The Women’s Fund SouthCoast (WFSC) is a public foundation advancing gender, racial, and economic justice across the SouthCoast region of Massachusetts.
For more than 26 years, we have mobilized philanthropic capital, community expertise, and policy influence to address the structural conditions shaping women’s lives.
We are proudly place-based and community-rooted. Our work begins locally — grounded in the realities of the SouthCoast — and extends outward through statewide collaboration and national thought leadership.
We exist because inequity persists — in wages, safety, healthcare access, political representation, and leadership opportunity. These disparities are systemic. WFSC was created to confront root causes and move resources, research, and influence toward lasting change.
Our Role in the Region — and Beyond
WFSC is the SouthCoast’s dedicated women’s fund.
We operate at the intersection of research, philanthropy, leadership development, and advocacy — connecting community knowledge to investment, investment to leadership and action, and action to long-term systems change.
While our grantmaking is locally focused, our partnerships extend across Massachusetts and into national philanthropic and policy networks. We contribute to statewide initiatives, inform broader conversations on gender and racial equity, and collaborate with peers across the country to advance collective progress.
As both a funder and a convener, we bring together donors, grassroots leaders, policymakers, researchers, and young people to shape solutions that are locally grounded and regionally and nationally relevant.
Our Mission
The Women’s Fund SouthCoast advances gender, racial, and economic justice through community-driven research, strategic grantmaking, leadership development and advocacy.
Our values guide us:
Justice Is Intersectional
Community Holds Power
Lead With Radical Care
Build Power for Lasting Change
Our Vision
We envision a SouthCoast where women, girls, and gender-expansive people of all races and backgrounds have equitable access to resources, opportunity, safety, and leadership — and where the systems shaping daily life reflect dignity and justice.
Strong local leadership strengthens statewide progress and contributes to national movements for equity.
How We Create Change
Turn Data and Stories into Action
We conduct participatory research, gather community knowledge, and elevate lived experience to inform philanthropy, advocacy, policy, and public understanding.
Invest in Community
We move philanthropic resources and capacity-building support toward community-rooted organizations advancing gender, racial, and economic justice.
Build Leadership & Civic Power
We create opportunities for women, girls, and gender-expansive people to develop leadership, direct resources, advocate for their communities, and shape the decisions that affect their lives.
Advance Systems Change
We connect community experience, research, philanthropy, and advocacy to influence policy, institutional practices, funding decisions, and public understanding.
The Women’s Fund SouthCoast maintains memberships in several key organizations, ranging from the local to the national. Being able to work collaboratively for our common goals enables us to share resources and ideas, furthering our work immeasurably.
Looking Forward
As we enter our next chapter, WFSC is deepening research capacity, strengthening partnerships, expanding philanthropic investment, and increasing regional impact — while continuing to contribute to statewide and national conversations on gender and racial justice.
We remain committed to bold, community-informed solutions that create measurable change — not only for today, but for generations to come.
Join Our Movement
Change at this scale requires collective leadership.
Whether you engage as a donor, partner, advocate, volunteer, or emerging leader, you help shape a more equitable SouthCoast — and strengthen a broader movement for justice.
Together, we are building a region where justice is not aspirational — it is realized.
