This article was originally published in Forbes.
One-off days of giving like Giving Tuesday may dominate headlines and social media feeds, but there’s much more to charitable giving than the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
In fact, there is an entire world of quiet giving that doesn’t seek the spotlight, and in that world a great transformation is taking place; the rise of women-led giving.
Whether it’s through targeted projects, grassroots movements, or simply bringing new approaches to traditional ways of making charitable investments, women are stepping into roles as architects of social change in ways their predecessors weren’t able to.
The result is a positively diversified landscape of giving that promises to do more good than before, with targets and approaches that target a wider range of beneficiaries.
“It’s not just that women are writing checks where they hadn’t before,” explains Amy Marks Dornbusch, a longtime philanthropist and founder of new social venture AtlasDaughters. “We’re thinking critically about where our dollars go, the structural barriers that exist, and how we can address them in sustainable ways, and this is driving a tangible change in how the philanthropic industry operates.”
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