What’s New for Feminist Giving in February 2023

Greetings buddies and feminist giving peeps! Welcome to February of 2023, which guarantees some massive new issues for gender equality funding.

Earlier than we get into the highest happenings in philanthropic giving for girls, I need to name consideration to a brand new gender lens investing product. Everyone knows philanthropic giving issues, however there may be additionally a substantial amount of progress that may be made by bringing gender lens considering to the realms of enterprise and finance.

New Gender Lens ETF: WCEO

On that matter, I’d prefer to share about Hypatia Capital’s new exchange-traded fund (ETF), WCEO. This ETF is particularly designed to generate income from firms led by girls. The fund and its founder, Patricia Lizarraga, just lately had a characteristic in Fox Enterprise discussing the ETF and its potential to impression gender equality. “You possibly can’t change the world, however you may attain gender equality in your home fairness allocation in the present day,” Lizarraga mentioned within the article. In its first month, WCEO outperformed the S&P 500.

Sidebar: Steve Laffey is Working for President

The previous Mayor of my hometown, Steve Laffey, has put out his announcement that he’s operating for President. I couldn’t resist understanding extra about his plans, since we had labored collectively when he was Mayor of Cranston and he appointed me to a Monetary Evaluation Board.

I checked into his webinar, an hour-long session on February seventh that preceded the State of the Union Tackle. Whereas I love Steve for operating, the webinar was like going right into a bizarre different universe the place girls barely exist and aren’t even acknowledged. Steve shared a video of “common individuals on the road” he has spoken to about America, and within the first phase of video there gave the impression to be no girls interviewed. Not one of the specialists that Steve confirmed video of or talked about in his monetary meanderings had been girls. When Steve put a name out on the webinar for questions, I requested about his potential administration’s plans to deal with gender equality. I used to be fully ignored. A half hour later when he requested for questions, I requested about his place on reproductive justice. Once more, I used to be completely ignored.

Steve’s speaking factors had been all doomsday prophet Republican rants about how social safety goes to vanish. He appeared to don’t have any potential to talk to different points past that. I checked out of the webinar after 45 minutes. That was all I may take. One wonders in regards to the hundreds of thousands of {dollars} Laffey goes to spend on operating for President, and the way that cash may very well be far more productively utilized on this planet for causes like, say, gender equality and racial justice. However as an alternative, one other white male millionaire is operating for President, one who appears to actively ignore questions on how he’ll assist girls in his Presidency. Welcome to America. {sigh}

Replace on Feminist Giving: Quickly to be in Libraries All over the place

Feminist Giving is promoting on Lulu fairly nicely. I needed to struggle to get the e-book produced correctly on Amazon. The standard verify copy I bought was the fallacious colour and weighed a number of ounces much less, suggesting they used a less expensive paper high quality. My writer, Lulu, championed the difficulty for me, and Amazon has admitted the error (they blame a subcontractor “printing ground error”) and the e-book needs to be all set to be purchased on Amazon now. However actually, every part appears to be a struggle. Not solely because the writer did I would like to jot down and publish the e-book, however now I’ve to chase down the Amazon company monster that’s producing an inexpensive knock-off of my e-book and pocketing the distinction. It’s essential to acknowledge that this is likely one of the ways in which Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott obtained to be so wealthy: by extracting revenue from small publishers like me.

Feminist Giving can also be beginning to be stocked by libraries, and the e-book can be featured within the March version of LibraryBub, which fits out to 10,000 libraries. Right here’s hoping a bunch of libraries purchase the e-book in digital or print type, to supply to their communities as a singular useful resource filling a data hole.

Prime 3 Happenings in Feminist Philanthropy February 2023

1. Main Funders Make Pact for Black Feminists

In an open letter from a few of Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Basis, in addition to the Ford Basis and MacArthur Basis, the funders pledge to “fund Black feminist actions like we would like them to win.” The Black Feminist Fund is on a quest to boost $100 million to help nonprofits led by Black girls. Launched in 2021, the fund has raised $35 million up to now. Extra right here.

2. Desai Collaborates with Clinton Basis for Ladies in India

Desai Basis, a basis and group centered on girls and women in India, just lately hosted Former Secretary Hillary Clinton in India. In the course of the occasion, a brand new collaboration was introduced between Desai Basis, SEWA and CGI to help the International Local weather Resilience Fund. This can be $50 million in new funding to assist self-employed girls in India. More information here and see video of announcement under.

3. Denmark Offers Asylum to Ladies Primarily based Solely on Gender

Whereas giving by particular person and even teams of foundations might be vital, giving by a whole nation is in an entire totally different class. Just lately, the nation of Denmark introduced it’ll give asylum to Afghan girls primarily based solely on their gender. Are you able to think about if our nation may make such an enormous dedication to girls’s rights? Sweden additionally took this place in 2022 and started giving girls a secure refuge from the human rights abuses of girls in Afghanistan. Extra info right here.

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