The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy
Author(s)
Bofu-Tawamba, Ndana
Bright, Ruby
Clohesy, Stephanie
Grumm, Christine
Kanyoro, Musimbi
LaKelly Hunt, Helen
Oliveira, Ana
Risimini, Laura
Sloane, Jane
Tomlin, Jessica
Language
EnglishAbstract
The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy tells the inspiring, never-before-told, story of the Global Women’s Funding Movement—considered the women’s movement’s greatest secret—and how it enabled women from all walks of life to harness the power of money to free themselves from oppression. Brimming with feminist epiphanies, this social justice playbook is an urgent call for women’s collective leadership to guide humanity through the gravest of challenges, overcoming patriarchy’s multi-millennium reign through the uprising of women leaders and philanthropists. Founded during the second-wave women’s movement of the early 1970s, small groups of women across the world, independent of each other, had the same epiphany: it will take a movement of women to raise the money needed to fund women’s freedom. Since then, the Global Women's Funding Movement has grown into a global network of radically generous, risk-taking philanthropists who collectively wield financial might to win seismic gender equality victories. The authors document the "Women Effect" that results from gender equality and women’s collective leadership, including improved public health and reproductive justice, expanded public education, stronger democracies, resilient economies, climate recovery and enduring peace. The Global Women's Funding Movement is guided by its Feminist Funding Principles and, through them, it has innovated the most effective philanthropic practices, including trust-based philanthropy. The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy is for those interested in focusing the power of philanthropy on leveraging systemic social justice victories and gender equality gains. The long-practiced Feminist Funding Principles imparted by the authors is a recipe for the feminist alchemy needed to transform society for the betterment of all.
Keywords
Leaders; Leadership; Feminism; Gender equality; Gender justice; Global Women's Funding Movement; Human rights; Philanthropy; Rights advocacy; Social justiceDOI
10.4324/9781003330455ISBN
9781040126189, 9781003330455, 9781032361468, 9781032361475, 9781040126219, 9781040126189Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
Oxford, 2025Imprint
RoutledgeClassification
Economics
Management: leadership and motivation
Sales and marketing
Gender studies, gender groups
Sociology: work and labour