About Women’s Foundation California
What is Women's Foundation California?
Women's Foundation California (WFC) is a California-based foundation advancing gender, racial, and economic justice. From the jobs page mission statement (verbatim): "We work to invest in, train, and connect community leaders to advance gender, racial, and economic justice. We do this by providing grants to community-led organizations, training community leaders through the Solís Policy Institute, and fostering a community of advocates, donors, policymakers, grantmakers, academics and many others through convenings to share knowledge and strengthen the social justice movement in California."
WFC reflects the breadth of its community in its hiring: "Our community is made up of cisgender and transgender women, genderqueer, gender-variant and non-binary individuals, and trans men. Our Women's Foundation California grant partners, staff, board, and SPI alum and fellows reflect a broad range of gender expressions."
Where will I work?
WFC operates fully remotely. From the jobs page (verbatim): "The Women's Foundation California (WFC) is operating with an entirely remote workforce and all positions are remote/virtual. Incumbent must work and reside within California."
What is the Women's Foundation California team like?
Around 29 people work at WFC. The Foundation reorganised many of its working practices in the COVID era under what it calls "Working Reimagined" (verbatim): "In terms of our team, we knew we were no longer conducting 'business as usual' so we began asking ourselves, what does conducting business as unusual look like?
We put in place a number of changes in the first couple of weeks to promote wellness for our team:
- We went to a 4-day work week
- We lifted caps on sick time and vacation accrual
- We increased our technology benefits
- We switched our opt-in fitness reimbursement to an opt-out wellness benefit
- We moved our monthly staff meeting to weekly staff check-ins
- We're centering reflection and learning
- We're practicing kindness and mutual support"
WFC operates as an equal opportunity employer: "we recruit and hire with the understanding of systemic oppression and the lived reality of people with marginalized identities."
Work-Life Balance
From WFC's jobs / benefits page (verbatim list):
- 4-day (32-hours) work week – Monday through Thursday
- 20 days paid vacation to start which increases over time
- 12 paid sick days
- 13 paid holidays
- Additional two weeks holiday at the end of the year in addition to a flexible, family-friendly schedule
- Paid parental leave
Perks and Benefits
- 4-day (32-hour) work week — Monday through Thursday (every Friday off)
- 20 days paid vacation to start, increasing over time
- 12 paid sick days + 13 paid holidays + 2-week year-end shutdown
- Paid parental leave
- Medical, dental, vision, long-term disability insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Fitness reimbursements (opt-out wellness benefit)
- 401(k) retirement plan match
- AD&D insurance — "the Foundation covering 100% of the costs of the insurance package"
- Matching Gift Program — "$2 for every $1 charitable gift made by employees, up to $1,000 per year for WFC and $500 for employees"
- Fully remote — California-resident only