The Women's Fund of Greater Green Bay, a fund of the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation, is a group of women working together to help empower local women and girls. The Women's Fund raises dollars to help support leadership and self-esteem initiatives right here in our area. So far, the Women's Fund has raised an endowment of $1.0 million and has granted more than $140,000 in partnership with donors to programs that are making a different - helping women return to school, raising the literacy rate of women and girls in poverty, or guiding homeless women through self-esteem initiatives.

The Women's Fund offers donors the opportunity to pool their money and directly help women and girls in our community by funding the organizations and programs that support them. The Fund is not duplicating, nor replacing. Rather, it is embracing and supporting the work of other wonderful organizations in the Green Bay area and the impact that they are making.

The Women's Fund not only makes grants but also offers programs to teach philanthropy. Teaching women and children that giving back can be a way of life will have a long term positive impact on our community. Pooling our dollars will encourage new philanthropists to become involved in our community, no matter what the size of their contribution, and women and girls will be empowered to make a difference by giving and receiving.