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Women's Foundation California We invest in, train, and connect community leaders to advance racial, economic, and gender justice.

We invest in, train, and connect community leaders to advance gender, racial, and economic justice. We do this by providing grants to community-led organizations, training community leaders through the Women’s Policy Institute, and fostering a community of advocates, donors, policymakers, grantmakers, academics and many others through convenings to share knowledge and strengthen the social justice movement in California. Unlike private foundations, which are endowed with funds from a family’s wealth or corporate earnings, community foundations gather their financial contributions from the public — from individuals, families, and businesses who want to support social change. Learn more about our work by browsing through our website, sign up for our email alerts, follow us on Facebook, or Twitter, and if possible, make a donation. By making a tax-deductible charitable donation to The Women’s Foundation of California, you join many others who are dedicated to our mission of shaping a just and equitable California.

They want us to believe democracy is dead. Then why are they spending this much to stop us? Because our vote is a threat...
10/14/2026

They want us to believe democracy is dead. Then why are they spending this much to stop us? Because our vote is a threat.

We have the power, the influence, and the possibility. We just have to use them.

That’s why we made our ballot measure voter guide: Vote Like the Outraged, Anti-Billionaire, Hopeful Feminist You Already Are. Breaking down important California ballot measures through a gender lens, so you can see what it really does and who pays.

The short version:
Yes on 3, 4, and 40.
No on 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, and 45.
Prop 40 is the billionaires tax.
Props 41 and 42 are funded by billionaires to cancel it. Vote: Yes, no, no.
LA County: Yes on Measure E.

Save this, send it to three people, and make your plan to vote by Nov. 3.

This Indigenous People’s Day we cannot turn a blind eye to the ongoing settler colonialism and ever present violence on ...
10/12/2026

This Indigenous People’s Day we cannot turn a blind eye to the ongoing settler colonialism and ever present violence on indigenous land.

Ongoing genocides – of native populations, of ecological systems, persist today.

At Women’s Foundation California we continue to commit to remembering our history, investing in indigenous leadership, and working toward rematriation.

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10/05/2026

“They say, ‘We love your food, but not the hands that cook it.’”

A poem can be a witness.
A story can be a weapon.
Art can refuse the story we’ve been told.

Bella Star Rainwater’s “Eyes of ICE” names the violence of detention, deportation, and families torn apart, while reminding us that culture is a place where movements are made.

Dear Jane Doe,We know the particular weight of a story like yours.We know because we cannot forget. The rage and grief o...
09/30/2026

Dear Jane Doe,

We know the particular weight of a story like yours.
We know because we cannot forget. The rage and grief of survivors live permanently in our bodies. We carry what the world asks us to forget.

One in four women experience sexual violence in their lifetime. And still, institutions keep moving. The machinery keeps moving. The men keep moving through their lives while survivors are left to live inside of what happened.

So we are asking: Who gets to forget? Who gets to keep their education, their reputation, their future? Who is being protected, and who is being asked to sacrifice?

To every survivor: we see you. We believe you. We are with you.

We will burn this down. And we will build something in its place.

09/24/2026

We are 40 days from November 3rd but you can become a Democracy Darling today 💫

We are not powerless. We are organized, and we are with you in the fight.

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This International Day of Peace, we’re holding the contradiction.As the world gathers at the United Nations to talk abou...
09/21/2026

This International Day of Peace, we’re holding the contradiction.

As the world gathers at the United Nations to talk about peace, we’re looking at a world where violence is happening in our streets, at our borders, in detention centers, in homes, and in communities around the globe.

ICE is ripping families apart. Children are crying in detention centers. People are being killed and disappeared. Women, girls, and gender-expansive people continue to face violence simply because of who they are and how power moves through the world.

Peace means freedom.
Peace means safety.
Peace means dignity.

For everyone. Everywhere.

No one is an “alien.”
No one is illegal on stolen land.
Everyone deserves to live in peace.

Art via 𝔀𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒐𝒓 𝓴𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒂𝒅𝒆

09/20/2026

We don’t have to wait for permission to care for each other, organize, and create something better.

Even as the current systems fail us, we have the power to imagine a different reality.

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September is Hispanic and Latine Heritage Month. This year it arrives while immigrant communities are living through rai...
09/18/2026

September is Hispanic and Latine Heritage Month. This year it arrives while immigrant communities are living through raids, detention, family separation — the fear of a knock at the door.

Latine feminists have never had the luxury of separating survival from imagination. Gloria Anzaldúa wrote, “Nothing happens in the ‘real’ world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.”

That is the inheritance: generations who pictured a world before they had the power to build it, and built it anyway: in kitchens, in mutual aid networks, in the small daily refusal to let each other disappear.

Our partners show up for our communities in so many ways - not only through events, dancing, fundraising, and resource s...
09/12/2026

Our partners show up for our communities in so many ways - not only through events, dancing, fundraising, and resource sharing, but by being there when someone simply needs a place to turn.

The Sikh Family Center Punjabi-English Helpline is one of those resources: a space for community members to be heard with compassion, care, and confidentiality, while connecting them to options and support.

Because sometimes, having someone there to listen can make all the difference.

If you or a loved one needs a safe, confidential space to talk, call the Punjabi-English Helpline at (866) 732-7392.

Bug spray and friendship bracelets, late-night karaoke and early-morning organizing sessions. This is what it looks like...
09/10/2026

Bug spray and friendship bracelets, late-night karaoke and early-morning organizing sessions. This is what it looks like when you let young people be both silly and serious, they choose both, every time.

These three days in Sonoma were the spark. Come October, we’ll build alongside our Solís Policy Institute Youth cohort for eight more months, growing this movement one changemaker at a time.

Learn more about our SPI Youth fellowship, link in bio.

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300 Frank H Ogawa Plz, Ste 290
Oakland, CA
94612

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm

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