WEEKLY NEWS // JUNE 13, 2024

// FROM THE DESKS OF DR. DENISE DUNNING & JOSIE RAMOS, CO-FOUNDERS, RISE UP

Local Leadership For Global Gender Equity and Justice

Dear Colleagues,

Last week, Rise Up released an impact report commemorating our 15 years of advancing gender equity and justice—which is both a celebration and a call to action for all of us to hear, support, and amplify visionary local leadership.

Over the past 15 years, we have discovered a proven formula to improve education, health, and economic opportunity—finding local leaders with lived experience, providing them with advocacy and leadership training, investing in their solutions through grant funding and technical assistance, and connecting them to a global movement. We are proud to share that our global network of 800+ leaders have improved the lives of 172 million people.

For example, as the Executive Director of Girls Empowerment Network, Rise Up Leader Faith Phiri led a grassroots network of young women advocates, including activist Memory Banda, to advocate for the passage of landmark legislation banning child marriage, protecting the rights of 4 million girls in her country.

Looking forward, we are more determined than ever to support the true experts—local leaders and their organizations—to stand up for the rights of girls, women, and gender-nonconforming people.

We hope our impact report inspires you to take action and, together, we will continue our work toward an equitable world.

In Solidarity,

Dr. Denise Raquel Dunning & Josie Ramos
Rise Up
Co-founders

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News from WFN Members

MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS

WAKE is excited to announce applications for both Nonprofits and Advisors for the Tech2Empower Bay Area: Food and Housing Justice program are now open. This initiative is part of WAKE's commitment to harness the power of technology, volunteerism, and collaboration to tackle some of the most pressing challenges faced by communities in California's Bay Area. Selected nonprofits dedicating to addressing food and housing insecurity will collaborate with tech industry Advisors on a project to advance the nonprofit's mission. Professionals working in business, tech, marketing, media, and more can lend their expertise to social impact.

MEMBER EVENTS

Join the Funders for Justice community for a panel discussion featuring FFJ Movement Advisors from across the social justice sector to discuss how Healing Justice practices are inherently PIC abolitionist and how they use Healing Justice to fortify their work. The panel will be followed by short presentations from funders and philanthropic consultants working at the intersections of gender-based violence, child sexual abuse, and youth advocacy.

June 13, 2024 | 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. EDT | Register here

Join the Return to the Heart Foundation for a virtual panel and funder briefing to discuss the crisis surrounding Missing and Murdered Indigenous Womxn and Girls and Two Spirit People (MMIWG/2S). This briefing will include important research and work toward finding solutions to make real change to fight this epidemic plaguing Native communities. Learn more about the movement to disrupt violence and human trafficking of Native Womxn and Girls and create action within the philanthropic sector.

June 17, 2024 | 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. PDT | Register here

In the first half of 2024 alone, 550 anti-trans bills have been introduced, targeting Trans people’s access to healthcare, housing, employment, and the right to exist publicly. Join Funders for Justice and Shelby Chestnut at Transgender Law Center for a discussion about what trans folks are up against and the role your institution can play in bolstering this life-or-death work. Please note that this webinar is for funders only, including grantmakers, donors, donor networks, and funder affinity groups.

June 18, 2024 | 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PDT | Register here

Women's Foundation of Oregon invites you to join happy hour and an unfiltered, honest, and compelling conversation bout menopause. This gathering will be a chance to share stories, concerns, and the questions you may not have felt comfortable asking or talking about before and the information learned at the event will help shape WFO's future expert-led conversations on menopause to come this fall.

June 26, 2024 | 4:30 - 7:00 p.m. PDT | Register here

Are you aiming for career advancement but don‘t know where to start? Join WNY Women's Foundation for a seminar to discuss critical distinctions between sponsorship and mentorship and how they can catalyze professional growth. We'll also highlight the significance of these relationships and provide insights into how you can secure them to propel your career forward.

June 26, 2024 | 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. EDT | Register here

Opportunities and Resources

Join Global Philanthropy Project for a webinar with the Astraea Foundation as they share the recently released “Mapping LGBTQI+ Activism in Central Asia & the South Caucasus". Learn about the brilliant and vibrant activism in the region and the role philanthropy can play to bolster and protect our communities. This webinar is only open to grantmakers.

June 18, 2024 | 10:00 - 12:00 p.m. EDT | Register here

Global Philanthropy Project is holding an event for the launch of the Global Resources Report: Government & Philanthropic Support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Communities, which discusses global lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) grantmaking and resource flows. It documents over 20,000 grants awarded by nearly 1,300 donors worldwide to over 8,000 grantees and analyzes ten years of LGBTI funding by geography, issue, strategy, population focus, donor type, and more.

June 25, 2024 | 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. EDT | Register here

Job Openings

Growald Climate Fund is hiring a new Senior Program Associate, Network Leadership. To learn more about the position, click here.

LANL Foundation is looking for a President & Chief Executive Officer. To learn more about the position, click here.

What We're Reading

UN Expert Slams Taliban Crimes Against Afghan Women, Girls — Human Rights Watch

Despite women-only cars, Mexico City's metro still has a gender violence crisis — NPR

Southern Baptists Vote Against the Use of IVF — The Wall Street Journal

Ts Madison And Dominique Morgan Launch The Ts Madison Starter House — Forbes

Supreme Court rejects challenge to FDA's approval of mifepristone — NPR

What We're Watching

Here’s why birth control and family planning are actually better for the kids.

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