This year, the Boston Women’s Fund is celebrating 40 years of radical giving and continuing our commitment to women, girls, and gender-expansive leaders across Greater Boston. We’re excited to announce that we’ve selected our 2024 grantee partners! We have awarded $400,000 in grants and sponsorships to 17 grassroots grantee partners and other organizations doing systems change work in Greater Boston.
Our grantee partners represent us and our communities — women, girls, and gender-expansive individuals who are Black and Brown, LGBTQIA+, low-income, youth, elderly, immigrants, refugees, and disabled. Of the 17 grassroots organizations selected as our 2024 grantee partners, all are led by women or gender-expansive individuals, 94% of whom are people of color, and 12 of them are volunteer-run. Together, our grantee partners collectively support over 900,000 people in the Greater Boston area through their programs, services, and policy work.
The Boston Women’s Fund is proud to go where other funders won’t, whether that’s providing first-time Executive Directors with their first significant grant, building spaces for grantee partners to develop their leadership in community, or having candid conversations about disparities in access and resources in the philanthropic sector.
“I am just super grateful for you all, the support and the love that you all have poured into me as a leader, and the ways in which you all create these spaces for us to be in community with other Black and Brown women leaders in the community. That's something that is so needed. It's not happening enough. But y'all are really paving the way when it comes to that, and I think, we're all forever grateful for it.”
— Ivanna Solano, Founder & Executive Director of Love Your Magic
“I think, generally, I just really appreciate your partnership, and it's been so eye opening, affirming, and also just really helpful for understanding not only how to navigate funding, but also how to dream and be imaginative, while also aligning that with programming and what our needs are. It's great to be in a space where you're investing in dreams and also encouraged to kind of make that concrete, and to see that in action with sustained support. So thank you.”
— Dr. Jallicia Jolly, Co-Chair of Birth Equity & Justice MA
We’re honored to continue partnering with these leaders and support the innovative, life-changing work they’re pursuing in their communities.
We are proud to support the following organizations as BWF’s 2024 grantee partners:
Abilities Dance Boston
Asian American Women's Political Initiative
Asian Women For Health
Association Of Haitian Women In Boston
Birth Equity & Justice MA
Dominican Development Center
Eastern Woodlands Rematriation Collective
Essex County Community Organization
Grimes King Foundation For The Elderly
Love Your Magic
Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition
Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers
Melanin Mass Moms
Propa City Community Outreach
Sisters Unchained
Small House
Women Encouraging Empowerment
We have also expanded our sponsorship efforts and partnerships with organizations driving racial, economic, social, and gender justice. This fiscal year, we have supported the 2023 National Trans Visibility March, joined the Solidarity Philanthropy Learning Circle led by the Center for Economic Democracy and contributed to the Solidarity Economy Initiative Pooled Fund, and supported the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts in affiliation with the The National Philanthropic Collaborative of Young Women’s Initiatives, and more!
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