Our Mission: What’s in a name?
Virginia Woolf wrote Three Guineas in 1938. Her essay explores philanthropic choice and develops a theory of social change based on investing in women and girls. The Foundation's name reflects its core strategy. Three Guineas Fund creates social change by investing in economic opportunity for women and girls. The Fund’s philanthropic program and strategies are designed to enable women and girls to earn an independent living, participate fully in the economy, and give back to their communities.

Our Methods and Values
Three Guineas Fund supports promising innovations aligned with its mission. We have a particular interest in models that contribute to systemic change and that bridge for-profit and non-profit sectors.

The Fund recognizes that solutions to complex problems require a diversity of voices, range of skills, global perspective and a tolerance for risk. All Fund activities embody a theory of change and explore new approaches to problem solving.

Since 1994, Three Guineas Fund has used a mix of methods and tools in its philanthropic practice. The Foundation has supported a small portfolio of grant partners, and strives to model a philanthropic process and culture that promotes partnership. The Foundation has also created and managed operating projects. We have welcomed interns, shared our workspace, and hosted other organizations with common purpose. Three Guineas has made investments in learning from others, building networks, and in capturing what we have learned through our work with grant partners and other colleagues.

Three Guineas Fund has evolved its strategy and approach over time, and continues to explore and invent its model of philanthropic practice. The Fund is presently engaged in a process of aligning its investment with its mission to leverage the value of its endowment and its effectivess as an organization.