Women Thrive Alliance
Making Gender Equality a Reality
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Raise Your Voice
Our "Raise Your Voice” capacity-building program provides a global learning community where members access tailored tools, coaching, and trainings on fundraising, communications, and advocacy. Through our in person and online courses, members connect with each other, share their knowledge and learn new skills.
Achieve SDG 5
"Achieve SDG 5” is a global advocacy program supports advocates in designing and implementing strategies to ensure that grassroots women and girls are an integral part of national efforts to implement SDG 5. Members collect data and develop evidence-based messages on women and girls’ needs, priorities and solutions; connect and mobilize with other advocates; and strategically engage with local and national decision-makers. Together, we work to make sure that grassroots women and girls’ voices, concerns and recommendations are heard and taking into account within United Nations decision-making.
#IntheRoom
Our #InTheRoom campaign galvanizes political representatives to civil society to individuals and anyone in between from around the world on the importance of women’s rights advocates place and participation in decision-making on the SDGs at the national and international levels.
Where we work
Awards
Four Star Charity for "Exceptional" Non-Profit Efficiency 2009
Charity Navigator
Best Small Charity 2008
Catalogue of Philanthropy
"Non-Profit Standard of Excellence" Award 2008
Web Marketing Association
Leet Award for the Advancement of Women 2007
Interaction
Four Star Rating for Efficient and Effective Financial Management 2008
Charity Navigator
External reviews

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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We are setting our sights on a monumental — but attainable — goal: achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls by 2030.
In 2015, 193 countries agreed to the United Nations' new global agenda to end poverty, Agenda 2030. This agenda is comprised of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), from ending poverty to combatting climate change. Ultimately, the agenda emphasizes leaving no one behind – creating a world where all people can thrive.
Women Thrive supports grassroots organizations working directly with women and girls in advocacy around implementing SDG 5 on gender equality. Equipped with skills, connections, and resources, Alliance members will track governments' commitments and actions and hold all stakeholders accountable to achieving gender equality by 2030.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our “Raise Your Voice" capacity-building program provides a global learning community where members access tailored tools, coaching, and trainings on fundraising, communications, and advocacy. Through our in person and online courses, members connect with each other, share their knowledge and learn new skills.
Our “Achieve SDG 5" advocacy program supports advocates in designing and implementing strategies to ensure that grassroots women and girls are an integral part of national efforts to implement SDG 5. Members collect data and develop evidence-based messages on women and girls' needs, priorities and solutions; connect and mobilize with other advocates; and strategically engage with local and national decision-makers. Together, we work to make sure that grassroots women and girls' voices, concerns and recommendations are heard and taking into account within United Nations decision-making.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Women Thrive Alliance is composed of 250 organizations in 50 countries. Each lends their experience and expertise to the network. Women Thrive staff have extensive experience in network building, training and teaching, and gender equality advocacy.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
OUR IMPACT
Training more than 100 (and counting) gender equality advocates
Starting in 2014, Women Thrive took its advocacy training model, Raise Your Voice, directly to members. Since then, we've worked with over 100 gender equality advocates from 25 countries to help them build the skills, knowledge, and confidence needed to raise their voices and be heard by decision-makers. In intensive, engaging workshops, participants – from Girl Guides in Ghana to young leaders in Senegal to experienced advocates in Kenya – built relationships, developed advocacy messages, and planned activities. Following the workshops, participants put their advocacy planning into action: some took their messages directly to Parliament, others started awareness-raising campaigns in their communities, and others worked together to influence regional and global decision-makers.
Securing Sustainable Development Goal 4
After nearly four years of hard work, Women Thrive and members of our Alliance were thrilled to see the language we'd collectively advocated for included in Sustainable Development Goal 4, which ensures every girl and every boy has the right to quality education and everyone—woman, man, girl, and boy— has life-long access to learning.
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Operations
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Women Thrive Alliance
Board of directorsas of 11/08/2017
Trevor Tomkins
Venture Dairy
Elise Fiber Smith
Community Volunteer
Joe Keefe
Pax World Mutual Funds
Carol Bilzi
Mayer Brown LLP
Mark Blakden
No Affiliation
Jenny McGill
Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs
Suzanne Lerner
Michael Stars/Lerner et cie
Trevor Tomkins
Venture Dairy
Alonzo Fulgham
CH2MHILL
Eileen Mancera
Venor Capitol Management