Inspiring Women is a multi-year project combining grant making and international consultations to build a critical mass of women in positions of political leadership around the world. In August 2008, Hunt Alternatives Fund sponsored Unconventional Women, a nonpartisan symposium with internationally-known leaders and experts intended to inspire the next generation of women to become candidates, leaders, and mentors.

On August 4th, 2008 Swanee led a conversation with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on the subject of her new autobiography, Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters.Before a packed house of over 1,000 guests at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Swanee and Speaker Pelosi discussed her religious upbringing, her experience growing up in a political family, and the challenges women face in public life. Speaker Pelosi relayed stories both heartwarming and disheartening about her journey to become the first woman Speaker of the House, from meeting President Kennedy as a high school student to discussing childbirth with male colleagues in Congress.