The Metrowest Women’s Fund Announces $170,000 Investment in Women and Girls

Investment includes Single Mother Student Fund, 2023 Grantees, and Girls' Mental Health

Thanks to our generous community, we raised $60,000 to support the non-tuition needs of single mother students at MassBay Community College. 

• We are deeply appreciative of Liz and Phill Gross for their tremendous generosity.

• Thank you to the Litowitz Foundation for their strong, ongoing support.

• We are thankful for leadership gifts from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and Kyra Grenier, James Clayton Fund.

Together, we are supporting students like Amy achieve her dreams: 

“I am so appreciative of this help. The grant will allow me to continue to focus on my education and my son as I finish school and begin my career as a registered nurse. 

Being a recipient of this grant has taken weight off my shoulders. Please know that your support has a huge impact on myself and others. Thank you.”

The Metrowest Women’s Fund Grant Allocation Committee awarded a total of $85,000 to fifteen (15) non-profits serving the needs of women and girls in Metrowest.

Grant Impact Areas: Educational Opportunity, Girls: The Next Generation, and Safety From Violence.

Meet our 2023 Grant Recipients:

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass and Metrowest

• Boys and Girls Club of MetroWest

• Center for Women & Enterprise

• Dignity Matters

• DOVE, INC

• Family ACCESS of Newton

• Family Promise Metrowest

• Living in Freedom Together

• MetroWest Legal Services

• Project Just Because

• REACH Beyond Domestic Violence

• Rotary Club of Marlborough

• Voices Against Violence

• Women's Bar Foundation

• Women's Money Matters

Girls' Mental Health Impact Grant

This exciting new grant will support the expansion of a free digital well-being and STEAM summer workshop for middle school girls in Metrowest from low incomes.

The workshop is designed and run by the Youth, Media & Wellbeing Lab at Wellesley Centers for Women.