ANNOUNCING EXPANDED MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA AT WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS
Over the past 17 years, Women Moving Millions has grown to become a dynamic impact-led community on a mission to power the movement for gender equality. Our nearly 400-member community has collectively committed over $1B to improving the lives of women and girls. I am writing today with an exciting update to our strategic vision for the future, including membership criteria changes.
At our Annual Member Day in May, we shared our collective ambition to unleash the unstoppable force of women’s leadership and catalyze the next $1B in resources in history for women and girls by 2030. As part of this new 2030 vision and strategic plan, we seek to drive greater impact and accelerate progress through:
- Transforming how we give and invest, removing barriers for leaders and innovators doing the work on the ground.
- Inspiring bolder investments (resources, social capital, and expertise) from a more diverse ecosystem of members, nonmembers, funding partners, and allies.
- Challenging the cultural and societal norms that hold women and girls back.
- Growing a dynamic, diverse global network and expanding our reach and influence.
- Catalyzing collaboration for collective impact through new impact partnerships and initiatives.
- Powering ourselves to power the movement, and investing in our capacity to realize our new 2030 vision and plan.
A critical first step in this plan is to expand our membership criteria to support the growth of a dynamic and diverse community of gender equity investors. The expansion of our membership criteria is an acknowledgment of the growing leadership role women are playing in moving capital equitably, spanning philanthropy, political advocacy, and investment activity.
We are pleased to share that we are broadening the qualifying contributions towards members’ $1M commitment to include political advocacy* and investing in women-led business ventures whose aim is to benefit women and/or girls.
We look forward to sharing more in the coming months about how Women Moving Millions will be working to scale and accelerate our impact, and how you can support.
You are an important part of our history and our future, continuously proving that when women give boldly, others will follow. Together, we can be the engine that supercharges the movement for gender equality.
In partnership,
Sarah
Sarah Haacke Byrd
Chief Executive Officer, WMM
