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Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women

Saleforce Nonprofit

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. They use netball as a way to provide safe spaces for development and visibility of their target population.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

I actually started out with International Studies, and more academic. A woman journalist from Sudan had her story about the flogging of a woman who was wearing pants get picked up, and it made international headlines. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors. It's just accessible.

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Girls' Night Out with a Twist: Dining for Women and the Power of Giving Circles

Have Fun - Do Good

Marsha Wallace: Dining for Women is an international giving circle, and our mission is to support and empower self-sufficiency for women and girls who live in extreme poverty in developing countries. The essence of Dining for Women is connection, education, and self-empowerment. In 2011, we're going to Nepal. It was wonderful.

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