A lifelong activist for human rights and social justice, especially for women and girls, Stephanie has been a significant force in developing and growing Women’s Funds throughout the U.S. and worldwide: she has founded, counseled, and governed over 50 women’s funds. She also supports mainstream funders in allocating more resources to social justice and benefiting women, girls, and those seeking equity. She led the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund early in her career and worked as a senior program director for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
A consultant since 1992, Stephanie has assisted social sector leaders, donors, and entrepreneurs in reaching their bold goals by accelerating their organizations toward high performance and momentous impact. As an author and co-author, she has reported on and created tools for gaining leverage from wide-ranging changes and trends in philanthropy.
In the transition from the 20th into the 21st century, Stephanie’s reports and articles cover, for example, the re-invention of philanthropy through the tech and financial booms; early on, she named the innovations in women’s philanthropy – participation; the acknowledgment of the importance of women’s experiences at the edges and ultimately turning traditional philanthropic norms upside down. Stephanie has invented programs and tools to enable the nonprofit sector to grow more vital institutions for long-term change.
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Be sure to read this important book, “The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy”
This social justice playbook is an urgent call for women’s collective leadership to guide humanity through the gravest of challenges — Join the Revolution!
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.
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