Women’s Foundation of Indiana is proud to announce the first-ever grant recipients of the Women in Health Collaborative Fund, which mobilizes the expertise, resources, and lived experience of women in healthcare to improve health outcomes for women and girls in Central Indiana.
Through a participatory grantmaking process, more than 50 donors—women who work in healthcare—joined together to fund six grants totaling $260,000.
About the Women in Health Collaborative Fund
Launched in 2024, the Women in Health Collaborative Fund is a pilot initiative of Women’s Fund designed to unite nurse practitioners, physicians, administrators, doulas, behavioral health specialists, and others across the healthcare field. Donors raise funds together, then collaboratively decide which solutions should be supported through grants.
This work was made possible thanks to generous support from IU Health, a private family foundation, and dozens of individual donors.
To contribute to the next round of Women in Health Collaborative Fund grantmaking and vote on the recipient, click here.
This is what collective power looks like. At Women’s Foundation, we believe in listening to women. They told us that women’s health is a top priority—and that’s why we created these grants. And because we trust the expertise that comes from lived experience, we chose a participatory grantmaking process that lets women in healthcare—not only those doing the work, but those investing in it—decide where the money should go.
