WEEKLY NEWS  //  JANUARY 11, 2021

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, 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.

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.

• Fundación de Mujeres en Puerto Rico (FMnPR)/ Puerto Rico Women's Foundation (PRWF)
• How Women Lead
• International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women
• Iowa Women's Foundation
• Jayaram Household
• Mazur Household
• Ms. Foundation for Women
• NewMexicoWomen.org
• PaperSeed Foundation
• The Ascend Fund (at Panorama Global) 
• The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
• The New York Women's Foundation
• The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation
• The Women's Foundation
• The Women's Fund Miami-Dade
• Washington Area Women's Foundation
• Women's Foundation of Collier County
• Women's Foundation of Oregon
• Women's Funding Network
• Women's Fund of Omaha
• Women's Fund of Rhode Island
• Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts
• Women Win

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.

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

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

The New York Women's Foundation has started a new series, Justice Talks, which features the stories of our grantee partners as they build power in their communities. In Episode 2, 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

Join The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) for their funder briefing and call to action 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.

January 24, 2022 | 1:00pm ET| Register here

The Mosaic Economic Project 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 is February 11, 2022. 

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

You must register 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

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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