The Ms. Foundation for Women, a social justice foundation, delivers strategic grants, capacity building and leadership development to over 150 grassroots and national advocacy organizations throughout the U.S. Ms. Foundation support enables groups to create connections across issues, constituencies and policymaking levels to strengthen social movements and ignite change on behalf of women, families and communities. Since 1973, the Foundation has granted more than $50 million to organizations in rural and urban areas nationwide.
The Ms. Foundation supports the efforts of women and girls to govern their own lives and influence the world around them. Through its leadership, expertise and financial support, the Foundation champions an equitable society by effecting change in public consciousness, law, philanthropy and social policy.
Grantmaking Approach The Ms. Foundation actively works to bring race, class, age and sexuality to the center of feminist organizing (a concept we call social justice feminism) and to bring a gender lens to the center of broader progressive organizing (a concept we call feminist social justice). We foster alliances among women’s organizations and other social justice groups to strengthen and expand the breadth and power of social justice movements. In doing so, we are working to foster a coherent vision and strategy to build the kind of power we need to bring about progressive change on a larger scale.
The Ms. Foundation delivers strategic grants, capacity building and networking opportunities to organizations working at local, state, Tribal and national levels within and across broad issue areas. Whether securing policy wins for women with HIV/AIDS or shifting the way we approach child sexual abuse prevention, we bring a common set of social change goals to our work, intently focused on policy and culture change within a movement-building framework.
