FAUSA supports:
Projects that benefit women and children
Our Annual Grant which focuses on work in the Americas
Education Awards and Development Grants programs of The FAWCO Foundation
A Note from the 3rd VP, Philanthropy
Wow! What a crazy first term this has been for me. I have met so many wonderful people through FAUSA and have enjoyed many of the activities that FAUSA now offers, including an exhilarating experience at the Getaway in Santa Fe, and again in Nashville! My husband and I returned from Brussels in 2019, and in 2020 my husband took an interim position, so I was living alone in a new house! FAUSA came to my rescue during that time. I have always been involved in church philanthropy as my husband is a pastor, but the amount of good that FAUSA and its sister organizations accomplish is truly amazing. FAUSA itself has awarded more than $58,000 through Grants, and given over $248,000 in donations to FAWCO’s grants, awards and projects. Our members are truly generous and amazing. We are all philanthropic in one way or another and, by becoming members of FAUSA, we are showing the world we CARE and are willing to SHARE. As I begin a second term, with my new title of FAUSA 3rd VP, Philanthropy, just remember, together we do great things!
Susan Frick, FAUSA 3rd VP, Philanthropy 2021-2023
The seeds of the FAUSA Philanthropic program were planted in 1997 with donations of backpacks filled with books and school supplies for children in Bogotá, Colombia. FAUSA’s philanthropy has evolved through the years to become a dedicated and reliable support for FAWCO and The FAWCO Foundation. In 2018, FAUSA was granted tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status to better enable our members and other supporters to donate to our causes.
2024-2025 FAUSA Grant Recipients
Do you have a favorite charity that you support to nominate for one of our FAUSA Annual Grants?
It’s time to apply for our FAUSA Annual Grant. At our Annual meeting in Long Beach, California on Saturday, September 28, we will be giving away two grants in the amount of $10,000 each. This year’s application form is available through Google Forms. The only qualifications are that 1) the nominating member has been a FAUSA member for one year or transferred from a FAWCO club in good standing, 2) the member has had some type of involvement with the charity, and 3) the submission should be received before September 1, 2024. New this year, 4) your charity can be located anywhere in the world, but one of our two FAUSA Annual Grant recipients must be from the US or Canada. Further information is available through our 3rd VP, Susan Frick.
2023-2024 FAUSA Grant Recipients
Tewa Women United: A’Gin Healthy Sexuality and Body Sovereignty - Braided Curriculum Project, nominated by Liz Jansen
Tewa Women United is a multicultural and multiracial organization founded and led by Native women, located in the ancestral Tewa homelands of Northern New Mexico. The name “Tewa Women United” comes from the Tewa words, wi don gi mu, which can be translated as “we are one” in mind, heart and the spirit of love for all. The director of Tewa Women United was the inspiring keynote speaker at the 2022 Getaway in Santa Fe.
The $5,000 grant will be used to further implement Tewa Women United’s culturally congruent A’Gin Braided Curriculum for middle and high school students. (A’Gin means respect for self and others.) The curriculum addresses healthy decision making, comprehensive sex education, awareness of gender-based violence, suicide prevention and teen-pregnancy prevention. The “braiding” results from Tewa Women United combining its A’Gin curriculum with its Healthy Masculinities curriculum, and adapting it to shorter, more flexible sessions for use with various populations.
The project supports the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:
- #3 Good Health & Well Being
- #4 Quality Education, #5 Gender Equity
- #15 Life on the Land.
Refugee Assistance Alliance: Family sponsorship in southern Florida, nominated by Jennifer Padfield
Refugee Assistance Alliance trains ordinary people to help the most vulnerable refugees in South Florida with vital support services to survive and thrive in their new communities. RAA’s volunteers, employees and donors assist refugees with language, education, employment, and community navigation, to help them feel at home among us – and to empower refugees and unite neighbors, thereby strengthening communities.
The $5,000 grant will be used to provide proportional rental assistance (on a diminishing monthly basis to counter dependency) and financial aid to refugee families for emergencies. RAA’s clients are refugees fleeing war; they arrive with nothing. After a few months of federal assistance ends, they struggle against extreme economic and social vulnerability, and therefore struggle to progress in RRA’s programs to learn English, apply for better jobs, advocate for their children in school. The rental and emergency assistance is meant to help overcome extreme economic precariousness, and enable the recipients to move forward with ownership of their own futures.
This project supports the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:
- #1 No poverty
- #2 Zero Hunger
- #3 Good Health & Well Being
- #4 Quality Education
- #8 Decent Work & Economic Growth
- #10 Reduced Inequalities, and
- #11 Sustainable Cities and Communities.
Recent FAUSA Supported FAWCO Development Grants
2023 FAUSA Effecting Change for Women and Children at Risk Development Grant: $4000 (made possible by the Coughlan Foundation)
Recipient: Refugee Assistance Alliance - Community sponsorship, South Florida, USA, Nominated by: FAUSA
RAA helps forcibly displaced people from Afghanistan, Syria, Latin America or other nationalities. Through RAA, newcomers isolated by language and culture find connections, support and a sense of belonging in our land. RAA trains ordinary people to help refugees.
2022 FAUSA Effecting Change for Women and Children at Risk Development Grant: $4,000
Recipent: Empowering Community Health Workers in a Haitian Shantytown, Cité Soleil, Haiti
Past FAUSA-supported Development Grants can be found at the end of this page, and on The FAWCO Foundation site.
Recent FAUSA Supported FAWCO Educational Awards
2023 FAUSA Skills Enhancement Award, $4000
Recipient: Doan-Trang (Suzy) Nguyen, member of AWC Berlin
2022 FAUSA Skills Enhancement Award, $4000
Recipient: Brooke Viertel, member of AWC Hamburg
2021 FAUSA Skills Enhancement Award: $4000
Recipient: Andrea Stoddard
Past FAUSA Educational Awards can be found here.
2023-2025 Current FAWCO Target Project
Awesome Blossoms: An Urban Farming Project, Edible Fresh Fields for Sustainable Life in the Slums, Nairobi, Kenya
This is an initiative taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit the negative impacts of climate change. FAUSA has already been credited with over $5000 in donations to this new Target Project.
2020-2022 FAWCO Target Project
S.A.F.E. (Safe Alternatives for Female Genital Mutilation)
Hope for Girls & Women, Tanzania
The initial goal for this project was $140,000 and the FAWCO community raised just over $177,000! FAUSA raised $9468 for Target 4 and achieved Diamond Donor Status.
Previous FAUSA-Awarded Projects (currently called the FAUSA Annual Grant)
The following is a summary of previous projects supported by FAUSA.
- Lamp for Haiti - Cité Soleil, Port-au- Prince 2021, 2022
- Veronica’s Voice - Kansas City, Kansas in 2019, 2020
- Operation Bootstrap Monduli, Tanzania - 2020
- Love People Not Pixels (now called Demand Disruption) - Houston, TX - 2020
- Pathways to Safety Internat'l (formerly American Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center) Portland, OR - 2006, 2018
- Turning Point Suffragist Memorial in Lorton, VA - 2018
- Portlight Inclusive Disaster Strategies in Houston, Texas - 2017
- The Urban Farming Guys in Kansas City, MO - 2017
- 4 Girls Foundation in Long Beach, CA - 2016
- Friends of Paradies des Indiens, Inc in Haiti - 2015
- San Francisco Safe House in San Francisco, CA - 2014
- The Eleanor Roosevelt Girls’ Leadership Program - 2013
- Houston Rescue and Restore Coalition, Girls Prevention Program in Houston, Texas - 2011
- The Aleethia Foundation Secret Santa Program at Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, MD - 2011
- El Maestro En Casa, a literacy program broadcast by Radio San Miguel in the Amazon region of northern Bolivia - 2009
- Kids Help Project (TFF/FAUSA) school bags for students in Bogata, Columbia - 2007
- Amazon Children's Foundation in Rireralta, Bolivia - 2006, 2008
- The FAWCO Millennium Goal Treated Malaria Net Project - 2005
- Estancia Fraternidad in Oaxaca, Mexico - 2004-2009
- The Johanna Cecilia School in Guyana - 2004
- The FAWCO Emergency Relief Fund
- Project Beloved - United States - 2022
- Lamp for Haiti - Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince - 2021, 2022
- Veronica’s Voice - Kansas City, Kansas - 2019, 2020
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