The Sister Fund

The Sister Fund currently dedicates most of its resources to defining and supporting Faith and Feminism. This means that The Sister Fund supports programs and activities that build faith values in support of full equality and social justice for all, particularly for women and girls. We challenge society's perverted applications of scripture that would exclude or demean women.
The Sister Fund's work is defined by four main strategies:
-Name and validate both historical and contemporary examples of faith-fueled feminism.
-Build bridges between faith-based and secular feminists that reconcile differences, foster collaboration, and create new opportunities.
-Nurture women's leadership roles in all sectors of society, especially in faith-based institutions.
-Transform secular and religious institutions towards equity.

Mission: 

The Sister Fund is a private women's foundation that works at the nexus of faith and social justice. The Sister Fund envisions universal equity in our society that includes women's full development through spiritual, social, economic, and political empowerment. In supporting faith-based feminism, we hope to encourage the transformation that faith can bring to the women's movement, religious institutions and our culture at large.

Grantees: 

Anglican Women's Empowerment

Arab Women's Foundation

Asian Women's Resource Centre for Culture and Theology

ASMA Society

Balm in Gilead

Boston Women's Fund

Center for the Advancement of Women

Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation

Con-spirando

Drisha Institute of Jewish Education

Evangelicals for Social Action

Family Grant: Agros International

Family Grant: Dorothy's Hospitality Center and Kitchen/Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra

Family Grant: Floresta, Inc.

Family Grant: L'Arche USA

Family Grant: Mercy House

Family Grant: Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq/Madre

Family Grant: Rural Development Institute

Family Grant: Transitional Housing Barn, Inc.

Family Grant: Village Enterprise Fund

Family Grant: Women's Earth Alliance

Global Fund for Women

Hartford Seminary

Jewish Theological Seminary

Las Hermanas/Visitation Hospitality House of San Antonio

New Mexico Women's Foundation

Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary

Sakhi for South Asian Women

Sojourners/Call to Renewal

Third International Women's Peace Conference/Peacemakers, Inc.

Women for Afghan Women

Women's Ordination Conference