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.
Connecting the Dots: Fighting Fear with Data Partnership
We are excited to announce the formation of a new partnership with Candid. Our shared goal is to reveal the impact of race and gender on the funding landscape through an open-access online tool. Grounded in a participatory approach we will ask you—our local members who understand the compounding barriers that come with representing multiple identities—to help design what we build.
Ready to help WFN Accelerate International Fight for Gender Justice
As new board chair of WFN, I would like to thank each of you for joining our alliance of funders, donors, and allies committed to moving resources to community leaders advancing a gender-just future for all people around the world.
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.
Connecting the Dots: Fighting Fear with Data Partnership
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WFN Receives Transformative Gift from MacKenzie Scott
Discover The Gender Point
A first of its kind initiative that enhances policy and funding priorities across the nation.
Created through a powerful partnership between WFN and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, The Gender Point provides on-demand data reports to our member funds and foundations.
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.
Elizabeth Barajas-Román President and CEO, Women’s Funding Network
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.
