This Funder is Growing Quickly, and Giving Out Rapid-Response Grants to Fight Trump

There is nothing quite like women's networks to help make rapid-response grants. In an environment where women's rights are being threatened by atrocious plans such as the Trump administration's proposed ending of the Violence Against Women Act, we need more women's networks to come forward like the Women Donors Network and push for increased funding to fight back. Now, the Emergent Fund, of which the Women Donors Network is a founding member, has announced its next wave of rapid-response grants to community-based organizations resisting the Trump Administration's regressive policies. This brings the total of grants already issued by the Emergent Fund to $500,000. As we wrote in January, the Emergent Fund was formed by the Women Donors Network and Solidaire, in order to raise funds for grassroots organizatio