The Gender Equity Action Fund (GEAF) is a community of funders committed to advancing gender, reproductive, and racial equity through investments that build people power to drive transformative policy wins.
The Gender Equity Action Fund (GEAF) invests in state-centered strategies to protect and advance gender, reproductive, and racial equity
We have been committed to this work since 2019 because we’ve watched extremist legislators and judges chip away at our rights for decades, attacking us based on gender and race and taking away our reproductive freedoms—and we refused to sit by and let it happen. Committed to advancing the work of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), women, and gender-expansive people who are championing these fights, we invest in people and projects on the frontlines that mobilize voters and influence policy change to achieve transformative progress for gender, reproductive, and racial equity.
In the wake of the overturn of Roe v. Wade, the fate of reproductive and gender equity increasingly rests in the hands of state decision-makers and local courts.
The ruling has led to dozens of anti-abortion state lawmakers and judges advancing restrictions and bans on abortion and other reproductive health care services, dismantling abortion access, our right to bodily autonomy, and the ability to determine our futures. And they won’t stop there.
Those same bad actors are also attacking LGBTQ+ health care and creating barriers to voting, threatening the entire democratic process.
Each of these attacks ultimately harms the people who experience the most systemic barriers to care: Black, Indigenous, People of Color, young people, low-income communities, and those in rural areas.
Individuals cannot drive this work alone.
The Gender Equity Action Fund creates and invests in lasting progress by ensuring that communities are listened to, resourced, and financially supported. We succeed by funding leaders and campaigns at the state level, mobilizing folks to win at the ballot box, and by building a path toward equity through state and local judiciaries.