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Our Mission
Our mission is to serve women veterans and their children so that their next mission is clear and continues to impact the world. Our programs address the growing needs of the increasing population of military women transitioning to civilian life. We address the top four needs that women veterans have self-identified as crucial to the success of their transition: education, employment, housing, and childcare.
Who We Serve
We support working and student women veterans during periods of transition by investing in their success.
We know that working and student veterans struggle with high housing costs, childcare expenses, or unexpected financial setbacks during the military to civilian transition. Our financial and childcare assistance programs are designed to help veterans build financial resilience, maintain stability, and achieve professional goals.
We create a stable foundation for women veterans by:
- Delivering financial management education and budgeting to enhance the fiscal and overall wellbeing of veterans
- Providing financial assistance for rent, utilities, and household goods for women veterans during periods of transition
- Offsetting childcare costs to assist veterans with pursuing education and maintaining/advancing their employment
- Delivering women-focused professional development and offering an environment for women veterans to engage and support one another
- Helping women veterans locate and connect to resources needed to improve mental health, gain employment and/or secure or maintain housing
- Presenting access to scholarship, internship, and mentorship opportunities
Eligibility
Foundation for Women Warriors provides financial & childcare assistance programs to women veterans (and their children) who have been honorably discharged from the United States Military.
Eligibility for our financial & childcare assistance programs requires:
- An honorable (or general) discharge from the U.S. Military.
- Must be employed (active and verifiable employment) and/or enrolled in higher education (college or certificate program). *Unemployed veterans must work with an FFWW approved partner organization to seek work.
- Demonstrate financial need.
- Current resident of California, Virginia, New York, or New Jersey.
Eligibility is the first step in our financial assistance program application process. Those who demonstrate gross financial mismanagement and/or extreme debt, will be referred to ongoing financial counseling.
To Receive Assistance
If you’re unsure whether you are eligible, we encourage you to inquire. Our team will review your situation and connect you to the best resource available to meet your current needs.
Summary Of
Our Programs
Emergency Financial Assistance
We provide short-term, high impact financial assistance to prevent homelessness and ensure women veterans can maintain their housing and employment.
Childcare Assistance
We provide childcare stipends to student or working mothers that allows them to place their children in trusted and enriching care with any licensed childcare provider of their choosing. We also provide stipends for summer, spring break, and winter break camps for those children of veterans in grades 1 through 6 so that their care is uninterrupted during breaks in their school schedule.
Resources and Referrals
Our Warrior Connect program provides necessary information, resources, and referrals that are geographically desirable and address a variety of needs for our women veterans.
By leveraging our deep connections with hundreds of partners locally and nationwide, we provide real-time triage of the many issues that face our women veterans, without duplicating efforts.
Professional Development
Women Veterans Lead provides personal, professional, and leadership development education both in-person and online for our national community of women veterans. WVL improves the resilience and self-sufficiency of women veterans, so they are best equipped to provide stability and success for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Women veterans are able to complete education self-paced and/or apply to attend workshops in annual cohorts. Veterans are also given additional opportunities for continued mentorship and community service projects so that personal, professional, and leadership improvements continue beyond the curriculum.
Essential Goods Warehouse:
We collect and distribute cost reducing critical goods to military women and women veteran families. Providing essential housing and baby items such as cribs, car seats, diapers, wipes, and formula allows our families to reallocate their earnings to housing and utilities.
