Women's Foundation of Oregon Immediate Impact grants are designed for organizations that meet our funding criteria to receive grants of up to $5,000 that will cover an urgent and unexpected need within six months. Applicants will receive a funding decision within three months from application. If selected, grantees will receive a check within three months of application. The Fund is reviewed quarterly, from July 1 - June 30. Applications that are deemed eligible but not chosen in their initial quarter of review will be kept on file for future review.

Learn More about the Immediate Impact Fund

Apply to the Immediate Impact Fund

Our next quarterly review of applications will be at the end of October 2019.

Note: If you'd like to assess your eligibility for The Immediate Impact Fund prior to filling out the application, please reach out to Program Manager, Ami Patel, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 971-230-1294 x570. 

Women’s Foundation of Oregon 2019-2020 Giving Project Grant Guidelines and LOI Questions

Thank you for your interest in applying to the Women’s Foundation Giving Project grantmaking cycle! The Women’s Foundation of Oregon is prioritizing using a Reproductive Justice framework for this year’s Giving Project grants. 

Please read the history and focus areas of reproductive justice to find out if you may be a fit for our our grantmaking this year. 

The History of Reproductive Justice

While this work has been happening long before its institutionalization by Black, Indigenous, People of Color, queer and trans people, disabled people, Reproductive Justice, as a term, originated with a collective of black women who gathered in Chicago in 1994, and culminated in the creation of Sistersong, a “national, multi-ethnic RJ movement.” SisterSong defines Reproductive Justice as "the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities." Learn more here: https://www.sistersong.net/reproductive-justice

Why Reproductive Justice?

RJ as a movement building and systems change strategy aligns with the following principles:

• Analyze power systems. 
• Address intersecting oppressions. 
• Center the most marginalized.
• Join together across issues and identities.

A Reproductive Justice framework centers communities working, building, and organizing at the intersection of multiple oppressions. 

Reproductive Justice Grantmaking Priority Areas

Here are a few (but not all) priority areas:

• Organizations led by and for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) communities
• Organizations led by and for queer & trans* communities
• Rural communities outside of the Portland Metro area and I-5 corridor
• Organizations collaborating with BIPOC and/or queer & trans* communities in a non-tokenizing way (for more information on tokenization, see here)
• Organizations focusing on systems change as part of their mission & values
• Organizations working with an understanding of integrated/connected social justice movements (for example, environmental justice, economic justice, disability justice)

If you are unsure if your program or organization aligns with our priority areas, please reach out to Ami Patel, Senior Program Manager, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

All of our grants are designed for general operating support. Since we are a smaller foundation, we aim to support organizations and programs whose use of the funds would provide considerable impact for their work. For a list of previous grantees and how they utilized our grants, please visit our Grantmaking page.

If you don’t represent an organization or program, you can help us by forwarding this survey to your favorite organizations that serve women and girls in Oregon. We can't wait to hear from them! If you have questions or want to go over our current criteria, please contact Ami Patel, Program Manager, by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or by phone at 971-230-1294.