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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

Top Stories from WFN

Feminist Foreign Policy: A Bold Tool for Funders

Thanks to everyone who was able to join WFN’s most recent webinar, Opportunities to Advance Feminist Foreign Policy. Feminist leaders touched on many issues during this rich and timely conversation, which you can listen to here.

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Building a Future Where Democracy Thrives

Vice President Kamala Harris’s U.S. presidential nomination holds significant symbolic and practical meaning for women and nonbinary people everywhere. As the first woman of South Asian and African American descent to be nominated for the U.S. presidency by a major party, her candidacy represents a landmark achievement in global gender and racial equity. 

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Change that lasts–40 years of impact

In 1983, five lesbian feminist activists got together in Amsterdam and launched Mama Cash—a pioneering force for resourcing feminist movements worldwide. Over the span of 40 years, Mama Cash has witnessed a remarkable era of social transformation driven by the relentless efforts of women, girls, and trans and intersex activists that it has supported.

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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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Feminist Foreign Policy: A Bold Tool for Funders

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Building a Future Where Democracy Thrives

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Change that lasts–40 years of impact

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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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