What We Fund
Together, WDN members make catalytic investments in innovative approaches to social change, while also investing bedrock money to lift the field and support movements. We help fill gaps in traditional philanthropy by seeking out opportunities and investments that can make a transformative difference. We use an intersectional lens — including race, class, gender, and sexual orientation — in everything we do.
We view our grantees as partners who we are constantly learning from and with. Our rapid-response grantmaking happens via The Emergent Fund, which has an open application process. Other than the Emergent Fund, we do not accept unsolicited proposals.
Reflective Democracy Campaign
The Reflective Democracy Campaign works to increase the power of women and people of color in American public life through groundbreaking research, engaging communications, and catalytic grantmaking.
Advance Native Political Leadership
Brady & Peavey
Center for Technology & Civic Life
Colleen Loper
Councilwoman (film)
Dr. Paru Shah research grant
European Women’s Lobby
FairVote
Michigan United
National Legislators Conference
Oakland Rising
Public Leadership Institute
Purcell Public Affairs
Restaurant Opportunities Center United
TargetSmart
Texas Organizing Project “Growing the Cadre of Women to Serve & Organize”
Trio Strategies
Women Organizing Women Network
Jean Hardisty Initiative
Catalyzing long-term and rapid-response organizing and social justice movement infrastructure, the Jean Hardisty Initiative supports leadership and power building among groups of people whose power is systematically limited.
Movement for Black Lives Leadership and Infrastructure
Black Youth Project 100
Black Futures Lab
BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership & Dignity)
National Domestic Workers Alliance: We Dream in Black Initiative
Movement for Black Lives District Attorney Accountability and Power Building Strategy
BLMHTX (Black Lives Matter Houston Texas)
Electoral Justice Project
Springboard Partners/James Rucker: Police Union Accountability Pilot Project
In Honor of Jean Hardisty
The Emergent Fund
A collaboration between WDN, Solidaire, and Threshold Foundation, the Emergent Fund was formed to provide rapid-response funding to defend communities against injustice and develop innovative strategies to transform our country.
#BlackLivesMatter Channel Black Media Training Cohort
#ItTakesRoots
#LeadWithLove
18MillionRising
Advance Native Political Leadership
Al Otro Lado: Empowering Refugee Families
All of Us Initiative @ Organization United for Respect (OUR)
Arizona Center for Empowerment
Black Feminist Future: Some of Us Are Brave
BlackOUT Collective
Blackout for Human Rights – #MLKNOW 2017 Short Advocacy Film Series
Brown Boi Project – Gender Justice Response
Campaign for Southern Equality – Rapid Response Initiative
Center for Media Justice – Securing Freedom: Racial Justice Digital Defense
CHIRLA – Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights: Immigrant Political Power Project
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Coming Clean
Council on American-Islamic Relations, California (CAIR-CA)
Deep Dive: Fake News no Match for Facts
Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute
Empowering Undocumented AAPI Voices
Faith in Florida
Faith in Texas – Rapid Action Network
Generation Indigenous 2.0
Georgia Muslim Voter Project
Grassroots Asians Rising Alliance
Haitian Migrant Border Crisis Strategy Group
Indianapolis Community Action Network (IndyCAN) – Sanctuary and Solidarity Congregations
Indigenous Climate Action
Indigenous Women Rise
Interfaith Voices for Reproductive Justice
Jolt
LA Voice Muslim Organizer Capacity Building
Latino Union of Chicago – Barrio Defense Committees Project
March to Springfield for a People and Planet First Budget
Migrant Justice
Mijente
Movement for Justice in El Barrio
Movimiento Cosecha
MPower Change
Muslim Anti-Racist Collaborative
Native Youth Leadership Alliance
Neta: Journalism & Storytelling from Texas-Mexico Border
New York City #FreedomCities Campaign
NM Comunidades en Acción y de Fe (CAFé)
No Ban No Wall New Jersey/ Mpower Change
No One Stands Alone: Creating at Rapid Response Network
Now We Rise
Oceti Sakowin People’s Climate March – Indigenous Block
Puente Human Rights Movement Rapid Response
RISE UP, Idaho
Soulforce: Combatting Spiritual Terrorism
Southeast Asian Freedom Network (SEAFN)
Southerners On New Ground (SONG)
Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL)
SpiritHouse Inc/The Harm Free Zone
Texas Rapid Response Plan: A Collaboration of Texas Organizing Project, the Workers Defense Project, and the Texas Civil Rights Project
The Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project
The Icarus Project’s Rapid Response Program: Sustaining People & Movements for the Long Haul Ahead
Trans Sistas of Color Project
Transgender Gender-Variant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP)
Transgender Law Center
Texas Civil Rights Project
Unapologetic Book Launch Project
UndocuBlack TPS Campaign
Undocumented Youth & Families Defying Detention & Deportation in NM
United We Dream
We the People: Building a Progressive Infrastructure in Michigan
Criminal Justice
Empowering formerly incarcerated people and their families for their full rights and dignity.
All of Us or None
Enlace
Essie Justice Group
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
Forward Together
Justice for Families
Nation Inside
National Advocates for Pregnant Women
National Council For Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
The Return (film)
Environment
Investing in Indigenous and women’s leadership in the fight for climate justice.
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation
Climate Justice Alliance
Catching the Sun (film)
Earthworks
Food and Water Watch
Honor the Earth
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy
Indigenous Climate Action
Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign
It Takes Roots Initiative
WildEarth Guardians – Chaco Canyon Campaign
Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network (WECAN)
Gender-based Violence
Addressing misogyny and sexism through culture change strategies.
Futures without Violence/Audrie & Daisy (film)
Immigration
Supporting the organizing hubs fighting to keep immigrant families together.
Alliance for Citizenship
Center for Community Change
We Belong Together / National Domestic Workers’ Alliance
International Peace and Democracy
Fostering peace and justice through culture change work and women’s leadership.
Just Vision / Naila And The Uprising
Just Vision / Local Call
New Israel Fund
3P Human Security
Mina’s List
Peace and Security Funders Group
Women’s Regional Network
Progressive Political Infrastructure
Strengthening our democracy through key investments in civic engagement and public policy development.
Brennan Center For Justice
Common Cause
Gamechanger Labs
Reproductive Health
Reshaping the national conversation on reproductive justice.
Groundswell Fund
Take Root / University of Oklahoma Foundation
Trapped (film)
UltraViolet
