A Community Thrives Challenge - WFRI

Keila is an entrepreneur who needed to pivot during COVID and now provides business and tax consulting services to the Hispanic Latino American community. Alexandra is a woman of color working as a domestic violence advocate looking for a safe space to share her unique perspective on the profession for women like her. Jesus is an 11th grader who went through bystander training to address teen dating violence and abuse. What do all these individuals have in common? They are beneficiaries of programming funded and provided by the Women's Fund of Rhode Island, and each of them is making a positive change in their community.

Our mission is to invest in women and girls through research, advocacy, grantmaking, and strategic partnerships designed to achieve gender equity through systemic change. Help us carry out this mission by donating today.

Why donate now?

Women were hardest hit by the pandemic's economic fallout. Millions of women lost their jobs or had to walk away from them due to family care issues. Because of this, an additional 36 years have been added to the estimated time it will take to close the gender wage gap, bringing the total to 135 years, according to a March 2021 report published by the World Economic Forum. If we choose to invest in education, reproductive and maternal health, digital and financial inclusion, and correcting the burden of unpaid family care work, $13 trillion could be added to global GDP. Can we afford to wait 135 years to improve our economy through pay equity?

Generous gifts from supporters like you enable us to keep fighting for gender equity and accomplish big legislative wins. In just the past year, the Women's Fund of Rhode Island passed 8 bills including the:

- Nursing Home Staffing & Quality Care Act

- Perinatal Doula Reimbursement Act

- Fair Employment Practices (aka Fair Pay Act)

- Raise the Minimum Wage ($15 an hour)

- Fair Housing Practices Act

- Free feminine hygiene products in public schools

- Explanation of Benefits Privacy Act

- Prohibiting insurance companies from gender rating practices

We cannot and will not stop here. We must keep striving for gender equity. Women's issues are everyone's issues. Help us make this world a more just, equitable place for all by donating today.