Immigrant Women Services - OM for/pour Educate Her

Immigrant Women Services - OM for/pour Educate Her

Grant programYouth Opportunities Fund
Grant typeYOF - Youth Innovations
Amount awarded$255,000
Duration36 months
Year2019-2020
Location served
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Champlain
Population servedBlack/Afro-diasporic/Afro-Caribbean and/or Afro-Latinx youth, Newcomer youth, Youth in low-income situations or from low-income families
Age group12 to 14 years, 15 to 19 years
DescriptionDelivering a project at the idea or conceptual stage with a $255,000 grant over 36 months to support digital literacy skills and STEM knowledge programs for Black young women between 13-17 years-old to develop their economic empowerment. There will be eight monthly bilingual digital literacy workshops and an annual two-week, bilingual summer camp to learn about future opportunities in the technology sector.
Grant resultEmpowering girls and young women to lead, including women's economic empowerment initiatives
Grant statusClosed