Women's Fund of Weld County

**WHO WE ARE** **Building a Stronger Weld County** The Women's Fund of Weld County, Inc. was founded in 1999 by women from the Weld County community dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls. The Women's Fund was established with the purpose of creating an endowment fund. This fund supports programs that address the unmet needs of women and girls in Weld County to enable them to become self-confident, independent, contributing members of the community. **OBJECTIVES** The Fund supports projects and programs which are sensitive to the cultural and special needs of women and enhance women's educational success and self-sufficiency. Projects which may: - Enable girls and women to become self-supporting through job training, education and job placement, - Support women in their combined roles as workers and head of household, - Focus on economic development, such as job creation - Assist women and girls in career counseling, business planning and job seeking skills. **Immediate Objectives** - Raise an initial endowment to distribute grants made from the earnings of the fund. - Pool the fund's assets with endowed funds located in the Weld Community Foundation in order to maximize investment return while prudently managing risk and minimizing administrative overhead. - Create a financial means to address gender-related problems particular to women, focusing on education for women and girls and economic self-sufficiency. - Further opportunities for individuals, corporations and foundation to improve the well-being of area women and girls.