MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

The Women's Funding Network advances the women's funding movement through our partnerships with women's and girls' foundations. Together, we will make women's funds the "investment of choice" for donors, foundations, and other institutions that value gender equity.

Joining the Women's Funding Network opens doors to growth opportunities in all dimensions, including your organization's fund capacity, endowment, visibility, knowledge base, and, of course, networking. By strengthening our members funds, we strengthen the entire movement.

Women's Funding Network's specific goals include increasing our members' collective assets, leveraging our members' assets, and heightening our members' visibility. All efforts go to the cause of realizing our vision of equity for women and girls.

We offer two types of membership, Partner and Associate.

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PARTNER MEMBER

The Women's Funding Network offers members a full spectrum of products, services, programs and events. These tools and services are designed to help your fund to:

• develop and grow
• maximize strategic grantmaking
• boost fundraising and visibility
• strengthen internal talent and leadership

All our offerings are focused on building your Fund's capacity to fulfill its mission and achieve lasting social change for women and girls.

The Women's Funding Network has created a Growth and Impact Services team to oversee these vital services, which include:

• Strategic Grantmaking Support
  Our MAKING THE CASE^TM tool supports the effective planning and evaluation of grants.
• Organizational Development
  Smart Growth^©, our proprietary organizational development tool enables your organization to leverage assets, identify accelerators, inhibitors and solutions, and to determine future strategy.
• Fundraising
  Venture Fund offers grants of $10,000 - $25,000 to improve fundraising impact. Funds may be used for staffing, systems development and feasibility studies.
• Visibility
  Spokesperson Training to enable individuals to articulate and communicate key information about their organization and its impact will be piloting shortly.
• Leadership development
  Fundraising Academy, an intensive peer cohort fundraising program will build leadership skills in development.

Additional Member Benefits

Women's Funding Network also offers the following additional member benefits:

• Annual Conference - An interactive opportunity for peer-exchange and learning for our members and the broader philanthropic community. Participants have the opportunity to network, share best practices, and strategize for future social change impact. Conference is specifically geared towards funders who are particularly interested in transforming the lives of women and girls worldwide.
• Knowledge Center - A members-only online directory of resources collected from throughout the Network. This searchable library provides users with around-the-clock access to relevant data, documents, templates, research, and directories. The Knowledge Center also allows users to conduct targeted searches for other member funds based on size, location and other criteria. Members can access the Knowledge Center anytime at www.wfnknowledgecenter.org.
• Planned Giving Toolkit - A comprehensive resource for Funds interested in launching or building a planned giving program. Please access the toolkit in the Women's Funding Network Knowledge Center at: www.wfnknowledgecenter.org/kms/planned_giving_toolkit/.
• Donor Retreats - Opportunities for Funds to engage high-net worth women donors to participate in retreats focused on shaping the strategic vision of women's philanthropy, through facilitated retreats.
• Executive Director Retreats - Opportunities for executive directors to meet with their peers to build leadership capacity, discuss current fundraising and management issues and share resources and expertise.
• GlobalGiving - An opportunity for members from the Global South to increase awareness and fundraise in the Diaspora by listing projects in an online giving catalogue marketed to corporations and individual donors.
• fund>>forward - A branding and marketing tool designed to capture and promote the concept of women's and girls' Funds. Funds can use these marketing tools in conjunction with their own logo and brand to enhance fundraising and outreach efforts.
• U.S. Women without Borders - An online campaign that members can use to mobilize their constituents in the U.S. to influence U.S. foreign policy and media. The current campaign is focused on women's solutions for economic security.

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ASSOCIATE MEMBER

WFN welcomes those organizations that do not meet the criteria for Partner Membership but who support the women and girls' funding movement to join us as Associate Members. This is open to foundations, corporations, organizations, or other grantmakers that support the mission of WFN.

WFN builds the movement. We raise the profile and perceptions of women and girls as solution-based leaders. We increase the visibility of women's and girls' funds by providing opportunities for them to broaden their constituency and share stories about the positive change they create locally and globally.

WFN strengthens its members. We offer ongoing capacity-building for women's foundations.

As an Associate Member you can take advantage of membership rates at our annual conference as well as several of our capacity building resources:

Organizational Capacity-Building

• Smart Growth: A Life Stage Model for Social Change Philanthropy - Organizational assessment tools based on a model of six life stages and 12 organizational capacities. All tools are available in public foundation, private foundation, and women's fund within community foundation forms. They include:
  • Online, interactive quiz that provides a quick top-level assessment, and helps Funds identify which of the organizational capacities warrant deeper assessment.
  • 12 organizational assessment questionnaires - one for each capacity.
  • A list of resources to support organizational development.

Grantmaking Capacity-Building

• Making the Case: A Learning and Measurement Tool for Social Change - An evaluation tool based on our theory of social change, which helps Funds to capture and articulate the social change impact of their grant dollars. The tool provides users with a private archive and automated reporting.

Communications Capacity-Building

• U.S. Women without Boarders - An online campaign to mobilize the constituencies of Funds in the U.S. to influence U.S. foreign policy and media. The 2005 campaign focused on ending global violence against women. The 2006 campaign will focus on women's solutions for alleviating poverty.
• She Source - An online searchable database of female experts in a variety of fields. Funds tap into the database to pitch stories and work with journalists to ensure that a gender lens is included in the media.

Dues

• $2,500 - Combined annual operating budgets and net cash assets* of over $500,000.
• $1,000 - Combined annual operating budgets and net cash assets* of less than $500,000.

* Operating budgets include administrative, grantmaking, fundraising, and programmatic budgets. Net cash assets include unrestricted, endowment and reserve funds.

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