The CEO/President of the Women’s Funding Network (WFN) from 2000 to 2011, during her tenure Chris Grumm built the membership from 75 to over 160 funds with over $500 million in assets. She is the co-founder, with Helen LaKelly Hunt, of the first Women Moving Millions Campaign. In partnership with Women’s Funds, the campaign raised over $200 million.
Chris was the Executive Director of the Chicago Foundation for Women prior to WFN. She has served as the first vice president of the newly formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and as the Deputy General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva, Switzerland.
Today, Chris works with local, national, and global organizations, building agendas for gender/social justice. One of her passions is the investment in women, girls, and gender-expansive people, and through that investment, she changes whole communities. She is an Alinsky-trained community organizer and health Educator and, throughout her career, has worked on behalf of Reproductive Rights and Justice. Currently, she is consulting through her company, Chris Grumm Consulting Group.
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This social justice playbook is an urgent call for women’s collective leadership to guide humanity through the gravest of challenges — Join the Revolution!
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The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy — tells the inspiring, never-before-told story of the Global Women’s Funding Movement, considered the women’s movement’s greatest secret and how it enabled women from all walks of life to harness the power of money to free themselves from oppression.
Co-authored by 10 international powerhouses — Ndana Bofu-Tawamba, Ruby Bright, Stephanie Clohesy, Musimbi Kanyoro, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ana Oliveira, Laura Risimini, Jane Sloane, and Jessica Tomlin — this book is an important read for everyone interested in the long-practiced Feminist Funding Principles imparted by the authors. It is a recipe for the feminist alchemy needed to transform society for the betterment of all.
Brimming with feminist epiphanies, this social justice playbook is an urgent call for women’s collective leadership to guide humanity through the gravest of challenges, overcoming patriarchy’s multi-millennium reign through the uprising of women leaders and philanthropists. Founded during the second-wave women’s movement of the early 1970s, small groups of women worldwide, independent of each other, had the same epiphany: it will take a movement of women to raise the money needed to fund women’s freedom.
Since then, the Global Women’s Funding Movement has grown into a global network of radically generous, risk-taking philanthropists who collectively wield financial might to win seismic gender equality victories. The authors document the “Women Effect” that results from gender equality and women’s collective leadership, including improved public health and reproductive justice, expanded public education, more robust democracies, resilient economies, climate recovery, and enduring peace.
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