Women’s Funding Network (WFN)
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Global
- womensfundingnetwork.org
- WFN YouTube
Channel Focus Area:
Strengthening the Women's Funding Movement
Mission:
Women’s Funding Network (WFN) is the largest philanthropic network of women’s funds and foundations dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls. WFN's mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women’s foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.
Impact:
Birthed over 40 years ago, WFN today is a growing community of more than 120 women’s funds and foundations spanning 14 countries. WFN has had a huge impact on the field of philanthropy and on the lives of women and girls and their families and communities. A few highlights:
WFN launched Making the Case: A Learning & Measurement Tool for Social Change and administered the New Women and Wealth Philanthropy Project, which brought over 300 new donors and raised $21 million.
In partnership with Fenton Communications and The White House Project, WFN launched SheSource.org, a database of women experts to increase the inclusion of women in interviews, speaking engagements and media.
WFN launched U.S. Women Without Borders campaign to mobilize action on gender equality globally. The online community grew from 1,300 to 30,000 in one year.
In 2006, longtime donors Swanee Hunt and Helen LaKelly Hunt initiated a fundraising campaign for women’s funds that would become Women Moving Millions. By the end of 2009, the total raised was $182 million, surpassing its $150 million goal.
Channel Grant:
2015: Channel made a grant to the Women’s Funding Network (WFN), of which Channel is a member, to support the travel and participation of representatives from WFN’s member funds based in the Global South to the WFN 30th Anniversary Conference, “Paths to Equity: Innovative Philanthropy for Women and Girls,” Oct. 7-9, 2015 in San Francisco, CA.