Growing a Global Movement to Fund Women Boldly

In 2006, Women’s Funding Network partnered with visionary donors Swanee and Helen LaKelly Hunt to launch Women Moving Millions. The campaign has raised over $198 million in gifts of $1 million or more to women’s and girls’ funds in North America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. Women Moving Millions is creating financial fuel for programs on the ground that accelerate women’s and girls’ abilities to reach their full potential.

In 2010, Women Moving Millions Co-Chairs Helen LaKelly Hunt and Chris Grumm joined hands with women’s funds and donors in Australia to launch a localized expansion, Women Mobilising Millions. Australia is a major center for philanthropy that supports social change across the region. For example, International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) – an Australia- based member of Women’s Funding Network – is partnering with Wide Bay Conservation Association to restore gender equity in land use decisions in Papua New Guinea. Women there, the traditional custodians of the land, have been increasingly excluded from land development decisions, which can threaten natural resources and undermine community sustainability. To counter this, IWDA is bringing together networks of women to influence land use, as well as to learn new economic skills.

Australia’s homegrown Women Mobilising Millions is expanding a global movement of women and men who recognize that without the full involvement of women and girls, efforts to build peace, stability, and equality will fall short.

This member profile is from Women's Funding Network's 2010 annual report. You can view the full report here.