Remarkable People

Changing How the World Sees Philanthropy

The Women Moving Millions campaign aims to inspire gifts of a million dollars and above in support of women's funds across the globe.

The campaign is a partnership of visionary donors and Women's Funding Network, a global movement of 150 women's and girls' funds that invest in women-led solutions to critical social issues like poverty and global security.

In May 2009, Women Moving Millions announced that more than $181 million has been raised through partnerships between 101 donors and 41 women's funds! This groundbreaking achievement exceeds the original goal of raising $150 million!

This massive infusion of investment will be a force for lasting change in the life chances and opportunities of women and girls around the globe, with major reverberations for entire communities and countries. Together, women's funds will create lasting advances in areas from community leadership and education to poverty eradication and healthcare access. Learn more about the impact of women's funds.

The donors and founding partners are now gearing up to expand the power and reach of Women Moving Millions with new fundraising initiatives aimed at expanding the reach of the campaign. These include welcoming donor circles and men into the growing movement of trailblazers committed to women-led social change.

Mission

The Family Violence Prevention Fund works to prevent violence within the home, and in the community, to help those whose lives are devastated by violence because everyone has the right to live free of violence.

What We Do

For more than three decades, the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) has worked to end violence against women and children around the world. Instrumental in developing the landmark Violence Against Women Act passed by Congress in 1994, the FVPF has continued to break new ground by reaching new audiences including men and youth, promoting leadership within communities to ensure that violence prevention efforts become self-sustaining, and transforming the way health care providers, police, judges, employers and others address violence.

CAMPAIGNS

The Family Violence Prevention Fund partners with communities and organizations around the world to find new ways to prevent violence in our homes and society and to help survivors of domestic violence.

Here are some campaigns that we invite you to join to help make our world safer for women, children, and their families.

Children & Families

COACHING BOYS INTO MEN

Talk to the boys in your life about violence against women and girls.

SUSAN SCHECHTER LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP

Honoring the rich history of dedication, ingenuity and compassion that are the hallmarks of the movement to end violence against women and children.

Health Care

KNOW MORE CAMPAIGN

Know more and say more about how to stop dating abuse and reproductive coercion.

Teens

THAT'S NOT COOL

That’s Not Cool is a national public education campaign that uses digital examples of controlling behavior online and by cell phone to encourage teens to draw their own line about what is, or is not, acceptable relationship behavior.

START STRONG

Preventing intimate partner violence begins with ensuring that young people’s first relationships are healthy ones.

Public Communications

RESPECT! CAMPAIGN 

"...because healthy relationships make us healthy."

Because Wanting to Stop is NOT Enough

Founded in 1977, Emerge was the first abuser education program in the United States. Since its creation, Emerge has been a national leader in working to end violence in intimate relationships.

Emerge’s mission is to eliminate violence in intimate relationships. In working toward this goal, Emerge seeks to educate individual abusers, prevent young people from learning to accept violence in their relationships, improve institutional responses to domestic violence, and increase public awareness about the causes and solutions to partner violence. With the development of parenting education groups for fathers, Emerge has expanded its mission to include a goal of helping men to become more responsible parents.

Emerge teaches that domestic violence is a learned behavior, not a disease or a sickness. Emerge supports grassroots, institutional and cultural efforts to stop partner violence, sexual assault and child abuse. Emerge recognizes that other oppressive life circumstances such as racism, poverty and homophobia create a climate that contributes to partner violence.

About

Women’s Funding Network is more than 162 organizations that fund women’s solutions across the globe, making us one of the largest collaborative philanthropic networks in the world. Our members are women’s foundations that span public charities, private foundations and funds within community foundations.

Collectively our members invest $65 million annually in women and girls worldwide and have over $535 million in working assets.

Mission

As a global network and a movement for social justice, Women's Funding Network accelerates women's leadership and invests in solving critical social issues -- from poverty to global security -- by bringing together the financial power, influence and voices of women's funds.

More than a membership organization.

The Women’s Funding Network serves as a global champion for investment in women and provides member funds with ongoing access, training, tools and support to help them increase their investment, influence and impact. We unite ideas, knowledge money and action to create lasting social change for women and girls, their families and communities.

Women's Funding Network has received Charity Navigator's 4-star rating for sound fiscal management five years in a row. Only 4 percent of charities rated by Charity Navigator have received at least 5 consecutive 4-star ratings. 

Our Work

The Value of a Network

The Women's Funding Network provides the following to member women's funds:

Access – Members can connect to a global network of peers and experts, join collaborative workgroups and obtain expert consulting services at discounted rates. At our Annual Conference, members share knowledge, ignite new ideas and accelerate progress.

Training– We provide professional workshops and coaching in development, fundraising, leadership and many other areas. Offerings are tailored to enable member funds to ask questions, share advice and build on best practices that make social change philanthropy more effective.

Tools – Making the Case, our social change measurement framework, gives members a way to evaluate the social change impact of the grants that they make to nonprofit organizations. Our full member toolkit of developmental resources also includes Smart Growth™, our organizational assessment methodology to review capacities, assets, progress and challenges.

Support – Member funds can engage donors in shaping the future of women’s philanthropy through the Network’s donor retreats and other educational opportunities. Executive peer retreats and specialized regional gatherings foster personal and professional growth as well as stronger relationships between peers and donors.

The Corporation for Enterprise Development is a national nonprofit based in Washington, DC dedicated to expanding economic opportunity for low-income families and communities. CFED uses a “think-do-invest” approach grounded in community practice, public policy and private markets. Here’s how it works.

Think.

We explore ideas and practices that help families and communities more fully participate in the mainstream economy.

Do.

We gather funding partners, local practitioners and policymakers to carry out demonstration programs in communities nationwide.

Invest.

We find investors and policy advocates for ideas that might bring about large scale change.

Purpose

CFED is a multi-faceted organization working at the local, state and federal levels to create economic opportunity that alleviates poverty.

Our Vision

A NEW BIRTH OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM

CFED sees the promise of tomorrow in the world today. We see abundant evidence of the desire and ability of middle and low-income people everywhere to become savers, investors, homeowners, skilled workers and entrepreneurs. We believe that such an opportunity economy would not only produce a fairer, more cohesive and inclusive society, but also a more prosperous, resilient and sustainable one.

CFED believes it is possible and profitable – within a generation – to provide every American, including every child at birth, the opportunity and resources to pursue higher education, start a business, buy a home and save for the future by:

• Providing a reasonable public incentive to every person to save for the future, including every child, starting at birth.
• Ensuring that every family who desires to own a home has the opportunity to do so.
• Providing every person who wants to start a business with the opportunity to access entrepreneurial training and financial resources to generate income and create jobs.

This vision is not new. There are echoes of it throughout history – in universal education, the 30 year mortgage and the GI Bill – all investments in the common genius of the American people. Each of these policies opened the door to the economy to large numbers of people, yet left out or penalized others – notably communities of color and women. Today’s globalizing economy calls for innovative approaches that bring hope and opportunity in new forms. It is CFED’s aim – together with an inspiring array of similarly committed and diverse partners – to develop the 21st century version of these epochal policies to create an economy which offers opportunity to all.

About Us

The American Anti-Slavery Group is headed by Dr. Charles Jacobs, named by the Forward as one of America’s top 50 Jewish leaders. Jacobs has founded and led several highly successful organizations characterized by groundbreaking ideas and initiatives. In 1989, Jacobs co-founded the Boston branch of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. In 1993, together with Muslim and Christian Africans, Jacobs founded the American Anti-Slavery Group, dedicated to bringing international attention to the enslavement of black Africans in Sudan. For his efforts, Jacobs was presented with the Boston Freedom Award by Coretta Scott King and the Mayor of Boston.

In 2002, Jacobs co-founded The David Project, which has since grown into a premier international educational institute that works to bolster the Jewish community’s response to the ideological assault on Israel with educational programs, advocacy training, and easy to implement campaigns on campuses, in high schools, churches, the media, and in the general community. In 2008, Dr. Jacobs founded Americans for Peace and Tolerance – an interfaith group dedicated to promoting peaceful coexistence in a ethnically diverse America by educating the American public about the need for a moderate political leadership that supports tolerance and core American values in communities across the nation.

Mission

The American Anti-Slavery Group is a Boston-based non-profit human rights organization.

For the past two decades the American Anti-Slavery Group has been leading a movement to abolish modern day slavery worldwide focusing primarily on the systems of chattel slavery in Sudan and Mauritania. We are now expanding our mission to build a human rights community that treats the suffering of all humans equally.