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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
MORE ABOUT
OUR WORK 
OUR MISSION
As a worldwide partnership of women's funds, donors, and allies
committed to social justice, the Women's Funding Network seeks to
ensure that women's funds are recognized as the "investment of
choice" for people who value the full participation of women and
girls as key to strong, equitable, and sustainable communities and
societies.
OUR VALUES
Our core values guide all endeavors of Women's Funding Network.
Furthermore, we believe that in order to create a just and
sustainable society we must:
- Fully engage women and girls in defining societal goals and
strategies to reach those goals.
- Promote and support women and girls of diverse classes, races,
sexual orientations, and other identities/experiences in shaping,
leading, and implementing economic and social change.
- Make use of women’s and girls’ creative, financial,
intellectual, and spiritual resources in change processes.
OUR GOALS
To accomplish our mission, Women's Funding Network has set these
specific long-term and short-term goals. In partnership with women's
funds, donors, and allies, we will:
- Promote recognition of the essential role of women's funds,
women, and girls in influencing philanthropic, economic, and
social systems' work to foster equity.
- Test and share strategic grantmaking models by and for women
and girls.
- Increase the assets of Women's Funding Network members' funds
to $250 million by 2004 and to $450 million by 2008.
- Sustain WFN's core values in its operations and in its
members.
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