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Save the Date: October 11, 2022 is the inaugural #GiveToWomenAndGirls Day!

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Mark your calendars: October 11, 2022 is the first-ever Give to Women and Girls Day! The Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) is launching a national awareness campaign to increase funding for women’s and girls’ organizations that will culminate on October 11, 2022, the International Day of the Girl. Give to Women and Girls Day is a… Read more »

Inside the donor mind: Giving to women’s and girls’ causes

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By Jeannie Infante Sager, director, Women’s Philanthropy Institute Each year, when the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) releases its Women & Girls Index (WGI), we wait to see how far the needle has moved on giving to women’s and girls’ organizations. In this year’s report, we saw some progress in terms of year-over-year growth. Yet support… Read more »

How the pandemic changed charitable giving

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By Jeannie Infante Sager The Women’s Philanthropy Institute has released a new report that explores shifts in household giving between May 2020 and May 2021. COVID-19, Generosity, and Gender: How Giving Changed During the First Year of a Global Pandemic highlights how broader social and economic forces may have affected the charitable giving of U.S…. Read more »

Less than 2% of all U.S. giving supports women’s and girls’ charities

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By Tessa Skidmore, Jacqueline Ackerman and Jon Bergdoll The #MeToo movement gained traction in late 2017 and continued to grow the following year, as countless women shared their experiences with sexual harassment, abuse and assault. But donations to women’s and girls’ organizations made up just 1.92% of all charitable giving in 2018, the most recent… Read more »

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