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Women & Girls

"When women are fully involved, the benefits can be seen immediately: families are healthier, they are better fed, and their income, savings, and reinvestment go up. And what is true of families is true of communities and eventually of whole countries."

Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General

A better future for women and girls is a better future for all. We feel that programs that understand and specifically serve the needs of women and girls have the best chance to improve communities. In addition, national studies have found that less than 7% of the philanthropic dollar goes to programs that are focused on women and girls. For these reasons, we fund programs that:

increase economic self-sufficiency for women and girls,
effect public policy and advocacy in support of women and girls, and
address the issues of human rights and equality of women in our communities.

Announcing the Michigan Toolkit: In conjunction with the Institute for Women's Policy Research, we are pleased to announce the Michigan Toolkit, an important new tool for measuring and tracking the status of women at the city or county level. Feel free to download the tool and put it to use in your communityy.

The Toolkit is a 236k PDF document. You may need to download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it.