Our Goal $100,000 by November 30, 2025

Our From Fired … to Fired Up Story

Help Launch the Jane Plitt Innovation Fund

Last year, you helped us pull off something bold — and a little cheeky. Our Fire Jane campaign rallied NCWI supporters to “fire” our Founder, Jane Plitt, by raising the funds needed to hire NCWI’s very first staff member.

It worked! And now as Jane joyfully “retires” from her unpaid Executive Director role, we enter a new chapter in the life of the National Center of Women’s Innovations.

Now, we’re taking that same spark of energy and aiming it squarely at the future.

What your Gift Supports

Fired Up for the Future is a $100,000 campaign to create the Jane Plitt Innovation Fund. This fund will power educational programs that:

• Inspire both girls and boys to see themselves as innovators
• Share the untold stories of women whose breakthroughs have changed the world
• Connect students with role models in science, technology, engineering, and math
• Build curiosity, confidence, and the courage to innovate

With your help, the Jane Plitt Innovation Fund will ensure that future generations grow up knowing that innovation is for everyone.

The Impact of your Donation – Why It Matters

Innovation drives progress — but too often, the stories we tell leave women out of the picture. When young people learn about the contributions of women innovators, it changes how they see the world and themselves.

Your gift to the Jane Plitt Innovation Fund helps rewrite that story — sparking the imaginations of the next generation and ensuring every child knows they can dream, design, and discover.

Join the Spark

Your gift matters. Whether you’re giving $25 or $25,000, you’re helping fire up the future for the next generation of innovators.

Be One of the First

Our closest supporters are lighting the first sparks. Will you join them?