Sydney Women’s Fund is a sub-fund of the Sydney Community Foundation. The Sydney Women’s Fund works for a community where all women and girls achieve their potential, live safely without fear of discrimination or disadvantage, and enjoy the full benefits of life in Sydney.
The Sydney Women’s Fund (SWF) brings together women who act as donors and activists. Our network of women invests in the lives of low-income and marginalised women so they, in turn, can have control of their lives and enrich the lives of their children. To view the Sydney Women's Fund Inaugural Projects Booklet please click here.
The SWF aims to create and grow a wave of philanthropy to improve the lives of women and girls in our city.
They do this by: growing women’s philanthropy; increasing social change philanthropy in the community; identifying and promoting projects for investment; and serving as a voice for women and girls.
Our Major Initiative
The Sydney Women’s Fund aims to create the first research project to comprehensively look at the status of women and girls in Greater Sydney. There are significant gaps in understanding the needs of women and their children in Sydney; our research study and report will provide for the first time the evidence to back investment.
A Portrait of Women & Girls in Greater Sydney (The Portrait Project)—will be the first and only comprehensive look at the status of women and girls in our region.
Our goal: to paint a Portrait of Women and Girls in Greater Sydney, Australia’s largest city that can be used as a basis for future action.
The impact: to provide the much needed evidence to build a case for investment in women and their children, to identify the gaps for investment and to ultimately drive increased investment to women and children in Sydney.
This project will enable the Sydney Women’s Fund to:
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Educate decision makers in public, private and nonprofit arenas on the power and potential of women and girls for our future;
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Inform the community through the media, community groups and other means about useful strategies and begin a dialogue about meeting the needs that are here;
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Engage and convene diverse leaders from all sectors to make concrete commitments to invest in women and girls;
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Develop a long-term investment agenda to tap the full potential of women and girls that is informed, strategic and monitored.
This will be a groundbreaking study for Australia, and modeled on the Washington Area Women’s Fund 2003 Portrait project. We will use the study to guide our philanthropic giving and as a basis for advocacy.
Email us on swf@sydneycommunityfoundation.org.au or by contacting Kristi Mansfield, Executive Director of the SCF on 02 9251 1228.