European foundation funding for women and girls
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Shah, Seema
- Creator
- McGill, Lawrence T.
- Creator
- Weisblatt, Karen
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- fondsen, wereld, statistiek, rapport
- Description
- Key findings: Nearly three-quarters of European foundations surveyed (73 %) are active in the area of education: children and youth are the top beneficiary population (74 %) designated by European foundations: about a third of the foundations in the survey sample (37 %) reported that they engaged in at least some grantmaking or programmatic activities that were specifically intended to benefi t women and girls: the majority of foundations surveyed (58 %) allocated less than ten percent of their expenditures to programmes benefi ting women and girls in 2009: in 2009, the median percentage of total grant monies allocated by foundations in support of women and girls was 4.8%: although only a third of foundations surveyed said they specifically intended some of their programmatic activities to reach women and girls, substantially higher numbers of foundations expressed interest in various issues affecting women and girls.