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This social justice playbook is an urgent call for women’s collective leadership to guide humanity through the gravest of challenges — Join the Revolution!

What is certain to be a bestseller, the 2024 book — 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.

Co-authored by 10 international powerhouses — Ndana Bofu-Tawamba, Ruby Bright, Stephanie Clohesy, Musimbi Kanyoro, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ana Oliveira, Laura Risimini, Jane Sloane, and Jessica Tomlin — this book is an important read for everyone interested in the long-practiced Feminist Funding Principles imparted by the authors. It is a recipe for the feminist alchemy needed to transform society for the betterment of all.

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 worldwide, 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, more robust democracies, resilient economies, climate recovery, and enduring peace. Click here to learn more.

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About the authors:

Written in a collective voice, The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy is also an important human rights document. It offers a roadmap to achieve a thriving democracy. This book marks the first time that women’s rights philanthropists have united, in book form and in one voice, to call for massive investments in women’s rights for social justice change. Undoubtedly, this book will be an essential addition to the works of the few but highly influential feminist collective authorship. Meet each of the authors here.


Don’t miss this upcoming event featuring co-authors of the book:

New-York Historical Society: Give to Women and Girls Day

The Women’s Philanthropy Institute is partnering with Amplify Her® Foundation to host a Give to Women and Girls Day celebration at New-York Historical Society to call attention to the gap in philanthropic support for women and girls — using this moment to galvanize awareness and funding.

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Here’s what experts are saying about the book:

“Everyone who cares about making the world a kinder and safer place should know that the women’s funding movement is doing exactly that. Read this book, take heart, and pass it on!” Gloria Steinem, Writer, Activist, and Feminist Organizer

“My work as Executive Director of UN Women and UN Under-Secretary-General taught me that activism without money falls short of implementation. Women’s funds and women’s funding movements knew this a long time ago and this book gives a glimpse of the power of women’s ability to pay forward.” — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women

“Every person involved in philanthropy should read this book to truly understand the partnership of philanthropists and activists around the world in making radical and upending change. Change that puts justice at the center of how communities survive and thrive.” Lori Barra, Executive Director, The Isabel Allende Foundation

“By capturing the stories of the women’s funding movement over the past fifty years, this book invites us to think more expansively about what is possible when philanthropy gets serious about resourcing the movements working on issues that affect the lives of women and their communities. It is a historical reminder of what can be done for anyone seeking to boldly shift how to fund feminist movements so communities can thrive.” — Teresa C. Younger, President and CEO, Ms. Foundation for Women

“Women have been philanthropic actors and activists in the truest sense of those words for generations – in every part of the globe. Yet such philanthropy continues to be under acknowledged at best. This book tells the important stories of the activism and impact of women’s funds across the world in support of feminist and justice movements. Shine that light!”— Theo Sowa, Former CEO, African Women’s Development Fund

“Fascinating stories about gender, power, and philanthropy. This book gives you a behind the scenes look at how the global women’s funding movement weaves its way around the globe to support activists on the ground and reimagine philanthropy.” — PeiYao Chen, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women

“The Women’s Funding Movement is a game changer in the world of philanthropy and gender justice around the globe. If you want to know what, why, when, where and how this is the book to read. This is a movement that invites all of us to participate regardless of resources. Read and be inspired.” — Pat Mitchell, Co-Founder of ConnectedWomenLeaders and Project Dandelion, and author of Becoming a Dangerous Woman: Embracing Risk to Change The World

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