The Sister Fund Publications

Black Girls in New York City: Untold Strength & Resilience
Download Black Girls in New York City: Untold Strength & Resilience, which provides an often unseen portrait of the lives of black girls living in the city of New York. Researched and written by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, and commissioned by the Black Women for Black Girls Giving Circle (BWBG) of the Twenty-First Century Foundation (21CF), with support from The Sister Fund, this report uncovers some of the specific challenges and daily struggles faced by girls of African descent, while identifying their strengths, triumphs and modes of survival. 

Healers of Our Time: Women, Faith and Justice
Executive Summary and Mapping Report
Download The Sister Fund's new mapping report, Healers of Our Time: Women, Faith and Justice, and its executive summary. The H.O.T. Report examines the intersection of women and religion in activism, academia, and pop culture. It also features an extensive directory of organizations, institutions and other resources around women’s interfaith social justice action. To request hard copies of The H.O.T. Report or its executive summary, click here.

Newsletters
Download any of The Sister Fund’s past four Sister Says newsletters to learn more about our grantees, events, projects, and opinions on women and religion.

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Something New Is Emerging
Download Something New Is Emerging to learn more about The Sister Fund’s Faith and Feminism Dialogues and how you can create your own dialogue series. The dialogues featured speakers, testimonials, poems, music, art and food, creating an environment in which women and men of diverse religious, ethnic and social backgrounds were able to come together and discuss the shared motivation and apparent tensions between faith and feminism. To request a hard copy of Something New is Emerging, click here.

10-Year Report
Download The Sister Fund’s 10-Year Report to learn more about our development, programs, events and grantees between 1993 and 2003. Hear from diverse women around the world on how The Sister Fund branched out while maintaining deep roots in feminism, faith and women’s philanthropy. To request a hard copy of The Sister Fund’s 10-Year Report, click here.

Faith and Feminism at Women’s Worlds 2005
Download Faith and Feminism at Women's Worlds 2005, a document of "The Role of Religion in the Feminist Movement: Learning from Feminist, Womanist, Mujerista and Salimist Theologies" panel discussion in Seoul, Korea. The discussion was organized and presented by the International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women and a diverse group of feminist theologians. Led by Hyun Kyung Chung of Union Theological Seminary; Victoria Rue of San José State University; Ada María Isasi-Díaz, former Sister Fund board member and professor at Drew Theological Seminary; and our own executive director, Kanyere Eaton, this panel described how women from different racial-ethnic communities understand their relationship with God. To request a hard copy of the document, click here.