Your Grassroots Dollars Support Organizations Addressing Many Issues
In the past few years, our Grants Program in the United States has experienced a notable increase in funding applications. The rising number of requests reflects the growing need among women-led grassroots organizations. This increase and our expanding visibility highlight the trust organizations place in us and the urgent need for greater investment in women-focused […]
Drought in Nicaragua: Environmental and Human Crisis
According to the environmental organization Centro Humboldt, Nicaragua is confronting “the most profound environmental crisis in recent history.” Between 2011 and 2016 there has been a reduction in forest coverage of more than 36,000 hectares (roughly 100,000 acres).
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Grantee Spotlight: Women Workers United
“In Wisconsin right now, with the government we have constantly attacking workers’ rights…it’s really tough dealing with that.” The WRC also battles issues such as paid family leave, child care, delayed worker promotions, and wage theft.
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A Mother Helps Her Daughter Overcome Obstacles with ESPERA
Carolina is Eva’s 21 year old daughter. When she was four years old doctors discovered a disease on her vocal cords that would cause them to swell and asphyxiate her. Since then she has had 15 preventative surgeries.
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Inching Toward Courage: A Book Review of In the Time of the Butterflies
Alvarez doesn’t portray the sisters as martyrs on pedestals, their courage untouched by the trivia and struggles of daily life. Under Alvarez’s hands, the Mirabal sisters behave like real people. They are women in love, women raising families in less-than-ideal circumstances, women who make mistakes and disagree and do the work that must be done.
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Youth Voices: Creating a Space for Altruism – Youth Rise Texas
To select the stories to be highlighted, they participate in a “dot democracy,” where they display their drawings around the room and then go around placing sticker dots on the drawings they find most interesting.
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“Radical Grace” Shares the Radical Spirit of Mary’s Pence
The work of the three nuns is so inclusive, so engaging, and so determined to build community and create social change that the film appeals to a wide audience. Its message is for everyone, not just for Catholics.
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A Pilgrimage of Hope: Nuns on the Bus 2015
I’m not sure where along the way I began to recognize that this was a sacred journey, bringing hope and dignity to those we met, but I suspect it was at the first stop as we were greeted by the 6th grade class at St. Thomas Aquinas School in Indianapolis.
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She Who Walks With the Lions – Genesis, Oakland, CA
Octavia Moore, a Genesis youth intern from Oakland’s First Congregational Church, told her story of the challenges and costs of relying on the public bus to go to school and back home to a local environmental group.
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Stories of Success – Asylee Women Enterprise
When she arrived with that family she realized that they had taken her in to be the “third wife” to the husband. The other two wives had six children between them. T. was not allowed leave the home at all. She was locked inside all day with the children.
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