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WEEKLY NEWS // JUNE 14, 2022

// A LETTER FROM OUR PRESIDENT & CEO

Together We Can Protect Abortion Access and Reproductive Justice

Dear Colleagues:

Any day now we anticipate the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a decision that will likely end a pregnant person’s right to decide if, and when, they become a parent.

This isn’t an issue in the U.S. alone. We know there are conservative governments around the globe that are looking to the U.S’s influence and legitimacy to rollback bodily autonomy in their national law and policy. According to a European Parliament resolution [[link removed]], “non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and conservative think tanks belonging to the US Christian right have been funding the anti-choice movement globally…if Roe v Wade is overturned, it could prompt a surge in the flow of money with renewed pressure from anti-choice groups around the world.”

That’s why as gender equity funders and allies, we stand together to leverage our power for our collective liberation. Thank you to Teresa Younger, Ms. Foundation for Women, Rocio Cordoba, Funders for Reproductive Equity, Joy Messinger, Funders for Justice and Sheena Johnson and Meenakshi Menon of Groundswell Foundation and our very own Mirenda Meghelli for co-authoring and leading the invitation to philanthropy to pledge five actions that preserve and protects abortion access and reproductive justice. The pledge now has over 80 signers representing a total of several billion in annual grantmaking. Read more via the Chronicle of Philanthropy [[link removed]]. Candid’s Philanthropy News Digest highlighted the call for support of reproductive justice, [[link removed]] and we ask funders and allies alike to join this pledge to protect and fund reproductive justice.

We're stronger when we stand together. The Time is Now. [[link removed]] Join us. Pledge to support bodily autonomy and abortion access.

In solidarity,

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Barajas-Román

Women’s Funding Network

President & CEO

We invite you to join the coalition of 155 organizations and individuals in signing on to our pledge, The Time is Now [[link removed]]: Join Bold Philanthropic Pledge to Protect Abortion Access and Reproductive Justice. This pledge outlines five immediate actions that philanthropy can take to protect abortion access and bodily autonomy.

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The Women's Funding Network and the Ms. Foundation for Women have been featured in The Chronicle of Philanthropy [[link removed]] for our pledge to put more money behind grassroots efforts, particularly those led by women of color, to increase abortion access.

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Candid’s Philanthropy News Digest highlighted our pledge to support reproductive justice, a coalition effort of top gender equity funders and allies: Women’s Funding Network calls for support of reproductive justice. [[link removed]]

WFN Members-Only Updates

WFN Members only opportunity: On Thursday, June 30th, Funders for Justice will be hosting the fourth installment in their Member Learning Series: The Criminalization of Trans, Nonbinary, and Intersex People with a welcome from Aldita Gallardo, Program Officer for the Fund for Trans Generations and facilitated by Jaden Fields, Co-Director of Mirror Memoirs.

When: Thursday, June 30, 2022 @ 9am pacific | 10am mountain | 11am central | 12pm eastern. The training is 2 hours long. Cost: $50 per participant, non-institutional member / Free for all institutional members.

Please do not post this training on social media or on a website, as part of FFJ's baseline security practices. Register here [[link removed]] for this invite-only event.

The Women's Funding Network is hosting an Advocacy & Public Policy peer community meeting on June 15, 2022, at 2 p.m. EDT/6 p.m. UTC.

We will be joined by Aysha E. Schomburg, who joined the Biden Administration in March 2021 as the Associate Commissioner of the United States Children’s Bureau within the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In this role, she advises the Administration on matters related to child welfare, including child abuse and neglect, child protective services, family preservation and support, adoption, foster care, and independent living. The Children's Bureau recommends legislative and budgetary proposals, operational planning system objectives and initiatives, and projects and issue areas for evaluation, research, and demonstration activities.

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This year, ahead of the G7 Summit under the German Presidency, the Women's Forum will gather its international community in Berlin between June 20-21, 2022. WFN Board Member Paulette Senior, President & CEO of the Canadian Women’s Foundation [[link removed]], will be a featured speaker.

Join them as an in-person delegate or online. Learn more about how to register here [[link removed]].

I Be Black Girl released a recap on what happened during the 2022 Nebraska legislative session, and what is next for their collective advocacy and policy. Read more and get inspired from how their work might relate to your region here [[link removed]].

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has released a new report: The Business Case for Racial Equity: A Strategy for Growth [[link removed]] . [[link removed]]

The Fund for Women and Girls is seeking applications for TWO of their programs open to interested high school girls in Chester County, PA during the 2022-2023 school year: the Girls Advisory Board (GAB) girls’ grantmaking program and the GirlGov Chester County civic engagement program. The application deadline for is Friday, June 24th. To learn more, click here [[link removed]].

The Women’s Fund of Greater Milwaukee is hosting an informational session about their grant process. Learn about the mission of advancing equity for women and hear about the priorities for this year’s grant cycle.

June 22, 2022 | 10:00am-11:00am CST | Register here [[link removed]].

Learn More about WFN Members [[link removed]] Opportunities and Resources

Global Philanthropy Project has released The 2019-2020 Global Resources Report [[link removed]], which details the distribution of LGBTI funding by geography, issue, strategy, population focus, and donor type.

What We're Reading

Deep Disparities Persist in Finances of Nonprofits Led by White People and People of Color

— T [[link removed]] he Chronicle of Philanthropy [[link removed]]

An attack in China raises questions on its government's protection of women's rights.

— N [[link removed]] PR [[link removed]]

As the Taliban try to silence women, the international community must do more.

— The Hill [[link removed]]

Women Recall Their 'Barbaric' Illegal Abortions Before Roe v. Wade: 'We Cannot Go Back'

— P [[link removed]] eople [[link removed]]

What We're Watching

Dr. Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2018, tells Christiane Amanpour why he's not surprised by the reports of rape in Ukraine, and what needs to be done to end the use of rape as a weapon of war around the world.

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