Grantmaking Announcing our Issue-Based Grantees & Reflecting on the Grant Pilot December 9, 2021 by WA Women's Foundation Background In 2019, Washington Women’s Foundation (WaWF) members expressed a strong interest in exploring grantmaking around a specific topic. The Board of Directors allocated $50,000 from member contributions made in 2019 to fund this pilot initiative. In January 2021, we first invited members and community members to participate in the Issue-Based Grant Pilot by participating […] Read more »
Grantmaking Announcing our 2022 Priorities October 27, 2021 by Isabelle Shively Washington Women’s Foundation (WaWF) is excited to announce the priorities for our 2022 Collective Grants! As year one of our two-year grantmaking cycle, the funding themes for the 2022 Collective Grants are: 1) Law, Justice, & Incarceration; 2) Housing & Hunger; and 3) Arts & Community Culture. In late September and early October, we surveyed WaWF members, grantees, grant […] Read more »
Grantmaking Announcing our Collective Grants September 16, 2021 by Isabelle Shively We’re delighted to introduce the Collective Grants! As a strong and inclusive collective of informed women, Washington Women’s Foundation’s (WaWF) mission is to influence community transformation. We do this by learning, grantmaking, and listening. Our new grantmaking framework, the Collective Grants, is the product of our learning and listening to what the nonprofit community needed […] Read more »
Grantmaking Learning Together August 26, 2021 by Isabelle Shively Our founders built this foundation by bringing a group of women together to learn how to be better philanthropists, make change happen in the world, and be more deeply involved in their community. They believed that through learning, and by pooling smaller gifts into larger ones, collectively the women of the Foundation would be a […] Read more »
Grantmaking And the 2021 Grantees are… June 16, 2021 by Isabelle Shively The Washington Women’s Foundation is proud to announce the recipients of this year’s $100,000 Pooled Fund Grants and $5,000 Merit Grant Awards. Each of these organizations works to increase equity in Washington State by promoting justice, building community, and confronting disparities. Washington Women’s Foundation funds organizations that support people affected by racial and gender inequities […] Read more »
Grantmaking Pooled Fund Grants 2021: Final 15 Organizations April 15, 2021 by Aviva Stampfer We’re delighted to share another update from the 2021 Pooled Fund Grant Committee! Since our last update, the committee has been working to thoughtfully review proposals from 25 organizations, 5 in each category. Applying the updated grant criteria, each work group selected 3 organizations to move forward and receive a site visit. As a reminder, […] Read more »
Grantmaking Pooled Fund Grants 2021: Top 25 Organizations February 19, 2021 by Aviva Stampfer The Pooled Fund Grant Committee began reviewing LOIs in January and has selected 25 organizations to submit full proposals. This fall we updated our grant criteria in response to feedback from members and nonprofit organizations. To learn more about those changes, read this blog post. We seek to support and collectively make grants to organizations […] Read more »
Grantmaking Learning and Growing as a Collective: Capacity Building Grant Committee December 18, 2020 by WA Women's Foundation This fall, 15 WaWF members joined the pilot Capacity Building Grant Committee to explore collective grant making using trust-based philanthropic practices. We are happy to announce our four grant award winners: Ingersoll Gender Center, KVRU, Para Los Niños, and Somali Health Board. Each received a $22,500 capacity building grant! Background of CBGC The capacity building […] Read more »
Diversity Equity and Inclusion Grantmaking Revising Pooled Fund Grant Criteria for Greater Clarity September 18, 2020 by Aki Shibuya This fall, we start our third year of grantmaking focused on increasing equity and reducing disparities. Each year, we understand more deeply what it means to apply an equity lens to our grantmaking and gain greater clarity about how to articulate what we’re looking for. Feedback from grant applicants and committee members continues to inform this work, and today we’d like to share […] Read more »
Grantmaking Reflecting on the 2020 Pooled Fund Grant Committee July 17, 2020 by Aki Shibuya We asked Lorraine del Prado to share a reflection from this past year’s Pooled Fund Grant Committee. Lorraine has been a member since 2011 and has served on the Pooled Fund Grant and Diversity Partner Grant Committees. She also served on the Pooled Fund Grant Task Force and the Board’s Resource Development Committee. I believe […] Read more »
