Protect our Communities
To ensure access to essential health care and support those who need it most, the Reproductive Freedom Fund will resource organizations and efforts to provide care across Minnesota, now and in perpetuity. Join us in defending the right to comprehensive health care and bodily autonomy.
See our 2024 Impact
Thanks to our generous supporters, in the last year we increased our grantmaking by 77%, reached 30 counties, and convened with partners all over the state.
Microgrants Resource the Vision & Ideas of 14 Young Leaders
Early investments seed lasting change. To build power and leadership for transformational change, WFM supports Innovators with a $3,000 microgrant, coaching, and convenings that build community and deepen leadership for the long term.
Feminist Giving Day
Save the date for April 30, 2025, for our first ever Feminist Giving Day Festival at The Whim in Northeast Minneapolis!
Status of Women & Girls+ in Minnesota
Our newest report covers key measures of economics, safety, health, and leadership, and uses an intersectional lens to show how inequities impact communities differently. The Status of Women & Girls+ is the leading, most comprehensive research on women, girls, and gender-expansive communities in Minnesota.
Our Purpose
We invest in innovative community-based, community-led solutions to ensure equal opportunity and pathways to economic security for girls, women, and families across Minnesota.
What We Do
Invest in Systems Change for Gender & Racial Justice
Founded in 1983, the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota is the first statewide women’s foundation in the country holding a unique niche among Minnesota foundations.
As a statewide community foundation, we invest, leverage, learn, influence, and scale to ensure community-based, community-led solutions to achieve gender and racial justice in Minnesota.
Our Areas of Impact
What We Aim to Achieve
Economic Justice
To realize economic justice and a stronger Minnesota for families and communities, we invest in women and girls as key drivers of economic growth.
Leadership & Community Power
Our vision is a state where all women, girls, and gender-expansive people are valued as solution-builders and leaders within their communities.
Holistic Well-Being & Reproductive Justice
To support the mind, body, and spirit of women, we catalyze the conditions to ensure they are well in every area of their being.
Safety
We catalyze the conditions so that women, girls, and gender-expansive people are free from all forms of violence and can be safe at home, school, and in their communities.
Support Our Work
Explore Ways to Give
Your support fuels the innovative community-based, community-led work happening across the state. Explore our funding opportunities.
Latest Updates from the Blog
Nov 4, 2024
Reproductive Freedom Fund
Since our inception, the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota has invested in research, policy, and organizations serving women, girls, and gender-expansive…
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Celebrating Leadership & Reproductive Freedom
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