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WFN recently hosted an intimate conversation with national funders and partners to reflect on the strategies, tools, and tactics learned from their work in 2020, and to reflect on the initial priorities for how we, as a philanthropic community, can evolve quickly to help resource once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for change.
In this week’s President & CEO letter, Elizabeth invites you into the room with a summary of the conversation’s key takeaways, remaining curiosities, and opportunities for exploration. She also shares toplines from WFN’s Response, Recovery and Resilience Fund (Resilience Fund), which in 2021, is moving into its second phase by co-creating the potential for a triple bottom line: the conditions where national funders can connect to grassroots participatory grantmaking practices, while tapping into the catalytic energy and skill of women’s funds, while also helping build innovative solutions that breakdown old narratives that have kept structural inequities and oppression in place.
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March 26, National Day of Action
Join the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community and allies in taking collective action today. Learn more about ways to engage and support today here.
The Asian American Feminist Collective engages in intersectional feminist politics grounded within our communities, including those whose backgrounds encompass East, Southeast, and South Asian, Pacific Islander, multi-ethnic and diasporic Asian identities. Through public events and resources, they seek to provide spaces for identity exploration, political education, community building, and advocacy. To learn more about their work, click here.
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WFN Members:
We are launching four Peer Communities organized around the issues we heard the most interest in from our conversations with you over the last year.
For the following peer communities, sign up HERE and share this link with your staff members!
• Communications and Development
• Advocacy and Public Policy
• Research
• Equity and Justice learning group
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#WomenFunded’21 is coming! Please SAVE THE DATE for September 23, 2021
We are seeking community input and volunteers to join the 2021 Conference Committee. Please indicate your interest HERE. This committee will work together with WFN staff and event managers to design the virtual gathering this fall.
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Welcome our newest member, Ipas!
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Ipas' work is centered on the needs and perspectives of those who seek abortion care. Their comprehensive approach aims to address all the factors that impact a person’s ability to access abortion—from individual health knowledge, to social and community support, to a trained health workforce, to political leadership and supportive laws.
To learn more, click here.
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The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota will convene a panel discussion with healthcare policy experts and women working across a spectrum of frontline fields to better understand their experiences, challenges, and solutions for long-term community well-being. To learn more and register, click here.
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The California Wellness Foundation is seeking an experienced administrative professional to provide executive support to the Executive Vice President and the Public Affairs department. The position is located in Oakland, CA.
For more information, please click here.
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Iowa Women’s Foundation’s President/CEO, Dawn Oliver Wiand, has been asked to serve on Governor Kim Reynolds' task force to confront Iowa’s child care crisis. The central purpose of the task force is to develop a comprehensive strategy to address the numerous issues that contribute to the child care barrier to work in Iowa. To learn more, click here.
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The Maine State Legislature unanimously approved a joint resolution calling on the U. S. Department of Agriculture to expand SNAP benefits. One Less Worry and the Maine Women's Fund have been working and advocating on this resolution, known as SP 312, as it would allow pads, tampons, and toilet paper as purchasable with SNAP. To learn more, click here.
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The Ford Foundation will be committing $15 million in seed funding to help launch the Black Feminist Fund, a new philanthropic fund developed and led by a core group of Black feminists who sit at the nexus of feminist organizing, advocacy, and philanthropy globally, at the Global Fund for Women. Learn more here.
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OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES
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Join Early Childhood Funders Collaborative for a discussion with Katie Hamm, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Early Childhood Development, to discuss how philanthropy can support Federal early childhood priorities.
How Philanthropy Can Support Federal Early Childhood Priorities
April 1, 2021
3:00-4:00pm ET
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Apply to the Third Wave Fund's "Own Our Power Fund." Since its first grantmaking cycle, the Own Our Power Fund has awarded $700,000 in two-year grants to 17 organizations working across gender justice movements at the intersections of age, race, class, sexuality, disability, and geography. The fund currently makes two-year grants to build organizations’ leadership development and succession planning, financial sustainability, self-representation, and strategic communications capacities.
The Own Our Power Fund’s 2021 cycle is now open and proposals are due on April 30, 2021.
For more information, click here.
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Join Fair Representation in Redistricting (FRR), a funder collaboration, for a virtual quarterly briefing on redistricting. This briefing is for funders interested in learning about nonpartisan redistricting efforts supported by the funder collaborative, which has a focus of equity issues.
April 28, 2021
3:00pm EST
Register here.
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Tides and the WE LEAD initiative have announced an open call for letters of inquiry (LOI) for their Spring 2021 grantmaking cycle. WE LEAD will grant $1,000,000 towards the growth and sustainability of queer, trans, non-binary, non-conforming, and cis women, particularly Black, Indigenous, Women of Color (BIWOC) leaders and BIWOC-led climate justice organizations.
Submissions are due by March 26.
To submit an LOI, click here.
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Hispanics in Philanthropy is now accepting applications for their Líderes Fellowship. The program cultivates mid-career Latinxs working in philanthropy and nonprofits by gaining knowledge, learning new practices, and building relationships within a network that supports their ability to advance and thrive.
Applications are due May 14, 2021. The program will run from September 2021 to June 2022.
For more information, click here.
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Equal Pay Day was this past Wednesday, which denotes how far into the new year women must work to be paid what men were paid the previous year. This year, women make 82 cents for every dollar earned by a man. - NBC News
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Deborah Epstein, director of Georgetown University Law Center's Domestic Violence Clinic, about the link between violence against women and mass shootings. Listen to the podcast here.
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How many women have to die to end "temptation"? Read an opinion piece on the Atlanta murders and misogynistic violence here.
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The Governor of South Dakota is urging everyone nationwide to join an initiative seeking to bar transgender girls and women from participating in female sports. Transgender advocates have criticized the governor for keeping alive legislation they deem unnecessary, unconstitutional and based on outdated stereotypes. - Reuters
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Read an opinion piece about the importance of changing young people's attitudes to tackle violence against women.
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WATCH: On Equal Pay Day, Joe Biden and the First Lady hosted an event with Megan Rapinoe and other members of the USWNT, whose calls for equal pay have garnered nationwide support following their 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup victory. Watch the livestream here.
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