Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Contents
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0671
Creator:
Global Fund for Women
Title: Global Fund for Women records
Dates: 1987-1996
Physical Description:
18 Linear feet (12 boxes)
Summary: Files from Anne Firth Murray's tenure as Founding President of the Global Fund for Women (1987-1996).
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift of Anne Firth Murray, 2002.
Information about Access
The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted
to a digital use copy.
Ownership & Copyright
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Cite As
[identification of item], Global Fund for Women Records (SC1134). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical note
The Global Fund for Women was founded in Palo Alto, Calif. in 1987 by Anne Firth Murray, Frances Kissling and Laura Lederer.
Its mission is to support women's rights by providing grant funds to women's organizations throughout the world. Since its
founding, it has raised nearly $85 million in donor funds and has provided grants to 4200 groups in 171 countries.
Scope and Contents
The records consist of files from Anne Firth Murray's tenure as Founding President of the Global Fund for Women (1987-1996).
Included are chronological files from Firth and other administrators, correspondence, clippings and articles, press releases
and other promotional materials, and meeting and event files.
Access Terms
Murray, Anne Firth.
Women in development
Women's rights--Developing countries