Global Fund for Women
Cesángari López-Martínez currently serves as the Manager of Tools and Analytics at the Global Fund for Women, having held various titles including Senior Officer and Learning and Evaluation Officer since August 2021. Prior experience includes a consulting role at Resource Development Associates and a program management position at Stanford University's Poverty, Violence, and Governance Lab. Additional roles encompass social science research positions and a graduate research assistantship at Stanford, as well as research and evaluation-related roles at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas A.C. and the Secretaría de Educación Pública. Cesángari holds a Master's degree in International Education Policy Analysis from Stanford University and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas A.C., complemented by an exchange program at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Global Fund for Women
We advance the rights of women and girls worldwide by increasing the resources for and investing in women-led organizations and women’s collective leadership for change.We envision a just, equitable and sustainable world in which women and girls have resources, voice, choice and opportunities to realize their human rights.The Global Fundfor Women was founded in Palo Alto California by three bold women: Anne Firth Murray, Founding President, Frances Kissling, and Laura Lederer. The three were convinced that women’s human rights and dignity were essential to the advancement of global agendas for social, economic, and political change. Frustrated by traditional philanthropy’s lack of interest in funding women’s groups and human rights, they forged a new path, founding an organization that would fund women-led organizations directly.Musimbi Kanyoro joined the organization in 2011 – a pivotal time when we embarked on a new strategic direction to support women’s leadership and women-led solutions. In 2012 Global Fund surpassed the $100 million mark in grantmaking. In 2013, our 25th anniversary year, Global Fund refocused its programmatic emphasis by adding a stronger component of learning, monitoring and evaluation.In March 2014, Global Fund for Women and the International Museum of Women – IMOW – merged to create a bold force for women’s human rights. The merger brings together IMOW’s skills in awareness raising, online advocacy and digital story-telling with Global Fund on-the-ground relationships and grant-making activities with women leaders and women’s rights organizations around the world.