The Women’s Fund of Essex County –– which provides grant funding to nonprofits which are working to improve the lives of women and girls in Essex County –– will be honoring its new grantees at its 2025 Grantee Recognition Breakfast on Oct. 7 at 7:30 a.m. at Danversport.
The 2025 grantees each received $300,000, three-year grants. These new grantees are as follows:
- Acord Food Pantry “Mobile Mart” in Essex, Hamilton, and Wenham
- Blueskies Behavioral Health Services “Creating a Peer-to-Peer Safety Net” in Greater Lawrence (Andover, Lawrence, Methuen, and North Andover)
- Casa Mariposa “Residence Program” in Lynn
- Harvey Girls Inc. “Career Navigation & Readiness for Young Women” in Andover, Haverhill, Methuen, and North Andover
- Haverhill Public Schools “GEMS Program: Girls Empowerment Means Success” in Haverhill
- Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center “Domestic Violence Family Law Program” in Greater Lawrence (Andover, Lawrence, Methuen, and North Andover), Greater Newburyport (Amesbury, Byfield, Newbury, Newburyport, Salisbury, and West Newbury), Boxford, Georgetown, Groveland, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Merrimack.
- Lifebridge “River House Women’s Shelter” in Cape Ann (Essex, Gloucester, Manchester-by-the-Sea, and Rockport) and North Shore Essex County (Beverly, Danvers, Gloucester, Lynn, Marblehead, Nahant, Peabody, Rockport, Salem, and Swampscott)
- Neighbors in Need “Diaper Pantry and Delivery Program” in Andover, Lawrence, Methuen, and North Andover.
- Seaglass Village “Membership Subsidization Program for Senior” in Marblehead, Nahant, and Swampscott.
- Si, Se Puede “Empowering Young Women Program” in Lawrence.
At this breakfast, one of these organizations will be honored with the Above & Beyond Grant, which is an unrestricted way to help them improve and grow their mission. The Women’s Fund Communications Lead Elizabeth Darragh is asking community members to “come and meet some of these organizations” and “attend the breakfast.”
Darragh said the breakfast will have four speakers, which will each speak for no longer than 3 minutes to “give highlights about what they’re doing, what their organizations are doing.” She added that her work with The Women’s Fund is “a labor of love.”
“We are really, you know, grassroots, doing what we can to help these nonprofits that are focused on women and girls,” Darragh said.
To get tickets to the Oct. 7 breakfast, visit tinyurl.com/EWF-breakfast. To learn more about The Women’s Fund of Essex County, visit thewomensfundec.org/.
