Bank of America Charitable Foundation: Economic Mobility focused on Needs of Community
Deadline: Applications accepted from May 31, 2021 through June 25, 2021
Amount: Not specified
Eligibility: Nonprofits in specific markets in California: • Bakersfield, CA • Fresno/Visalia, CA • Greater Sacramento, CA • Inland Empire (Riverside/San Bernardino/Ontario), CA • Los Angeles, CA • Monterey Bay, CA • Napa, Marin & Sonoma Counties, CA • Orange County, CA • San Diego, CA • San Francisco/East Bay, CA • San Luis Obispo, CA • Silicon Valley, CA • Ventura/Santa Barbara, CA
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation works to advance pathways to economic mobility in order to build thriving communities. Program provides support for affordable housing, neighborhood revitalization, and small businesses.
We see that gender inequalities in modern agricultural value chains are prevalent when men are concentrated in higher status, more remunerative contract farming since they generally control household land and labour, while women predominate as wage labourers in agro-industries, they are generally segregated in certain nodes of the chain (e.g. processing and packaging) that require relatively unskilled labour, reflecting cultural stereotypes on gender roles and abilities.
At this stage I would like to have special support for the women to enable them to participate in value chain development initiatives. The building blocks are fairly modest: such as health and child care, improve access to water and fuel, and upgrade infrastructure including market areas reserved and equipped for women with children,…
Woman in Bangladesh is already on board, let give her a little helping push.
Women are excluded from the most profitable activities in the agricultural value chain because of gender norms, such as their lack of assets and capital, restrictions on their spatial mobility and their inability to interact with other chain actors