BWF Mission

The Boston Women's Fund supports community-based organizations run by women and girls in the Greater Boston Area. We work with low-income women; women of color; women with disabilities; older women; lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women; immigrant and refugee women; and girls who are working to create a society based on racial, social, and economic justice. The Boston Women's Fund raises money from a broad base of donors across economic backgrounds to provide grants and develop programs that strengthen the grassroots initiatives and leadership of women and girls.

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Who we are

The Boston Women's Fund is a collaboration of staff, volunteers, donors, and grantees working together for social and economic justice. We focus on women and girls because women and girls continue to experience gender related discrimination, abuse, and disparities.

We provide grants to grassroots organizations run by and for women and girls. We also support grantee organizations through technical assistance and networking forums. We run programs to inspire young women to become philanthropists, develop leadership among young women, and educate the public about injustice. Social, racial, and economic justice is our goal.

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BWF Core Values

• We believe that change starts at the grassroots level, and systemic change is necessary to achieve social justice.
• We believe that power and wealth must be redistributed to attain equity and systemic change.
• We believe that the fight for women's rights is an integral part of a larger struggle to end oppression based on race, class, gender, age, religion, ability, or sexual orientation.
• We believe that all movements fighting racism must be racially and culturally diverse in both membership and leadership if progressive change is to occur.
• We believe that women and girls can and must be leaders within all movements if progressive change is to occur.
• We believe that educating and organizing a diverse donor base is a critical strategy for amassing broad support for social-change movements.
• We strive to reflect our commitment to shared leadership, equity, and cultural diversity in all aspects of our organization's operations.

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How to Get Involved

There are several volunteer opportunities at the Boston Women's Fund. Women and girls interested in social and economic justice can volunteer to serve on our Board or on one of our Committees that include the:

• Allocations Committee
• Program Committee
• Finance Committee
• Nominations Committee
• Personnel Committee
• Development Committee
• Publications Committee

We welcome people from diverse walks of life to help us plan various grantee, fundraising and outreach events throughout the year. In the past we have had volunteers host house parties to recruit members to our 2000 Club endowment campaign; help us to plan and carry out our annual fundraising and visibility Take A Stand event; help to organize grantee networking events and collaborate on protests, petitions, educational forums and other movement building activities.

We also look to community members to provide whenever possible some pro-bono technical assistance support to the Fund or to our grantee groups. This helps us tremendously to ensure that we are continually strengthening and growing our social and economic justice movement.

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