Safe & Sustainable Future for All
Our Safe & Sustainable Future for All Impact Collective envisions a healthy and sustainable planet, where all communities are equally protected from harm.
Our grantmaking focuses on three primary areas of investment: long-term movement building, rapid response resources, and seed funding for transformative change.
One of our greatest areas of impact is through our commitment to supporting movements focused on long-term systems change—and doing it in a way that centers trust and respect. Through several collective funding initiatives, we offer flexible funding that gives our grantee partners the autonomy to work in their communities in the way they deem best.
Our Safe & Sustainable Future for All Impact Collective envisions a healthy and sustainable planet, where all communities are equally protected from harm.
Our Opportunity & Equality For All Impact Collective believes in a just economy where people enjoy basic human rights and freedom from discrimination, violence, and oppression.
Our Jean Hardisty Initiative, named after and guided by the values of the late WDN member Jean Hardisty, is dedicated to social movement building, leadership development, and grassroots organizing.
Our Participation & Representation for All Impact Collective supports solutions that protect and engage voters, protect our elections, and strengthen our democracy.
Another area of significant impact is in our role as a catalytic funder. Through strategic investments and a powerful incubation model, we find and fill gaps in the movement ecosystem, bringing in early resources and other support for critical work that would have potentially gone unfunded or unrealized.
Established in 2022 in the wake of the Dobbs decision, the Abortion Bridge Collaborative (ABC) Fund was created to ensure that abortion care endures across the United States. The Fund rapidly moves money to organizations that fill immediate needs or to build infrastructure that protects and advances reproductive justice nationwide.
Launched in 2025, the Woven Futures Fund is a Palestinian movement-led fund strengthening the U.S. movement for Palestinian rights at a historic juncture in the struggle for collective liberation. With support from key philanthropic partners, individuals, and movement leaders, this Fund resources U.S.-based organizations so they can build toward their highest vision for Palestinian freedom.
WDN co-founded Emergent Fund in 2016 to move rapid-response resources to communities under attack by federal policies and priorities. Because Emergent Fund understands that those closest to the problems are also closest to the solutions, their grantmaking decision-makers are from directly impacted communities. The Emergent Fund is fiscally sponsored by Amalgamated Foundation, and WDN remains a sustaining funder.
WDN founded the Reflective Democracy Campaign in 2014 to investigate the demographics of political power and explore strategies for dismantling the structural barriers faced by women and people of color seeking elected office. Ten years later, the Campaign is evolving into a feminist hub dedicated to tackling the problem of democracy in America—weaving together research and organizing, developing and funding new democracy-building efforts, and supporting creativity and experimentation to imagine a new future for us all.
In times of crisis, organizations can’t always wait for the next grant cycle – so neither do we. In addition to investing in long-term movement building, our funding model was built so we can quickly move resources to the field when urgent needs arise. From resourcing relief efforts when climate disasters strike to supporting organizations keeping their communities safe in the face of rising attacks against progressive movements, we’re committed to standing on the side of freedom, safety, and justice for all.
Alongside Solidaire Network, WDN serves as a co-convener of the Block & Build Funder Coalition (BBFC). BBFC is the largest U.S.-based coalition of funding institutions, individual donors, and philanthropy-serving organizations working to fight authoritarianism, defend movements for justice, and safeguard civil liberties—all through a movement-aligned perspective.
With frontline communities, justice movements, and funders under constant attack, strategic coordination within philanthropy is critical—both to protect and flank communities facing threats and to ensure that funders can continue moving resources to the field in these times of urgent need.
To learn more about our collective work and impact, check out our Annual Reports and our Strategic Plan.