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Full Name:	Third Wave, Inc.
EIN:	13-3670260
Tax Status:	501(c)(3)
Website:	www.thirdwavefoundation.org
Address:	25 East 21st Street 4th Floor New York, NY 10010

About this Nonprofit

Mission:	The Third Wave Foundation is the first national, feminist foundation focused on supporting the vision and voices of young women and transgender youth ages 15 to 30. Our purpose is to support and strengthen these young activists and their allies working for gender, racial, social, and economic justice. We do this through strategic grant making, leadership development, and philanthropic advocacy. Third Wave Foundation?s long-term goals are to: - Increase the number of foundations giving to organizations led by young women and transgender individuals and increase the amount these organizations give; - Help to grow the women?s movement by supporting new and innovative approaches to pursuing gender, racial, social and economic justice; - Support young women and transgender leaders and their organizations to create change in their communities; - Strengthen progressive movements by investing in the next generation of leadership; and - Ensure young women and transgender youth have the skills, power, and opportunity to engage in and lead efforts for social justice.
Description:	Third Wave uses a framework that moves voices from the margins to the center. The success of this strategy is evident over the past year in three different ways: Through strategic grant making, the Reproductive Health and Justice Initiative (RHJI)supports emerging groups and establishing organizations to build infrastructure, increase capacity, and launch multi-issue programs. Over the past decade we have found that, after receiving a Third Wave grant, RHJI grant partners increased their yearly operating budgets on average by about $180,000. In 2006, we tripled our docket, adding 11 new organizations and continuing to support four current multi-year grant partners with a third year of funding. Third Wave also awarded technical assistance grants in 2006 through its Organizing & Advocacy Fund to six organizations led by young women and transgender youth that use social change strategies which attract fewer dollars from foundations, but are transforming the discourse within their field and building a base for their movements. On average, Organizing & Advocacy grant partners have grown their yearly budget by about $120,000 over the last 10 years of Third Wave?s history. Through leadership development, Third Wave nurtures a new generation of movement architects by convening and training activists who have traditionally been disenfranchised. The 2006 RHJI convenings and the 2006 Young Women?s Collaborative (YWC) training brought together young women and transgender youth, more than 80% of whom are people of color, to formulate a shared vision and goals for the reproductive justice movement. Participants have returned from these leadership development initiatives to employ newly acquired skills in their organization and launch regional and national activists? networks. Through philanthropic advocacy, Third Wave raises the awareness of other grant makers and individual donors about issues and models that are often sidelined within social justice movements and the philanthropic community. Third Wave Foundation?s philanthropic advocacy and education program highlights the important role of philanthropy in progressive social change. In collaboration with Resource Generation, Tides Foundation, and The Funding Exchange, Third Wave Foundation co-sponsors and coordinates the Making Money Make Change conference. This conference is designed to bring young people of progressive wealth together to explore issues surrounding wealth and social change philosophy. In a complementary program, Third Wave Foundation?s Why Give Institute focuses its philanthropic education on young women and transgender youth organizing in low-income communities and communities of color in order to promote individual skills development and organizational sustainability. Third Wave?s 2006 Organizing & Advocacy grants provided support to organizations participating in the Why Give Institute, allowing their staff to develop additional skills to match their fundraising abilities.

Mission:

The Third Wave Foundation is the first national, feminist foundation focused on supporting the vision and voices of young women and transgender youth ages 15 to 30. Our purpose is to support and strengthen these young activists and their allies working for gender, racial, social, and economic justice. We do this through strategic grant making, leadership development, and philanthropic advocacy. Third Wave Foundation?s long-term goals are to: - Increase the number of foundations giving to organizations led by young women and transgender individuals and increase the amount these organizations give; - Help to grow the women?s movement by supporting new and innovative approaches to pursuing gender, racial, social and economic justice; - Support young women and transgender leaders and their organizations to create change in their communities; - Strengthen progressive movements by investing in the next generation of leadership; and - Ensure young women and transgender youth have the skills, power, and opportunity to engage in and lead efforts for social justice.

Description:

Third Wave uses a framework that moves voices from the margins to the center. The success of this strategy is evident over the past year in three different ways:

Through strategic grant making, the Reproductive Health and Justice Initiative (RHJI)supports emerging groups and establishing organizations to build infrastructure, increase capacity, and launch multi-issue programs. Over the past decade we have found that, after receiving a Third Wave grant, RHJI grant partners increased their yearly operating budgets on average by about $180,000. In 2006, we tripled our docket, adding 11 new organizations and continuing to support four current multi-year grant partners with a third year of funding.

Third Wave also awarded technical assistance grants in 2006 through its Organizing & Advocacy Fund to six organizations led by young women and transgender youth that use social change strategies which attract fewer dollars from foundations, but are transforming the discourse within their field and building a base for their movements. On average, Organizing & Advocacy grant partners have grown their yearly budget by about $120,000 over the last 10 years of Third Wave?s history.

Through leadership development, Third Wave nurtures a new generation of movement architects by convening and training activists who have traditionally been disenfranchised. The 2006 RHJI convenings and the 2006 Young Women?s Collaborative (YWC) training brought together young women and transgender youth, more than 80% of whom are people of color, to formulate a shared vision and goals for the reproductive justice movement. Participants have returned from these leadership development initiatives to employ newly acquired skills in their organization and launch regional and national activists? networks.

Through philanthropic advocacy, Third Wave raises the awareness of other grant makers and individual donors about issues and models that are often sidelined within social justice movements and the philanthropic community. Third Wave Foundation?s philanthropic advocacy and education program highlights the important role of philanthropy in progressive social change. In collaboration with Resource Generation, Tides Foundation, and The Funding Exchange, Third Wave Foundation co-sponsors and coordinates the Making Money Make Change conference. This conference is designed to bring young people of progressive wealth together to explore issues surrounding wealth and social change philosophy. In a complementary program, Third Wave Foundation?s Why Give Institute focuses its philanthropic education on young women and transgender youth organizing in low-income communities and communities of color in order to promote individual skills development and organizational sustainability. Third Wave?s 2006 Organizing & Advocacy grants provided support to organizations participating in the Why Give Institute, allowing their staff to develop additional skills to match their fundraising abilities.

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