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Dear Colleagues,
As I write this message, we still await the results of the U.S. presidential election. It could be days, or weeks, of continuing uncertainty. What we do know is that nearly 66 percent of the voting-eligible population cast ballots this year - breaking nearly a one-hundred-year-old record. With that level of participation, comes a stark reality. People in the U.S. are deeply entrenched in sharply opposing political factions that leaves little room for common ground, empathy, or healing.
That’s why your work to resource and advance intersectional feminist and anti-racist movements is needed now, more than ever. Our communities’ — already struggling and fatigued — will likely face even greater need in the year to come. Thank you for meeting the challenge by your bold funding of grassroots, women-led, civic engagement and community organizing. You know that just policies, laws, and officers of government can only exist when all genders, of all races, are regarded as crucial to the creation of those social, political, and economic policies and systems.
Thank you for the courage it takes to fight, though the resolution of the struggle may be beyond our lifetimes. Thank you for the courage to heal, though the wounds reopen daily. Thank you for the courage to feel the pain of those whom you disagree - and the willingness to find beauty in our shared humanity. Working together, change will come. It’s already on its way.
Yours for equity and justice,
Elizabeth Barajas-Román
Women’s Funding Network
President & CEO
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Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts CEO, Donna Haghighat, has contributed to an OpEd discussing the 2020 presidential election. Check it out here.
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Last Sunday, Chester County Fund for Women and Girls unveiled the Women’s Suffrage Mural in West Chester, PA. The mural honors the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted many women the right to vote, and celebrates the suffrage movement of the past, present and future.
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The Victorian Women's Trust invites you to a screening and panel discussion of feature documentary, Brazn Hussies (2020), celebrating the legacy of the bold women of the Women’s Liberation Movement who re-ignited the feminist revolution in Australia.
November 18, 2020
6pm film screening, 7:30pm panel talk
Register here!
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OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES
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IMPACT Conference will be holding their fall conference virtually this year! Join organizers, researchers, communicators, and community and philanthropic leaders to share transformative ideas and powerful strategies to advance justice through antiracist, equitable state policies.
November 10, 2020 - December 8, 2020
Registration deadline is November 6!
For more information, click here.
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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation teamed up with StoryCorps to record conversations with six nonprofit leaders working from Nairobi to Mexico City to make women’s lives, including paid and unpaid work, visible and part of economic policy decisions. Read the story here!
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New Mexico makes history by becoming the first state to elect all women of color to the House. - CBS News
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Sarah McBride has become the first and only transgender state senator in the U.S. and the country's highest-ranking transgender official. - NBC News
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Mauree Turner won her election for state House in Oklahoma's 88th district, making history as the first Muslim person elected to the state's legislature. - Huffington Post
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The new president must help women get back to work. “Just in September, 80% of the 1.1 million workers who dropped out of the workforce were women.” Read more here.
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This year's presidential election had a historic voting gender gap with 50 per cent of men projected to support Trump versus 35 per cent of women. - Financial Times
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In Egypt, a teenage girl is seeking justice in a rape case, and a womens right battle is errupting. - New York Times
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Why are fewer women dying from COVID-19? Read more about the coronavirus gender gap here.
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NASA has been working to achieve gender parity in a very male environment. - New York Times
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WATCH: In this year's election, the Squad got re-elected and is growing. The Squad originally included Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib. all women of color and first-time candidates elected to Congress. Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, and Mondaire Jones will now be joining.
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Browse the New WFN Website!
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If you have a story to share, email Megan at
[email protected]
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