One of a small group of women who helped seed the Women’s Funding Movement, Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D co-founded the Texas Women’s Foundation, The New York Women’s Foundation, Women’s Funding Network, and Women Moving Millions. Helen is the author of Faith and Feminism: A Holy Alliance and Sister Wisdom: Women of Faith, Fortitude, and Inspiration.
Her book And the Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America’s First Feminists shares the inspiring story of the abolitionist feminists. Helen was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2001. Helen and her husband of 30 years, Harville Hendrix, Ph.D, are internationally respected couple’s therapists, educators, speakers, and New York Times bestselling authors. Together, they have written over ten books with over four million copies sold, including the timeless classic Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples.
Harville and Helen co-created Imago Relationship Therapy, which teaches Dialogue to promote connected relationships. They are the co-founders of Imago Relationships International, a non-profit organization that has trained over 2,000 therapists and educators in 51 countries worldwide. Eventually, Harville and Helen started Safe Conversations LLC, which teaches people to use Dialogical skills in communities everywhere. The business is now called Quantum Connections LLC.
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Be sure to read this important book, “The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy”
What is certain to be a bestseller, the 2024 book — 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. Click here to learn more.