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Item Change Agents: The Goals and Impact of Women’s Foundations and Funds(2019-12-10) Gillespie, ElizabethThis research extends knowledge of women’s foundations and funds in the U.S. following the publication of a landscape scan of these organizations in May 2019. The landscape scan revealed that women’s foundations and funds use philanthropy to empower women, create positive change, and impact women and the broader community. They foster empowerment, change, and impact through grantmaking and by engaging in other activities, including advocacy and collaboration. The landscape scan also found that women’s foundations and funds often apply grantmaking philosophies, such as social change and gender lens philanthropy, and carry out their work through a variety of approaches. This study builds on the landscape scan to better understand how these organizations set goals, measure impact, and take action to advance the causes they care about.Item Change Agents: The Goals and Impact of Women’s Foundations and Funds - Executive Summary(2019-12-10) Gillespie, ElizabethAn earlier landscape scan of women’s foundations and funds in the U.S. revealed that they use philanthropy to empower women and create positive change that benefits women and the broader community. Change Agents builds on that landscape scan, extending knowledge of women’s foundations and funds to better understand how these organizations set goals, measure impact, and take action to advance women.Item Change Agents: The Goals and Impact of Women’s Foundations and Funds - Infographic(2019-12-10) Gillespie, ElizabethThis study adds a much-needed gender focus to grantmaking foundation literature, including new knowledge about the impact of investing in women.