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The Governance Committee presented a slate of nominees to the Washington Women’s Foundation Board of Directors at its September 28 meeting. The slate was unanimously approved and is presented for consideration by the entire WaWF membership. This year’s slate of Board nominations consists of one current Director, who is eligible for reelection for another three-year […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What is Cabinet and its purpose at Washington Women’s Foundation (WaWF)? The purpose is to coordinate committee activities and programs guided by the goals of the strategic plan. Cabinet fosters cross-committee collaboration, discusses issues and solves problems related to committee work, makes recommendations on policies to the board and/or acts as a sounding board for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic this time last year, we grimly anticipated that this public health crisis would take a toll on women and communities of color and that existing inequities would be exacerbated. Before the declaration, community leaders and organizations sounded the alarm of another “virus” on the rise: anti-Asian hate incidences. A year later, the number of reported incidences of discrimination has spiked by 150% in […]