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Feminist Funded 2023: Rising
Dear Colleagues,
The data is clear. Strong feminist funds that are networked to multi-stakeholder global alliances, and to each other, create the winning recipe to accelerate change. This approach allows us to address issues that are bigger than any single border with solutions that are more powerful than any single organization.
That’s why WFN is committed to creating spaces for global collaboration like our next biennial conference: Feminist Funded ‘23: Rising. Finally, we’ll be back in person, returning to the site of our very first conference in 1985: Washington, DC.
Hold the date: September 10 - 14, 2023. This signature event will bring together thought leaders in philanthropy, advocacy, and culture, dedicated to creating a more just, equitable, and safer world for all of us. We are also adding an extra day to the conference to bring you, for the first time: Feminist Funded 23: Legislative Conference and Policy Summit. This Summit will include an opportunity for U.S. women’s funds to meet directly with their congressional representatives and for global guests to connect with government officials about the impact of policies across the globe.
The conference theme, Rising, intentionally explores how each of your local organizations, together, form a deep global network for progress, providing our greatest opportunities for lasting, substantial gains for equality and prosperity. In these turbulent times you have repeatedly demonstrated your strength by rising to challenge after challenge with resilience and collaboration. .
Join us. Together, we rise.
Hold the date and look out for more details in the coming months. If you missed our 2021 virtual conference or simply need a little boost of inspiration as you settle back into work, catch up now.
In solidarity,
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Barajas-Román
Women’s Funding Network
President & CEO
WFN Member News
Please help us welcome the following new members!
Texas Women's Foundation CEO Michelynn “Miki” Woodard was featured on the cover of D CEO Magazine's August issue. Take a peek here inside the pages to hear from her and other incredible partner organizations.
Join us in welcoming Delta Research & Educational Foundation's new Executive Director, Karla M. Green. To learn more about her, click here.
Congratulations to Fundación de Mujeres en Puerto Rico Executive Director, Veronica Colón Rosario, for becoming part of the SOAR Fellows Class of 2022. The SOAR Fellowship is an initiative of The Aspen Institute that highlights leaders who are breaking barriers, pursuing bold ideas and improving the lives of women and girls around the world.
Join The Alliance for Girls' upcoming conference, The World We Imagine, in-person at Oakland Scottish Rite Center in Oakland and virtually on Thursday, October 11, 2022. As a member of WFN you can get 10% off ticket registration with code WFN10.
From New York Times Bestselling authors to legislators, advocates to funders to girl leaders, The World We Imagine is convening the mavericks of the movement for girls and gender-expansive youth to engage in critical conversations surrounding radical safety for girls and gender-expansive youth, especially those of color, and healing and restoration for girls’ champions and girls and gender-expansive youth themselves. Speakers include:
- Leila Mottley, New York Times Writer to Watch & Author of Nightcrawling, an Oprah’s Book Club Selection
- Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
- Ada Williams-Prince, Director of Program Strategy and Investment at Pivotal Ventures, a Melinda French Gates company, and international thought leader at the intersection of gender, race, and power
Come together to build community, learn from those at the front lines, rejuvenate, and co-create a future where radical safety exists for girls and gender-expansive people, so that they may thrive in leadership, self-love, and justice.
Register here (Youth 24 and under can attend for free!)
Neighborhood Funders Group has launched Philanthropy Forward's Cohort 4 in partnership with The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions.
Philanthropy Forward is a CEO fellowship community for visionary leaders who center racial and gender justice and community power building to disrupt and transform the future of philanthropy. This fellowship brings together CEOs of foundations who are supporting racial and gender justice and community power building to make deeper change at the individual, organizational, and philanthropic field levels. One of the fellow includes WFN Member, Carmen James Randolph, from Women's Foundation of the South.
Hear the fourth edition of Economic Issues for Women in Texas in response to the massive impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic downturn on Texas women and families. The research still focuses on the four pillars of financial security – child care, housing, education and health insurance – but you will also see some new components around digital access, cost of caregiving on women staying, or leaving, the workforce, and of course, eviction. This study also highlights some specific policy issues that we hope you will join us in advancing in the 2023 Texas Legislative session by joining our Army of Advocates.
Join the Texas Women's Foundation to hear the presentation given by Dena L. Jackson, Ph.D., Texas Women's Foundation's Chief Strategy Officer, with remarks by Miki Woodard, President & CEO, Texas Women's Foundation and Carine Feyten, Chancellor, Texas Woman's University.
September 22, 2022
9:00AM Registration & Breakfast
9:30 AM Presentation & Q&A
Texas Woman's University - Dallas Campus
The presentation will be both in-person and virtual.
Opportunities and Resources
Pre-orders are now available for Philanthropy Women Editor-in-Chief Kiersten Marek’s next book, Feminist Giving: Creating New Frontiers in Social Change.
Check out FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund’s new guide: Resourcing and Engaging Young Trans Feminist Movements.
Free Form has released a new report, Support Every Survivor: How Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Disability Shape Survivors’ Experiences and Needs.
Free Form has also released Before and Beyond Crisis: What Each of Us Can Do to Create A Long-Term Ecosystem of Support for All Survivors, a roadmap for expanding our society’s response to gender-based violence beyond short-term crisis support. The roadmap makes survivor-informed recommendations for how every pillar of our society–from banks, hospitals, and schools to policymakers, employers, and other stakeholders–can help build a new ecosystem of support that addresses the reality of how GBV shows up in survivors’ lives.
Collective Power for Reproductive Justice invites you to meet their Collective Rising Fellows—five reproductive justice activists who are organizing across the U.S. from Texas to Chicago.
During this virtual one-hour event, these young fierce activists will share about their work in building connections and community around reproductive justice in different census areas of the U.S. Each will speak about what they are seeing and learning on the ground as they build and deepen relationships with activists and leaders, students, faculty, campuses and community-based organizations in their area.
Join them on Tuesday, September 20 at 6 pm EST. Please RSVP to [email protected]to receive the Zoom link.
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy has partnered with the Collective Future Fund to develop a survey on philanthropic approaches to ending violence. This confidential survey is part of a larger landscape study that will fill the longstanding research gap on funder strategies to advance freedom from violence in the United States.
To access the survey, click here. The survey is open until September 30, 2022.
What We're Reading
Global implications of overturning Roe v Wade. - The BMJ
Some Indian Women Have No Choice but to Hold It In. — The Atlantic
Stereotypes, violence keep women out of politics in Zimbabwe. — Aljazeera
What We're Watching
‘We cannot stop fighting for her’ — Megan Rapinoe and Steph Curry were among the star athletes pleading for Brittney Griner’s freedom at The ESPYs Wednesday night.
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