Mission, Vision, Guiding Principles and
Strategic Direction

Mission | Vision | Principles | Strategic

Mission

To inspire the women of Northeast Florida to be strategic philanthropists and to improve the lives of women and girls through collective giving.

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Vision

The Women's Giving Alliance transforms how Northeast Florida addresses the needs of women and girls.

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Guiding Principles

The Women's Giving Alliance commitments are to:

  • Reach out and welcome all women who wish to join.
  • Build relationships among women united in their desire to improve the lives of women and girls.
  • Develop a membership of educated philanthropists who understand community needs and become informed, pioneering grantmakers.
  • Collaborate with funding partners and community organizations to empower women and girls.
  • Conduct our grant making with integrity, fiscal responsibility and respect for our grant recipients.

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Strategic Direction 2007-2010

Goals Objectives
Increase awareness and understanding of issues that face women and girls and how the Women's Giving Alliance is addressing these issues.
  • Enhance communications to members so they are able to “tell the WGA story”.
  • Work to achieve community visibility through regular, broad-based media coverage of WGA.
Demonstrate the impact of our grants on the lives of women and girls.
  • Establish and implement a methodology to assess the long-term impact of the programs WGA funds.
  • Facilitate agencies' capacity to measure the programs we support.

Support our members' strategic philanthropic activities.
  • Collaborate with The Community Foundation to expand members' knowledge about the approaches to strategic philanthropy.
  • Promote and highlight members' philanthropic activities.
  • Explore the creation of a girls giving circle to promote philanthropy among members' daughters and granddaughters.

Grow membership
  • Reach the milestone of 300 members in 3 years.
  • Reach out to women of many backgrounds so that membership has a more diverse demographic profile.

Continually improve WGA's internal operations.
  • Establish a mechanism for succession of key leaders.
  • Work with The Community Foundation's staff to find ways to be more efficient and cost-effective in our operations.
  • Continue to learn about best practices of other giving circles.
  • Monitor the implementation and results of the three-year strategic plan.

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