Editor’s Note: During UN Women’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, National Review is featuring 15 women’s organizations that have either supported Hamas’s violence against Israeli women or remained silent about it.
Third Wave Fund is a grant-making organization that resources the “fight for BIPOC gender justice liberation.” Founded in 1992, the organization supports youth-led intersectional gender activists. Third Wave Fund is a project of the donor-advised fund provider Proteus, which supports many progressive feminist groups.
“At Third Wave Fund, we commit to following the lead of our current and former grantee partners who are on the movement’s frontlines calling for a ceasefire now and an end to the occupation of Palestine,” the group said on November 6.
Advocates can “Advance Reproductive Justice by standing with Palestine,” Third Wave posted on Instagram on October 25. The organization recommended that reproductive-justice advocates “include Palestine and settler colonization in your reproductive justice analysis” and “follow Palestinian-led organizations like Binat, Palestinian Feminist Collective, and Palestinian Youth Movement.”
Third Wave Fund also reposted a statement from Queer Crescent, a queer Muslim organization: “There is no self-determination or bodily autonomy under occupation. We know that gendered violence has always been used as a tool of settler colonialism. As a Queer Muslim org we recognize that there is no queer, trans, nonbinary and femme Muslim liberation without Palestine.” On Instagram, Third Wave also reposted a statement from the Palestinian Feminist Collective: “The only real solution is decolonization, liberation, return.”
The organization promoted a rally in Florida that takes place this week and will demand an end to U.S. aid for Israel. “If you would like your tax dollars to NOT fund a genocide, join us,” Third Wave reposted.
Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, donated $3 million to Third Wave in 2022. The Arcus Foundation, Bafrayung Fund, Groundswell Fund, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, Joshua Mailman Foundation, Morningstar Foundation, and Overbrook Foundation have all given money to Third Wave as well. The organization’s parent company, Proteus, receives donations from the Ford Foundation, Ms. Foundation for Women, NoVo Foundation, George Soros’s philanthropy Open Society Foundations, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Tikkun Olam Foundation, and more.
Flannery McDonnell is an individual donor highlighted on Third Wave’s “insights from our donors” page.
“I have a responsibility as a white trans person with U.S. citizenship and access to monetary wealth to fund movements long term that are led by and for the folks most impacted by gendered/racialized violence,” McDonnell said. “I am honored to be in solidarity with Third Wave Fund, who I have learned so much from, been transformed throughout our relationship, and experienced tremendous and infectious joy just to be in the presence of.”
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Editor’s Note: During UN Women’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, National Review is featuring 15 women’s organizations that have either supported Hamas’s violence against Israeli women or remained silent about it.
Third Wave Fund is a grant-making organization that resources the “fight for BIPOC gender justice liberation.” Founded in 1992, the organization supports youth-led intersectional gender activists. Third Wave Fund is a project of the donor-advised fund provider Proteus, which supports many progressive feminist groups.
“At Third Wave Fund, we commit to following the lead of our current and former grantee partners who are on the movement’s frontlines calling for a ceasefire now and an end to the........
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