By Elizabeth Schaffer, Chief Financial and Operations Officer & Sara Ferree, Director of Donor Services – Global Fund for Women   Since 1987, the Global Fund for Women (GFW) has been a leader in advancing women’s human rights around the world. It is a truly global, publicly supported, women’s fund.   In the early 1980s few foundations, governments, or multilateral agencies were willing to invest directly in locally led, community-based, overseas women’s rights organizations. Those that did made contributions to large international NGOs that administered programs where women were seen only as beneficiaries, not leaders of change. GFW’s founders made a …