Together Women Rise

Together Women Rise is committed to achieving global gender equality through three core action areas:

Learning: We engage in learning to increase understanding of the issues facing women and girls, build our community, and fuel our collective action towards achieving gender equality. In order for change to happen faster, more people need to become aware of the barriers facing women and girls and how achieving gender equality can positively impact our entire world.

Giving: We provide grants to organizations supporting women and girls in low-income countries so they can live freely and safely, rise out of poverty, and become powerful agents of positive change within their communities. The organizations and projects we support are carefully vetted, locally-led and committed to making lasting change to help women and girls thrive. We only choose grantees that are measuring impact and working in collaboration with the women they serve.

Community-Building: Together Women Rise is building a diverse and inclusive global community of women and allies who care about making the world a better place. Across hundreds of chapters and grantees, our community is strong and cohesive as we all work towards a common goal: gender equality for women and girls everywhere. At the same time, we are creating a sense of belonging and connection that many people struggle to find in their busy lives.

We award at least 12 grants annually to nonprofit organizations working to achieve gender equity in developing countries in healthcare, education, economic development, security, environmental sustainability, food security, and human rights.

Through our relationships with these organizations, we educate our members, foster friendships, and empower our members to advocate for women and girls internationally.

We partner with like-minded organizations to impact carefully selected issues like girls' education.

We have governing board actively engaged in oversight and guided by policies. The Together Women Rise Board of Directors is a corpus dedicated to organizational evaluation, improvement, and excellence at all levels. The quality of this oversight ensures that Together Women Rise is governed by best practices and professionalism.

We engage and train more than 800 volunteers every year across the United States to activate our four programs. Our advisory and operational volunteer opportunities ensure that our members' voices are heard at every level of decision-making.

We have a professional staff with expertise in board governance, executive management, communications, program development and management, and information systems.

We continue to invest in technology, fund development and relationship building to ensure that continue to demonstrate our values of collaboration, education, inspiration, and transformation.

For the past 18 years, we have made 264 high-impact investments in 191 organizations in 42 countries to bring about systemic change by fostering gender equity. We have raised nearly $15 million towards these efforts.

We have educated more than 35,000 individuals through member education program which seeks to increase empathy, create connection, and inspire our members.

We seek to foster diversity in our members, volunteers, and staff and are putting resources behind this effort.

We have successfully brought the organization to 8,000 members and 500 chapters and will continue to foster vibrant chapter development, member engagement and member transformation.

We are creating our advocacy program for changes that ensure gender equity and empowerment for all women and girls in developing countries through grassroots education and opportunities for action.

We continually work to recognize the talents and gifts of our volunteers and we continue to work towards paying our employees market rate.

We demonstrate our values of education, collaboration, inspiration, and transformation in all we do.