2025 GEEP Grantees: Reimagining the Care Economy
WOMEN’S WAY is proud to announce the 2025 grantees of the Gender Economic Equity Program (GEEP), a new initiative investing in the care economy as a pathway to gender equity. GEEP strengthens local organizations that are building systems grounded in dignity, love, and liberation through multi-year general operating support, peer learning, and capacity building.
Over three years, four GEEP grantees will each receive $235,000 to support general operations, invest in staff wellness, and pilot a gender equity initiative. They will also participate in a Community of Practice and Gender Equity Designer program, which provides spaces for collective learning, creation, and connection with peers doing similar work.
GEEP is made possible through the support of Vanguard, whose investment reflects a commitment to community-led solutions that drive long-term financial stability, promote wealth building and economic mobility, and strengthen financial ecosystems in under-resourced communities.
Meet Our Grantee Partners
Along the Way
The mission of Along The Way is to provide community, acceptance, and hope to women along life's journey. They strive to uplift and empower women to succeed in their careers and further their education by providing much-needed services for low-income single mothers. Their flagship service is free and very low-cost in-home childcare, based on income. In addition, they provide holistic support services such as: free legal consultation, resource coordination for community members, holistic whole family case management, employment referrals, evidence-based parent education groups, discount car mechanic rates, and a car purchase program.
Connectedly
Connectedly’s mission is to strengthen community support networks, reduce social isolation, and improve the well-being of older adults, especially women and their families. They are focused on Grandparent caregivers, older adults living independently, and homebound adults. Connectedly is guided by its mission and centered on its vision of enhancing equity and well-being of low-income older women of color in Philadelphia.
Therapy Center of Philadelphia
The Therapy Center of Philadelphia’s mission is to nurture individual well-being and personal growth by providing high-quality, affordable psychotherapeutic services to women, transgender, and gender non-conforming communities. They work from an intersectional framework that attends to aspects of social location and oppression as integral to the therapy relationship and work.
Women in Dialogue
Women in Dialogue brings communities together by bringing women together to address our common concerns. Their goals are to get caregiving work done overwhelmingly by women and girls, waged and unwaged, recognized and valued in policies and resource allocation, including entitlement to welfare, social security, earned income, and child tax credits, pay equity, guaranteed care income, and pensions. Our belief is that community development begins with grassroots directly-impacted women speaking up and acting on our own behalf and collaborating with others.
Together, these four grantees are showing what’s possible when we value care, center equity, and invest in innovative care models to drive long-term social transformation.
