Women talking while holding iPad

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

Affirmation at Skoll: Together, We Are Unstoppable

Today marks the close of the Skoll World Forum, a global gathering of social entrepreneurs and changemakers committed to advancing bold solutions to pressing global problems. Held annually in Oxford, the Forum attracts leaders across sectors to share ideas, forge partnerships, and accelerate systemic change. 

Read more

Top Stories from WFN

You’re Invited. Join Critical Gathering for Global Strategy, Solidarity, and Power

The wait is over. On April 1st we will open registration for Women’s Funding Network’s global biennial, Feminist Funded 2025 (FF25) scheduled this year in Washington, D.C.

Read more

Top Stories from WFN

Gender Equality: Key to Freedom for All

We join you in rejecting the global anti-gender movement’s claims of “protecting women” to justify their attacks of transgender people, and their fearmongering about “open borders” to legitimize family separation and merciless detention.

Read more
Woman and child with pacifier

Top Stories from WFN

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.

Read more
Mackenzie Scott

Top Stories from WFN

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.”

Read more

News

Affirmation at Skoll: Together, We Are Unstoppable

News

You’re Invited. Join Critical Gathering for Global Strategy, Solidarity, and Power

News

Gender Equality: Key to Freedom for All

News

The Time is Now

News, Press

WFN Receives Transformative Gift from MacKenzie Scott

WFN’s Feminist Funded biennial is a global conference powered by local action and ideas. Since 1985 philanthropic, public, private, and NGO leaders who move resources have come together every two years for inspiration, connection, and acceleration of solutions that create a more just, equitable, and safer world for all. Join us to celebrate 40 years of remarkable collaboration and action.

Tickets sold out quickly in 2023. Register now.


Register for Feminist Funded ’25

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.

Woman with curly hair smiling

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.

News, Press + Events