Together Women Rise

Together Women Rise is a powerful community of women and allies dedicated to achieving global gender equality. Across the U.S., members learn about and advocate for gender equality issues, give grants to organizations that empower women and girls in low-income countries, and build a community to forge meaningful connections that increase our strength and collective impact. Every person deserves the same opportunities to thrive, regardless of race, gender, wealth, or where they happen to be born. Yet, inequality continues to shut doors of opportunity and limit independence for women and girls everywhere. In particular, across the global south, millions of women live in extreme poverty and without access to personal freedoms or opportunities to reach their full potential. Every woman deserves the fundamental human right to live freely and pursue dreams. We believe that gender equality is achievable, and that determined women and allies together in community can achieve anything.

Together Women Rise envisions a world where every person has the same opportunities to thrive regard

Goal One: 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.

Goal Two: Giving: We provide grants to organizations supporting women and girls in low-income countries so they can live freely & safely, rise out of poverty, & become agents of change in their communities.

Goal Three: 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.

Together Women Rise provides budgeted funds and time off for staff and board members to attend requested training pertaining to their roles and mission of our organization. We also maintain access to online training networks year-round for use as desired by staff.

Together Women Rise is a powerful community of women and allies dedicated to achieving global gender equality. We have hundreds of local chapters across the U.S. where members learn about and advocate for gender equality issues, give grants to organizations that empower women and girls in low-income countries, and build community to forge meaningful connections that increase our strength and collective impact. Without the ability to meeting in-person and locally, we transitioned to having on-line national meetings that allowed our members to learn about our grantees' programs directly from the grantees. The direct virtual contact with grantees has been well-received and will continue post-pandemic. We have also implemented a virtual book club. Each quarter, we select one book that we will feature for Together Women Rise’s “Big Read”. We encourage all our members to read this book at the same time. We highlight the book in our newsletters and on social media, and host a virtual book club gathering to discuss the book with the author or another dynamic and informed guest speakers.