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Your community.
Your power.
Your network
for change.

Where women lead, change follows.

When philanthropy invests in women’s foundations and gender justice funders, we empower a deeply intersectional movement that fights for policies and standards across lines of race, class, and gender. WFN is the largest philanthropic alliance in the world dedicated to advancing the essential role of these funders in the unwavering fight for gender equality and justice.

What we do

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Register for Feminist Funded ’23: RISING

We look forward to connecting with you at the largest convening of gender-focused philanthropy, dedicated to creating a more just, equitable, and safer world for all.

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New Women’s Funding Network Study Shines Light on Funder Realities

We worked with nearly 100 gender equity funders on an in-depth survey of their organizations, their grantmaking, and their impact. Drawing on the results of this survey, straight from the mouths of our members, our study’s central aim was to explore how women’s funds and foundations in the WFN alliance approach their work–and specifically, at this moment of global change, to investigate the intersections of racial and gender justice.

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The Time is Now

Gender Equity leaders propose five things philanthropy can do right now to deepen their investment in the fight to protect abortion access and bodily autonomy. Join us and sign your name to the pledge now.

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WFN Receives Transformative Gift from MacKenzie Scott

Women’s Funding Network is humbled to be among the group of MacKenzie Scott’s “286 Teams Empowering Voices the World Needs to Hear.”

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New Women’s Funding Network Study Shines Light on Funder Realities

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The Time is Now

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WFN Receives Transformative Gift from MacKenzie Scott

Discover The Gender Point

A first of its kind initiative that enhances policy and funding priorities across the nation.

Created through a powerful partnership between WFN and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, The Gender Point provides on-demand data reports to our member funds and foundations.

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When women’s funds thrive, the quality of philanthropic investment grows, creating a cycle of robust gender-lens approaches and infrastructure with the critical mass to shift the oppressive power dynamics that keep harmful systems in place.

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United we are
a movement.

WFN’s powerful alliance works together to develop strategies, mobilize resources, and raise awareness to combat systemic gender and racial inequality at the community level, forging a better quality of life for all.

Explore our areas of work

Through our network of more than 120 women’s funds and foundations, WFN provides gender justice leaders and advocates with a variety of tools to help them succeed — from research and education, to strategic-led initiatives and events, to advocacy and unifying a collective, amplified voice.

Learn more about what we do in our four key areas of work and how we apply feminist practices for movement building.

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Announcing Their Secret Sauce Podcast

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Together, We Rise

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