Our COMMITMENT
We center the lives of those most impacted by injustice, recognizing their unrealized promise and vital role in community transformation.
Why the Women’s
Foundation of the South?
OUR VISION
A South where women, girls, and gender-expansive people thrive, lead, and shape the future of their communities with dignity, opportunity, and power
OUR MISSION
To cultivate the health, wealth, and power of women, girls, and gender-expansive people in the South through grantmaking, leadership development, advocacy, and movement-building.
OUR GOAL
By 2030, WFS aims to have successfully deployed more than $25 million in grants and established solid infrastructure in the South for grantmaking, investment, care, and narrative shift.
The HEAL Strategy
How the work moves.
HEAL gives WFS a shared discipline for deciding where resources, relationships, and public voice can create lasting change.
See our approachHasten
Move resources and attention toward women and girls across the South with urgency.
Energize
Strengthen the organizations, networks, and leaders that sustain movements.
Amplify
Lift authentic Southern narratives through research, policy, and storytelling.
Leverage
Bring capital and partnership together so every investment can travel further.
Our region · Southern States
From 6 states
today, to all
13 states by 2031.
From 6 states today,
to all 13 states by 2031.
From
6 states
today, to
all 13 states
by 2031.
Today, our Southern State cohorts includes Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, and Alabama. By 2031: every Southern state. Click a state to explore our regional work.
Shift the South
Empower the South, transform the future.
Empower the South, transform the future.
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