Community Grants

Our Annual Fundraiser Supports Grants to Local Community Organizations that Share Zonta’s Mission

  UNIDOS, a Zonta Madison Community Grant Beneficiary

Zonta Madison carefully selects every program we support to be effective in empowering women  and girls. The organizations must have 501(c)3 status. Application for project grants is by invitation only from the Zonta Madison Foundation. Club members also often provide hands-on service to the organizations we fund, adding valuable professional woman-power to the financial resources we are able to provide.

Two thirds of our net fundraising profits go to local causes while the remaining one third supports Zonta International projects. We have funded local projects at Domestic Abuse Intervention Services, Felicia’s Donation Closet,  The Road Home, Girls on the Run, Project Respect,  UNIDOS WI, Maydm, Dane County RCC Sexual Violence Resource Center, the WI Alliance for Women’s Health, BriarPatch, and Positive Women for Change,

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From 2019 through 2023 the Zonta Club of Madison’s held the  Lunafest Film Festival of films by, about and for women. Funds raised benefitted programs that support women in Dane County and Zonta International projects worldwide.

From 2009 through 2018 we held an annual Zonta Zing, raising over $100,000 to support projects that empower women and girls.