Healing Through Giving

The Sister Fund’s belief that progressive women of faith are the Healers of Our Time (H.O.T.) has motivated its giving since 2004. Funders of religious action can be reluctant to fund women’s empowerment initiatives, while women’s funds can be equally hesitant to fund faith-based work. This leaves progressive religious women committed to gender and social justice without adequate support. The Sister Fund is committed to offering financial assistance to organizations that unite faith and feminism, because it believes that society cannot fully advance until women’s voices and women’s leadership are embraced in all segments of religious and nonreligious life. For more information, check out The Sister Fund's grant guidelines.

Healing Through Representation

When The Sister Fund began talking about progressive women’s religious activism in 2004, few recognized its importance. It didn’t take long for us to realize that we needed to do more than fund this important work; we needed to promote it

Inspired by our founder’s groundbreaking book, Faith and Feminism: A Holy Alliance, The Sister Fund supported the development of a report on the marriage of these values called Faith and Feminism at Women’s Worlds 2005. The following year, The Sister Fund launched faithandfeminism.org. This site became such a powerful part of our work that it was incorporated into The Sister Fund's primary Web site in 2009.

In 2006 and 2007, The Sister Fund also hosted a series of Faith and Feminism Dialogues. A document of these dialogues, Something New Is Emerging, was published in 2006. In 2008, the dialogues morphed into our more casual Faith and Feminism Brown Bag Lunches. The dialogues and lunches featured powerful speakers such as Marie Wilson from the White House Project, Daisy Khan from the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), Blu Greenberg from the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA), and Sikh American film maker Valier Kaur.

Most recently, The Sister Fund commissioned Healers of Our Time: Women, Faith, and Justice, a report mapping the intersection between faith and feminism in activism, academia and pop-culture.

  Healing Through Engagement

The Sister Fund wants to see your spark. Because when sisters sizzle together, we generate more than just heat. When sisters sizzle together, we generate healing.

To see H.O.T. women and men talk about their visions for a healed world in The Sister Fund's Sisters That Sizzle Recording Room, or to learn how you can submit your own Sisters That Sizzle recording, click here.

To read other organizations' and individuals' thoughts on and stories about H.O.T. women of faith creating change, click here.

Or, click here to share your own H.O.T. story.