Category: WFC Updates
Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was Murdered by ICE Yesterday
Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was murdered by ICE yesterday. Another father, just trying to get to work. We know he […]
“He did not deserve to die.”
When another person dies, crying feels inadequate – like a thimble of my tears can do anything. Another murder by […]
America 250: We exist in two places at once.
The last $40 goes to gas and hot dogs. We gather anyway. On the table is Grandma’s potato salad in […]
4 Years After the Fall of Roe
One’s body is exactly that – your own. It’s a deeply personal relationship: your elbows, your face, your heart, every […]
Juneteenth: You don’t get to choose which bodies matter.
In 1969, Marsha P. Johnson showed up on the front lines of the Stonewall uprising with flowers in her hair […]
Meet Sofia
Dear Women’s Foundation California Community, We are Kevin and Janey Colosimo, Sofia’s parents. We want to take a moment to […]
Pride is resistance
This Pride Month, we are not just celebrating. We are taking action. This week, a sitting U.S. Representative declared that […]
The Protesters Know Something Philanthropy Doesn’t
This story was copublished with Nonprofit Quarterly, a nonprofit magazine publication providing research-based articles and resources to educate the nonprofit […]
Patriarchy is made up, here’s proof
Last week we came together — women’s funds, organizers, feminists, scholars, students — from across the country, in the same […]
This is what feminist power looks like.
Here’s what we know: last week, at the California Museum, the feminist agenda was in the room. Not as a slogan. As […]
Tomorrow, We Show Up – May Day 2026
Just yesterday, the Supreme Court delivered a verdict undermining decades of hard fought activism, striking at what is widely hailed […]
SPI State 2026 Applications Are Open!
Folks writing our laws in Sacramento don’t always reflect our communities and definitely don’t hold all the answers. For over […]
Happy Birthday Dolores.
Today, Dolores Huerta turns 96. She has spent a lifetime, nearly a century, fighting for farmworkers, for the people whose […]
Why “Warehouse” Your Impact?
I’m a proud board member and donor partner to Women’s Foundation California, where we believe philanthropic dollars should support communities, […]
A “Whole Civilization”
We have been here before, on stolen Indigenous land, in the fields, factories, and prisons built on Black and brown […]
¡Ya basta! – Enough is Enough. All by April
Our democracy is teetering on the precipice. Over the past year, the U.S. federal government has become an agent of […]
Tomorrow is the deadline. Local power is the answer.
Sunday night, at SFO, two federal agents, plain clothes, no badges visible, detained a woman in the airport terminal. Videos captured the […]
“My silence ends here.” – Dolores Huerta
“Strategic necessity,” “preserving legacy,” women have been told to swallow their pain to protect the movements they built with their […]
The Movement Is Calling: Apply Today
The world is splitting at the seams. Power is consolidating. And young people — queer, trans, Black, Brown, immigrant, gender-expansive […]
What a History Month Is For
There is something both beautiful and insufficient about a history month. It can feel like a cry through a storm, […]
Planning is power and self-determination
Becoming a parent has made me more attuned to the invisible scaffolding that holds certain lives up. I had the […]
Introducing the Draper|Paiva Feminist Legacy Fund for Bodily Autonomy
In 2024, Lee Draper and Thomas Paiva made a powerful planned gift, pledging half their wealth to establish the Draper|Paiva […]
Violence is Not Theory. Neither is Our Resistance
One year into this administration, we know violence is not theory. We see it as four children, including a five […]
Let 2026 be the Year We Abolish ICE
Yesterday, the country woke up to the news of state violence: Renee Nicole Good was clearly murdered by an ICE […]
This instant, this triumph
Let us keep building our feminist future together. A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde For those of us who […]
Leadership, Joy, and Resistance
As days get shorter and a bit colder, we’re searching for that little bit of light as we look to […]
Enter our 2025 Feminist Gift Guide
Stop shopping like a zombie. Start giving like a feminist. The holiday season is here, tugging at us with the […]
The HOME Cohort Building What the White House Won’t
photo of this year’s VOCA rally at the Capital in Sacramento via California Partnership to End Domestic Violence Homelessness gets […]
Meet our 2025–2026 Solís Policy Institute State Fellows
I’m thrilled to introduce the Dr. Beatriz María Solís Policy Institute (SPI) State 2025–2026 cohort — a group of organizers, advocates, and […]
ICE and Border Patrol Are Not Welcome in California | ICE y la Patrulla Fronteriza No Son Bienvenidos en California
There are mornings when the news feels like a punch to the gut. Today is one of them. The announcement […]
Annual Report 2025: A Call to Action
In a year when grassroots communities face mounting attacks and our country tilts toward authoritarianism, what holds us steady are […]
This California, Our California
There is no California without Latinos—we know this. Our history, culture, and community have been embedded in this state for […]
California can’t afford to look away
We are living through a time when our democracy feels like it is coming apart at the seams. Authoritarianism is […]
My Summer with WFC & the Transformative Beauty of SLI
In early May of this summer, I eagerly opened my laptop to await an email from HR. It was the […]
Here’s how California can do better for domestic violence survivors
When we talk about domestic violence, the conversation often narrows to what happens behind closed doors. But that framing misses […]
Resting Together, Rooted in Care
This week, Women’s Foundation California is slowing down. We’re not all stepping away—but we are all making space. Each year, […]
Real Change Starts Local: Meet the 2025 SPI Local Teams
If you want to understand how power works in the United States, don’t just look at Congress. Look at neighbors […]
MacArthur Park. ICE Funding. What Happens Next is Up to Us.
Monday, armed troops stormed MacArthur Park in Los Angeles—terrorizing street vendors, elders, and even children at a summer camp. “One […]
They came for our bodies. We’re coming for the system.
Three years ago this week, Roe v. Wade was overturned. The state didn’t just come for abortion—it came for the heart […]
Introducing Our 2025 Summer Leadership Institute Fellows
Meet our 2025 Summer Leadership Institute fellows, a wildly brilliant crew of 28 young feminists laying the foundation for our feminist […]
Feminism isn’t theory. It isn’t symbolic. It’s how we survive.
The world is being reshaped before our eyes—through war, authoritarianism, and the intentional dismantling of democracy. From Gaza to Los Angeles, […]
Our Communities Deserve Care—Not Tear Gas
There’s a narrative this country loves to tell about itself. It’s tidy and self-congratulatory: protest is a right, democracy is […]
AB 969 Just Passed the California State Assembly
AB 969 just passed the California State Assembly floor with unanimous, bipartisan support—79 votes in favor, zero opposed. Our Solís […]
The Future Isn’t Given. It’s Made—By You
There’s a throughline in every movement. It’s not just protest. Not just policy. It’s care. It’s community. It’s the conviction […]
Our Voices on ABC7: Protecting Reproductive Health in California
We often talk about California as a progressive leader—a reproductive freedom state, a place where equity and access aren’t just […]
“Feminism Is the Opposite of Fascism”
At Women’s Foundation California, we know policy is a tool for freedom—and last week, we witnessed that truth in action. […]
There Is No Future Without Immigrant Justice
Last week, three U.S. citizen children—ages 2, 4, and 7—were deported from the United States by ICE alongside their mothers. […]
What Was Erased— and What We’re Reclaiming
Last week, Women’s Foundation California had the honor of hosting a powerful evening at the Getty House alongside Mayor Karen […]
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 […]
Philanthropy Is a Tool for Change—Women’s Foundation California is Protecting the Right to Use It
Women’s Foundation California is proud to join more than 570 organizations who have signed this Public Statement from Philanthropy. We […]