Health

The Women’s Foundation of California is the only statewide public foundation that invests in women and girls throughout California who are working to create a more just and equitable society. Since 1979, we have invested in the most promising women leaders in the state who are strengthening grassroots organizations, advocating for policy change and building movements. We have awarded more than $24 million in grants to more than 1200 community-based organizations in every region of our diverse state.

The Women’s Legacy Fund (WLF) was established in 2007 by the Southwest Florida Community Foundation to enable women in Southwest Florida to direct their giving in focused, strategic ways.

Through an active membership and our annual grant program, we

The Mally Fund is a donor-advised fudn of the Rose Community Foundation.

IWHC shapes international policy and builds local capacity for women’s health and human rights in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We leverage our work in these two very different, but critically linked worlds – to change thinking, redirect funding and motivate action by people and institutions that can secure rights and health for women. This requires a strategy in which:

Social change cannot happen merely from the top down, and in this way philanthropy and charity is often the difference between a hand out and a hand up. We strategically fund programs that not only serve those stuck in the trenches, but build bridges to bring them to an equal footing. Bridges that allow people to move from vulnerability to self-sufficiency, from research to results and from ideas to accomplishments.