PORTLAND — The Maine Women’s Fund is conducting a statewide needs assessment to inform its grant making.
Economic security is the priority of the Fund’s grant making program.
“Volunteer groups statewide are meeting to review data provided by the Fund on various issues affecting women and girls,” said Georgia Nigro, chairwoman of the Grants Committee and lead volunteer of the needs assessment project. “The goal of each meeting is to articulate to the Fund what are found to be the regional priority issues of need for women and girls.”
Meetings will have been held in fourteen of Maine’s sixteen counties in February. For the entire list of statewide meetings, visit www.mainewomensfund.org/ in_ your_ community/overvie w/.
The events are free and open to the public.
The Fund is the only philanthropic source of funds in Maine dedicated solely to support programs affecting women and girls, the group said in a news release.
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