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10 Organizations that Help Women Around the World

  1. Women’s Global Empowerment Fund This nonprofit organization was founded in 2007 and works to provide women in Uganda with access to microcredit loans, business and leadership development training, literacy, health initiatives and more. Karen Sugar, Women’s Global Empowerment Fund Founder, created the organization with the idea that microfinance, when bundled with educational programming, can increase the potential for women’s empowerment and success.
  2. Center for Reproductive Rights The goal of this organization is to help promote a world where women are free to make their own decisions about kids and marriage. The organization strives to create a safe space where women can make these decisions without conflict. According to its website, the Center for Reproductive Rights is the only global legal advocacy organization dedicated to reproductive rights.
  3. World Pulse World Pulse makes the list of organizations that help women by using the power of technology and social media to connect women worldwide. They are a social network that gives women the opportunity to connect, unite, share, launch movements and run for office. Overall, World Pulse’s goal is to create a world, online and off, where women can flourish.
  4. The Girl Effect Through the idea that creativity empowers, The Girl Effect builds vibrant youth brands. The organization operates globally, from places like Ethiopia to the Philippines, to help girls and women worldwide share their stories of growing into adulthood through mobile platforms. Through self-expression and community support, The Girl Effect believes that every girl can begin to value herself, build quality relationships and get access and education about things she needs.
  5. Global Fund for Women The Global Fund for Women supports and advocates for groups led by women who demand equal rights in their communities. This organization fights for some of the most important ingredients for women’s human rights: reproductive rights, freedom from violence, leadership and more.
  6. New Light New Light is an organization that provides children of sex workers with a safe haven—especially at night time. The organization is located deep inside the red-light district of Kalighat, Kolkata. New Light has grown from caring for nine children in the year 2000 to 250 children of many different ages currently. The organization provides education, healthcare, nutritional support, a recreational facility, HIV/AIDS care, income opportunities for the mothers and residential care. New Light also fights against gender-based violence.
  7. Global Grassroots The mission of this organization is to promote leadership in women and girls in their communities. The goal is to educate women on Conscious Social Change, which is a methodology that “employs mindfulness throughout the process of designing a social solution.” Global Grassroots works to create a world where all women and girls have the ability to pursue their own dreams and ideas and turn them into something impactful in their own community. There are two main programs: Academy for Conscious Change, which works with marginalized and impoverished women in post-conflict regions and Young Women’s Academy for Conscious Change which is for young women who are between high school graduation and university enrollment.
  8. Global Goods Partners Global Goods Partners’ (GGP) goal is to provide artisan jobs for women. This not-for-profit social enterprise has partnered with over 60 artisan, women-led organizations throughout Asia, Africa and the Americas. GGP invests all of the proceeds from product sales to provide training, funding and sustainable market access.
  9. BRAC BRAC fights against the obstacles that prevent children in developing countries from receiving a quality education including violence, discrimination, displacement and extreme poverty. Although BRAC works to help every child, the organization focuses especially on women and girls and making sure they have the ability to take control of their own lives. The organization provides educational programs in six countries, boasting the largest secular, private education system worldwide. There are more than 900,000 students enrolled in BRAC primary schools all over the world.
  10. CAMFED The Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) is an international non-profit focused on supporting marginalized girls to succeed through education. CAMFED, which is African-led has supported approximately 2.6 million children to go to school. There are 120,000 women involved in their alumnae network that multiplies donor investments in girls’ education

GET INVOLVED AND SUPPORT WOMEN! WAYS TO HELP.

GET POLITICAL

  • Call or Write Congress: Congressional leaders often support poverty-reduction legislation when as few as 7-10 people in their district contact and request support. View How to Call or How to Write/Email.
  • Email Congress: Links to ready to send templates on global poverty bills.
  • Lobby Congress: Arranging a meeting with Congressional staffers is surprisingly easy and an important part of our democracy.
  • Mobilize: One is good, but ten is better. Politics is a numbers game and more people contacting a leader in support of an issue/bill means more action is demanded from the leader and their staff.
  • Bird Dog: Attend events where Congressional leaders are speaking and publicly ask them to support poverty-reduction efforts.
  • Contact the White House: Let the Executive Branch know what issues are important to you.
  • YouTube Congress: Send your leader a video of constituents requesting action on a bill.

BUILD AWARENESS

  • Share the Site: Email your contacts a link to your passion projects and borgenproject.org website.
  • Build Buzz: If you’re talking about it, political leaders are acting on it. Help build buzz!
  • Pitch to the Media: Email interesting story ideas that incorporate the issues to local and national reporters.
  • Write a Letter to the Editor: These serve the purpose of educating thousands of people and if you mention the Congressional leader’s name in the letter he/she will read it in his/her regular summary of news coverage.
  • Call Talk Radio: You’re one phone call away from getting the issue in front of thousands of people. Visit the talk show’s website to find the call-in number.
  • Give a Speech: Speak to local groups and classes.
  • Submit Content to Newsletters: From apartment buildings to dentists, there are no shortage of businesses that send newsletters. Send some interesting topics to the person in charge of the newsletter and ask them to incorporate the topic and/or make it a regular fixture (i.e. monthly women support fact).
  • Transform Empty Windows: Ask the owner of a vacant building for permission to cover the windows with Project logos and/or topics that supports women.
  • Post Fliers: We are in an age known for being tech savvy, so it might surprise you that we’re huge fans of good, old-fashioned fliers. Post fliers in coffee shops and windows of interested businesses.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Post on your Leader’s Facebook & Twitter: Most congressional leaders now use social media to communicate with voters and monitor what the public is saying. Friend/Follow your leaders and post encouraging comments when they support poverty bills or encourage them to support such bills. Tweet and Status Update: Share interesting links, videos and articles about the issues via your status updates.

FUNDRAISE

  • Run a Marathon: Utilize your running events to raise funding for a cause important to you. Let people know you’re running for the cause and ask them to sponsor your efforts.
  • Accomplish Random Feats: Attempt to pogo stick across your city, climb a local mountain backwards, etc. Do something unusual to raise awareness and funding for the cause and ask people to contribute.
  • Host a Living Room Summit: Bring your friends together to support the cause. Host a house party.
  • Organize a Garage Sale: Turn your junk or your friends and family junk into funding for the cause.
  • Donate your Birthday, Wedding, or Graduation: Make “in lieu of gifts” your new favorite phrase. Ask your family to donate to the cause instead of getting you presents or add groups/projects that support women to your gift registry.
  • Host a Non-Event Fundraiser: This creative concept is appreciated by would-be guests and party-planners alike. Instead of hosting an expensive fundraiser, ask your guest list to stay home the night of the “non-event” and donate the ticket price.
  • No Dress Code Day at Work: Ask your boss or company to allow a day when employees can dress casually if they put $5 in a donation jar.
  • Arrange an Informal Tournament: Badminton? Ultimate Frisbee? Turn your favorite leisure activity into a tournament or competition.
  • Take the $1,378 Challenge: Starting at $1 the first week, give/raise $1 more each week. Within a year (52-weeks) you will raise an impressive $1,378!

CONSUMER WITH A CAUSE

  • Amazon: Turn your Amazon shopping into funding for poverty-reduction.
  • Divert: Catch yourself before making unnecessary purchases and divert the money saved toward the cause.
  • Reference site- The Borgen Project