The New York Women's Foundation Partners with Resilia to Strengthen Women-Led Grassroots Nonprofits

Partnership provides support through capacity-building technology and 1:1 nonprofit coaching

New Orleans, La. - Resilia, a social enterprise with offices in New Orleans and New York City, and The New York Women's Foundation (The Foundation) have come together to strengthen the capacity of grassroots, women-led nonprofits. 

The Foundation’s framework is rooted in gender, racial, and economic justice, based on trust and guided by community. The Foundation utilizes trust-based philanthropy to cede grant decision-making power to the communities impacted by their funding decisions. The Foundation fosters nonprofit sustainability and empowers lasting change by offering support “beyond the grant” and building long-term relationships with grantee partners. 

Through the partnership, Resilia will provide 1:1 nonprofit coaching, online training, back-office resources, fundraising tools, and peer-to-peer learning to help local changemakers grow their organizations and maximize their impact.

Dimple Jobanputra, Senior Program Officer at The Foundation, shared, “The New York Women’s Foundation is excited to partner with Resilia for the first time to address our grantee partners’ collective capacity-building needs in a manner that is timely, responsive, and meaningful year long. The Foundation is deepening its investment in women and gender expansive individuals and organizations because oftentimes leaders of color cannot access such resources to succeed and be sustainable.” 

"We are thrilled to partner with The New York Women's Foundation," said Sevetri Wilson, founder and CEO of Resilia. "Together, we’ll help build the mission-facing and back-office capacity of women and gender expansive -led nonprofits, increasing their ability to help women, their families, and their communities thrive in New York and beyond.” 

As part of the partnership, The Foundation has also joined Resilia's Elevate initiative, a first-of-its-kind national learning and action network of 50+ funders aimed at elevating the capacity and voices of BIPOC-led and serving grassroots organizations. 

About The New York Women's Foundation

Since its founding in 1987, the New York Women's Foundation has advanced a dynamic philanthropic strategy based on the fundamental reality that when women and gender-expansive people thrive, their families and communities also thrive. Their work is rooted in gender, racial, and economic justice, and the Foundation is among the largest women-led grantmaking organizations in the world.

About Resilia

Founded in 2016, Resilia is a Black-led organization that leverages technology and the human touch to help nonprofits and change makers build capacity, elevate stories, and increase impact in their communities. Resilia's Funder Program enables grantors (foundations, corporations, and government offices) to empower their nonprofit partners with on-demand back-office and mission-facing tools, 1:1 nonprofit coaching, and peer-to-peer learning support that meets them where they are in their development. 

Visit the Resilia website to learn more about how funders can build grantee nonprofit capacity through the Resilia Funder Program.