Valentine Fund for Visionary Leadership (Pennsylvania)

 
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    Funder Type

    Private Foundation

    IT Classification

    C - Funds little to no technology

    Authority

    The Valentine Foundation

    Summary

    The Valentine Fund for Visionary Leadership provides funding for leadership training for women executives in the non-profit sector. The purpose of the Fund is to strengthen the organizations that improve the lives of women and girls in the Greater Philadelphia region by:
    • Making current women leaders more effective;
    • Developing the next generation of women leaders; and
    • Fostering a community of women leaders.
     
    Applicant organizations must serve at least 85% female (including transgender) population, OR have a program that serves 100% women and/or girls. If the organization is eligible because it has a program specifically for women and/or girls, then any individual leader(s) who benefit from this grant funding must have an active role within or responsibility for said program.

    Leadership characteristics include:
    • Demonstration of innovation (takes initiative, is not risk averse);
    • Credibility (knowledge of issues from the standpoint of content and policy. Demonstrated capacity for strategic synthesis of knowledge and practice);
    • Demonstration of the capacity to influence others with or without the formal authority or title;
    • Demonstration of the capacity to respect followers, promote their voices, and protect their interests;
    • Exhibition of generosity: Share knowledge, share power, share resources in the interest of an aim;
    • Demonstration of life decisions and actions that are consistent with a set of core values/core ethics; and
    • Demonstration of effectiveness. Achievements, even if modest, that reflect intelligence, creativity, vision, advocacy, and a healthy balance of outrage and optimism.

     
     

    History of Funding

    None is available.

    Additional Information

    Examples of Leadership Development Initiatives include, but are not limited to:
    • Conferences and or workshops that are part of a larger leadership development strategy;
    • Training and or coaching either brought in house or provided externally;
    • Courses or certificates offered by local colleges and universities that are directly related to building leadership capacity/characteristics, not merely content or field knowledge;
    • Succession planning;
    • NELI (Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute at Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research): Certificate for Executive Leaders or Certificate for Ascending Leaders;
    • The Non Profit Center at La Salle University: Leadership Development options including CLEAR Circles for Executive Directors and Emerging Leaders; and
    • Leadership Philadelphia

    Contacts

    Alexandra Frazier

    Alexandra Frazier
    409 Merion Hill Lane
    West Conshohocken,
    (610) 525-7200
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Eligible applicants are nonprofit organizations with paid staff operating in Southeastern Pennsylvania whose primary focus and mission-driven activities serve to benefit women and/or girls either through direct service, advocacy, public policy or capacity building.

    Deadline Details

    The deadline to submit applications was July 22, 2016. A similar deadline is anticipated annually.

    Award Details

    $20,000 to $25,000 is available in total funding. 1 to 5 awards are expected to be made.

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