What Does Women’s Fund of Hawai‘i Do?

What Does Women’s Fund of Hawai‘i Do?

The mission of Women’s Fund of Hawai’i is to support innovative, grassroots programs that empower women and girls in Hawai’i. Investing in women’s and girls’ leadership and empowerment is a guiding principle underlying our work because we believe that when women thrive, communities prosper.

The Fund is community-based, with donors, activists, and community leaders coming together to identify and solve problems in our community. In addition, we promote women’s and girls’ philanthropy, with the goal of harnessing the catalytic power of investing in women and women-led solutions to accelerate positive change in our island communities.

Women’s Fund of Hawai’i raises money at several fundraising events throughout the year and thanks to the generosity of individual donors, corporations, and charitable foundations. These donations and contributions allow us to bring visibility to issues affecting women and girls in Hawai’i and beyond and to fund programs that help them reach their fullest potential.

The Fund will make grants to organizations or programs that:

• Help the most vulnerable women and girls realize their potential;
• Promote women’s financial security and girls’ strengths and leadership;
• Address the factors that stand the way of women’s success, including violence, adolescent pregnancy, low self-esteem, physical and mental health problems, substance abuse, prostitution, incarceration, immigrant status, homophobia, inadequate childcare, sports inequities, reproductive rights, poverty, disabilities, racism; and/or
• Build on the gifts, strengths and assets of women and girls and promote their well-being.