Boston Globe - Working Mother's Summit Spotlight with Natanja Craig Oquendo

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Summit Spotlight with Natanja Craig Oquendo, Founder of the Boston Women's Fund - Boston Globe Media

During the Working Mothers Summit hosted by The Boston Globe, Natanja Craig Oquendo, CEO of the Boston Women’s Fund, offered a powerful reflection on leadership, care, and systemic change. Grounded in her experience advancing community-led philanthropy, her remarks challenged narratives around productivity and success, urging a shift toward models that support the full realities of working mothers.

"Motherhood did not just change my schedule, it changed my standards... Over the years, I learned something I carry with me now as the CEO of the Boston Women's Fund, where we move resources to grassroots women leaders who are already doing the work most institutions only talk about."

"When you are responsible for a human life, you stop confusing business with impact, and what I know from my own life, and what I know from being at the Boston Women's Fund, is that mothers are carrying far more than the world knows how to name." - Natanja Craig Oquendo, CEO Boston Women's Fund

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New England Weekend: Boston Women's Fund Explores the Cost of Inequity in Greater Boston's Nonprofits

"We're not asking for everything to shift immediately. We're asking for people to make small shifts so that everyone here in Boston feels like they belong and that they're protected. I think that's what philanthropy wants to do, but I think we have some work to do to get there." - Natanja Craig Oquendo

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CBS News: Report shows how women of color grassroots leaders navigate inequities

Natanja Craig Oquendo and Dr. Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson join WBZ-TV’s Courtney Cole to discuss the new report “Carrying the weight, leading the change.”

"...When you support the people who need it the most, you end up taking care of everybody. And so that's our answer, is that we're really just trying to take care of the most vulnerable people in our city, who are doing the most amazing work on the ground... And they deserve a lot more than 2 cents on every hundred dollars that's moving through philanthropy." - Natanja Craig Oquendo

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