The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation is dedicated to educating current and future generations about Gage’s work and its power to drive contemporary social change.

This project involves the development and production of a short motivational film on the historic significance of the women’s donor-activist movement with the intention of inspiring new donors to join a hands-on/hands-with funding movement dedicated to equity, justice and the strategic use of money for women and girls. The video was inspired by 19th Century historian, Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, who preserves and documents the writings of suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage. In the 19th Century, Gage complained that women of means funded institutions such as their husbands’ alma maters, but rarely stepped forward to fund their suffragette sisters. This fast-moving video shows how today’s women’s funding movement, and new giving trends like Women Moving Millions, are literally changing the course of history. The 4-minute donor cultivation tool can be uploaded onto any organizational Web site or downloaded and shared on hand-held items such as an iPhone.