Hi John, Today, the Ms. Foundation for Women, Solidaire Network, and the Indigenous Women’s Advisory Council of Building the Fire Fund announced that the fund, initially launched and housed at the Ms. Foundation, has moved to its new home at the Solidaire Network. The Fund was started to address a significant gap within the reproductive justice movement and convene a network of Indigenous women leaders and birthing people to provide a national voice in this movement. Since its inception, the group has raised/invested over $2 million in support of Indigenous reproductive justice, mobilizing across Native Nations and Native communities and calling attention to the abhorrent discrepancy in philanthropic funding for Indigenous women and girls. |
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 | Building the Fire Fund was first convened by the Ms. Foundation and seed funder The Collaborative for Gender + Reproductive Equity in response to the foundation’s groundbreaking report, Pocket Change: How Women and Girls of Color Do More with Less, which revealed that of the total $66.9 billion given by foundations, philanthropic giving to women and girls of color accounts for just 0.5%, or $5.48 per year, for each woman or girl of color in the United States, with less than 0.01% as benefitting Indigenous women and girls. This next chapter represents growth and expansion for the Fund and its transition to Solidaire Network will enable the Fund to continue to build the infrastructure to create the first ever, historic national Indigenous Reproductive Justice platform. Read the full press release. |
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