Women & Children Welfare

We will support organizations that help us achieve our goal of Striving to make sustainable improvements in women's and children’s rights education and welfare.

To whom we help:

Children

Too many children in the US and across the world live in poverty and lack access to education. Education and/or appropriate skills training are necessary to break the cycle of poverty and crime. While the assistance to women may take many forms,  the foundation’s focus for children will target education and/ or skills training. The Foundation is open to many ideas on how to accomplish this goal and looks forward to receiving proposals to help all children achieve their potential.

Women

The Foundation’s goal is to provide women with assistance and provide them with an opportunity to succeed. Assistance can take many forms; however, our goal is to help them become self-sufficient and enable them to lift themselves out of poverty and provide for their children. Access to education, job training, professional skills, and even access to capital to build a business are possible ways we will consider helping women to succeed. Grant requests should focus on enabling women to sustain financial independence.

The Foundation is expanding its scope to include environmental and animal protection, particularly when they can be incorporated into helping Women and Children.  For example, last year we sponsored women farmers trained in sustainable agricultural practices,  we provided funds to women rangers hired to protect endangered species, we sponsored solar lights for children to study, no longer requiring them to depend on oil lamps and coal.

We look forward to hearing about the many creative ways organizations are working on helping women succeed throughout the world. To help women is to help their children and the communities they live in.

The Foundation will consider requests for multi-year projects, but the grantee will have to report on predetermined stage gates and measures of progress and request subsequent year funds.

Completed Grant Applications should be:

Emailed Robert-  

robert.r.fox@bofa.com and Leslie.a.hulewicz@bofa.com

Please make sure to include “McQuade Foundation” in the subject line of the email.