About Us
The Resilience Fund for Women in Global Value Chains is a new approach to corporate philanthropy that brings together companies, foundations, and women leaders to invest in women’s health, safety, and economic resilience as essential to addressing climate risks.
Climate risks are here. The impacts of heat, flooding, drought, and other changes to the environment are harming workers at their jobs and in their communities. The severity of these climate risks, and their disproportionate impact on women, requires new, more flexible and balanced funding approaches
The Resilience Fund is blazing a new path for pooled corporate investment, community engagement, and real-time learning based on trust and rich dialogue with women leaders and organizations in global value chains.
Our Approach
How We Started
The Future
The Fund offers an opportunity for companies and foundations, in partnership with women leaders, to chart a new philanthropic course that supports organizations at the center of change in their communities by:
Expanding flexible, trust-based funding to local, women-led organizations who know best what their own communities need.
Shifting power in traditional funding approaches through democratized governance and participatory grantmaking.
Enabling real-time learning and forging new connections among companies, women’s funds and community-led organizations that do not otherwise intersect or collaborate.
Elevating the intersection of women’s health, gender-based violence and climate resilience in corporate environmental action.
This trust-based, democratized approach to giving and engagement builds on the work of women’s funds that have blazed this trail for many years. The Fund has listened and learned from them and brings this approach to the corporate philanthropy space for the first time.
The Fund was shaped by a group of forward-looking organizations and companies searching for a long-term and systemic response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on women and women workers.
Deep, systemic inequities – such as gender-based violence and lack of access to health services – have restricted women and girls from participating fully and equally in society. The pandemic merely exacerbated these inequities.
In response, a unique group of foundations, women’s funds, civil society organizations, and companies came together to explore innovative solutions for women’s health and well-being in an unprecedented time.
The group decided that the Fund needed to focus on long-term systemic change and economic resilience, that it needed to invest in women leaders and women-led organizations and address women’s safety, bodily autonomy, and sexual and reproductive health.
In 2025, the Fund refined its scope to also address climate risks in supply chain communities as part of its core focus on women’s health, safety and economic resilience. The Fund’s foundational focus on resilience will now include a new emphasis on the environment a a gender-equitable transition to a sustainable economy.
The next years will be the most exciting for the Fund stakeholders – and the goal is to bring new corporate, foundation and civil society partners along on this journey.
We invite change-making investors to join us at this critical time as we:
Refine the Fund’s approach to participatory grantmaking.
Increase long-term, flexible funding opportunities for women–led organizations in global supply chain communities.
Deepen the Fund’s learning and engagement with all stakeholders, including corporate investors, grantee-partners, and women leaders.
Create a playbook for our approach that can enable other investors to replicate it.
Deepen our work at the intersection of women’s health and resilience and climate risks.