SowHope
Sharing Opportunities with Women
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
We are trying to help solve the problems of impoverished women in the developing world. They suffer disproportionately in the areas of healthcare, education, and economic sustainability. Our projects serve to lift women to a more equitable position in each of those areas.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Wellness
1. Wellness
A. Physical
1. Maternal Healthcare
2. AIDS care and prevention
3. Fistula Repair
4. FGM
5. Cataract surgery
B. Emotional
1. Counseling for physical abuse and rape.
2. Trafficking prevention and aftercare
2. Educational
A. Literacy
B. Vocational and Technical
3. Economic
A. Micro-loans
B. Small Business Training
Education
We support projects that provide classes in literacy, vocational training, self-help topics, and human rights for impoverished women.
Economic
We support economic projects that provide microloans, village savings, table banking, etc for impoverished women to access capital for small businesses.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of women who accessed SowHope funded wellness projects for maternal and women's healthcare.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls
Related Program
Wellness
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of women who attended SowHope funded education projects including literacy classes or vocational training courses.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls
Related Program
Education
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of women who accessed a SowHope funded economic project including microloan/saving groups and/or small business trainings.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls
Related Program
Economic
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
To inspire impoverished women around the world by providing wellness, education and economic opportunities to them.
To be the vanguard organization helping impoverished women worldwide and to be part of a worldwide movement that esteems women.
To raise awareness and inform the public about the plight of impoverished women worldwide.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We operate as a multinational organization providing resources to local leaders who are solving local problems using local solutions that impoverished women face on a daily basis. To support time-limited, outcome based, projects that offer basic holistic care for poor women residing in the developing world and making less than $2.70 per day.
Publish on our website, at public and private events, and other social media outlets a dignified and true representation of the difficulties faced by women in poverty around the world.
Fund actual practical projects that reach the poorest women in the world to assist and inspire them by improving their health, well-being, education and economic levels.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We are capable of making strategic partnerships that consist of visiting, accessing leadership strength, funding, and verifying locally initiated projects to help and improve the lives of women in the developing world.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We continue to maintain healthy partnerships and to develop new partnerships with amazing local leaders in the developing world. We also continue to raise funds for their projects to help poor women at a steady rate of increase.
During our first 16 years of operations we have funded 288 wellness, education and economic empowerment projects in 23 developing countries and directly impacted 111,671 women.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
Our partners have limited technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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SowHope
Board of directorsas of 08/30/2022
Mita Fitzjohn
No Affiliation
Term: 2019 - 2025
Robert Cunningham
No Affiliation
Kathy Muedder
No Affiliation
Lizbeth Leeson
No Affiliation
Ben Borisch
No Affiliation
Dan Balfour
No Affiliation
Fridah Kanini
No Affiliation
Alfred Longtin
No Affiliation
Doreen Mangrum
No Affiliation
Lauren Spangler
No Affiliation
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes