Cheryl Saban Self-Worth Foundation for Women and Girls

The Cheryl Saban Self-Worth Foundation for Women and Girls believes that gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is fundamental to changing society for the better for all humankind. The Foundation uses its resources to help balance the scales by providing grants to organizations to address the health, education, welfare, empowerment, and political advancement of women and girls.

Grants are provided to organizations in the United States, Israel, and around the globe.

The Foundation primarily supports programs that seek to educate, advance, and empower girls and women of all ages, particularly in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. Examples of such programs include micro-finance, micro-enterprise, and scholarship programs geared toward enabling women to reach financial self-sufficiency and programs geared toward financial education and asset building, and that otherwise seek to advance women in their communities.

Current grantmaking areas include: 

• women's empowerment and leadership training, including small business training programs, women’s financial training initiatives, and outreach programs;
• educational scholarships and STEM programs, including teacher training programs;
• healthcare and family planning; and, 
• advocacy for women's rights. 

The Foundation invites proposals from 501(c)(3) organizations for programs that:

• ​seek to educate, advance, and empower women and girls beyond providing for immediate basic needs;
• implement and teach entrepreneurial principles, training, and practices, including supporting the initial stages of new women-run enterprises;
• establish groundwork for long-term sustainability of women-owned enterprises;
• focus beyond basic needs of women to build intellectual, social, economic, and emotional strengths;
• teach the skills of financial literacy, personal money management, business practices, and job-seeking skills;
• support and guide women through the steps of business planning and forming their own enterprises;
• provide access to credit needed to start or grow micro-enterprises;
• provide access to finance and technical assistance to small and growing women-owned and operated businesses in any sector of the economy;
• increase access to education for women, and support innovative teaching strategies that increase the achievement of women and improve literacy levels;
• encourage women to put their financial knowledge into action by taking advantage of asset-building services such as insurance, remittances, savings, matched savings, home ownership, and tax credit programs; and,
• increase understanding of the role of financial education in changing financial behaviors and producing positive financial outcomes for participants.

The Foundation does not provide funding to/for:

• lobbying activities;
• startup costs or seed money;
• annual fundraising drives;
• projects undertaken by individuals;
• general support (for first-time grantees); or,
• capital costs, including equipment or real estate purchases or renovations.

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