In my life I have been helped as a writer to do my work.

I think it’s fair that I help others.

- Barbara Deming

Barbara Deming, 1959. Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Over 750 creative women have received grants since 1985.

Founded in 1975 by writer and social justice activist Barbara Deming, Money for Women is the oldest ongoing feminist granting agency in the US and Canada. Grants from the foundation give monetary support and encouragement to feminist writers and visual artists who are women (cis or transgender) or nonbinary. The Fund relies on a volunteer Board of Directors and carefully chosen judges who collaborate in making awards. While other grant sources have come and gone, Money for Women is now in its sixth decade – still feminist and still willing to take risks.

  • Joining the ranks of admired past recipients gave me hope that I could fulfill my creative vision.

    – Yalitza Ferreras, fiction, 2016

  • With the support from the Deming Fund, I pushed through a project I had been working on for more than a decade.

    — Khadijah Queen, nonfiction, 2019

  • I was able to purchase professional, archival supplies that allowed for a much stronger outcome for my project.

    —Holly Wong, visual art, 2006

  • The award is not simply money to work, but confidence to move forward and meet the world.

    —Maureen Cummins, visual art, 2001

  • Just when I wanted to give up, the grant was a statement of faith in me and my project that motivated me to power on. I was, and am, so grateful.

    — Jennifer Lunden, nonfiction, 2015

  • The fund’s support early in my career was a much-needed vote of confidence.

    — Yalitza Ferreras, fiction, 2016

  • The grant validated me as an emerging feminist writer.

    —Julie Marie Wade, nonfiction, 2012

  • Receiving the grant included me in a lineage of queer feminist writers who have always depended upon mutual aid to complete our work.

    —Melissa Febos, nonfiction, 2013

  • I’m grateful that the Deming Foundation empowers the voices of so many diverse women writers.

    —Elise Atchison, fiction, 2013