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WEEKLY NEWS // JANUARY 11, 2021

// A LETTER FROM OUR PRESIDENT & CEO

The Gendered Impact of COVID-19 in Hawai'i

Dear Colleagues,

WFN Board member, Leela Bilmes Goldstein, Executive Director of Women’s Fund of Hawai‘i (WFH)’s newest report, Pathways in the Pandemic: Intersectional Impacts of COVID-19 in Hawai‘i [[link removed]], has some stark findings:

Pacific Islander and Filipinx communities are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19: The mortality rate for Hawai‘i’s Pacific Islanders is the highest in the U.S. (319.6 deaths per 100,000).

Zero CARES Act funding was earmarked for programs aimed at women specifically or to Native Hawaiian, Filipinx, or Pacific Islander women.

Data on trans*, nonbinary, or non-conforming people was non-existent, demonstrating limits to understanding how all communities were affected.

The report also makes the case for a care-led recovery. Collective action and grassroots organizing led by workers and women’s organizations played key roles in mitigating the gendered impacts of the pandemic.

We know that place-based, data-informed solutions are key to addressing our communities’ most pressing problems. Learn more about Leela, WFH’s findings, and how other you might be able to apply some of their learnings in your work by reading the full interview here. [[link removed]]

In solidarity,

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Barajas-Román

Women’s Funding Network

President & CEO

WFN Membership Renewals

Join us in celebrating the following organizations that have renewed their 2022 membership with the Women's Funding Network. If you have questions about membership or would like additional information, contact us. [mailto:[email protected]]

Fundación de Mujeres en Puerto Rico (FMnPR)/ Puerto Rico Women's Foundation (PRWF)How Women LeadInternational Convocation of Unitarian Universalist WomenIowa Women's FoundationJayaram HouseholdMazur HouseholdMs. Foundation for WomenNewMexicoWomen.orgPaperSeed FoundationThe Ascend Fund (at Panorama Global) The David & Lucile Packard FoundationThe New York Women's FoundationThe Peggy and Jack Baskin FoundationThe Women's FoundationThe Women's Fund Miami-DadeWashington Area Women's FoundationWomen's Foundation of Collier CountyWomen's Foundation of OregonWomen's Funding NetworkWomen's Fund of OmahaWomen's Fund of Rhode IslandWomen's Fund of Western MassachusettsWomen Win Learn more about WFN Membership [[link removed]] WFN Member News

Join The Women's Foundation of Colorado (WFCO) in their support of the victims of the Marshall Fire in Boulder County. To date, 43,000 donors – including WFCO – have raised over $12 million through Community Foundation Boulder County’s Wildfire Fund. If you wish to strengthen this fund and join the efforts to help Boulder County recover, you can donate here [[link removed]].

Additionally, if you wish to support women in Boulder County directly, the following nonprofit organizations are accepting donations:

Mother House [[link removed]]: Accepting diapers and tampons, as well as new breast pumps and car seats. Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (SPAN) [[link removed]]: SPAN was able to safely evacuate their housing clients and helped them find temporary shelter. They're seeking monetary donations [[link removed]] that will go toward providing safety to survivors of domestic violence and their children during this crisis. Sister Carmen [[link removed]]: Sister Carmen is working hard to provide the following services to residents of East Boulder County, including Lafayette, Louisville, Superior, and Erie.

The Women's Foundation for the State of Arizona is hiring a Chief Development Officer, who is is responsible for conceptualizing, organizing, and implementing a comprehensive and strategic fundraising program in support of WFSA’s mission and vision for the future. A [[link removed]] pply here. [[link removed]]

Join The Ascend Fund for a conversation with author Rebecca Sive about her new book: Make Herstory Your Story: Your Guided Journal to Justice Every Day for Every Woman.

Jan 19, 2022 | 12:00 PM​

Register here [[link removed]]

The New York Women's Foundation has started a new series, Justice Talks [[link removed]], which features the stories of our grantee partners as they build power in their communities. In Episode 2 [[link removed]], the series welcomes Bianca Shaw and Jeanette Vega, Co-Executive Directors of grantee partner Rise Magazine, to discuss preventing punishment and disrupting the harms of the family policing system.

Opportunities and Resources

The Urban Institute has released a new report, "A New Era of Racial Equity in Community Development Finance: Leveraging Private and Philanthropic Commitments in the Post–George Floyd Period." [[link removed]]

Profit Making and Power Building: Debt’s Role in Racial Capitalism [[link removed]]

Join the Debt Collective, in partnership with Ford Foundation, Neighborhood Funders Group, and the UCLA Luskin Center on Inequality & Democracy on January 20, 2022 at 1pmET, to discuss the growing crisis of indebtedness. This session will examine debt as a key vector of inequality and expose debt’s racialized effects on democracy.

Join The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) for their funder briefing [[link removed]] [[link removed]] and call to action [[link removed]] around "What's Next for Abortion Access?". The call will be grounded in the recommendations from our Roadmap to Supporting Health Equity through Abortion Access [[link removed]].

January 24, 2022 | 1:00pm ET| R [[link removed]] egister here [[link removed]]

The Mosaic Economic Project [[link removed]] application process is now open for the March 2022 Women Changing Policy workshop, scheduled for February 28 to March 2, 2022. Applicants should be well established in their careers and eager to grow their profile in the policy arena. This workshop will be held in person in Washington, D.C., and the deadline to apply [[link removed]] is February 11, 2022.

Global Philanthropy Project [[link removed]] and Gender Funders CoLab [[link removed]] invite you to a launch webinar for a new Toolkit for Trans-Inclusive Grantmakers on Thursday, February 17 at 10 am EST. [[link removed]]

You must register [[link removed]] for the webinar in order to receive the toolkit.

GPP has developed this toolkit following conversations among its Trans and Intersex Funding Working Group, recognizing that many funders were challenged with how to respond or engage with applicants and even long-time grantees whose actions and/or positions exclude and reject trans people.

What We're Reading

The poet Maya Angelou is the first Black woman to be featured on a U.S. quarter. — N [[link removed]] PR [[link removed]]

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez becomes the first trans actress to win a Golden Globe — C [[link removed]] NN [[link removed]]

Women in South Dakota who are seeking a medication abortion will face additional restrictions later this month after state lawmakers approved a new rule from the state's health department. — C [[link removed]] NN [[link removed]]

In a first for Pakistan, a woman is cleared to become a Supreme Court justice. — T [[link removed]] he New York Times [[link removed]]

What We're Watching

Texas abortion providers are asking SCOTUS to intervene and send S.B. 8, the state's near-total abortion ban, back down to the district courts

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