Starting this evening and through the rest of the week, we here at The Women’s Foundation will be attending the Women’s Funding Network’s annual conference–which is being held this year right here in Washington, D.C. (Well, Crystal City, to be exact).
We’ve talked a lot about the women’s funding movement and women’s philanthropy on this blog, and the conference is a great way to bring together the women’s funds and foundations throughout the county–and the world–who are also doing this work.
We’ll be kicking things off tonight with a congressional reception on the Hill to invite staffers and members of Congress to learn more about the power of women’s philanthropy and the unique and deep impact of grantmaking directed towards the needs of women and girls.
Then the next two days will be filled with sessions on poverty alleviation, grantmaking focused around the aging and health concerns facing women throughout the country, growing girls’ grantmaking programs, and my personal favorite, using new media and social networks to expand philanthropy. And lots more.
On Saturday we’ll be hearing from the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai and actress Angela Bassett as the conference wraps up.
All very cool. We hope to have lots of tidbits, stories and strategies to share when we return!
