Women Moving Millions

Women Moving Millions is a membership community of women who have each committed at least $1 million to work benefiting women and girls. It began in 2007 as a two-year campaign led by Helen LaKelly Hunt, her sister Swanee Hunt and Chris Grumm of the Women's Funding Network, aimed at raising $150 million for women's funds; the campaign closed above target during the financial crisis, with roughly $181 million pledged to 41 women's funds, and was then constituted as a standing organisation. Today it reports roughly 400 members in 16 countries who have collectively committed more than $1 billion. Membership works on two separate financial tests. The qualifying commitment is a minimum of $1 million over ten years, directed at organisations or initiatives with an explicit gender lens; separately, members pay an annual contribution to WMM itself, from $10,000 for individuals, $15,000 for families and $2,500 for the NextGen tier. What the commitment may consist of was broadened after a members' vote: alongside gifts to 501(c)(3) charities it now also counts political advocacy giving to 501(c)(4) organisations and investment in women-led ventures that benefit women and girls.

Как это работает

A prospective individual member makes a minimum commitment of $1 million over ten years to gender-lens organisations or initiatives, and pays an annual contribution of $10,000 or more to WMM. Family membership is $15,000 or more a year and NextGen is $2,500. WMM does not direct where the money goes: members choose their own recipients, and the organisation provides peer community, education programmes, one-on-one staff support and a collaboration platform called The Exchange for pooling resources with other members. Flagship events, including a NextGen Summit and an annual member day, anchor the calendar.

Типичный участник

Individual members are women philanthropists and investors who have made a formal commitment of $1 million or more over ten years with an explicit gender lens. Separate Family and NextGen tiers exist at lower annual contribution levels; WMM does not publish whether those tiers carry the same $1 million commitment. The community includes donors, impact investors and political advocacy funders.

The $1 million commitment is what defines this network, and it is worth reading precisely: it is a ten-year commitment to organisations of the member's own choosing, not a payment to WMM, and it is self-reported rather than escrowed or audited in any way the organisation publishes. The separate annual contribution, $10,000 for individuals, is the actual dues. The 2020s expansion of qualifying contributions to include 501(c)(4) political advocacy and investment in women-led ventures broadens the definition of philanthropy considerably and is a meaningful signal of where the organisation is heading; it also means two members with identical commitments may be doing very different things. Membership is gender-defined in practice, and the community is a self-selecting group of significant donors rather than an open network. Two gaps in the public record: WMM does not publish whether the Family and NextGen tiers carry the same $1 million test, and it does not publish an application review or acceptance process beyond an email address.

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