepted with a cycle that opens on Feb. 2, 2024, and closes at NOON on March 5, 2024. Awards will be made in May 2024.

This fund intends to support proposals for efforts that are designed to achieve the following goals:

Empower women and girls to achieve their full potential
Assist women in achieving economic self-sufficiency through a wide range of options
Prevent violence against women and girls
Promote the health, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being for women and girls
Encourage enhancement and participation of women and girls in our community
Create opportunities for the economic, educational, social, artistic and personal growth of women and girls

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How to Apply

All proposals must be submitted online, using NCCF’s online grant system. Below you will find instructions for how to do so, and a link to our online system. Be sure to read these instructions carefully before you begin.

First, you must create an account profile. For assistance with creating your account, view the training slides. If your organization already has an account in NCCF’s online system, please do not create a new one, and use your current account information to log in.
Once your profile is created (or you have logged-in to an existing account), you will be directed to your dashboard. Click on the word “Apply” at the top of the page.
You will arrive at a page with information about applying for a grant from NCCF. In the upper right-hand corner, you will see an “Access Code” box. In that box, type the code: w4wpittco. Then, click on the Enter Code button. NOTE: The Access Code is case-sensitive.
The page will refresh, and a link to the application process, titled “2024 Women for Women of Pitt County”, will appear. Click on the blue Apply button to access the application form, which is only available during the program’s open cycle. For assistance adding an application, view the training slides.

We recommend reviewing the application in its entirety prior to applying in order to familiarize yourself with the information required. The application is accessible in the online system, before and during the open cycle by clicking the “Preview” button. You must complete the steps above first.

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Eligibility

Applicant organizations must:

Be nonprofit organizations that are qualified as tax-exempt public charities under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, classified as a unit of government, including public schools, or be a church. Nonprofit organizations which are not classified by the IRS as 501(c)(3) public charities, but which are fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) public charity, are also eligible and must include a letter from the sponsoring organization in their application that verifies the relationship, describes the nature of the relationship and includes when the relationship was established.
Offer programs and services without discrimination of any kind.
Be located in Pitt County.
Offer services benefitting women and/or girls in Pitt County.

Restrictions

Grants are not awarded for:

Annual fund or capital campaigns
Political purposes or lobbying
Programs/activities that are restricted to members of a particular faith or promote a specific religious doctrine
Loans
Reimbursement
Individuals
Re-granting by the applicant organization
General operating support for religious entities or government organizations

Terms

The fund intends to make grants in 2024 totaling $103,000. Grant awards range from $5,000 to $15,000.
Organizations may only submit one application during each open cycle.
Grant terms are one year.

Schedule

Applications for this program will be accepted with a cycle that opens on Feb. 2, 2024, and closes at NOON on March 5, 2024. Awards will be made in May 2024.

Grants Awarded

2023

The Women for Women of Pitt County Endowment has awarded $108,000 in grants to local nonprofit organizations:

$12,500 to Boys & Girls Clubs of the Coastal Plain for SMART Girls
$10,000 to CareNet Counseling East for Right-ing One’s Narrative: Gaining Understanding, Skills, and Vision for a Better Life 2.0
$9,500 to Daughters of Worth for emergency services support for at-risk youth and women
$5,000 to Girl Scouts – North Carolina Coastal Pines for Girl Scout Leadership Experience
$8,000 to Hope of Glory Ministries for Community Co-op Program
$7,625 to House of HUGS for Women and Children for HUGS Life Enrichment Program
$15,000 to Koinonia Community Solutions for Strong, Healthy, Resilient Girls of Pitt County (StrongHER Pitt)
$9,500 to NC Stop Human Trafficking to meet basic needs of human trafficking victims
$15,000 to Operation Sunshine, Inc., for general operating support
$8,100 to Rocking Horse Ranch for the Rocking Horse Ranch Scholarship Fund
$7,775 to The Mediation Center of Eastern Carolina for Girls Empowered

2022

The Women for Women of Pitt County fund has awarded a total of $100,000 in grants to the following local nonprofit organizations:

$12,500 to Boys & Girls Clubs of the Coastal Plain for SMART Girls
$7,500 to CareNet Counseling East for Right-ing One’s Narrative: Gaining Understanding, Skills, and Vision for a Better Life
$15,000 to Center for Family Violence Prevention for New Directions Safe House
$15,000 to Daughters of Worth for Emergency Services Program
$7,500 to Hope of Glory Ministries for Community Co-op Program
$15,000 to Koinonia Community Solutions for Strong, Healthy, Resilient Girls of Pitt County (StrongHER Pitt)
$10,000 to Pitt County Council on Aging for Older Adult Women Food Insecurity
$5,000 to REAL Crisis Intervention, Inc. for Victim Emergency Assistance
$5,000 to Rocking Horse Ranch for Scholarship Fund
$7,500 to The Mediation Center of Eastern Carolina for Girls Empowered

2021

The Women for Women of Pitt County fund has awarded at total of $75,000 in grants to the following local nonprofit organizations:

$7,760 to the Bray Hollow Foundation Inc DBA A Time for Science for the S.A.G.E. Sisters (Serious About Girls’ Empowerment) program
$5,000 to CareNet Counseling East for the Right-ing One’s Narrative: Gaining Understanding, Skills, and Vision for a New Life program
$15,000 to the Center for Family Violence Prevention for the New Directions Safe House program
$15,000 to Daughters of Worth for the Emergency Funds Program
$5,000 to East Carolina University for the Soul FOOD: Sistas Fighting Overweight and Obesity Diseases program
$5,000 to Hope of Glory Ministries for the Community Co-op Program
$6,240 to the Mediation Center of Eastern Carolina for the Girls Empowered program
$6,000 to Operation Sunshine for the Shining Bright program
$5,000 to the Pitt County Council on Aging for the Meals for Women program
$5,000 to REAL Crisis Intervention, Inc. for the Victims Emergency Assistance Fund

Questions?

Doug Perry

Grants Manager

Email
919-256-6911