Chicago Foundation for Women

Chicago Foundation for Women is a member of the The Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights.

"One of the largest women’s funds in the world, Chicago Foundation for Women believes that all women and girls should have the opportunity to achieve their potential and live in safe, just and healthy communities. For the last twenty years, the Foundation has influenced social justice through advocacy, leadership development, and public and grantee education. In addition, we have awarded more than 2,500 grants totaling $15 million to hundreds of organizations that make life better for women and girls in the Chicago metropolitan area...

"In 1984, four women leaders in the Chicago philanthropic community with a shared vision – Marjorie Craig Benton, Sunny Fischer, Iris Krieg and Lucia Woods Lindley – brought together a number of collaborators into planning groups that laid the financial and programmatic groundwork for Chicago Foundation for Women. These founders organized around the statement of Basic Principles which guides the Foundation to the present day. Chicago Foundation for Women was incorporated on Dec. 31, 1984. A board of directors was elected, fundraising carried out, and an executive director was hired the following year. In the spring of 1986, the Foundation made its first grants totaling $50,000."


 * Mary F. Morten - Interim Executive Director

Directors
Accessed April 2008:


 * Mae P. Hong - Chair
 * Lois J. Lipton - Past Chair
 * Millicent Holmes - Treasurer
 * Deirdre Joy Smith - Secretary
 * Carleen Schreder - Vice Chair/Allocations
 * Gail Ludewig - Vice Chair/Resource Development
 * Ellen J. Benjamin - Vice Chair/Board Development
 * Isa Ellis - Executive Committee Member at Large
 * Bertha G. Magana - Executive Committee Member at Large
 * Queta Rodríguez Bauer
 * Mita D. Shah
 * Allegra E. Biery
 * Anita K. Sinha
 * Catherine Braendel
 * Ada Skyles
 * Susan S. Hassan
 * Donna J. Thompson
 * Alejandra L. Ibanez
 * Aylice M. Toohey
 * Jean Pogge
 * Laura Tucker
 * Gaye E. Preston
 * Vanessa J. Weathersby
 * Barbara Rose
 * Paula Wolff
 * Leora Rosen
 * Frances K. Zemans
 * Jane M. Saks

Past Board Chairs
Accessed April 2008:


 * Marcena W. Love
 * Jo Moore
 * Kathy Hurley
 * María T. Mangual
 * Susan Graf Marineau
 * Susan Pritzker
 * Mary F. Morten
 * Suzanne Gombrich
 * Carmen Prieto

Past Executive Directors
Accessed April 2008:


 * Pamela Anderson
 * Marianne Philbin
 * Christine Grumm
 * Isabel Carter Stewart
 * Hannah Rosenthal

Contact

 * Web: http://www.cfw.org