Our goal is to transform systems and policies so that environments are created where women and girls may thrive. The Women's Foundation supports the intentional work of organizations to strengthen and improve their internal capabilities to be more effective in achieving their mission and sustaining themselves over the long term. Our goal is to assist in creating strong, effective, sustainable, and stable organizations. It is The Women's Foundation's goal to support the protection and promotion of the human rights of women and girls in both access and equity in the civil, political, economic, social, and cultural spheres. A gender lens informs the grantmaking strategy of The Women's Foundation.
Gender is a socially constructed concept.
Looking through a gender lens means looking at gender as the primary factor by which communities and cultures construct roles, expectations, attitudes, values and relationships. A gender lens can facilitate the transformation of unequal relations of power between women and men. Through gender analysis, The Women's Foundation strives to increase awareness about how roles, attitudes, expectations, and relationships of women and men limit women's full participation in our communities. Unless otherwise noted, to be considered for a grant, your organization must work with low-income women and girls in California. For work of a longer duration, an additional one to two years of funding, for a total three-year period, will be considered for a select number of established projects and organizations previously funded by the Foundation.