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Gender Equality and Grantmakers

Gender Equality and Grantmakers . A Framework. Overview. Gender and recession Are women’s issues dropping off the donor agenda? Globally, women’s rights organizations tend to be small and under-resourced  annual budgets < $50,000 (Mama Cash, 2011). Who funds women’s issues?.

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Gender Equality and Grantmakers

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  1. Gender Equality and Grantmakers A Framework

  2. Overview Gender and recession Are women’s issues dropping off the donor agenda? Globally, women’s rights organizations tend to be small and under-resourced  annual budgets < $50,000 (Mama Cash, 2011)

  3. Who funds women’s issues?

  4. US Grantmaking (2009)(The Foundation Center)

  5. US gender-focused grantmaking (2010) Amount: $1,236,933,620 (6.0-percent of total) Number of grants: 10,426 (6.8-percent of total)

  6. Top 10 US Foundations awarding grants for women and girls 1. Gates Foundation $ 221,096,513 99 grants 2. Buffett Foundation $168,787,914 116 grants 3. Ford Foundation $81,781,762 284 grants 4. Foundation to Promote Open Society $38,784,757 33 grants 5. William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $36,225,500 44 grants 6. David and Lucile Packard Foundation $32,760,989 105 grants 7. Huber Foundation $22,840,000 25 grants 8. The MacArthur Foundation $17,817,400 45 grants 9. W. K. Kellogg Foundation $17,684,309 56 grants 10. NIKE Foundation $14,167,973 65 grants Top 50 recipients: only 10 are outside of the US, and only 2 from the Global South (South Africa and Colombia, the rest are England, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland) Major focus: health, human rights

  7. European gender-focused grantmaking (Mama Cash, 2011)

  8. Axioms of gender-focused grantmaking

  9. Frameworks of gender-focused grantmaking

  10. Gender and grantmaking approaches: focus on grantees Strengthen gender justice directly in grantees (beware power, and always listen to grantees): General support for women’s groups Programmatic support Encourage a gender lens across the board for all grantees Organizational focus Collaborative work

  11. General support

  12. Programmatic support

  13. Gender lens

  14. Organizational diversity Diversity tables, e.g.

  15. Clearsighted protocol (Chicago Women in Philanthropy)

  16. Collaborative work

  17. Gender and grantmaking approaches: focus on grantmakers Strengthening funders’ commitment to gender justice: Grantmaking Gender lens and gender awareness across the board for all grantmaking Organizational focus Enhance gender-focused philanthropy

  18. Grantmaking

  19. Organization

  20. The philanthropic field • Funder collaboratives, e.g. Women’s Funding Network, Learning Bridges Initiative (CEE) • Bring in other grantmakers • Increase the number of women involved in philanthropy (giving and/or working)

  21. Monitoring and evaluation

  22. Resources The Foundation Center The European Foundation Center Association of Women in Development Women’s Funding Network Grantcraft Mama Cash Chicago Women in Philanthropy UN Women Global Fund for Women BRIDGE

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