Women Building Community Fund

The Women BuildINg Community Fund (WBC) focuses on building strategies to strengthen the economic and human investment in women as leaders. The Women BuildINg Community Fund strives to strengthen local efforts across various distinct sectors: health, economics, and environment utilizing a reproductive/social justice framework and provides opportunities for consciousness-raising through exploration and discussion of issues impacting women. The WBC has a special emphasis on strengthening the leadership of women of color.

As a peer-learning network, WBC grant recipients demonstrate that together women of color can address social inequities and impact social change by planning strategically across multiple issues and by sharing best practices in service delivery, advocacy, organizing, program, and fund development.

Nine organizations comprise the WBC Funders Collaborative 2009 recipients:

• Enlace Comunitario – Alb./Central NM (focus: leadership development/information resourcereferrals/self-sufficiency-population: primarily immigrant women-girls)
• El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos – Alb./Central NM (focus: leadership development/information resource and referrals /safe communities-population: primarily immigrant families)
• La Casa, Inc. – Las Cruces/Southern NM-Mexico Border Region (focus: leadership development/information resource and referrals /self-sufficiency-population: primarily women-girls)
• New Mexico Teen Pregnancy Coalition – Alb./Statewide (focus: leadership development/information resource and referrals-population: primarily youth)
• Somos Un Pueblo Unido – Santa Fe/Northern NM (focus: leadership development/ information resource and referrals/safe communities and work environments-population: primarily immigrant families)
• Southwest Creations Collaborative – Alb./Central NM (focus: leadership development/selfsufficiency-family asset-building-population: primarily immigrant women)
• Tewa Women United – Española/Northern NM (focus: leadership development/ information resource and referrals/safe communities and environment-population: primarily Native American women-girls)
• Women’s Intercultural Center – Anthony/So. NM-MX Border Region (focus: leadership development/self-sufficiency-family asset-building-population: primarily immigrant women-girls)
• Young Women United – Alb./Statewide (focus: leadership development/information resource and referrals-population: primarily young women-girls)