by Amy Eisenstein, on 5/22/19 8:00 AM
It’s hard to believe that in 2019 we are still talking about closing the gender gap, but we are, and we must continue to talk about it until it’s closed for good.
In January 2019, AFP (Association of Fundraising Professionals) announced a new Women’s Mentoring program. The article begins with the sad statistic that women make up approximately 70 percent of the fundraising profession, yet they only hold 30 percent of senior-level fundraising positions.
by Julie Rosen, Witt/Kieffer, on 9/12/18 8:00 AM
The three major not-for-profit health plan foundations in the state of Massachusetts are led by dynamic women. In addition to being mission-driven executives, the three—Nora Moreno Cargie, Karen Voci, and Audrey Shelto—are friends who champion each other’s careers. They are servant leaders who listen, learn, and truly engage with constituents—they see leadership as a privilege. To achieve their goals as leaders of their foundations, they engage with stakeholders across the spectrum—in the community and within community-based organizations, in the political and legislative realms, and in the corporate and philanthropic spheres.
| Nora Moreno Cargie | Karen Voci | Audrey Shelto |
by Zohra Zori, Renée Westmoreland, and Jen Bokoff, Foundation Center, on 3/15/18 8:00 AM
The following article is cross-posted from Alliance magazine blog. Based out of the UK, Alliance magazine is the leading global magazine on philanthropy and social investment.
As the largest infrastructure organization for sharing social sector knowledge and more than nine million data points about who’s funding what and where, the Foundation Center takes great pride in housing an equally sizable team of programmers, data specialists, designers, and other technologists.
Unlike most of the tech sector, more than half of those team members are women.
