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Birth Justice Now
In 2021, WDN hosted Uplifting Birth Justice, a series in partnership with 18 birth justice organizations and partners. Amanda Coslor, a WDN member and board member of the Birth Justice Fund at Groundswell Fund and the Thriving Women’s Initiative at Seven Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, told us what’s been happening on the birth justice […]
Grantee Spotlight: Building Power for the Women Who Feed Us All
Farmworkers are perhaps the single most essential workers in our communities. Without food, nothing else matters. And yet, farmworkers often toil under backbreaking conditions and for poverty wages. Roughly 50% of farmworkers are undocumented, leaving them at risk of deportation and exploitation by employers. Female farmworkers are regularly sexually harassed and assaulted. Farmworkers pay a […]
Grantee Spotlight: Navigating reproductive health chaos
Since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, people across the U.S. could be certain that, however fiery the anti-choice movement’s rhetoric, the right to an abortion was inviolable. This key victory empowered the pro-choice movement to shift its focus toward ensuring universal availability of reproductive health services for everyone. However, regressive state governments […]
Grantmaking for Change in 2022
Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic – exacerbated by misinformation, deep racism, climate crises, and economic insecurity for millions of people – a new generation of young activists, women, trans, and nonbinary leaders and communities of color are rising up. Through deep relationships and movement expertise, Women Donors Network’s members and grantee partners have collectively shaped […]
Celebration, Recognition, Elevation: Black Women & Femmes Are Bringing Us Into the Future – Part 2
Black women and femmes are at the center of transformation in America. In their hometowns, states, and nationally, they are resourcing their communities and battling injustice across intersections of oppression. In honor of the history they’ve come from and the world they’re building towards, we close out this year’s Black History Month by lifting up […]
Building Black Domestic Worker Power
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a potent reminder of the crucial role that frontline workers play in every community. While many of us worked from home, food service workers, health care workers, domestic workers, and others put themselves at risk, every day, to keep critical infrastructure, businesses, and our homes running. While corporate profits soared, […]
Celebration, Recognition, Elevation: Black Women & Femmes Are Bringing Us Into the Future – Part 1
Black women and femmes are at the center of transformation in America. In their hometowns, states, and nationally, Black women and femmes are resourcing their communities and battling injustice across intersections of oppression. This February, in honor of the history they’ve come from and the world they’re building towards, we lift up some of these […]
Resourcing Black & Brown LGBTQ+ Youth Organizing and Voter Engagement – A Funding Update from WDN’s Jean Hardisty Initiative
WDN’s Jean Hardisty Initiative just granted $300,000 to Black LGBTQIA+ youth organizing and a budding voter engagement nonprofit. In 2021, transgender and gender non-conforming people of color in the US continued to face disproportionate rates of violence, discrimination, poverty, and houselessness. Through leadership development, direct action, mobilization, and culture change, Black and Brown LGBTQIA+ youth […]
Building Resilience on the Frontlines of Climate Chaos
For communities of color throughout the Gulf South, climate change is already here, and it’s only getting worse. The 2021 hurricane season was the third most active in recorded history, and 2020 was the most active ever. The devastation of climate change only amplifies environmental catastrophes, like the BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, that have hit […]
A Snapshot of Our Impact in 2021
WDN’s mission is to advance a just, equitable, and sustainable world. United by a shared vision of justice and equity for all, our members boldly invest their wealth, time, and talents together. We listen deeply to leaders and movements fighting injustice, move funds quickly, and foster creative strategies that advance systemic change. So far this […]
