Women's Foundation Updates
Economic Security Is Impossible Without Affordable Childcare
Since its inception in 1999 , Economic Development and Justice giving circle has been trailblazing, advocating for the rights of low-income women and girls.
Transforming Los Angeles Through Girl Power and Philanthropy
Violets’ Giving Circle is a youth-led giving circle of the Women’s Foundation of California. Since 2008 they’ve awarded $165,000 in grants for educational programs geared towards underprivileged women.
My Giving Circle Recipe
Today is Michelle Ramos-Burkhart’s last day at the Women’s Foundation of California. She has been our incredible Program Officer, Giving Circles and has done an incredible job spearheading our first Giving Circle Conference, creating important collaborative giving curricula and simply managing a powerful and inspiring network of formidable women philanthropists from all over the state. In this article, she bids us farewell and shares her wisdom with us, and you. Thank you, Michelle. We will miss you.
Rhiannon Rossi, Welcome!
We’re proud to announce that Rhiannon Rossi is our new Program Officer, Philanthropic Engagement. She will be using her savvy and brilliance to grow the success and impact of our Giving Circle Network, create powerful partnerships between our six giving circles and four donor advised funds and, every step of the way, create opportunities for collaboration, learning and inspiration. Welcome!
Dance Mission Gets Out the Vote, Gets $10,000 Grant
Daniel Hirsch, Mission Local, April 1, 2015—In a year of financial uncertainty, Dance Mission Theater got some unexpected good news […]
Ladies first, you say? Here’s what that looks like
Nikole Collins-Puri, The Hill, February 16,2015—As I walked into the hotel lobby, a smiling man opened the door with a […]
In-home care workers deserve overtime
Surina Khan, San Francisco Chronicle, March 2, 2015—It’s no secret that women face a persistent lag in pay behind their […]
We Have Our Winner!
Three weeks. 500 incredible women’s rights organizations. 64,000 votes cast. 78,000 shares on Facebook. 53,000 mentions on Twitter. People’s Momentum Award has been an incredible experience and we now have our winner: Dance Mission. They’ll be using their crowd-sourced $10,000 grant to help pay for their rent, which was recently increased by whopping $25,000 per year.
Straight Talk: Why we disqualified some organizations from the People’s Momentum Award
In line with the rules and regulations of our contest, we needed to disqualify some of the organizations nominated in […]
#pplmomentum Contest Is Here!
Today, on International Women’s Day and eight days into Women’s History Month, we are launching the People’s Momentum Award (#pplmoment), an online voting contest that invites you to tell us what organizations are doing great work on behalf of women and families and should receive our grant.
Women’s Foundation of California holds online voting contest to award a $10,000 grant
Women’s foundation invites Californians to celebrate Women’s History Month by celebrating women’s organizations doing extraordinary work San Francisco, California, March […]
Women Behind the CA Teen Dating Violence Prevention Bill
February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month and we wanted you to know that five intrepid Women’s Policy Institute fellows are working on bold legislation that aims to prevent adolescent relationship abuse. Their solution: making violence education and prevention a part of school education in California.
Sisterhood is powerful
Essie Justice Group is a new organization launched by our Soros Justice Fellow, Gina Clayton. We are proud to incubate and fiscally sponsor Gina’s organization. This past weekend, Essie brought women with incarcerated loved ones together to connect, bond, start a new organization—and a new movement.
Raising the Minimum Wage Is a Women’s Issue
Article originally appeared on Sacramento Bee. Earnie Spencer works full time at a minimum-wage job and takes care of her […]
Introducing Women’s Policy Institute-Riverside
We’re expanding our groundbreaking Women’s Policy Institute to Riverside County! We are looking to create a powerhouse team of 20 county-level policy advocates who are ready to roll up their sleeves and learn how to articulate and shape real policy solutions to modern-day, complex challenges their communities face.
Time to Raise the Minimum Wage
We applaud Senator Mark Leno’s decision to introduce legislation (SB3) that aims to raise California’s minimum wage to $11 an hour in 2016 and $13 in 2017. Six out of ten minimum wage workers are women. In this post, Jane Pak talks to a 63-year-old worker from Fairfield, Angela Grott.
The Daily Show Interviews WPI Graduate Karuna Jaggar
Watch Karuna Jaggar, a graduate of the Women’s Policy Institute and executive director of Breast Cancer Action, talks with the hilarious Samantha Bee (The Daily Show) about “pink fracking.”
Sweetest Giving Tuesday Video You’ll See
On #GivingTuesday we’re raising funds to support one Women’s Policy Institute team. Watch our new video about the Institute, its brilliant graduates and their legislative victories over the years. UPDATE: We raised over $31,000 on #GivingTuesday!
I ♥ Women’s Policy Institute
We’re participating in #GivingTuesday this year and are trying to raise $60,000 and fund an entire Women’s Policy Institute team. This groundbreaking program has changed the lives of 300 graduates and they have gone on to change the lives of thousands of women.
WPI Graduate Elected to Public Office
Last week, Jessie Ryan, a Women’s Policy Institute graduate, was elected to the Sacramento City Unified School District Board. Jessie was chosen to represent Area 7, the poorest, most diverse district in SCUSD. We simply can’t think of a more qualified candidate for the job.