In the U.S., there is no constitutional protection against sex discrimination. There is no explicit guarantee of equal rights for all regardless of sex. Simply put, men and women are not equal according to our Constitution. In 1923, legendary activists Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman sought to change this by introducing the Equal Rights Amendment [...more...]
We had just finished distributing the first edition of The Giving List – Bay Area when I received a call from Stacey Keare, a Silicon Valley philanthropist and Board Chair of Women Moving Millions (WMM). [...more...]
Trailblazers
Born to a poor family in Western Province, Rwanda, the country’s most conservative province, Jean Berchmans Uwimana was attending medical […more…]
Cherie Blair CBE, KC is an enormously influential figure at the intersection of business, politics, activism, and law. A renowned […more…]
An esteemed leader in civic and philanthropic work who currently serves as the president and CEO of the California Community […more…]
Our World
People don’t always agree on what feminism, equality, or system change is or looks like. But what can be agreed […more…]
As temperatures rise around the world, one thing is clear: Women are paying an outsized price. The United Nations estimates […more…]
While Maanda Ngoitiko was growing up in her Maasai community in northern Tanzania, a blade of grass was the symbol […more…]
Our Solidarity
In 1990, Tony Porter was director of a substance use program in a hospital north of New York City. There, […more…]
Philanthropy Together is a global nonprofit initiative that has reached hundreds of thousands of individuals through its work to diversify […more…]
For nearly a half-century, a growing number of men of all races and ethnicities in North America and around the […more…]
Our Security
When Ilwad Elman visited her native Somalia, she was eager to reunite with her peace activist mother, who had moved […more…]
Liliana, a survivor of domestic violence, found herself displaced from her home at the age of 55. Struggling to afford […more…]
Kavita Ramdas is a globally recognized advocate for gender equity and justice, at home in academia, the corporate boardroom, and […more…]
Our Safety
Well before #MeToo became a global conversation, Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) had learned that men would not talk to their […more…]
When Katie Marquart joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as a young lawyer, she knew about the firm’s prowess in […more…]
Nicole Matthews was 19 years old when her then-partner tried to kill them both. Believing falsely that she’d been cheating, […more…]
Our Minds
When her son came out to her as transgender 11 years ago, Roz Gould Keith had never heard that term. […more…]
Why is gender equity crucial to building the next generation of leaders in Santa Barbara County and beyond? Girls Inc. […more…]
“I’ve been committed to girls of color since I was one.” Dr. Monique Couvson, president and CEO of Grantmakers for […more…]
Our Leadership
When it comes to pushing for more equal representation of women and other underrepresented groups in top leadership positions, your […more…]
In 1965, when Sara Miller McCune was only 24, she founded Sage Publishing, which grew into a major international academic […more…]
A movement often starts with a moment. For Dr. Denise Raquel Dunning, that moment happened when she was just 12 […more…]
Our Democracy
What happens when you’ve succeeded with your mission of seeding women-led grassroots organizations for over 30 years, and helped create […more…]
In January 2021, the inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman delivered her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” at the […more…]
How is it that over 60% of Americans support the legalization of abortion in most cases, but Roe v. Wade […more…]
Our Culture
In 1990, Franco Stevens founded Curve magazine, the best-selling lesbian magazine in the U.S. for the last three decades. The […more…]
If you can’t get a seat at the table, says Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) Founding Executive […more…]
“Lesbian” may be the first word in the LGBTQ+ acronym, but The Curve Foundation founders Franco Stevens and Jen Rainin […more…]
Our Careers
Access to credit is a mighty tool in the modern world. Without it, individuals may face barriers to education, housing, […more…]
For Dr. Nancy O’Reilly, the mission of Women Connect4Good is intensely personal. Growing up, she felt that life looked easier […more…]
Wealth, in the traditional sense, is often only thought of as money. But what if it transcended that simple definition? […more…]
Our Bodies
She only had two weeks to live. This is a patient’s story that is all too familiar to Yonni Wattenmaker, […more…]
The untimely death of Kira Johnson from internal bleeding after a cesarean section in 2016 highlighted the problem. Tennis champion […more…]
In 2005, Dorothy Largay received a monetary windfall and asked herself how she could use the funds in the most […more…]
Impact Partners
When Katie Marquart joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as a young lawyer, she knew about the firm’s prowess in […more…]
Champion Partners
The water was rising: On the western coast of Bangladesh in the early 2000s, communities deep in the Sundarbans mangrove […more…]
What happens when you’ve succeeded with your mission of seeding women-led grassroots organizations for over 30 years, and helped create […more…]
Did you know that the word “radical” comes from the Latin word for roots? “Radical means going to the roots, […more…]