What Will It Take’s Women & Money Initiative is a platform for action to mobilize people to invest in and fund gender lens and social justice initiatives.  

There are so many serious problems that we face in the world, and it is time for women—and all of us—to move our money and resources in alignment with our values and use money as a transformative force to help create the more equitable, just, sustainable world we envision. Leaders and organizations are ready and eager to come together to build coalitions, think strategically and collaboratively, share resources and tools, and work collectively, and we aim to provide the impetus and conditions for that to take place.

Our Women & Money Initiative strives to provide the tools, resources, and conversations women need to more easily activate their capital as impact investors and social justice givers and to highlight how critical it is for all people to invest with a gender lens and how it best serves social change for our economic, political, and financial systems.  

Produced by Tuti Scott and presented by What Will It Take Movements in partnership with Changemaker Strategies, Women & Money: Making Money Moves That Matter was an inaugural gathering of catalytic leaders and activists in the fields of strategic philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, angel investing, and impact/gender lens investing in Austin, TX on Sept. 16-17, 2019 to build our collective power and craft action plans for mobilizing money with a gender, racial, and economic justice lens. THANK YOU to our all of our leaders, speakers, partners, sponsors, and attendees for making this such a powerful gathering!  


What Will It Take partner Changemaker Strategies
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Explore the links below for highlights & takeaways from the 2019 event

Women & Money: Making Money Moves That Matter, Austin 2019

???? THANK YOU! ????Women & Money: Making Money Moves That Matter was a huge success thanks to our amazing community! We got vulnerable in sharing our money stories. We shared work we believe in. We made space for divergent approaches. We committed to our next phase of action.The best part? That it's only the beginning!-Visit whatwillittake.com/money-initiative to learn more about making money moves that matter and explore resources, tools, and event takeaways.-Join the Women & Money LinkedIN group facilitated by our partners at Changemaker Strategies to access groundbreaking resources and invaluable community connections that will continue to push this work forward: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12311197/ Marianne Schnall Angela Joshi Tuti B. Scott Lex Schroeder Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant Lucille Wenegieme

Posted by What Will It Take on Monday, October 21, 2019
This Movement Needs All of Us | Women & Money: Making Money Moves That Matter

What will it take to make big change for women and girls? All of us!Women & Money: Making Money Moves That Matter was a huge success thanks to our amazing community! This was not a seminar; it was a wholly interactive gathering where attendees and speakers charted the course.The best part? That it's only the beginning!-Join the Women & Money LinkedIN group facilitated by our partners at Changemaker Strategies to access groundbreaking resources and invaluable community connections that will continue to push this work forward: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12311197/-Visit whatwillittake.com/money-initiative to learn more about making money moves that matter and explore resources, tools, and event takeaways.Marianne Schnall Angela Joshi Tuti B. Scott Lex Schroeder Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant Lucille Wenegieme

Posted by What Will It Take on Monday, December 9, 2019
2020 — Women & Money: Making Money Moves That Matter

????️Our culture needs more diverse voices.????️Our policy needs to reflect equity and justice.????️Our investments need to be inclusive of feminist businesses that are looking at purpose and planet and people." — Tuti B. Scott, Changemaker StrategiesIt's 2020. How are YOU using your money to create the world you want to see? If you need a place to start, here's a short list of women leading a spectrum of companies and initiatives to help you increase your impact. A more equitable tomorrow starts today. #WomenAndMoneyAustin #GenderMoneyPower Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant (BRIDGE), Lex Schroeder (Changemaker Strategies, Feminists At Work), Tracy Gray (We Are Enough), Roslyn Dawson Thompson (Texas Women's Foundation), Suneela Jain, Leena Barakat, & Shauné Zunzanyika (Tides), Katherine Pease (Cornerstone Capital Group), Rachel Robasciotti (Robasciotti & Philipson), Joy Anderson & Christina Madden (Criterion Institute), Luisamaria Carlile, Stephanie L. Gripne & Nicole Bagley (Impact Finance Center), Natalia Oberti Noguera & Roshell Rosemond Rinkins (Pipeline Angels), Patricia Farrar-Rivas & Alison Pyott (Veris Wealth Partners), Julia Pimsleur, Kerry Rupp & Sara Brand (True Wealth Ventures), Maria Jobin-Leeds, Radha Friedman (Radha Friedman Global Philanthropy), Ranjani Sridharan, Shailee Adinolfi (ConsenSys), Nikki Porcher (Buy from a Black Woman), Kristin Hull (Nia Global Solutions), Marjorie Winfrey, Cynthia Terrell (RepresentWomen), Akasha Absher (Syntrinsic), Ellen Remmer & Kathleen McQuiggan (Invest for Better), Susan Witt (Schumacher Center for a New Economics, Nia K. Evans, Vicki Saunders (SheEO), Antoinette Klatzky (Women Together)

Posted by What Will It Take on Monday, January 27, 2020

Making Money Moves that Matter Series

Sharing expertise on giving, investing and spending with a gender lens. Articles curated and edited by Lex Schroeder and Angela Joshi.

What Impact Is Your Money Making?

We need to mobilize our dollars to create transformative systems change and build the economy we want to see. And it begins on an individual basis where we examine our biases, look at our conditioning, and take action.

Moving Money for Impact

Read an excerpt from Moving Money for Impact: A Guide to Gender Lens Investing by Tuti B. Scott with Lex Schroeder.

RIAs Leading with Values

Rachel Robasciotti and Michelle Mathieu reveal how independence has empowered them to do business in ways that are in line with their own values— and those of their clients

How To Finally Fix The Gender Gap In VC

In this Part II of a two-part series, we identify systemic problems with the current institutions that fund venture capital (VC) groups and propose how to change this archaic system.

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