Women's Foundation Updates
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our 2026 SPI Bills are Here
In California, wildflowers are carpeting our hills and valleys, reminding us spring is a time when the dormant seeds we […]
Dolores Knows: We Power our Movements
This week, specifically March 31st, carries weight. The United Farm Workers has paused its celebration today. Dolores Huerta, a woman who […]
¡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 […]
Before the algorithms, there were stories
Before there was TikTok, 24 hour news cycles, and Zoom calls, there were stories. Stories carried between women. Stories told […]
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 […]
Tomorrow We Withhold Our Labor
We are not surprised. We are prepared. I grew up under a military dictatorship in Brazil. I know how authoritarianism […]
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 […]
Fight Fascism, Fund Feminism
We made it to a new year. Out with the old and in with the new, as the saying goes. […]
This instant, this triumph
Let us keep building our feminist future together. A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde For those of us who […]
We won’t wait 100 years!
Join the Continuum and rewrite the timeline to equity. Every child born today deserves a future where gender equity isn’t […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Will You Join With Us?
Some years feel like they’re happening in fast-forward, every week a new headline that feels like a sequel to the […]
If you’re a billionaire… why are you a billionaire?
A couple weeks ago, while accepting her WSJ Music Innovator award, Billie Eilish looked out at a room filled with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Indigenous Sovereignty Is Feminist Justice
Today, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor the resilience, leadership, and unbroken presence of Indigenous peoples across California. We acknowledge […]
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 […]
Grief, Justice, and the Test Before Us
Anniversaries have a way of pulling us backward and forward at once. October 7 lives in that space — a […]
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 choose care over cruelty — SB 418 & AB 969
One of the most important things California does—maybe the most important thing—is decide what kind of state it wants to […]
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 […]
Pride is resistance
This Pride Month, we are not just celebrating. We are taking action. This week, a sitting U.S. Representative declared that […]