Women Donors Network

Topic: Environment

WDN-backed Hive Fund in the News

WDN (through our Safe & Sustainable Impact Collective) co-founded and provided early funding for an exciting new project: The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice. The Fund was recently profiled in Inside Philanthropy (subscription required) and Philanthropy Women.
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Wrapping up 2019: Final Updates from WDN’s Initiatives

As we wrap up the year, we are excited to share a few final updates from WDN’s initiatives. The Impact Collectives have been hard at work awarding final grants for the year. We’re finishing 2019 strong and supporting the following organizations: This year, the Emergent Fund moved over $1 million to sixty-nine grantees, with most of them getting their funding within a week of our decision.
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Child holding up a sign at a climate protest

What is WDN’s Safe & Sustainable Future doing amidst the youth climate strike?

Community organizing and global solidarity is critical for climate justice, as we’re seeing from the youth climate strike. Earlier this year, WDN’s Safe & Sustainable Future Impact Collective awarded $100,000 to the Sunrise Movement—key organizers of climate actions. Last year, Safe & Sustainable Future made grants to an incredible cohort of climate activists to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland in order to speak truth to power and strengthen the global climate justice movement.
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