Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)’s Post

Join me, Susan Misra, and Judy Kollins Wright for a generative conversation about how investing in ecosystem strength can help to achieve and sustain system-level change. Thanks to Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) for bringing the GEO community into this conversation.

The #FeministAccountability Framework says: "Show Me the Money!" To advance climate justice, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and a world free of violence, grassroots feminist activists need no-strings-attached funding through flexible, core, and long-term financial support. Learn more from the stories in this report: https://lnkd.in/dAGpxShE

The America First approach offers HOPE — support for women and children! "It’s important to understand that the HOPE Agenda — transformative as it is — is only one more front in the ongoing fight for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. At AFPI, we’re proud to join that fight and to lead the way." Check out the latest piece from AFPI's Brooke Rollins & Heidi Overton! https://lnkd.in/eTgvAP7P

Women, LGBTQIA+ people, and the families who depend on us have a lot at stake in the upcoming #FarmBill. Women—especially Black, Latina, and Native women, women with disabilities, and immigrant women—and LGBTQIA+ individuals have long been disproportionately likely to experience poverty, hunger, and hardship. They are also more likely to rely on SNAP, our nation’s bedrock anti-hunger program that will be reviewed in the upcoming Farm Bill. Watch a webinar sponsored by the National Women's Law Center and featuring experts from FRAC, UnidosUS (@WeAreUnidosUS), and MomsRising.org, to learn more about what’s at stake for women, LGBTQIA+ people, and families in the Farm Bill; opportunities to strengthen nutrition, child care, and public health in this legislation; and how you can get involved. https://lnkd.in/gGWEs4gD

"The journey to generational wealth for Black and Latina women is ladened with obstacles, but programs like Family Self-Sufficiency can provide a roadmap for overcoming these challenges, one family at a time. By addressing systemic disparities and leveraging economic resources to help families increase their earning potential and build savings, we can break down those barriers for women to secure a brighter future for themselves and their families." -- Markita Morris-Louis, Esq., CEO of Compass Working Capital, a national nonprofit working to end asset poverty for families with low incomes and narrow the racial and gender wealth gap. More #opinion in CommonWealth Voices. https://lnkd.in/eR5Z-DxC

ICYMI: Some excerpts from The White House Proclamation on Women's History Month: "Despite the progress that... visionaries have achieved, there is more work ahead to knock down the barriers that stand in the way of women and girls realizing their full potential — in a country founded on freedom and equality, nothing is more fundamental... We are making sure women have access to the resources they need to enter and remain in the workforce, including high-quality, affordable child care. My Administration’s American Rescue Plan helped working mothers, especially during the most challenging times of the pandemic, by keeping the doors of 220,000 child care centers open — 90 percent of which are owned and staffed by women...  Vice President Harris and I are fighting to protect women’s reproductive freedom.... I have taken action to safeguard access to reproductive care, including abortion and contraception... This Women’s History Month, may we recognize the long, storied history of great women helping to realize our Nation’s founding promise and highest aspirations. May we all continue working to build a world worthy of the dreams and goals of all women and girls." #womenshistorymonth #womensfuture #worthyworld https://lnkd.in/ehFDDbpY

In this #newsletter, guest writers Sara Bader, Tatiana A. Perez, MBA, and Ellen Lawton reflect how inequity unfolds at every level, from societies to institutions to communities to neighborhoods, so an individual's passion and knowledge about advancing equity is relevant wherever they are. #healthequity #healthinequalities #equitymatters August 2023: You Don’t Have To Be In The C-Suite To Advance Equity https://lnkd.in/gBGZxVbx

🔊 As part of Comic Relief’s Power Up Initiative, IWGIA contributed to the learning briefing “Feminist movements’ research and advocacy on GBV” – a feminist analysis of power to movement-building and influence. 👉Read more: https://bit.ly/42lkGY2 Gender-based violence (GBV) is patriarchy in practice; an expression of structural inequity and lack of recognition and power of women in society, exacerbated for women who face discrimination or are minoritized in any way. 👂In order to accurately name the nature and impacts of #GBV, it is key to listen to the lived experience of women and girls. 💡 IWGIA has drawn on its experience working with #Indigenous women and girls’ organizations and movements to bring to light the issues that Indigenous women face, and to include their contributions and inspiration they bring for positive change. For example, IWGIA’s strategy includes supporting Indigenous women in their advocacy efforts through capacity development, awareness raising, campaigning, and strategic participation in spaces for their voices to be heard by important decision-makers. With this briefing, IWGIA hopes to bring inspiration to others from our work with Indigenous women while simultaneously collaborating with other #HumanRights organizations to raise awareness and understand cross-cutting challenges for ending GBV. 👉Read more: https://bit.ly/42lkGY2 #IndigenousPeoples

CSW68 has come to end, so does the women's history month, so what is next 💫? 30 pages of conclusion document summarised 👇🏽 in six points by wonderful Executive Director Tabitha Morton at the UN Women UK briefing club, organised by the dream team Atonte Semira Martha Bennett. Reflecting back on those points I can see how the Partnership and Philanthropy Board is going to engage in driving some of these actions with the organisations & communities Michaela Greene Emma-Jane Hendry FRSA Mafalda Borea FRSA we are here to help. Only together can we make a difference 💥 #csw68 . It was nice meeting you Robert Baker and Kim Rowell our Trustees  💥Key actions 💥Value Care - recognize, reduce and redistribute women's and girls' disproportionate share of unpaid care, domestic work, including through sustained investments in the care economy and by promoting work life balance and by taking steps to measure the value of this work in order to determine its contribution to the national economy.  💥Policy / Law commitment - dismantle discriminatory financial practices that hinder the financial independence of women, including requirements mandating women to have a male cosigner to access financial services, gender inclusive tax systems and debt management  💥Commitment to ending gender based violence - economic empowerment cannot happen without investing to end gender violence  💥Women's choice - ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recognising the human rights of women including the right to have control over and decide freely on all matters to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health.  💥Promote policies and programmes of social protection  💥Engagement the private and public sector - significantly increase private and public sector investment in evidence based initiatives aimed at eliminating the gender digital divide especially for women and girls living in poverty 

‘Better’ funding means accessible, flexible, long-term, core funding that is rights-based and supports feminist movement building and organizational capacity building. ‘Better’ funding also means that the constituencies supported – the true experts in their fields – help shape the grantmaking process and build a movement infrastructure that is responsive to their needs by including collective care and protection. Check out the extensive literature review ‘Feminist Activism Works!’ conducted by our partner Mama Cash. #FundWhatWorks https://ed.gr/edbrm