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The Women’s Fund of Mississippi is the only grantmaking organization in Mississippi entirely dedicated to funding programs that improve the lives of women and girls statewide. A group of women started the Women’s Fund as a field-of-interest fund within the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson in 2002.

In April 2009, the Women’s Fund became an independent nonprofit, separate from the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson. The Fund has since expanded its work to include the entire state, not just the Jackson area.

The Atlanta Women's Foundation is Georgia's only public foundation focused exclusively on the issues of women and girls. We serve five counties in the metropolitan Atlanta area and our donors, and grantee partners come from all walks of life and from all communities. We represent divergent views and experiences, but we all share one important belief: together, we can increase self-sufficiency among women and girls and accomplish positive social change.

The Women's Fund of Miami-Dade has awarded over $2 million to more than 225 projects serving thousands of women and girls and has played an important role in encouraging the development of more programs designed with the need of women and girls in mind and strengthening existing gender-specific programs.

The Ms. Foundation actively works to bring race, class, age and sexuality to the center of feminist organizing (a concept we call social justice feminism) and to bring a gender lens to the center of broader progressive organizing (a concept we call feminist social justice).

The Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis was established in 1995 to encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and to support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential.
The Women's Foundation strives to assure that these issues are addressed locally in the belief that when a woman is given an opportunity, her family and ultimately the entire community benefit from it. WFGM's vision is to provide resources that help women move toward economic self-sufficiency, thereby breaking the vicious cycle of poverty.

In 1996 Lin Carleen founded The Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham (TWF) to create an endowment fund to honor the memories of her mother and infant daughter, both of whom did not have the opportunity to reach their full potential as women. The lessons of her own life and the lives of women she had worked with in various community organizations made her sensitive to the gap between women’s unique needs and the resources currently devoted to meeting them.