WOMEN FUNDED 2021: THE FEMINIST FACTOR
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Dear Colleagues,
Your WFN global conference is just 48 hours away. The conference sessions, created and selected by you, will feature several key conversations between funders, sponsors, and allies, highlighting concrete actions that we can all take to accelerate gender equity in our own institutions, communities, and countries.
Jennifer Okwudili from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Linda Weisert from Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) will discuss how philanthropy is shifting to effectively meet this pivotal movement. Rise Up Leader Alicia Tauro will share her powerful work to advocate for women and girls in India, highlighting how funders can effectively resource country-based leaders who are leading change.
Learn how Funders for Justice and APPI Women Lead thought-leaders grapple with how to organize women of color within a system that encourages them to utilize police force and incarceration against their families and neighborhoods – while also meaningfully participating in Black, Brown, and immigrant-rights movements where gender-based violence is often silenced and subjugated to so-called racial unity.
In addition, C. Nicole Mason, Ph.D., President and CEO of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), will join me in conversation that will include an exclusive announcement. Also, for the first time, we’re providing live Spanish and French translations for all plenary sessions.
You can find the full conference program here.
All this useful and exciting content would not be possible if it were not for the generous support of our sponsors and donors like you. As you may know, the WFN conference is not a fundraiser. It is a member-led event held only every other year. As such, it is always highly anticipated, deeply engaging with useful information, and a place where new relationships and collaborations are born. Thanks to your generous contributions we’ve been able to offer a discounted or free ticket to everyone who needed it.
Thank you for joining us and thank you for all you do.
In Solidarity,
Elizabeth Barajas-Román
Women’s Funding Network
President & CEO
P.S. To help us continue to provide powerful support to women’s funds and gender justice funders, donate here.
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At this year's virtual conference, we'll be offering an exclusive opportunity to pre-screen the film Through the Night in partnership with The Acorn Project. This screening is now available to Women Funded 2021: The Feminist Factor conference attendees 72-hours prior to the conference.
Additionally, we are thrilled to announce a special conversation at the conference with Director Loira Limbal. This interactive session will feature women’s funds and grantees on the ground working to solve the childcare crisis in America. Join us to view this important film this week, and the opportunity to connect directly with the director during the conference.
Through the Night is a cinema verité portrait of 3 working NY mothers whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center: a mother working the overnight shift as an essential worker at a hospital; another holding down three jobs to support her family; and a woman who for over 2 decades has cared for the children of parents with nowhere else to turn.
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Last Week to Apply or Nominate:
WFN Board Seeking 2022 Directors
The Women’s Funding Network Board of Directors is now accepting nominations. Candidates should be individuals with a strong commitment and reputation for building and sustaining feminist principals that include racial and gender equity and justice for all. Deadline for nominations is Friday, September 24, 2021. Terms begin January 1, 2022. Thank you for considering nominating yourself or leaders you admire.
Please note, that as a global organization we will be providing translation services for candidates whose first language is not English. Let us know if you require this service.
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Power of the Purse
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Statehouse Convention Center, and Virtual
Get your virtual tickets here.
Honorees:
Woman in Business – Tamika S. Edwards, JD, Central Arkansas Water
Woman in Philanthropy – Beverly Morrow, Board Chair, Arkansas Children’s
First Lady’s Woman in Public Service – Dr. Jerrilyn Jones, MD, MPH, UAMS, Arkansas Department of Health
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The Victorian Women’s Trust's podcast, The Trap, released their eighth episode, titled "Government, Policy & Power".
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Check out The Women's Foundation of Colorado's Q&A with Colorado's first Latina state historian, Nicki Gonzalez.
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The New Hampshire Women's Foundation has pledged to provide immediate funding to the reproductive and sexual health providers that were defunded last week: the Joan G. Lovering Health Center*, the Equality Health Center, and Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. To view a video a message from CEO Tanna Clews, click here.
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The Fund For Women and Girls: Igniting Change in Chester County says goodbye to its current Executive Director, Michelle Legaspi Sánchez, and announces an Interim Executive Director, Mary Beth Morrissey, to assume the role on September 20, 2021.
In a letter to The Fund’s supporters, partners, and friends, Michelle expressed her gratitude for their support over the past 6 years, 5 as ED: “I am so proud of what we have accomplished together. We have navigated difficulties within the organization while also learning to adapt, respond, and lead in the face of extraordinary challenges in our community and the world around us. It led to the deepening of The Fund’s impact in so many ways, including more opportunities for girls to grow as leaders, more community-centered grantmaking, a louder voice on issues that affect all women and girls, and a stronger organizational presence through vital community partnerships.”
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OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES
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MADRE has created a toolkit to address domestic violence under the COVID-19 pandemic. The toolkit is tailored to the current environment of physical distancing, social isolation, and lockdowns, including guidance on using social media in domestic violence prevention campaigns. It also includes specific sections on addressing violence towards LGBTIQ people and people with disabilities and on working with men as allies.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has released this year's Goalkeepers Report, which presents surprising new data and inspiring human stories. Last year, we feared the worst when it came to the Global Goals. But even amid the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen that hope can grow from seeds planted years earlier. Unpack the learnings and data from this interactive Gates Foundation report.
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Join The Funders' Committee for Civic Participation for their Quarterly Redistricting Funder Briefing, where you will learn about what is happening on the redistricting front, including national-state partnerships on data analysis, community organizing, communications and more. The briefing will shed light on field strategies and how the funder community can support fair and equitable redistricting.
September 23, 2021 | 3:00pm EST Register here.
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The Institute for Women's Policy Research released a new report, "Lost Jobs, Stalled Progress: The Impact of the “She-Cession” on Equal Pay," which finds the annual gender wage gap for women and men working full-time, year-round narrowed slightly during the pandemic at the same time as the wage gap for all women and men widened because of the disproportionate impact of cutbacks and job losses on women in low-wage jobs.
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Join The United State of Women for a Child Tax Credit Day of Action with Black Girls Vote and The Leadership Conference and volunteer to help text moms who need to sign up for the CTC. The expanded Child Tax Credit, newly increased as part of the American Rescue Plan Act, will help alleviate the economic burden placed on women and families as they recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
September 22, 2021 | 6 – 8pm EDT | Register here.
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Grantmakers for Girls of Color is celebrating their one year anniversary of the Black Girl Freedom Fund and the #1Billion4BlackGirls campaign. Their goal is to ensure a future that abundantly uplifts Black girls, femmes and gender-expansive youth, and their families, by mobilizing investments in their health, safety, education, artistic visions, research, and joy.
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What We're Reading
by Davida Herzl & Donnel Baird
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A group of prominent women athletes, including soccer star Megan Rapinoe, urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to protect abortion rights in a case involving Mississippi's Republican-backed bid to ban the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy. - Reuters
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A new report finds that at least 10 women and girls are murdered every day in Mexico. - The Guardian
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Read an opinion piece on the recent abortion ban in Texas: "We Are Women Who Came of Age Before Roe v. Wade."
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Afghanistan’s new government is likely to severely restrict education for girls and women despite the Taliban’s claims that schooling will eventually resume. - New York Times
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WATCH: (Warning: Distressing themes) Olympic gymnasts testified about the FBI's failure to investigate Larry Nassar.
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