The IU Women’s Philanthropy Leadership Council awarded $105,000 total in grants to 11 programs affiliated with five IU campuses and one regional center.
This is the fifth anniversary of the grant program with cumulative awards totaling more than $500,000 since 2012.
The awards range from $3,000 to $20,000 and support projects to improve public health, support women’s leadership initiatives, increase opportunities for diverse and underserved populations, and provide global experiences at IU Bloomington, IU East, IU Kokomo, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis/Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus and IU-South Bend, according to an IU press release.
There were 28 grant applicants this year.
The winners at IU Bloomington are the Workplace Simulation Project, Center for P-16 Research and Collaboration at IU Bloomington, Student Sexual Health and Awareness Campaign, Kinsey Institute at IU Bloomington, International Women’s Day Conference, Gender & Women’s Affairs at IU Bloomington
“We were impressed by the applications we received, which reflect the creativity and commitment of the applicants to IU students, the IU community, our state and beyond,” said council member and Grants Working Group chair Judy Summerville in a press release. “It is a challenging process to select awardees as we receive more worthy applications than we can currently fund.”
Well House Society fully funded the Student Outreach Clinic of the IU School of Medicine’s Department of Ophthalmology on the IUPUI campus, and it provided additional support to the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington and IUPUI’s School of Social Work.
“The Women’s Philanthropy Leadership Council was created to work together to support the innovative work of IU faculty, students and staff,” Summerville said in a press release. “We help new initiatives get started, expand the reach of current programs and provide special opportunities through the IU campus system.”
The funding makes a difference for the populations the grant recipients’ projects serve and may even save lives, according to Rosalie S. Aldrich, assistant professor in communication studies at IU-East Richmond. One of this year’s grant awards will expand suicide prevention training on the IU East campus, according to a press release.
“I am excited and grateful to receive the WPLC grant,” Aldrich said in a press release. “This funding will allow me to continue to offer multiple suicide prevention trainings to faculty, staff and students at IU East with the hopes of increasing the willingness to intervene when someone is suicidal and ultimately save lives.”
The remaining recipients for the grants are the Examining Suicide Intervention Training and Its Effectiveness, Rosalie S. Aldrich at IU East, Supporting Student Persistence in Traditionally Underserved and Underrepresented Student Populations at IU-Kokomo, Pathway to Success for Practicing Nurses, School of Nursing at IUPUC, MAC-Tech: Mentoring for Accessible Careers through Technology, School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI, Building Hopes, Creating Change: International Service-Learning in Post-War Communities, School of Social Work at IUPUI, Girls STEM Institute, Crystal Morton at IUPUI, Community Outreach, Office for Women at IUPUI/IUPUC, Raclin School of the Arts 25th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture Series and the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts at IU South Bend.
