Last week, the West Marin Fund launched a new program aimed at empowering women and girls in the area. The fund awarded $71,500 to eight local nonprofits that proposed projects focused specifically on supporting those demographics. “The idea of women’s and girls’ empowerment is one of several threads we’re following at the moment, and it coincides with what nonprofits and donors are interested in,” the fund’s executive director, Sarah Hobson, said. “It resonates with where…