Women's Funding Network

  • A Advocate
  • F Funder
  • N Network
  • R Researcher

Description

With over 100 women’s foundations, funds, and gender equity funders engaged, Women’s Funding Network is the largest philanthropic network in the world devoted to women and girls. Our mission is to bring together the financial power and influence of funders and supporters of gender equity in order to address and solve critical and complex social issues ranging from poverty to global security. We strive to build a world where every woman and girl has the resources to achieve her full potential.

Primary Functions

  • Awareness Raising/Advocacy
  • Networking/Convening
  • Research - other

Secondary Functions

  • Capacity building/Technical assistance
  • Funding
  • Research - policy analysis

Geographic Scope

  • Global / regional

Areas of work Back to Top

Education topics addressed

Attainment

  • Post-secondary
  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion

Other

  • Early childhood development
  • Other

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning
  • Vocational training

Quality

  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence
  • School violence
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Other academic performance-related
  • STEM

Cross-cutting topics addressed

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment
  • Female genital mutilation/cutting
  • Food/water security
  • Masculinities/boys
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Mentorship
  • Migration
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Other cultural practices
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Funders and partners Back to Top

Current girls’ education funders

Current girls' education partners

Locations and contact information Back to Top

Website

Women's Funding Network

Headquarters location(s)

  • San Francisco, California, United States of America

Office location(s)

  • N/A

Locations of current girls’ education work

Map showing countries (listed below) where the organization is involved with girls' education programs

  • Afghanistan
  • Australia
  • Bulgaria
  • Cambodia
  • Canada
  • China
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • El Salvador
  • Ethiopia
  • France
  • Ghana
  • Guatemala
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
  • India
  • Kenya
  • Liberia
  • Malawi
  • Mauritania
  • Mexico
  • Mongolia
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan
  • Peru
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • United Republic of Tanzania
  • United States of America

Projects Back to Top

Not applicable or unknown