Promoting Sustainability

Women's Funding Network promotes the sustainability of member funds by helping them get on the fast track and stay there. We offer capacity building support in three strategic areas: leadership, civic and philanthropic engagement and grantmaking.

MemberFundTestimonial_AFundforWomen.jpgOrganizational Development and Evaluation Tools

Women's Funding Network offers tools to promote sustainable growth and measure organizational and Network-wide impact. Smarth Growth©, our organizational development tool, benchmarks assets, challenges and progress to maximize organizational strengths. Making the CaseTM, our social change measurement framework, gives members a concrete way to evaluate and articulate the social change impact of the grants they make.

Information and Research

Members receive timely updates to stay informed about current events through our weekly news round-ups. In addition, members have access to reports and research published by women's funds and other experts in the field of social justice philanthropy.  Women's Funding Network is a facilitator of shared messaging and policy priorities
that promote women-led solutions to local, national and global issues. 

Skills-Building Webinars

Topic-based webinars led by experts in the fields of finance,
fundraising, communications & marketing, evaluation, advocacy,
collaboration and much much more.

Skills-Building Trainings and Consulting

Women's Funding Network offers workshops and trainings, coaching and
consulting opportunities in areas such as organizational development,
fundraising, budgeting and financial forecasting, leadership, public
policy advocacy, strategic communications and grantmaking. 

Wake-Up Wednesdays

Monthly topic-based conference calls that bring women's funds together to facilitate peer learning.

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