About Maine Women's Fund
In June of 1988, a visionary group of women gathered to create what eventually became the Maine Women’s Fund. These women were convinced that they could make a significant difference in the lives of Maine women and girls through philanthropy.
Our mission today: The Maine Women's Fund makes bold investments that transform the lives of Maine women and girls.
Maine Women’s Fund has worked diligently to invest in and advance social change for women and girls. We have focused our funding on projects and programs outside systems that have historically excluded women and girls. We acknowledge that this work has primarily benefited white, cis women and girls. We are an organization with a thirty-year history of white women’s leadership, embodied by white privilege.
We actively work with and within racist systems that have intentionally and systemically concentrated wealth, power, resources, and opportunity.
We are part of a system of philanthropy that was founded on the wealth built and birthed by the bodies of enslaved Black people and the lands and other natural resources stolen from Indigenous Peoples.
We have been actively working to change our grant making to address the needs of all women and girls in Maine. The process is slow. Our commitment is steady. We will keep learning, acting, engaging. In the past several years, we have seen improvement in our grantmaking capacity to advance this work.
The resources we steward are benefiting more communities and supporting more women, girls, and gender expansive people who challenge us to keep thinking differently about social change for women and girls.
Our decision makers (our Board, grantmaking committees, and staff) are increasingly reflecting more communities and more perspectives, including the voices of grantees.
We are bringing more of our time, attention, and support to communities of women and girls experiencing the greatest disparities.
We understand that all oppressions are tied up together, and that others’ freedom and access to resources depends on our ability to free ourselves and the resources we steward.
We are consciously, thoughtfully, and actively learning to use our organizational power and privilege to redistribute and rebalance power and resources.
Locations
Primary Office Location
74 Lunt Road, Suite 100 Falmouth ME 04105
(207) 774-5513
