You’ll find our latest publications, in pdf format, below.
To request a print copy, please contact Content Creators/Jodie Knofsky at communications@womensfundmiami.org.
Making the Case for Change
The Making the Case for Change report reviews available data for 116 projects funded from 2007-2009 and includes insights collected through key informant interviews conducted in February of 2010 with staff at seven organizations.
Some key findings are:
- 95% of programs funded in the past 3 years work with low-income women and girls.
- While 63% of women working in Miami-Dade County are immigrants, they are not usually on the forefront of advocating for policy change. Yet, almost all of the grantees working to advocate for policy change included immigrant women.
- Grantees view Women’s Fund as a partner in their work and believe that alliance building, often with the assistance and guidance of Women’s Fund, is the single most important accelerator of their success.
Click here to read the whole report.
Women’s Fund 2010 Grantmaking Programs
The Women’s Fund of Miami-Dade’s unwavering commitment to creating a community where women and girls thrive mandates a strategic, inclusive approach to grantmaking. The dynamic grantee partners selected for 2010 work in four core areas Women’s Fund believes are necessary to create long-term gender, racial, economic and systemic change:
- Elevating Women’s Economic Security
- Developing Young Women into Future Leaders
- Striving for a World where Women are Free from Violence
- Fostering Reproductive Justice
Click here to read more about our 2011 grantee partners.
The Portrait of Women’s Economic Security in Greater Miami
When the Women’s Fund first began work on the Portrait of Women’s Economic Security in Greater Miami, we already knew that women in Miami-Dade were facing significant barriers to economic security and that it was time to focus on these issues as a strategy to improving the economic outlook of our entire community. What we could not have known was that the work we were doing – to hone an agenda for women’s economic security – would take on even greater significance as the global economy struggles to right itself. The economic situation we find ourselves in as a nation is a singular and profound call to action. In addressing the current crisis we must work diligently to prevent future crises by addressing the catastrophic economic insecurity that women find themselves in every day. We prioritized a list of four critical strategies, outlined below, to help women overcome the barriers to achieving self-sufficiency and reach economic security.
- Help women build assets.
- Give women the tools to fight for their rights.
- Train women for non-traditional and high growth industries.
- Invest in children and early care.