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Grantee Spotlight: Disinformation Defense League – Liberating Communities from Disinformation
The Disinformation Defense League (DDL) is a national network of grassroots organizations that builds defenses against disinformation and misinformation campaigns targeting communities of color. WDN’s Participation and Representation initiative’s funding has helped them deliver narrative-based interventions, develop COVID-19 messaging and programming, and evaluate community needs. In the lead-up to the midterm elections and beyond, they […]
Ultraviolet Gives WDN a Founding Mother Award for 10 Years of Partnership
Congratulations to UltraViolet for ten years of breaking boundaries and winning change across politics, government, media, and pop culture. You are building a world that represents all women and we are deeply proud that you honored us as a Founding Mother. UltraViolet holds a special place in WDN’s history. Ten years ago UltraViolet’s Co-Founders Shaunna […]
The Pandemic Isn’t Behind Black & Latinx Families: Equal Rights Advocates Uncovers Why
Many want to declare that the COVID-19 pandemic is over. Yet COVID-19 and its tangential impacts continue to hold women and families of color back. This combines with systemic inequities, harmful policies sweeping the nation, persistent gun and police violence, and political inaction leave Black and Latinx women under pressure and struggling to survive, let […]
A WDN Member’s Look At Landback
By Cynthia Beard WDN member Vice Chair, WDN Action Board WDN is proud to host Land and Legacy: Reclaiming Stolen Lands, a Landback learning series to highlight leaders working to rematriate stolen land. While the Landback movement has existed for generations, this movement has been elevated further in recent years through Indigenous-led direct action protests […]
When Women Lead Financial Decision-Making
Women are often the most directly impacted by the world’s challenges including health care, unemployment, education, climate displacement, and violence, yet are excluded from financial leadership roles and capital allocation. Only 5% of chief executive officers, fund managers, or venture capital recipients are women (Shaber, Marime-Ball, 2022). Today, 97.8% of allocated investment capital is managed […]
Resource Guide: Reclaiming Stolen Lands
We live on Indigenous land, colonized five centuries ago. After generations of colonization, white supremacy, and capitalism when we look at our country today, we see families that cannot access housing, food, or medical care, dry waterbeds, mass extinctions, a military complex that enforces a system of terror, and a government that protects and represents […]
Our Most Recent Round of Grants! $1.67 Million to Frontline Movements
We are proud to share an update about our collective grantmaking. At WDN we are moving $1.67 million in funding to 17 impactful organizations that are building power where it is so desperately needed. At last count at the end of June, we have moved over $15 million and supported 108 organizations. Thanks to the […]
Protect Our Democracy (POD) Grants $1.2 Million to Seven Organizations
The Protect Our Democracy (POD) project is excited to announce that it has granted $1.2 million to seven organizations. With the help of consultants from Sojourn Strategies and because of more than 50 generous WDN donors, our grants are on their way right now to the organizations listed below. The breadth and strategic mission of […]
The Abortion Bridge Collaborative Fund Has Officially Launched!
WDN’s Abortion Bridge Collaborative Fund has launched! We are so proud that this fund will build the emergent and emergency infrastructure required to ensure access to abortion care for as many people, in as many places across the country, as possible. There is a critical need for adaptive approaches to resourcing abortion providers, filling the […]
What Do Reparations Look Like?
The foundation for racial repair has been laid over generations. We still hear Fannie Lou Hamer’s voice echo across decades of organizing, guiding us on the path towards liberation: “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” The movement for reparations is for all of us; the road to reparations will take all of us. WDN’s Jean Hardisty […]
