Social Justice

Fundo Social Elas

The purpose of Elas is to conduct social investment activities to promote and advocate human rights for women.

Urgent Action Fund Seeks Member of Rapid-Response Grant-making Team

Be part of a team that supports women who are striving to promote and protect the rights and interests of women and girls by ensuring women’s security and participation in conflict prevention and resolution, peace building, and post-conflict reconstruction.

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Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights

Barbara Lee Family Foundation

The Barbara Lee Family Foundation, based in Cambridge, MA was established in 1999. It was founded by Barbara Lee to strategically advance two of her longstanding passions – women in politics and the contemporary art.

The Women's Foundation of California www.womensfoundca.org

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.

Securing Access to Education

Educating girls may be among one of the highest-return investments a society can make.

Talking About Impact

12/09/2009

PhilanTopic: The belief that philanthropic work can make a difference is nowhere stronger than it is in women's funds. And there is no doubting that women's funds are doing extraordinary work.

Read the full article here (offsite link)

News Round Up: July 9, 2009

Wal-Mart and green jobs for women | Will abortion sink U.S. health care reform? | Boycott Berlusconi! | Women in the News Roundup: July 9, 2009

Interesting views all around today on philanthropy, the economy, health and single motherhood. Happy reading!

Health:

A TIME Magazine article looks at whether abortion coverage could sink a health care reform plan:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1909178,00.html

Amnesty International released a report yesterday calling Peru’s maternal morbidity rate ‘scandalous’ (CNN):
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/09/peru.pregnant.mortality/

News Round Up: July 6, 2009

Who is Michèle Flournoy? | State women's commissions under fire | The story of the female condom | Women and the News Roundup: July 6, 2009

Today’s roundup is extensive, due to the long holiday weekend. Happy reading!

An Influential Woman:

The New York Times profiles Michèle A. Flournoy, the highest-ranking woman in the history of the Pentagon:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/us/04flournoy.html?em

Economic Security:

The New York Times profiles a program in the city that aims to help homeless people, many of them single women with children, on the path to economic security:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/nyregion/06homeless.html?ref=nyregion

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