Out mssion is providing a voice for women and girls and a disciplined objective approach to funding educational and developmental programs for women and girls in Asia.

The New York-based Fund for Women in Asia is an American non profit organization founded to support and encourage the growth of women’s funds in Asia.  FWAsia is determined to help bring about social change in how women and girls are valued in their communities. We will do that by strengthening local women's groups, so they can more effectively speak for themselves.

We aim to partner with local groups, to help leverage their resources effectively, bringing not only financial resources but also skills, such as management, marketing and fundraising.

We began by helping create and supporting The Women’s Foundation in Hong Kong, and we believe the principles we applied in Hong Kong can be a model for funds in other regions.  More information about The Women's Foundation is available at www.thewomensfoundationhk.org.


We are now actively considering projects related to technology, and are looking at the Philippines, Korea and Sri Lanka.

A key to the mission of FWAsia is research.  We believe research is vital to make the case for women and girls and to identify effective strategies for change.  Thus we sponsored and edited a 200-page report , The Status of Women and Girls in Hong Kong 2006. The report made a powerful argument that Hong Kong’s future prosperity will be limited if women are not brought more fully into the life of the community. The investment bank Goldman Sachs Asia sponsored the printing of the report and of its Executive Summary (available at www.thewomensfoundationhk.org). 

Currently we are engaged in helping The Women's Foundation (Hong Kong) develop a grant making program by supporting it's "stakeholder engagement" with web based tools and research.  Stakeholder engagement  is consulting the community about the best way to work on promoting economic self suffciiciency for women and girls.

In addition we are helping convene a conference to fight violence against women migrant workers and women who are trafficked, to be held in the Philippines in 2008.

The Fund for Women in Asia was founded in 2004.