Women Win

As a global women’s fund, we are committed to strengthening our understanding of how we meet the needs of those we work with across the gender justice movement, to support them and the movements better. In our exploration of this process, we have drawn heavily from Deepa Iyer’s Social Change Ecosystem 📚 and her extensive mapping of movement roles. Following both in-depth conversations with a diverse range of Women Win partners and ongoing internal reflections, we have identified four key roles that we feel we currently hold: ✨resourcer, connector, space holder and cultivator.✨ Read more about how we show up in our roles in our Annual Report: annual-report.womenwin.org

Need support with your FREE GROW Application? Get support from our webinar on July 17th! ☘️ We encourage any applicants who have questions or concerns about the application to please attend this session where our team will go through the application questions in depth and answer your lingering questions. Sign up now here: thefreefund.org/apply

📢 INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES! Are you currently studying or graduated in the last 6 months and looking for an internship opportunity? 🤓 Join one of Women Win teams as an intern from September 2024. Internship applications are open until July 22nd for: ⭐ Ignita ⭐ EQUIS ⭐ ONSIDE Find all the info and apply here: https://lnkd.in/d6mTWkf

Will you join us in a vision of a future where every girl and woman exercises their rights? 🙋🏾♀️ The three sister brands that sit under the Women Win umbrella — GRLS, Win-Win Strategies and Ignita — work towards that shared vision through diversified missions and themes. That way, we get a chance to influence a wide range of stakeholders and broker non-traditional partnerships, enhancing adaptability, collaboration and cross-sectoral knowledge sharing. 🤾🏽♀️ GRLS advance the playing field that progresses gender equity through sport and play. 🌱 Win-Win Strategies build bridges to advance girls’ and women’s resilience through impactful partnerships and innovative approaches. ✊🏽 Ignita catalyse a shift in the philanthropy ecosystem that strengthens local activists’, organisations’, and movements’ capacities to drive change on their own terms. Steered by our partners and their unwavering efforts, we are eager to continue sharing our learnings and forging meaningful partnerships for systemic change.

🌱 FREE GROW Fund has launched and is open for applications from East Africa until 26 July 2024! 🌱 The FREE GROW Fund invests in local organisations that use intersectional approaches to advance gender equality in agricultural communities connected to global value chains. ✏️ This call is open to non-profit organisations, groups, associations, collectives, and networks with a focus on the rights of girls and women, and who have demonstrable experience working in flower, tea, and/or coffee communities in East Africa. Check out if you are eligible here: https://lnkd.in/gyRRD9Aq #FREEGROW #WeAreFREE #genderequality

🚀 Women Win 2023 Annual Report is here! 🚀 With this report, we are thrilled to share our reflections on Women Win’s contributions to the gender justice movement since 2007, and the roles we aim to play in continuing to support the movements. Our journey is marked by learning and collaboration, and we are excited to keep responding and adapting to the needs and together with our partners, including activists, groups and women’s funds that form part of the gender justice movement. We strive to uplift collective impact and knowledge and, together, work towards a future where every girl and woman exercises their rights. 💪🏽 As always, we thank and honour our partners and predecessors, whose insights have steered us toward more decolonised, decentralised, feminist and democratic approaches. Our commitment remains unwavering as we navigate challenges with humility, ensuring our actions are aligned with our core values and the evolving needs of the communities we serve. 🏵️ 📖 Follow our social media to learn more about Women Win’s roles and our partners’ impact. Read the full report here: annual-report.womenwin.org

We’re Empowering 2000 young African girls in STEM! 🚀 She Code Africa Stem A Girl is finally here! 🥳💃💃💃💃 This time we're on a mission (AS ALWAYS 😁) to educate and empower young African girls to pursue STEM careers, and we’re kicking off in Nigeria! This Initiative is fully funded by Women Win and thanks to this Grant by Women Win and through this initiative, we'll provide access to quality education, mentorship, and resources to fuel their passion for STEM. 👏👏🚀🚀 Follow #SCASTEMAGirl and our IG stories to stay updated and be a part of this initiative and visit https://lnkd.in/daihA8MX to see how you can make a real difference! 💪💪 #SheCodeAfrica #SCAStemAGirl

📣 JOB ALERT! We are looking for a Programmes Manager and a Programmes Coordinator to join the Ignita team. The work of Ignita includes pooled funding mechanisms, fiscal sponsorships, shared governance approaches, participatory grantmaking and learning communities. The team oversees a range of partnerships with organisations fiscally hosted at Women Win. 🔗 Applications are open until July 21st via Idealist: https://lnkd.in/eNugpG7v

An ONSIDE Fund grantee ActivateHer was joined by H&M Move and Nadia Nadim on a school outing where it was all about empowering girls through sport! ⚽🤸🏿 ActivateHer provide girl-centric and multi-sports based programming to break down traditional gender barriers associated with sports and translate what is played on the field into education about leadership development, physical health and life skills. 🌱 Their founding director, Adele Bruggeman, comments: "The partnership with H&M Move is an incredible opportunity to introduce more girls to sport-for-development programming tailored to their needs. Alongside this, we see the expansion of our community-based coaching staff as a crucial step towards cultivating more female advocates for equity and health, who can make a lasting impact on the lives of girls and their communities." The partnership with ActivateHer forms part of H&M Move’s community programme, Move Together, which supports young people in experiencing all the benefits of moving together – physically, mentally and socially. This mission strongly resonates with H&M Move's Brand Mover, Nadia Nadim, who has transitioned from refugee status to international football player. To show her support for the partnership, Nadia travelled to Cape Town to partake in an ActivateHer school outing, and engage with the girls and coaches through motivational movement and leadership sessions. 📰 Read more https://lnkd.in/g3sjnmBk

Three years ago, the Universal Access Project joined a unique set of partners to co-create the Resilience Fund for Women in Global Value Chains, recognizing women's safety, bodily autonomy, and #SRHR as essential to long-term economic resilience. The Fund offers a new and innovative approach to corporate philanthropy: a first-of-its-kind pooled fund that features flexible giving, shared governance, and women-led, community-driven solutions. Today we celebrated the Fund’s third anniversary with many of our partners in New York and around the world, sharing our learnings from the women’s funds who have blazed the trail in trust-based, decolonized approaches to grantmaking, and looking ahead to the future of the Fund. Tina Sciabica Women's Fund Asia Women Win Marissa Wesely Gloria Schoch