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
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