Michelle Dominguez

Oct 21, 2024 | insidephilanthropy.com | Michelle Dominguez

The Weingart Foundation is a private, nonprofit grantmaking foundation that partners with communities across Southern California to advance racial, social and economic justice for all. Since its founding in 1951, the foundation has granted over $1 billion to organizations in support of human services, housing, health, education and community power-building.

Jul 17, 2024 | ellas.pa | Michelle Dominguez

¿Sientes el instinto maternal?, entonces ya tienes lo más importante. Desde adolescente había dicho que no quería ser madre. Debido a mi entorno familiar asociaba la maternidad con escasez, con dificultades que le restaba competitividad a las mujeres, pero a los 33 años despertó ese anhelo de compartir mi amor con otro ser. Tuve muy claro en ese momento de que quería convertirme en mamá. Una amiga me refirió una clínica de fertilidad. Luego de recibir toda la información, pasaron cinco años.

Jul 10, 2024 | insidephilanthropy.com | Michelle Dominguez

In June 2024, Sandy Ho assumed the role of executive director of the Disability & Philanthropy Forum, a philanthropic network of organizations committed to dismantling ableism. Ho succeeds inaugural Director Emily Willis. The Disability & Philanthropy Forum formed after the Ford Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation convened foundation leaders in 2019.

Jun 28, 2024 | insidephilanthropy.com | Michelle Dominguez

Since 2021, Funders for LGBTQ Issues, a philanthropic support organization that organizes funders and supports power-building for queer communities, has been helmed by Saida Agostini-Bostic. Funders for LGBTQ Issues is a network of over 100 foundations, corporations and funding institutions that together award about $200 million annually toward LGBTQ issues.

Jun 10, 2024 | insidephilanthropy.com | Michelle Dominguez

In January 2024, Third Wave Fund, an organization founded in 1992 that resources and supports youth-led, intersectional gender justice and activism, welcomed Morgan (Mo) Willis (she/they/he/all pronouns) and MARS. Marshall (they/he pronouns) as co-directors. Since Third Wave Fund's inception, the organization has raised over $13 million and funded over 500 groups, advancing young Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) most directly impacted by gender oppression.