The Community Foundation for Ireland fund National Women’s Council of Ireland board leadership campaign through The Women's Fund for Ireland.
Established by The Community Foundation for Ireland in 2010, The Women’s Fund for Ireland is a long-term philanthropic fund. Its mission is to encourage philanthropy among women, to improve the lives of women and girls through social change grant making and to educate the entire community about the benefits to society when the potential of women is realised. Research shows that when women and girls prosper, entire communities in Ireland succeed. That is why we created a dedicated long term thematic fund called The Women’s Fund for Ireland. Current priorities are the prevention of violence against women and the empowerment of women to take leadership roles in communities.
Jackie Harrison, Head of Development at The Community Foundation for Ireland discusses one of these key priorities for the Women’s Fund; to empower women to take positions of leadership in their community in this short video and how we support this through our grantmaking.
Watch The Community Foundation for Ireland fund NWCI's board leadership campaign video here.
The video also highlights our support of the National Women’s Council of Ireland ‘Gender Quota Campaign’ as one of the ways we do this. We funded the NWCI with €50,000.00 to build a wide sectoral collaborative campaign to bring Ireland into a new era of decision making, one which places equality between women and men in decision making as a core corporate value and which will benefit the performance of our private companies and advance equality in our society. Read the full handbook on their website here.
Speaking in the video we also have Jennifer McCarthy Flynn from The National Women’s Council of Ireland, who elaborates on the important role Philanthropy plays in bringing about full equality for women and how the support from The Community Foundation for Ireland progresses this. The Chair of The National Women’s Council of Ireland Ellen O’Malley Dunlop also features in the video discussing the necessity for increased representation of women on boards and how this funding will address the fact that currently Ireland has the lowest representation of women in boards in Europe.
We acknowledge that there is much more to be done to progress the rights of women and girls in this country. We want a thriving society where women are nurtured, empowered and equal. We need a country whose institutions platform women, and reflect a positive role model to girls.
Read more about how else we have supported Women and Girls so far here.