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We’re excited to share another update from the 2023 Collective Grants Committee! Since our last update, the committee has been working to thoughtfully research 30 organizations in our three priorities: Food Sovereignty & Security, Early Childhood Education, and Reproductive Justice & Maternal Health. This is the second year of our re-imagined grants process, and we […]
At WA Women’s Foundation, one of our cherished values is to elevate and amplify the power of all who identify as women. Supported by the WFA Fund for Women, we offer the Women & Girls Grant to organizations focused on women and girls within the year’s chosen priorities. Our working definition of gender identity is […]
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 […]
As a grantmaking committee, we were most interested in understanding community needs and how organizations are addressing those needs through advocacy.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]