Business Women's Giving Circle
Community Foundation for Northern Virginia
A donor giving circle at a community foundation whose members pool funds and choose grantees supporting business innovation, entrepreneurship and inventive opportunities for women and girls in Northern Virginia.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No per-grant range is published. The page reports $70,000 awarded in total in 2025 across five organizations; that is a pool total, not a stated award size.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · SepNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The page states "Applications open September 1 through September 30, 5:00 pm" without naming a year, so treat it as an annual September window rather than a confirmed date. A companion circle, the Loudoun Impact Fund, was listed as closed.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Organizations serving the Northern Virginia region whose work promotes business innovation, entrepreneurship and opportunity for women and girls. Circle members review and select grantees, so proposals must read to a lay donor panel rather than a scientific review committee.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- women and girls · entrepreneurship · workforce · regional grantmaking
- Apply at
- https://www.cfnova.org/grants-and-scholarships/grants/giving-circle-grant-cycles
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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