Dear Colleagues,
The geography of AI development follows the geography of inequity.
Data centers are not appearing at random. Across the globe, they are clustering in places that have already experienced profound loss: a shuttered hospital, a disappearing safety net, rising maternal deaths, persistent child poverty, loss of voting rights protections, and growing investments in detention and policing. Communities that were denied the infrastructure needed to thrive are now being tapped for the land, water, and electricity needed to sustain AI.
That is why Women’s Funding Network developed InfraWatchPower.org. We designed InfraWatchPower to help women’s funds and their local coalitions identify emerging infrastructure developments before decisions are finalized.
Because the challenge is not simply the scale of development. It is timing.
The local groups who have won against infrastructure projects often had one thing in common: they learned about them early enough to organize. They had time to ask questions, build coalitions, engage decision-makers, and define what accountability should look like.
InfraWatchPower.org is a WFN investment in information, but it is also an investment in power.
This is infrastructure for movement building. This is what we do.
Information is often the difference between reacting to change and helping to shape it. By making critical information more accessible, WFN is working to ensure that local feminist funders have the opportunity to engage early, organize effectively, and exercise their collective power.
Join us. Become a WFN member and strengthen the collective capacity of our global community of gender justice funders. Support our infrastructure and innovation work so that women’s funds and movement leaders have access to the tools they need to respond to emerging challenges. Join a webinar to learn more.
Women’s funds were created because too many people were being left out of decisions that shaped their lives. That work continues today.
Always, gratitude and solidarity,
Elizabeth Barajas-Román
Women’s Funding Network
President & CEO