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What We Fund

Chicago Foundation for Women funds organizations and programs across four key issue areas: economic security, freedom from violence, access to health, and reproductive justice. Through this work, we aim to strengthen grassroots leadership, address the root causes of inequity, and create lasting change that ensures women, girls, and gender-expansive people can thrive in safe, just, and healthy communities.

Our Pillars

Expanding Economic
Security​

We seek to expand economic security so all women, girls, and gender-expansive folks can care for themselves and their families in all stages of life.

Advancing Freedom from Violence 

We work to ensure women, girls, and gender-expansive people are free from violence, including abuse, assault, harassment, trafficking, and more.

Improving Access to Health and Wellness 

We work to expand access to quality mental, physical, preventive, and reproductive health services for women, girls, and gender-expansive people.

Advancing Reproductive Justice 

We champion reproductive freedom and fund local efforts that protect care, expand access, and defend the right to make decisions about one’s body.

 

CFW’s Rapid Response Fund

Rapid Response Fund grants support grassroots, community solutions and approaches through a variety of advocacy strategies that will protect women, girls, and gender-expansive people and their families and advance policies and interventions that center communities during this time of uncertainty and attacks against fundamental rights. In response to the shifting environment, the fund also supports safety and security-related costs—including legal, digital, and physical protections for community organizations and their teams.
 
The application for CFW’s Rapid Response Fund has closed.