Gender Equity New York City

Grants are made to

Develop the leadership of girls and gender-expansive young people, including through youth-led activism and civic engagement. Priority will be given to projects that:

• Have demonstrated expertise in mobilizing girls and gender-expansive young people to pursue social change, influence policies that directly affect them, and get involved in civic life. 
• Have a well-articulated rationale for offering gender-specific programming. 
• Are serving at least three public schools or working with young people outside of school settings. 

Promote economic mobility among women and gender-expansive people. The Trust will support projects that:  

• Take a systemic approach to reducing gender-based wage gaps, including advocating to increase access to affordable child care and reform the child support system. 
• Seek to improve working conditions in industries dominated by women and gender-expansive people, and reduce gender-based discrimination in the workplace. 
• Provide workforce training, placement, and post-placement services to women and gender-expansive people, especially in high-paying fields where women and gender-expansive people are underrepresented. 

Improve programs and services for survivors of gender-based violence, including intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and commercial sexual exploitation. Priority will be given to projects that:  

• Research and test new approaches to identifying and serving survivors of gender-based violence and their families. 
• Make discussions about gender-based violence more common and encourage survivors to seek help. 
• Advocate for increased protections and resources for survivors of gender-based violence.

Improve reproductive, maternal, and mental health care for girls, women, and gender-expansive people and increase the quality and availability of sexual health education. We will support projects that:  

• Train the health care workforce to identify and address disparities in health outcomes affecting girls, women, and gender-expansive people. 
• Offer gender-specific services aimed at improving the health and mental health of girls, women, and gender-expansive people. 
• Advocate for mandatory, comprehensive sexual health education in public schools.
• Provide young people, including boys, with age-appropriate instruction on healthy relationships and sexual consent.