The IWHF
Weekly intelligence on where capital is moving in the women's-health funding economy.
"They didn't just shift the calendar — they shifted the panel."
For three cycles, Cartier's Women's Initiative leaned on regional themes. The 2026 cycle quietly returned to an open call — but added an executive panel that wasn't there last year. Here's what we know, sourced from the cohort manager and three 2024 laureates, and what it means for your concept note.
Read the issue →For three cycles, Cartier leaned on regional themes. The 2026 cycle returned to an open call — and added an executive panel. Here's what changed and what it means for your concept note.
Six private foundations issued a joint commitment at Davos. Three months on, we tracked actual capital deployed. Three of six are tracking ahead of schedule. Two have pulled back quietly.
Pivotal Ventures' Q2 batch closed quietly. We mapped the 14 recipients across geography, stage, and prior funder overlap. The pattern is more concentrated than the press release suggested.
Mastercard Foundation, Skoll, and Bezos Earth Fund all moved to a new outcomes-reporting standard within 60 days of each other. Coincidence? No. Here's the new template and what to standardise now.
Quietly, six new funds opened MENA-specific women's-health capital lines in Q1 2026. Three are sovereign-backed. We profile each and rank them by deployment cadence.
Echoing Green is reducing public application capacity by 60%. Why, what replaces it, and how three operators successfully entered the smaller invitation pipeline.
We interviewed 11 active grant reviewers across 6 foundations. The seven failure modes they see most often, and the rewrite that fixes each. Open to all tiers.
Tory Burch's fellowship cycle opened with a refreshed selection process. Three operational changes worth pre-empting in your application.