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-OPTIONAL FUNDING PROGRAMS
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For those of you who are interested in helping battered women through alternate funding sources, please allow us to suggest three excellent national organizations:
- ACCION USA (Micro-loans for business start-up)
- The Jeannette Rankin Foundation (Scholarships for women 35 years and older)
- United Way (Matched IDA Accounts for business start-up and home ownership)
We have provided brief web site excerpts, links, and contact information for each of the above.
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ACCION
Entrepreneurial programs at the micro-funding level offered by Accion International (www.accionusa.org) can be targeted toward assisting victim-survivors with small business start-up. Many such survivors already possess the creative ability, business skills and desire to insure entrepreneurial success.
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ACCION USA's mission is to make access to credit a permanent resource to low- and moderate-income small businesses owners in the United States. By providing small or "micro" loans to men and women who have been shut out of the traditional banking sector, ACCION helps build their businesses and increase their incomes.
ACCION sees business credit as a resource that can help narrow the income gap and provide economic opportunity, thereby stabilizing and strengthening communities and economies. At the heart of this vision is the recognition that microlending institutions must be financially sustainable, not perennially dependent on donations or government aid. For this reason, ACCION's microlending programs seek to become financially self-sufficient.
For additional information, please contact:
ACCION (Atlanta Office)
404-521-0594
e-mail: atlantaloans@accion.org
http://www.accionatlanta.org/
To make donations, please e-mail ACCION at donate@accion.org.
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The Jeannette Rankin Foundation
The Jeannette Rankin Foundation (www.rankinfoundation.org) offers scholarship funding for women, thirty-five years and older, who are pursuing academic study. Funding can be specifically designed for former and present battered women desirous of returning to school for skills upgrade.
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The Jeannette Rankin Foundation (JRF) raises funds for and awards scholarships annually to women thirty-five years of age and older who through undergraduate or vocational education are seeking to better themselves, their families, and their communities. In working toward these ends, JRF continues the legacy of Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress and a proponent of peace and women's and children's rights.
For additional information, or to make a donation please contact:
Shelley Serdahely
info@rankinfoundation.org
706-208-1211 .
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Phyllis Walker
Esperanza! / A Woman's Hope
PO Box 384
Lovejoy, GA 30250
Phone: 770-210-1187
E-mail: womanshope@bellsouth.net
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