2021 Year In Review

Image text: Gender Justice Fund 2021 Year in Review

Image Text: $470,000 in grant dollars distributed to 37 GRANTEES in the Greater Philadelphia area. Trans Resilience Fund - $170,000; Systems Change Grant Program - $140,000; Culture Change Grant Program - $85,000; Discretionary Grants - $75,000

Image Text: 85% of grant dollars went to groups led by women, trans, or gender non-conforming individuals. 53% of grant dollars went to groups with BIPOC leadership, up from 48% in 2020 and 35% in 2019.

Image Text: Our grantees worked on: consent-based sex education, economic justice, Black maternal health, youth organizing, reproductive justice, mass incarceration, sex worker rights, abortion access, gender-based violence, direct support for trans communities, trans justice, labor rights, housing justice.

Image Text: Highlights: MASC ALLY MONTH - In May of 2021, GJF partnered with the Masculinity Action Project on a month of events and a social media campaign to engage and equip masculine-identified individuals as part of the fight for gender justice.

Image Text: TRANS RESILIENCE FUND - GJF created a pooled fund to distribute $170,000 in grants to support the trans community through a participatory grantmaking process. You can read a report about the Fund on our website.

Image Text: NEW STAFF & PARNTERHIPS - With funding from the Oak Foundation, GJF hired Program Manager Saudia Durrant (pictured) to support the work of the Incarcerated Working Group, a coalition that advocates with and on behalf of incarcerated women and women in reentry for systems change.