This latest atrocity illustrates why intersectional feminism must demand freedom from all state violence on Black and brown bodies - including the freedom from reproductive abuse through sterilization, forced birth, and mass incarceration.
Your efforts to place women of color at the center of decisions and power over their own bodies and futures is critical, now more than ever.
We cannot — and will never — have gender justice without racial justice. Thank you for continuing to hold philanthropy accountable, ensuring that all women and girls are respected and afforded our human rights.
Yours for equity and justice,
Elizabeth Barajas-Román
Women’s Funding Network
President & CEO
WFN MEMBER INITIATIVES
Welcome our New Member, VidaAfrolatina!
VidaAfrolatina is an emerging international women's fund that mobilizes diverse resources, including philanthropic funding, and connects them with Black women’s groups in Latin America. Our goal is to strengthen and proliferate community-based organizations that provide healing services for sexual violence survivors and that create and lead systemic change to end sexual violence.
Kelley Griesmer, President & CEO of The Women's Fund of Central Ohio, featured in the Columbus Dispatch, about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on working moms, also known as the "she-cession." Read the full story here.
The Women's Fund of Minnesota, along with the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, released their newest report, "2020 Status of Women and Girls in Minnesota."
Victorian Women's Trust is hosting an online event with Jacqueline Kent, as she discusses her new biography, Vida: A Woman of Our Time. A celebrated crusader for women’s rights and the first woman in the Western world to stand for a national Parliament in 1903, Vida Goldstein was a true pioneer. In this captivating biography, Kent explores the difficulties Goldstein faced entering politics, and draws parallels to the issues women continue to face today.
The Women's Fund Miami-Dade is hosting a virtual impact collaborative, "The Economic Benefits of Achieving Equal Pay," where they will discuss Equal Pay success stories with representatives from the private and public sector, as well as expert researchers.
The Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts began their new virtual series, Power Women Hour, to feature women-owned businesses, particularly women of color-owned business or women-led nonprofits, and bring their business to new markets. The first episode aired this week and was dedicated tobolstering women’s economic security.
Check out the series here! Power Women Hour will be available every second or third Wednesday of the month at noon (12:00 PM EST).
Join The Asia Foundation for a virtual event, "Leaders On The Frontlines: Investing In The Future," where they will be honoring prominent individuals from government, business, and philanthropy; extraordinary leaders advancing Asia’s progress; and inspiring changemakers in gender equality.
September 24, 2020
6:00pm PT
For more information and to register, click here!
Funder's Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP) has released a new report, "Civic Engagement Infrastructure & Ecosystem," which provides a typology of the civic engagement ecosystem. With the world-altering changes we’ve seen in 2020, there is an acute need to continue strengthening philanthropic support of civic engagement efforts.
Stronghold is hosting a "Collective Practice to End White Supremacy," a virtual 8-week study & practice series for white folks who are longing to do the brave work of reckoning with the ways that white supremacy lives in and through.
Mondays, October 12th through November 30th
5-7PM PST
For more information and to register, click here!
Join VidaAfrolatina for Historias by VidaAfrolatina, an opportunity to deepen your connection with Afro-descendant women in Latin America and invest in their leadership.Three powerful leaders in Latin America will share with you via Zoom the current impacts of COVID-19 and sexual violence on the lives of Afrodescendant women in their communities.
Saturday, September 19th
6 pm to 7 pm (EDT)
Register here!
WEEKLY READ
The demonstrations in Belarus point to a broader trend: "Over the past decade, women have stood out as symbols of movements as far afield as Algeria, Lebanon, Sudan, and the United States." - The Atlantic
Black women-owned businesses were thriving until the pandemic struck. "From February to April, the number of Black businesses dropped more than 40 percent, compared to 22 percent overall." - NBC News
From Donna F. Edwards and Gwen McKinney, an opinion piece on the term "women of color": "We are Black women. Stop calling us ‘women of color.'"
Nicole Mason in The Lily, an opinion piece on the struggles of working mothers. "We understand the system is broken and that it’s not our fault. It was never made for us. It was made for working men."
Female voters in presidential elections outnumber men. If Trump loses, you can thank women. - Washington Post
Amnesty International declares that Slovakia must reject an abortion bill that is currently in parliament. If passed, the law would introduce additional barriers to women and girls seeking abortion.
WATCH: Meet Team Lioness, an all-women team fighting poachers in Kenya who are breaking gender stereotypes. "This kind of physical, demanding job, they believed that it was not meant for us as women."
