Harnisch Foundation
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Creative, progressive, spirited philanthropy. Since 1998.
📣 BREAKING NEWS: THE SECOND CITY joins FUNNY GIRLS as our Chicago pilot partner! The originators of improv training + our improv leadership curriculum = girls who will run the world. Dreams do come true! funnygirls.org/secondcity
November 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
📣 BREAKING NEWS: THE SECOND CITY joins FUNNY GIRLS as our Chicago pilot partner! The originators of improv training + our improv leadership curriculum = girls who will run the world. Dreams do come true! funnygirls.org/secondcity
Decades of reproductive history represented through design choices and innovation: the Designing Motherhood exhibition now on display at the Museum of Arts and Design is NOT to be missed.
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Decades of reproductive history represented through design choices and innovation: the Designing Motherhood exhibition now on display at the Museum of Arts and Design is NOT to be missed.
Great to see and hear from the brilliant @reshmasaujani.com, AND, Lacresha Berry, one of our first Funny Girls instructors, rocked the emceeing. Talk about leadership in action! Special bonus to find that our partnership Funny Girls program was a featured part of the show--gratitude and congrats!
November 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Great to see and hear from the brilliant @reshmasaujani.com, AND, Lacresha Berry, one of our first Funny Girls instructors, rocked the emceeing. Talk about leadership in action! Special bonus to find that our partnership Funny Girls program was a featured part of the show--gratitude and congrats!
With a whoop and a holler as the lead Changemaker Sponsor of YWCA NYC’s Salute Gala, we celebrated their work supporting generations of girls who have evolved to become confident women leaders!
November 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
With a whoop and a holler as the lead Changemaker Sponsor of YWCA NYC’s Salute Gala, we celebrated their work supporting generations of girls who have evolved to become confident women leaders!
"Stubbornly idealistic" independent local journalism that's owned & run by the people working there? Yes! We love this work so much that Ruth Ann personally gave @hellgatenyc.com support for a dedicated podcasting studio, which they're naming The Ruth Ann Harnisch Studio. Join us in supporting them!
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Stubbornly idealistic" independent local journalism that's owned & run by the people working there? Yes! We love this work so much that Ruth Ann personally gave @hellgatenyc.com support for a dedicated podcasting studio, which they're naming The Ruth Ann Harnisch Studio. Join us in supporting them!
Overjoyed to share that RATIFIED is now streaming on @pbs.org platforms!
www.pbs.org/video/ratifi...
Watch how a legion of activists worked to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment - making it the 28th Amendment to the US Constitution - that 80% of Americans still don’t know about.
www.pbs.org/video/ratifi...
Watch how a legion of activists worked to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment - making it the 28th Amendment to the US Constitution - that 80% of Americans still don’t know about.
October 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Overjoyed to share that RATIFIED is now streaming on @pbs.org platforms!
www.pbs.org/video/ratifi...
Watch how a legion of activists worked to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment - making it the 28th Amendment to the US Constitution - that 80% of Americans still don’t know about.
www.pbs.org/video/ratifi...
Watch how a legion of activists worked to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment - making it the 28th Amendment to the US Constitution - that 80% of Americans still don’t know about.
HUGE congratulations to WOMEN LAUGHING for their world premiere at @woodstockfilmfest.bsky.social this weekend! @lizadonnelly.bsky.social is one of the most iconic voices in political and cultural cartooning, and we are thrilled to support such a critical story of women's relationship with humor.
October 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
HUGE congratulations to WOMEN LAUGHING for their world premiere at @woodstockfilmfest.bsky.social this weekend! @lizadonnelly.bsky.social is one of the most iconic voices in political and cultural cartooning, and we are thrilled to support such a critical story of women's relationship with humor.
Hey Woodstock! You've got a lot of great options at the @woodstockfilmfest.bsky.social, but @nywift.bsky.social has curated an amazing list of choices featuring work by their members. We're grateful for the shoutouts of two films on which Ruth Ann is an EP-- ASK E. JEAN and ARREST THE MIDWIFE. 🙏
October 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Hey Woodstock! You've got a lot of great options at the @woodstockfilmfest.bsky.social, but @nywift.bsky.social has curated an amazing list of choices featuring work by their members. We're grateful for the shoutouts of two films on which Ruth Ann is an EP-- ASK E. JEAN and ARREST THE MIDWIFE. 🙏
Celebrating girls and their leadership, today and every day! #dayofthegirl
October 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Celebrating girls and their leadership, today and every day! #dayofthegirl
🌟 Exciting news! Our Funny Girls™ family is growing: Meet the amazing partners joining us for 2025-26 across Seattle, NYC, Sarasota, Long Island, Nashville, and Rochester. Together, we're creating spaces where girls develop leadership skills, emotional intelligence, and unshakeable confidence. ✨
September 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🌟 Exciting news! Our Funny Girls™ family is growing: Meet the amazing partners joining us for 2025-26 across Seattle, NYC, Sarasota, Long Island, Nashville, and Rochester. Together, we're creating spaces where girls develop leadership skills, emotional intelligence, and unshakeable confidence. ✨
Absolutely could not be more thrilled that PATRICE won the Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Share in our celebration by watching now on Hulu and sharing this powerful work.
@theemmys.tv
@theemmys.tv
September 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Absolutely could not be more thrilled that PATRICE won the Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Share in our celebration by watching now on Hulu and sharing this powerful work.
@theemmys.tv
@theemmys.tv
We are overjoyed to hear that PATRICE has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit In Documentary Filmmaking! Watch now on Hulu and share this powerful film.
@theemmys.tv
@theemmys.tv
July 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We are overjoyed to hear that PATRICE has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit In Documentary Filmmaking! Watch now on Hulu and share this powerful film.
@theemmys.tv
@theemmys.tv
NEW YORK CITY! This week, you have a chance to see MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan -- showtimes and tickets here: jccfilm.eventive.org/films/681cc8...
July 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
NEW YORK CITY! This week, you have a chance to see MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan -- showtimes and tickets here: jccfilm.eventive.org/films/681cc8...
We are so incredibly proud to have supported these 3 Emmy-nominated films: absolutely brilliant and critical work you've all created. 💜🩵 @theemmys.tv
June 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
We are so incredibly proud to have supported these 3 Emmy-nominated films: absolutely brilliant and critical work you've all created. 💜🩵 @theemmys.tv
You've only got a few days left to have your school or program join up with us for the next school year! Find out more: funnygirls.org/info
May 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
You've only got a few days left to have your school or program join up with us for the next school year! Find out more: funnygirls.org/info
Want the girls in school to feel the power of real leadership skills and have a blast doing it? Find out more about Funny Girls at funnygirls.org/apply!
April 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Want the girls in school to feel the power of real leadership skills and have a blast doing it? Find out more about Funny Girls at funnygirls.org/apply!
We to invite you and your organization to be part of our Funny Girls family!
We’re thrilled to share our Funny Girls 2025-2026 Partnership Application.
Check out the application at bit.ly/FunnyGirls2025, or for more information, go to FunnyGirls.org.
We’re thrilled to share our Funny Girls 2025-2026 Partnership Application.
Check out the application at bit.ly/FunnyGirls2025, or for more information, go to FunnyGirls.org.
March 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
We to invite you and your organization to be part of our Funny Girls family!
We’re thrilled to share our Funny Girls 2025-2026 Partnership Application.
Check out the application at bit.ly/FunnyGirls2025, or for more information, go to FunnyGirls.org.
We’re thrilled to share our Funny Girls 2025-2026 Partnership Application.
Check out the application at bit.ly/FunnyGirls2025, or for more information, go to FunnyGirls.org.
Excited for @studentleadnet.bsky.social's WholeGirl+ conference! Our very own Jill Frutkin will be leading a session where participants will experience first-hand how Funny Girls use improv games to connect to key leadership skills. See you there!
www.studentleadershipnetwork.org/register-now...
www.studentleadershipnetwork.org/register-now...
March 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Excited for @studentleadnet.bsky.social's WholeGirl+ conference! Our very own Jill Frutkin will be leading a session where participants will experience first-hand how Funny Girls use improv games to connect to key leadership skills. See you there!
www.studentleadershipnetwork.org/register-now...
www.studentleadershipnetwork.org/register-now...
We believe in celebrating women by supporting the extraordinary vision, ingenuity, leadership and wit that women and non-binary people bring to every aspect of life. Thanks to Emily Flake for this brilliant cartoon reminding us all what it takes! #WomensHistoryMonth
March 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
We believe in celebrating women by supporting the extraordinary vision, ingenuity, leadership and wit that women and non-binary people bring to every aspect of life. Thanks to Emily Flake for this brilliant cartoon reminding us all what it takes! #WomensHistoryMonth
We aren’t celebrating a DAY, we are honoring the power of women’s voices every day. Funny Girls continues to support girls leadership, and we’ve had fab feedback developing programming for women (hey, @sheshouldrun.bsky.social )! #InternationalWomensDay #IWD #IWD2025
March 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We aren’t celebrating a DAY, we are honoring the power of women’s voices every day. Funny Girls continues to support girls leadership, and we’ve had fab feedback developing programming for women (hey, @sheshouldrun.bsky.social )! #InternationalWomensDay #IWD #IWD2025
Social-emotional learning is a core part of Funny Girls' work, so we love joining the multitudes of voices celebrating #SELDay today! Follow along with all of the fabulous events and discussions at selday.org. 💜🩵 #SELWeek #SEL
March 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Social-emotional learning is a core part of Funny Girls' work, so we love joining the multitudes of voices celebrating #SELDay today! Follow along with all of the fabulous events and discussions at selday.org. 💜🩵 #SELWeek #SEL
For an entire generation of girls, Sally Ride was the at pinnacle we dreamed of: being the first American woman to blast into space. A new doc premiering at Sundance explores her hidden life & a portrait of the woman beyond the headlines:
https://festival.sundance.org/program/film/675325b4707ccd3c…
https://festival.sundance.org/program/film/675325b4707ccd3c…
January 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
For an entire generation of girls, Sally Ride was the at pinnacle we dreamed of: being the first American woman to blast into space. A new doc premiering at Sundance explores her hidden life & a portrait of the woman beyond the headlines:
https://festival.sundance.org/program/film/675325b4707ccd3c…
https://festival.sundance.org/program/film/675325b4707ccd3c…
When values of bodily autonomy and individual choice collide with latent fears of disability, the conversations get uncomfortable, to say the least. Premiering tonight at @sundancefilmfest.bsky.social, "Life After" is a new, unflinching dive into those conversations:
https://festival.sundance.org/…
https://festival.sundance.org/…
January 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
When values of bodily autonomy and individual choice collide with latent fears of disability, the conversations get uncomfortable, to say the least. Premiering tonight at @sundancefilmfest.bsky.social, "Life After" is a new, unflinching dive into those conversations:
https://festival.sundance.org/…
https://festival.sundance.org/…
The stakes couldn't be higher: @chasestrangio.bsky.social is the first out trans person to argue a case before #SCOTUS, and he's also up against the mainstream media's continued role in fomenting anti-trans bias. Premiering today at Sundance:
festival.sundance.org/program/film... @aclu.org
festival.sundance.org/program/film... @aclu.org
January 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The stakes couldn't be higher: @chasestrangio.bsky.social is the first out trans person to argue a case before #SCOTUS, and he's also up against the mainstream media's continued role in fomenting anti-trans bias. Premiering today at Sundance:
festival.sundance.org/program/film... @aclu.org
festival.sundance.org/program/film... @aclu.org
A cure for what ails you: "Move Ya Body: The Birth of House" is a "road map of how a rebellion against bodily repression can clutch joy and creative expression to sidestep empire." Sounds very good to us! And, it premieres today at @sundancefilmfest.bsky.social:
https://festival.sundance.org/prog…
https://festival.sundance.org/prog…
January 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A cure for what ails you: "Move Ya Body: The Birth of House" is a "road map of how a rebellion against bodily repression can clutch joy and creative expression to sidestep empire." Sounds very good to us! And, it premieres today at @sundancefilmfest.bsky.social:
https://festival.sundance.org/prog…
https://festival.sundance.org/prog…