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Womens Funding Network

The Women’s Funding Network is a world-wide membership of over 100 women’s and girls’ funds. Our members support the solutions of women and girls through local, national and international grants. WFN advances this movement by supporting these funds through innovative programs and capacity-building expertise. Together, we are creating a safer and more secure world by investing in women and girls.

WFN’s programs are some of the most innovative in philanthropy. They help women’s and girls’ funds:

• Raise more money through our fundraising training
• Run their organizations more effectively through our Smart Growth tool
• Collaborate and capture peer-to-peer knowledge on key initiatives through WFN’s conferences, shared training sessions, and access to our cutting-edge research
• Measure results on how women’s funds make a difference through our innovative Making the Case: Social Change Measurement Tool
• Reach out to new donors and the media with the shared fund>>forward brand logo and messaging.

We also bolster women as leaders in society and in philanthropy by:

• Raising the profile of women as spokespersons in the media through the SheSource campaign
• Raising the profile of women in philanthropy through our fund>>forward brand and buzz initiatives
• Broadening the leadership base in philanthropy and social change through our Women of Color/International Development Incubator

Women for Women

From Victim to Survivor…to Active Citizen

Women for Women International mobilizes women to change their lives by bringing a holistic approach to addressing the unique needs of women in conflict and post-conflict environments.

We begin by working with women who may have lost everything in conflict and often have nowhere else to turn. Participation in our one-year program launches women on a journey from victim to survivor to active citizen. We identify services to support graduates of the program as they continue to strive for greater social, economic and political participation in their communities.

As each woman engages in a multi-phase process of recovery and rehabilitation, she opens a window of opportunity presented by the end of conflict to help improve the rights, freedoms and status of women in her country. As women who go through our program assume leadership positions in their villages, actively participate in the reconstruction of their communities, build civil society, start businesses, train other women and serve as role models, they become active citizens who can help to establish lasting peace and stability.