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The Fund for Women & Girls of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Announces 2011 Grant Recipients

LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ – Four area nonprofits have been selected to receive grants of $10,000 each from
the Fund for Women & Girls, a program of the Princeton Area Community Foundation:
 
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TRENTON AND MERCER COUNTY     
Program: SMART (Skills, Mastery, and Resistance Training) Girls
 
SMART Girls helps at-risk girls develop healthy attitudes and lifestyles, so they make healthy choices that will
increase their chances of success in life.
 
 
MILLHILL CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION    
Program: Female Trenton PEERS (Performing, Educating and Entertaining about Responsible
Strategies) Empowerment and Education Program
 
PEERS empowers Trenton-area girls of color with the support, knowledge and skills needed to make responsible,
healthy life decisions and create their own bright, self-directed futures.
 
 
PEI KIDS          
Program: Intergenerational Support Group for girls who have been sexually abused and their mothers
 
This project focuses on healing, uniting young female victims of sexual abuse with their mothers or a female
caregiver to strengthen the maternal bond, encourage nurturing, improve communication and enhance the
existing support group component of the Crisis Intervention Program.
 
 
RISE           
Program: Safe Dates in E. Windsor Regional Middle School
 
Safe Dates works to prevent dating abuse by raising girls’ awareness of what constitutes healthy or abusive dating
relationships, talking about the causes and consequences of abuse, and changing adolescent norms about dating
violence.
 
 
About the Fund for Women & Girls
 
The Fund for Women & Girls is a passionate group of donors dedicated to making charitable gifts that
transform the lives of women in Mercer County.
 
Fund members work together as a giving circle to magnify the impact of their donations, pooling their
financial contributions, studying issues affecting women and girls, and collaboratively directing the
fund’s grant making. This program is convened by the Princeton Area Community Foundation. 
 
The Fund for Women and Girls makes competitive one-year grants to programs that benefit girls and
the women who raise them. Founded in 1998, the Fund has distributed over $250,000 to date to local
nonprofit programs.  
 
 
 
About the Princeton Area Community Foundation
 
The Community Foundation promotes philanthropy and builds community across Mercer County and
central New Jersey. It provides charitable giving expertise to individuals, nonprofits and corporations,
and makes grants to nonprofit organizations. Since its founding in 1991, the Community Foundation has
granted over $28 million back into the community. For more information please contact the Community
Foundation at 609-219-1800 or visit www.pacf.org