TAKING FLIGHT GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN / ANNUAL REPORT 2011–2012
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HOW DO WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE? This is a tough question because social change doesn’t happen easily or overnight. Determining our impact can be a challenge, but it can be done. One example is the Breakthrough Project: a three-year,
Research tells us that it’s not just the money. A secret of
$2.2 million investment to catalyze strategic, breakthrough
our success is that we seek grantees that are already well
actions to advance gender equality in Asia and the Pacific.
connected and understand the various contexts in their
This year, an independent evaluation concluded that Global
communities. We get the right resources to the right groups
Fund contributed to impact at three levels: on the individual
for the best results.
lives of over half a million women and girls, their families and communities, on the strength of grantee organizations and networks, and through concrete political and economic gains.
Our grantee partners benefit from extensive Global Fund networks that connect them with other donors, advocates and expertise. This ever-evolving Global Fund community
The success of the Breakthrough Project is why we
incorporates diverse populations and perspectives that make
are examining 25 years of data, getting independent
for robust feminist movements around the world.
assessments, and beginning to develop a set of metrics to understand how change happens.
Breakthrough is an important step in mapping our impact. There will be many more. As we dig through the data and study the stories, we’ll continue to share along the way.
HOW DID GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN CATALYZE CHANGE IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC? GRANTMAKING
OUTCOMES
IMPACT
• Over $2.2 million in flexible funding
• 125 high-impact organizations funded
• Benefitted 554,299 girls and women, men and boys
• Long-term partnerships
• 71% increased organizational capacity and/or sustainability
• New laws against domestic violence passed in 3 countries
• 71% expanded their networks
• Increased women’s participation in local government in Nepal and India
• Support for networking, knowledge sharing and collaboration • 58% of grants to rural communities • Over ¹⁄³ of funding for adolescent girls
• 66% increased public visibility and/or media coverage of their work
• Rural women increased access to land and financial services • Domestic workers secured basic rights at the ILO
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT AND THE CHAIR “I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.” – Sadako Sasaki, 11-year old Japanese girl who developed leukemia from the effects of radiation caused by the Hiroshima bomb. She died in 1955.
demonstrate some of the other ways people, policy, and community norms are changing because of our work and that of our grantee partners. Going forward, we are investing significant resources to better measure the impact of our work. Our intention is to use the data to help us: plan, measure, and evaluate
The ancient art of origami gained worldwide recognition
our social change philanthropy; enter into significant
with Sadako, who was told that if she folded 1,000
partnerships that bring a variety of expertise to the table
paper cranes, the gods would grant her wish. Her wish
for systemic change; and communicate the outcomes,
was to be well. The 644 cranes she folded before
experiences, and opportunities using multiple platforms,
her death have inspired generations and are enduring
creating a network of catalysts. Each of us will have peace
symbols of peace and renewal.
on our wings.
This Global Fund for Women annual report comes to you
We are just beginning to fly.
as we enter our 25th anniversary year with a renewed commitment to create a peaceful world where women’s human rights are respected. We are just beginning to fly. We reached a number of milestones over the past year. We surpassed $100 million in grantmaking, took
MUSIMBI KANYORO President and CEO
a group of donors to Turkey to meet grantee partners, and received some of the first definitive proof of the difference $100+ million has made in the lives and communities of women and girls around the world. The latter point includes Breakthrough Project, an independent examination of three years of grantmaking
LEILA HESSINI Board Chair
in Asia and the Pacific. The report shows how Global Fund grantmaking strategies and practices resulted in new laws against domestic violence, increased women’s participation in local government and access to land and financial services. Stories in this annual report
Photos of Musimbi Kanyoro and Leila Hessini © S. Smith Patrick
GRANTEE HIGHLIGHTS
“Global Fund funding isn’t just money,” said Ji Min. “At the very beginning, Global Fund supported us with money and encouragement to grow up, survive, and develop a systematic
ENVIRONMENTAL EVOLUTION
“Before our book, people in rural areas didn't know pesticide use was related to breast cancer.” – Ji Min, Director of Eco-Women, a Global Fund for Women grantee partner © Eco-Women
You wouldn’t think a 160-page book could change the way Chinese communities protect themselves against pesticides. But Pesticides & Breast Cancer: A Wake Up Call did. Translated by grantee partner Eco-Women, it’s the first book published unassuming, slim volume directly challenges agriculture policies of the world’s biggest user, producer, and exporter of pesticides.
“Before our book, people in rural areas didn’t know pesticide use was related to breast cancer,” said Ji Min, Director of Eco-Women.
Since women make up 60 percent of China’s agricultural labor force, you would think they would be major players in agriculture policy. But they aren’t. And China isn’t the only offender. Women and girls were nowhere on the agenda at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil last spring. Yet Eco-Women has succeeded where others have failed. They connected and established relationships with women in government, professors, NGOs, and media to educate and advocate. Now, some government officials reference the Eco-Women book when considering pesticide free solutions to crop control. Most tellingly, in 2010, when Eco-Women ran out of books, the Yunnan government gave them money to print 2,000 more.
NOW GENERATION Forget the next generation, meet the Now Generation. Meet Sarah, a self-assured 20-year-old from Uganda. Her confidence comes from course work at grantee partner MEMPROW (Mentoring and
A Global Fund grant helped Eco-Women pay the high
Empowerment Programme
registration fee for an International Standard Book Number
for Young Women). At
(ISBN). They created educational material for rural women
MEMPROW, Sarah talked about young women’s rights and
farmers, many of whom are illiterate and rarely leave
choices without fear of intimidation, stigma or discrimination.
their village.
Most importantly, she shared her knowledge with friends, and became a role model.
For a complete list of grantees, please go to our website, at www.globalfundforwomen.org/annualreport11-12
© Zoe Blumenfeld
in China linking pesticide use with breast cancer. The
working strategy.”
“I became something I wasn’t before,” said Sarah. “People used to not take me seriously, but after my training, people at
DONOR HIGHLIGHTS
school and at home started to take me seriously.” Now, Sarah is enrolled in university, majoring in economics and statistics. Young women from her secondary school still call for advice. When adolescent girls have equal rights and access to education, they share knowledge in ways that can ultimately transform communities. It is why so many of our grantee partners’ strategies focus on adolescent girls. © Zoe Blumenfeld
Elvira is a 21-year-old
EMILY'S ADVENTURE
TURKEY
“I came on the trip with one overarching question: are things moving forward or backwards for women around the world?” – Emily, Global Fund for Women Donor
program leader at grantee partner Women’s Resource
Hours of research could never prepare you for 10 days in
Center in Armenia. The girls
Turkey, Global Fund for Women style.
talk honestly about body
With a schedule packed with visits to some of the
image and self-esteem, and
most progressive women’s groups, and long nights
use new technologies and
of philosophical conversations with Global Fund
video-editing skills Elvira
supporters, there was barely time to digest all the dolmas.
teaches to tell their stories. “My happiness is my girls,” said Elvira. “They are clever and
“I had a desire to connect with the global women's movement and find my place in it. I loved being on a trip with likeminded women,” said Emily, who along with her mother,
With support from the Nike Foundation, Elvira and
Joyce, was one of 27 donors who joined us in Turkey.
Sarah traveled to the Association for Women’s Rights in
Emily is a relatively new
Development conference in Istanbul to meet and learn from
philanthropist from the
activists of all ages. The two still stay in touch.
Boston area who grew
We don’t have to wait for young women to change their
up believing that girls
communities. They’re doing it now.
© Emily
enthusiastic. The power and energy they share energizes me.”
can do anything. She is a mother, Girl Scout
“I became something I wasn't before.” – Sarah, Uganda
leader, and grants with a “gender-lens” through her foundation, Imago
L to R: Emily, her mother, Joyce, and Global Fund for Women advisor in Turkey, Nurcan Baysal.
Dei Fund. Emily says that through her work in the antitrafficking movement, her eyes have been opened to the grim realities of human rights violations that girls and women face.
INVITED TWICE TO DANCE
“As a mother of a 10-year-old daughter, I am so aware of how incredible girls are, and feel deep empathy and
© Lisa Bottom 2012
joy seeing them overcome obstacles to develop their full potential,” said Emily. © Christine Switzer
Of the 15 grantee partners visited, Emily’s favorites were groups working to preserve Kurdish L to R: Diane Wexler, Maryann Casati, Lisa Bottom, and Stans Kleijnen watch children perform a traditional Kurdish dance with grantee partner, Umut Isigi Women's Cooperative.
culture and language, despite government condemnation.
“I saw the double burden of being Kurdish and being female. I learned so much that day about how the burden of ethnic conflicts fall disproportionately on women.” After the trip, Emily decided to give to the Global Fund. She said that after witnessing our due diligence and meeting our local advisors, she knew she could not get resources to women-led groups as effectively, on her own. “We can’t change the underlying attitudes, they are the ones who, in their cultural contexts, are really going to change mindsets,” said Emily. “I’m convinced that these inspiring women leaders are the ones who are going to change the world.”
Today in a dream, you reached for me with two small hands and drew me in to dance. I do not know the steps, but like you, I have feet and if I watch your feet, I will learn. And so we begin this circle dance, small fingers entwined that we might touch, yet move freely and easily in the space that remains between us.
© Christine Switzer
What simple beauty is this moving together, entwined in instant community that is yours, yet somehow my own.
I cannot speak your language, yet we speak for all language with the universal greeting of a smile and the intimacy of this circle that moves. Oh, to find a world that could hold the beauty of community in the simple trust of stepping three steps forward two steps back again and again in the unending movement of the dance. Knowing that, together with the softest touch, we might yet breathe and move and live as one celebration of life.
Lisa Bottom is a long-time supporter who has traveled to Turkey and South India with the Global Fund. She is a principal and Design Director in the San Francisco office for Gensler Global Design. Lisa spearheaded the Global Fund supporters dancing with the mayor of Diyarbakir.
design for the Global Fund San Francisco office.
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS & STEWARDSHIP OF RESOURCES Is the Global Fund for Women financially healthy? Our financial health remains strong despite a challenging global
TOTAL REVENUES
Investment Income 1% In-Kind & Other 1%
Corporations 2%
economic environment. • Our net assets are at the highest level ever — over $20 million. • We raised more than $17 million this fiscal year — surpassing
Individuals 37%
the previous fiscal year by 14 percent. These contributions came from diverse sources, with 37 percent from individual donors, 30 percent from foundations, 29 percent from governmental institutions and 2 percent from corporations.
Government / Multilateral 29%
• We continue to maintain our historically low administrative expense ratios (8 percent). We are committed to stewarding funds and resources to support our
Foundations / Other Organizations 30%
priority activities and issues: • 75 cents of every dollar raised spent directly on programmatic activities. • In addition to grantmaking, our key program activities include
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
connecting and convening grantees, supporting and building the capacity of our grantees, and evaluating the impact of our grants. • Our investment strategy is socially responsible and aligned with
Management / General 8%
our values. Is the Global Fund’s style of grantmaking expensive? Our grantmaking process is both thorough and complex:
Fundraising 16%
Grants Awarded 53%
• We receive over 3,000 applications annually in multiple languages • All qualified applicants must complete a rigorous due diligence process • We grant to over 600 organizations each year • We monitor and evaluate the impact of our funding Each of these key activities requires time and resources.
491 GRANTS IN 106 COUNTRIES
$7,775,761
Grant Services & Fiscal Sponsorship 23%
Five years of our audited financial statements and IRS reporting, including the year ended June 30, 2012, are posted on our website: www.globalfundforwomen.org/annualreport11-12
To see photos and bios of the board members, please go to http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/who-we-are/board-of-directors
BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT AND CEO Musimbi Kanyoro, Kenya/USA OFFICERS OF THE BOARD Leila Hessini, Chair, Algeria/USA Marissa Wesely, Treasurer, USA Dina Dublon, Secretary, USA MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
Olena Suslova, Ukraine Rita Thapa, Nepal luchie pavia ticzon, The Philippines Walteen Grady Truely, USA Mayan Villalba, The Philippines Diane Jordan Wexler, USA
ADVISORS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Ghana Kozue Akibayashi, Japan Katana Gégé Bukuru, Congo (DR) Julie Parker Benello, USA Dorcas Coker-Appiah, Ghana Charlotte Bunch, USA Honorine Honkou, Togo Myrna Cunningham, Nicaragua Sètchémè Jérônime, Benin Abigail Disney, USA Deborah Kaddu-Serwadda, Uganda Nurgul Djanaeva, Kyrgyzstan Bilkisu Yusuf Kaduna, Nigeria Lydia Alpízar Durán, Costa Rica/Mexico Aimée Mwadi Kady, Congo (DR) Hoda Elsadda, Egypt Fatimata Lankoande, Burkina Faso Linda Gruber, USA Nkandu Luo, Zambia Leila Hessini, Algeria/USA Evelyn Akem Mafeni, Cameroon Boriana Jonsson, Bulgaria/Sweden Salma Maoulidi, Tanzania Stans Kleijnen, The Netherlands/USA Rose Mensah-Kutin, Ghana Gay McDougall, USA Theresa Michael, Nigeria Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Tabara Ndiaye, Senegal South Africa Sylvie Ngoueme Niombo, Congo Supriya Pillai, USA Theodora (Oby) Obiageli Nwankwo, Zenebeworke Tadesse, Ethiopia Nigeria Sakena Yacoobi, Afghanistan Susan Sesay, Sierra Leone Coumba Touré, Mali FORMER MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Dzodzi Tsikata, Ghana Anne Firth Murray, Shamillah Wilson, South Africa Founding President, New Zealand Frances Kissling, Co-Founder, USA AMERICAS Laura J. Lederer, Co-Founder, USA Marta Alicia Alanis, Argentina Dame Nita Barrow,* Barbados Jenny Kalindy Bolivar, Ecuador Lin Chew, Hong Kong/China Carla López Cabrera, Nicaragua Hope Chigudu, Zimbabwe Deysi del Carmen Roque, El Salvador Johnetta B. Cole, USA Cecilia Cardenas, Bolivia Connie Evans, USA Tatiana Cordero, Ecuador Sumaya Farhat-Naser, Palestine Monica Aleman Cunningham, USA Kaval Gulhati, India Alda Facio, Costa Rica Esther Hewlett, USA Daysi Flores, Honduras Laurene Powell Jobs, USA Sergia Galvan, Dominican Republic Stina Katchadourian, Finland Patricia Guerrero, Colombia June Hope Kingsley,* USA Madalena Guilhon, Brazil Idelisse Malavé, Puerto Rico/USA Marie Agathe Jean Baptiste, Haiti Amina Mama, Nigeria/South Africa/UK Marusia Lopez, Mexico Marysa Navarro, USA Alejandra Lopez, Uruguay Jacqueline Pitanguy, Brazil Marie Nikette Lorméus, Haiti Kavita N. Ramdas, India/USA Sara Mandujano, Chile Wu Qing, China Luz Mendez, Guatemala Marjan Sax, The Netherlands Yamilet Mejia Palma, Nicaragua Margaret K. Schink, USA Rhoda Reddock, Trinidad and Tobago Adele Simmons, USA Veronica Cruz Sánchez, Mexico Mu Sochua, Cambodia Lúcia Maria Xavier de Castro, Brazil Mary Ann Stein, USA Tarcila Rivera Zea, Peru
EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Danijela Almesberger, Croatia Libkan Bazaeva, Russia Svetlana Durkovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina Ludmila Ermakova, Russia Delina Fico, Albania Zoe Gudovic, Serbia Stanimira Hadjimitova, Bulgaria Taida Horozovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina Tamara Hovnatanyan, Armenia Marketa Hronkova, Czech Republic Shahla Ismailova, Azerbaijan Natalia Karbowska, Ukraine Biljana Kasic, Croatia Irina Khaldeeva, Russia Viera Klementova, Slovakia Angéla Kóczé, Hungary Yevgenia Kozyreva, Kazakhstan Maja Mamula, Croatia Jivka Marinova, Bulgaria Lepa Mladjenovic, Serbia Gjuner Nebiu, Macedonia Elvira Nikitina, Russia Nana Pantsulaia, Georgia Igballe Rogova, Kosova Helen Rusetskaia, Georgia Marina Safarova, Tajikistan Gohar Shahnazaryan, Armenia Malgorzata Tarasiewicz, Poland
Rym Hadir Abdou, France Suzan Aref, Iraq Majeda Azmi, Palestine Nurcan Baysal, Turkey Samira Bikarden, Morocco Suad Al Gedsi, Yemen Lina Abou Habib, Lebanon Mozn Hassan, Egypt Areen Hawari, Palestinian citizen of Israel Eileen Kuttab, Palestine Rela Mazali, Israel Nadine Moawad, Lebanon Yanar Mohammed, Iraq Aminetou Mint El Mokhtar, Mauritania Zeinebou mint Taleb Moussa, Mauritania Layla Naffa, Jordan Halima Oulami, Morocco Nevin Oztop, Turkey Caroline Sakina Brac de la Perriere, France Samah Helmy Said, Egypt Aysun Sayin, Turkey
ASIA AND OCEANIA Sunila Abeyesekara, Sri Lanka Zainah Anwar, Malaysia Virisila Buadromo, Fiji Lin Chew, China Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, Sri Lanka Sarah Garap, Papua New Guinea Nandita Gandhi, India Palwasha Hassan, Afghanistan Elli Nur Hayati, Indonesia Zanaa Jurmed, Mongolia Preeti Kirbat, India Daniel Lee, USA Pramada Menon, India Chinchuluun Naidandorj, Mongolia Bandana Pattanaik, Thailand Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, Fiji Tive Sarayeth, Cambodia Anjana Shakya, Nepal Annie Serrano, Timor-Leste Selvy Thiruchandran, Sri Lanka Nang Lao Liang Won, Thailand Wan Yanhai, China
Sheri Sobrato Cristina Spencer Electra Toub Nina Weissberg Wesley Weissberg Diane Wexler Katrin Wilde Sarah M. Williams CORPORATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL Shoma Chatterjee LaMae Allen DeJongh Leslie Dukker Doty Ingrid Clark Durfy Valarie Gelb Melody Justice Kathryn Komsa Cynthia McCague Chris McConnell Lisa Shallett Sheryl Sleeva Cathinka Wahlstrom Marissa Wesely
FINANCE AND LEGAL ADVISORS Ian Altman Tasmia Alam Hope Case Howard Clowes Lilly Fu Laurita Hernandez Camelo Lam Victoria Lee Elizabeth Pearce Stacy Snowman Asher Waldfogel PHILANTHROPY COUNCIL Julie Parker Benello Claire Bernard Lisa Bottom Abigail Disney Dina Dublon Laurie Emrich Linda Gruber Crystal Hayling Leila Hessini Letitia Momirov Maria E. Nunez Susan Pritzker Pamela Rosekrans Laura Scher Anneka Scranton
*deceased Origami woman by Linda Mihara www.origamihara.com
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