Impact
Build the Care Economy. Fund the Movement That Wins.
For more than 20 years, FV@W has built and strengthened one of the nation’s most powerful grassroots networks advancing paid family and medical leave (PFML) and paid sick and safe days (PSSD). Today, more than 69 million workers and their families live in states where these protections exist — because local advocates in our network had the infrastructure, strategy, and support to win. Your partnership can power the next wave of victories through our network.
2026 Investment Priorities
In 2025 we re-granted over $6.5 million to organizations working to improve the lives of ALL workers and families in America. Philanthropic support will enable FV@W to:
- Regrant directly to active state coalitions working to pass care policies into law.
- Expand technical assistance for emerging campaigns.
- Strengthen digital and communications infrastructure to inform and influence progressive action.
- Provide rapid response capacity during legislative windows.
- Maintain high-quality grants management and compliance systems.
Our goal is clear: grow and sustain a state-based movement infrastructure capable of winning the next generation of care policies.
Our Model: How FV@W Multiplies Philanthropic Impact
Policy wins do not happen by accident. They require durable, locally rooted coalitions with the capacity to organize, advocate, communicate, and sustain multi-year campaigns.
FV@W serves as a national regranting and technical assistance hub for more than 2,000 grassroots organizations across two dozen states. Our partners include labor unions, faith communities, public health leaders, reproductive justice advocates, immigrant rights groups, disability justice advocates, and organizations serving children, seniors, and caregivers. Through strategic regranting and technical assistance, we move philanthropic resources directly into states where campaigns are active — ensuring funds are deployed where they can influence policy outcomes. We combine funding with:
- Campaign strategy development
- Digital and communications support
- Coalition management expertise
- 501(c)(3)-compliant advocacy guidance
- Narrative and culture-change strategy
This integrated model multiplies the return on every philanthropic dollar. By investing in Family Values @ Work’s 27-state strong network, you are helping to advance structural solutions that address these systemic failures at their root — building an economy centered on care, equity, and dignity for every worker and family.
Proven Impact: 20+ Years of Wins
FV@W leadership and network partners have helped secure:
- 68 paid sick and safe days laws
- 15 paid family and medical leave programs
- Over 69+ million workers covered
These victories have reshaped the national policy landscape and created durable momentum for state and federal solutions.
Importantly, these wins were achieved through multi-racial, cross-movement coalitions centered on women, low-wage workers, and workers of color — the communities most impacted by care inequities.
States in Our Network Creating a Tipping Point for Federal Policy
The lack of paid leave and affordable childcare costs American workers and families more than $30 billion each year in lost wages. Behind that number are parents forced to choose between a paycheck and caring for a newborn, workers risking their health because they cannot afford to stay home sick, and families pushed to the financial brink by gaps in care. This crisis stifles economic mobility, deepens longstanding gender and racial inequities, undermines public health, and destabilizes small businesses and local economies that depend on a stable workforce.
Nevertheless, with 68 locations winning paid sick and safe days, and 15 locations winning paid leave, we continue to win care policies for America’s workers and families with our partners and funders through our network.
Investments by our funders and donors help translate state victories into a unified national call for a federal paid leave standard — bringing us closer to a future where paid time to care is guaranteed for every American worker.