Why Funding Women and Girls Matters

Christine Grumm

Christine Grumm has been president and chief executive officer of the Women's Funding Network (WFN) in San Francisco, California, since 2000 and has more than three decades of experience as a leader in effecting social change through civil society, especially through women's philanthropy. Prior to joining WFN, Ms. Grumm served as executive director of the Chicago Foundation for Women. Ms. Grumm was executive director of Education Program Associates, a nonprofit public health, education, and training organization. She is currently a board member of Mayaworks, an organization providing opportunities for partnership between Mayan women artisans in Guatemala and women in the United States. Ms. Grumm holds a B.A. in health education and community organizing and an M.A. in women's studies from Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She served on the faculty of Salzburg Global Seminar Session 447, Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in Politics and Business, in 2007; and and participated in an initiative meeting on Optimizing Institutional Philanthropy in 2008.