Women’s Impact Fund Awards Event 2026

In 2025, our membership selected grantees based on those providing support to at-risk women and children in the Suffolk and greater Western Tidewater area. Our list of 2025 grantees is as follows:

• Western Tidewater Free Clinic received a total award of $3700 to support healthcare costs for 2 women in the Suffolk and Western Tidewater region who could not otherwise afford care. Patients receive medical, dental, vision, and mental health services, as well as one on one patient education, medications and pharmacy consultations and access to offsite specialty services, screenings, and surgeries.
• Coalition Against Poverty in Suffolk received a total award of $5000 to provide emergency assistance to keep Suffolk and Western Tidewater residents in their homes. This may include rent/ deposit assistance, assistance with utility bills, or any other type of emergency service to bridge the gap to prevent homelessness.
• Girls on the Run Hampton Roads received a total grant of $2550 to provide program fee assistance to girls from low-income households in Suffolk and Western Tidewater. Their mission is to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using fun, experience-based curricula that creatively integrates running.
• The Children’s Center received a total grant of $2000 to support an early intervention play group to support and empower mothers and toddlers. The children in this play group are not developing as expected or have a disability. This grant will assist with toys and equipment that must be adaptive for children with special needs.
• Children’s Harbor received a total grant of $2000 to support their emergency voucher program for childcare. The target population for the Emergency Voucher Program are parents of children ages six weeks to twelve years old whose family is experiencing a crisis that prohibits them from keeping their children in quality, stable childcare. Approximately 80% of families applying for the Emergency Voucher Program are low-income according to the Federal Poverty Guidelines. When parents can send their children to childcare, they gain the necessary time to address a crisis.
• Heart of Gold Shelter received a grant for $1,000 for their Empower the Mind program, which assists women with resume development and additional job support skills as well as to support their emergency hotel voucher program, allowing them to provide emergency housing when women in Suffolk and Western Tidewater are fleeing an untenable situation, including domestic violence.
• Suffolk Christian Fellowship Center received a grant for $4500 to expand mini mobile market distributions and increase targeted outreach, bringing food and wraparound services directly to women and children directly where they live and work. Suffolk Christian Fellowship plans to serve food to insecure women and children in Suffolk and Western Tidewater, focusing on families with transportation challenges and living in food deserts.
• The College and Career Academy at Pruden received a total grant of $1650 to provide tuition and supplies support for students enrolled in the Cosmetology Program. The College and Career Academy at Pruden provides students with career opportunities designed to promote personal and professional development.