Foundation donates to women's programs

The Ventura County Community Foundation's Women's Legacy Fund has awarded nine grants totaling $66,000 to programs for women and girls in Ventura County.

The grants were awarded to programs which focus on domestic violence prevention and service programs, and programs that provide education, training and economic opportunities for women and girls.

The following programs received grants:

•Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ventura County's Girls Can and Will Program, $7,500

•City Impact's Job Shadowing Program, $8,000

•Interface Children Family Services' Teen Dating Violence Prevention Youth Empowerment Program, $5,000

•Many Mansions' job and career development activities at Stoll House, $8,000

•Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project's Replacing Violence with Respect: Domestic Violence and the Mixtec Community Project, $7,000

•Rain Communities Inc.'s Moving Forward Program, $10,000

•Rescue Mission Alliance's the Lighthouse Women and Children's Mission, $6,000

•Westminster Free Clinic's Teen Healthcare Training Program, $8,500

•Women's Economic Ventures' Business Readiness Workshops and Self Employment Training Programs, $6,000

The Women's Legacy Fund was established in 1995 through donations to an endowment fund that would provide a source of capital to provide area nonprofits with grants to focus on addressing the needs of women and girls in Ventura County.

For more information, call Catherine Lee at (805) 988-0196, ext. 133.