Educational Programming Grantmaking Uncategorized Announcing: 2023 Priority 101 Series December 2, 2022 by Katherine Bryant Ingman We’re thrilled to announce our 2023 Priority 101 series. From our overarching themes of Education, Healthcare, and Climate & Agricultural, the WaWF membership has selected one priority within each theme: Early Childhood Education, Reproductive Justice & Maternal Health, and Food Security and Sovereignty. Join us on January 23rd, 2023 for the first part of our […] Read more »
Grantmaking Uncategorized Reflections from our First Cycle of Advocacy Grants November 4, 2022 by Isabelle Shively As a grantmaking committee, we were most interested in understanding community needs and how organizations are addressing those needs through advocacy. Read more »
Grantmaking Uncategorized The Rest and Repair Awards: A $1 Million Fund in Support of Black Women Leaders September 7, 2022 by Isabelle Shively How The Fund for Black Women Leaders in Nonprofits Came to Be The History of an Idea 2020 was a tumultuous and life-changing year, to say the very least. COVID, of course, was the first shake-up to our nation that year. The murder of George Floyd on May 25th, 2020—and the racial reckoning that followed—would […] Read more »
Uncategorized Reflecting on the 2021 Pooled Fund Grant Committee September 7, 2021 by Isabelle Shively At Washington Women’s Foundation, we aspire to be a collective where members push themselves daily to learn and grow, a place where they consistently ask themselves, “What can we do better as community members?” as we respond to new challenges. Three years ago, we changed our grant criteria to focus on addressing racial and gender […] Read more »
Uncategorized Reflections on the 2021 Impact Assessment Committee July 12, 2021 by Isabelle Shively As our IAC team of almost 50 participants assembled last October, we were aware that it would not be business as usual. We faced the challenges of operating in a totally virtual world, the stresses and strains the Pandemic was imposing on our grantees, the uncertainty of when and how Covid-19 would be contained, and the […] Read more »
Uncategorized Uncertainty Leads to Adaptability and Resilience on IAC July 24, 2020 by Aki Shibuya We asked Margit Rankin to share a reflection from this past year’s Impact Assessment Committee (IAC). Margit has been a member since 2009 and has served on the Pooled Fund Grant, Discovery Days, and Impact Assessment Committees. For the Impact Assessment Committee (IAC), as for our grantees, this season necessitated a fair amount of adaptability […] Read more »
Uncategorized Pooled Fund Grants 2020: Final 14 Organizations April 15, 2020 by Aviva Stampfer We’re excited to share another update from the 2020 Pooled Fund Grant Committee! Since our last blog post, your fellow members adapted to the global coronavirus pandemic to discuss the 25 proposals submitted to Washington Women’s Foundation online. Together, they thoughtfully reflected on the updated grant criteria to make decisions about which 14 organizations would receive a […] Read more »
Uncategorized Pooled Fund Grants 2020: Top 25 Organizations February 28, 2020 by Aki Shibuya The Pooled Fund Grant Committee began reviewing LOIs in January and has selected 25 organizations to submit full proposals. This fall we revised our grant criteria slightly 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 […] Read more »
Uncategorized Reflections on Intersect 2019 December 13, 2019 by Aki Shibuya This year marked the third time Washington Women’s Foundation hosted a full-day conference, Intersect: Join the Conversation. Our conference theme was justice-driven philanthropy, and it was inspired by the following quote from an article by Dorian O. Burton and Brian C.B. Barnes in the Stanford Social Innovation Review: “Ultimately, real change will come only when all […] Read more »
Uncategorized Pooled Fund Grants 2019: Final 15 Organizations April 12, 2019 by Aki Shibuya We’re excited to share another update from the 2019 Pooled Fund Grant Committee! Since our last blog post, this group of 65 members have been reading and discussing the 25 proposals submitted to Washington Women’s Foundation. Using new curriculum and updated resources, they thoughtfully reflected on the new grant criteria to make decisions about which organizations to […] Read more »
