Women Donors Network | Racial Justice Archives

Topic: Civic Engagement

WDN’s Impact in 2023

Photo Credits: Just Vision and We Testify When we step back and look at our work in 2023, we see a constellation formed from moments of mobilization. Like stars in an unchanging sky, movement leaders and organizations guide us toward a more just future, which is why we prioritized and robustly supported existing partnerships with unrestricted funding.
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The Movement-Member-Staff Partnership That Sparked WDN’s First Series on Reparations

Photo: WDN Programs & Initiatives Manager Summer Migliori Soto In 2022 WDN’s Jean Hardisty Initiative hosted its first-ever series on reparations in partnership with Liberation Ventures, Groundswell Fund, and the Fund for Nonviolence. How this dynamic, informative, and inspiring learning series came to be is a story unto itself.
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Supporting Black-Led Movements: An Alternative to Inequitable Funding

Photo: Leaders Igniting Transformation, a grantee our Jean Hardisty Initiative has been funding since 2019 Dr. Jean Hardisty was a writer, scholar, public speaker, activist, and member of WDN for 21 years. Self-described as a “baby boomer who grew up in a genteel, white, upper-middle-class Southern family, went to the right boarding school, and attended the right cotillions,” Jean radically departed from her conservative roots and dedicated herself to fighting for economic equality and civil rights.
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A WDN Member’s Look At Landback

Photo: NDN Collective 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 and social media campaigns.
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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.
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