Category: Grant Partners
Multiyear Funding is Our Answer
Every year around this time, we’re encouraged to think in short bursts: one gift, one action, one deadline before midnight. […]
Reproductive Justice Needs You—Here’s How We Can Help
For over 45 years, Women’s Foundation California has believed in a simple premise: reproductive justice is not a single issue. […]
Trans Liberation is Feminist Liberation
History isn’t passive, it isn’t something we inherit, it is something we build. Trans history is alive in our homes, […]
ICE is Only Part of the Problem
2025 has felt like a year spent on defense. We have watched communities across California navigate fear, raids, displacement, and […]
Sustaining the Work That Sustains Us
We need the kind of change that actually lasts, the kind that rewrites systems and reimagines what is possible. This […]
Climate Justice Starts in South LA
Every Earth Day, we’re asked to think big: protect the planet, reduce emissions, save the oceans. But what if the […]
Our 2024 Feminist Gift Guide
The holiday season is upon us, and with it, the endless pull of hyperconsumerism. But here’s a friendly reminder: the […]
Trust, Action, Justice: $300,000 to Build the Future We Need
There are times when the weight of the moment demands not just action, but action rooted in courage and love. […]
Building Solidarity on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
As we honor Indigenous Peoples Day, we reflect on the ongoing repercussions of settler colonialism and the violence Indigenous communities […]
Power at the Polls
image via Courage California We are writing to remind you that your vote is vital in the upcoming election on […]
Investing in Change: Support Indigenous Communities
photo caption: IllumiNative Women’s Foundation California is situated on the unceded land of the Lisjan Ohlone people and the ancestral […]
Take Action: Solidarity Funding for Peace and Justice
photo credit: Ramsey Ramsey El-Qare With broken hearts, we are rising to meet the courage of organizers and frontline leaders […]
Returning to Sundance!
photo caption: poster from Culture Change Fund partner, Center for Cultural Power When was the first time you saw yourself […]
We Choose Joy
“Joy is a choice… reclaiming joy is transgressive…it is a threat to systems of control…It allows us to move from […]
Feminist Gift Guide 2022
Our intersectional feminism takes many forms. It’s in the being and doing of our dynamo grant partners, it’s in the […]
Women’s Foundation California Statement on Colorado Springs
If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your […]
Winning Proposition 1 and Writing the Next Chapter of CA’s Story
We are celebrating the victory of Proposition 1 with our fullest joy as we write abortion access into our California […]
Housing Opportunities STILL Mean Everything
Photo of HOME coalition member Rainbow Services team (San Pedro) Housing opportunities STILL mean everything, which is why we are […]
Black Women for Wellness: A Case for Supporting Black-led Reproductive Justice
originally published on the SoCal Grantmakers site Within a driver’s line of vision, popping up near bus stops and train […]
Bringing Community Power Building to Wealth Building
As an intersectional feminist organization, we understand the interplay between money and power. All of you have to do is […]
Grants, grants, grants!
photo caption: Black Women for Wellness (left) ACCESS Reproductive Justice (right) Our grant partners are the coolest. Black Women for […]
California’s Reproductive Justice Future: I Have 3 Actions
We are so grateful to the hundreds of folks who gathered with us yesterday to meet the moment and rally […]
It’s About Time: Announcing Multiyear Grantmaking
photo from Black Women for Wellness, one of the sixteen organizations receiving multiyear grants. “Another world is not only possible, […]
Infuriated, but Unsurprised: Roe v Wade Draft Decision
Photo by Act for Abortion (CCF) We are infuriated, but unsurprised. Reading the leaked draft Supreme Court decision last night, […]
Gratitude + Grants
Photo of grant partner Urban Tilth Staff who joined hundreds at the San Francisco Day of Action to Defund Climate […]
The Recall: Essential Info
Have you voted yet? We are just a week away from the September 14th gubernatorial recall election and if you […]
Sydney Joslin-Knapp: Coloring Book Conversations
A multi-disciplinary artist with mid-western flair, Sydney Joslin-Knapp’s work melds influences across genres like funk music innovators from their hometown […]
Cece Carpio: Drawing = Activism
With a little acrylic, ink, and spray paint, Cece Carpio creates moving portraits of everyday people in her community. As […]
Breena Nuñez: Coloring Book Conversations
Through their diary comics, Breena Nuñez explores everything from the awkwardness of racism to growing up as a queer Afrodescendiente […]
The Brilliance of Queer + AAPI Communities
A series of photos from our grant partners featured in this round of grant-making. Intersectional organizing is a year-round project, […]
Partners in Mental Health 🌻
Photo caption: A meeting hosted by our grant partner BEAM. With just a few days left in Mental Health Awareness […]
Updates on Our Grantmaking Process
We are cultivating curiosity and practicing trust as we continue to make updates to our grantmaking process. Together, we are […]
Caring for mamas 💗
What better way to honor mamas than to write care into our policies and practice expansive love across our communities? […]
Feminism + BIPOC + 🌎 = Everything
Photo Courtesy of The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust Our grant partners are building the next phase of environmental justice in […]
Built By Love, Rooted in Culture 💜
As Executive Director of Fresno Barrios Unidos, Ashley Rojas does everything from fielding phone calls from an anxious teen before […]
The Woman Behind ‘The Three Mothers’- Anna Malaika Tubbs
This month Women’s Foundation California is in conversation Anna Malakia Tubbs, Cambridge Ph.D.candidate in Sociology and a Bill and Melinda Gates […]
We Bring Everybody Along with Us
Mary Ignatius at Parent Voices told me recently, “…Funding women of color-led grassroots organizing in California and across the nation […]
Envisioning a World With No Barriers to Black Healing with Yolo from BEAM
Yolo Akili Robinson is the Founder and CEO of Black Emotional and Mental Health (BEAM). He began his career in […]
Interview with FreeFrom’s Sonya Passi: Discover the Organization Leading Survivors to Financial Freedom
FreeFrom envisions a world where survivors have sustaining income, savings and credit with which to build wealth and the resources […]
Black Health Matters: Defining Radical Care with Karen A. Scott, MD
A 2019 WPI Alum and OBGYN at UCSF, Karen A. Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG has worked on Black maternal health for […]
Introducing Our New Grant Partners
October 15, 2018 Written by Rhiannon Rossi, WFC Program Officer This year the Women’s Foundation of California launched the Community […]
Grant Partner Spotlight: CA Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative
August 10, 2018 Writtern by WFC Staff Transformation. Collaboration. Trust. Flexibility. Learning. Intersectionality. Well-being. Justice. Community. These are the nine […]
Latifa is a powerhouse, not a victim
By Mary Ignatius, Parent Voices Two weeks ago, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article about Latifa Lewis, a Hayward […]
Community Change in the Central Valley – Pixley, CA
By Ellen Sloan This is the second blog post by Board Member Ellen Sloan, who attended Sowing Change 2010, a […]
Clean Water – A Privilege Or A Right?
By Ellen Sloan, Board Member of the Women’s Foundation of California Water is a huge issue in the Central Valley. […]
Organizing for Clean Water in the Central Valley
The Women’s Foundation of California has long been concerned about the quality of water in our state. Hundreds of thousands […]
Photoblog: Women Sowing Change in the Central Valley
“25 Stories of the Central Valley” is a compelling, interactive online exhibit — “a window into the little-known lives of […]
Less Toxic Manicures for Healthy Beauty
Wondering where to go for your next manicure? The California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative (a Women’s Foundation of California grant […]
Bringing Fresh Produce to Los Angeles Communities
Plump avocados, rosy strawberries, spiny artichokes, and flowery broccoli; California is synonymous with its incredibly rich bounty of fresh fruits […]
Why is Teenage Pregnancy Still on the Rise?
In an Op-Ed published on Alternet, Laura Rosbrow writes, “We celebrated the 50th anniversary of the pill recently and many […]