WomenStrong ToC _No Links

Click to learn more

OUR PARTNERS AND THEIR IMPACT

At WomenStrong, we are proud to work hand in hand with women-led organizations fighting for gender equity in their communities and countries. We have 19 partners working in urban and peri-urban areas in 17 countries across 4 areas – girls’ education and empowerment, women’s health, violence against women and girls, and economic security and opportunity.

By providing no-fuss, flexible funding, personalized organizational-strengthening assistance, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities, WomenStrong helps these organizations help women and girls. As they achieve significant milestones—like securing new funding or helping to advance fairer laws and local customs—we celebrate their successes every step of the way.

Read more about our partners and their wins

Increasing Income in Uganda

Gaining Land Titles in Guatemala

Evidence suggests that organizations with access to unrestricted funds are more resilient and better able to cater to the needs of their communities (Wiepking and De Wit, 2024).

Creating a network of 93,000 solidarity members in the garment industry

Over time, WomenStrong’s partner organizations develop successful models and practices in areas such as girls’ education and empowerment, women’s health, violence against women and girls, and economic security and opportunity. These successes attract other funders, partners, and advocates who help spread these successful approaches to new places.

SPREADING SOCIAL CHANGE

"Being able to learn and share and get some ideas from different organizations who are in the same boat, women’s rights organizations, is a great thing."

– WomenStrong Partner

WomenStrong accelerates this process by showcasing our partners’ achievements, connecting them with useful contacts, and providing flexible funding, individualized technical assistance and opportunities to learn from one other. All this helps ensure that their valuable lessons and successes inspire and benefit a broader ecosystem.

Evidence indicates several benefits to funder-facilitated networking; for example, one year after participation in a [Robert Wood Johnson Foundation] leadership program, 71% of the participants reported leveraging networks to address community health challenges (Kirk et al., 2013).

Fighting the injustices that hold back women and girls is difficult, often oppressive work, and our partners do this routinely, with few resources. At WomenStrong, we know our partners need investments in their own internal operations, so that they can sustain their efforts. Along with funding that organizations can spend on their own terms, including on often-overlooked areas like staffing, training, or wellness, we also directly help partners strengthen their key internal functions. Through our learning labs, partners also exchange knowledge, ideas and moral support, which all helps create organizations where everyone can thrive.

SUPPORTING STRONG, RESILIENT ORGANIZATIONS

"With [WomenStrong] it feels as if we're in a partnership, and it's a much easier way to go about doing the work.”

– WomenStrong Partner

Bryan and Brown (2015) suggest that the individual level outcomes of capacity building can spark a ripple effect and ultimately lead to broader organizational transformation.

Click around the scene to see how each component plays a role in this growth process.

How exactly does WomenStrong help 19 ambitious and tireless partner organizations fight for women's and girl's rights and wellbeing? We like to think of the change process — from our partnership to their impact — as a vibrant pollinator's garden with benefits in our collective "plot" and farther afield.

Over time, WomenStrong’s partner organizations develop successful models and practices in areas such as girls’ education and empowerment, women’s health, violence against women and girls, and economic security and opportunity. These successes attract other funders, partners, and advocates who help spread these successful approaches to new places.

SPREADING SOCIAL CHANGE TOGETHER

"Being able to learn and share and get some ideas from different organizations who are in the same boat, women’s rights organizations, is a great thing."

– WomenStrong Partner

WomenStrong accelerates this process by showcasing our partners’ achievements, connecting them with useful contacts, and providing flexible funding, individualized technical assistance and opportunities to learn from one other. All this helps ensure that their valuable lessons and successes inspire and benefit a broader ecosystem.

Evidence indicates several benefits to funder-facilitated networking; for example, one year after participation in a [Robert Wood Johnson Foundation] leadership program, 71% of the participants reported leveraging networks to address community health challenges (Kirk et al., 2013).

OUR PARTNERS AND THEIR IMPACT

At WomenStrong, we are proud to work hand in hand with women-led organizations fighting for gender equity in their communities and countries. We have 19 partners working in urban and peri-urban areas in 17 countries across 4 areas – girls’ education and empowerment, women’s health, violence against women and girls, and economic security and opportunity.

By providing no-fuss, flexible funding, personalized organizational-strengthening assistance, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities, WomenStrong helps these organizations help women and girls. As they achieve significant milestones—like securing new funding or helping to advance fairer laws and local customs—we celebrate their successes every step of the way.

Read more about our partners and their wins

Increasing Income in Uganda

Gaining Land Titles in Guatemala

Evidence suggests that organizations with access to unrestricted funds are more resilient and better able to cater to the needs of their communities (Wiepking and De Wit, 2024).

Creating a network of 93,000 solidarity members in the garment industry

Fighting the injustices that hold back women and girls is difficult, often oppressive work, and our partners do this routinely, with few resources. At WomenStrong, we know our partners need investments in their own internal operations, so that they can sustain their efforts. Along with funding that organizations can spend on their own terms, including on often-overlooked areas like staffing, training, or wellness, we also directly help partners strengthen their key internal functions. Through our learning labs, partners also exchange knowledge, ideas and moral support, which all helps create organizations where everyone can thrive.

SUPPORTING STRONG, RESILIENT ORGANIZATIONS

"With [WomenStrong] it feels as if we're in a partnership, and it's a much easier way to go about doing the work.”

– WomenStrong Partner

Bryan and Brown (2015) suggest that the individual level outcomes of capacity building can spark a ripple effect and ultimately lead to broader organizational transformation.

“...My organization [is] in the right space, being part of a network with which it shares fundamental points in its work philosophy”

Imagine how radically the world would be altered if women and girls were free to prosper and live their lives in dignity and peace! This is the vision that animates WomenStrong, and our partners, as they work in communities, and farther afield, to improve women's and girls' lives.

– GEE partner

"From the very beginning we felt [WomenStrong's] approach was different, in terms of... trust [and] relying that us are the experts on our field in our community. That is very important, because in other experiences we've had the opposite.”

– WomenStrong Partner

WomenStrong brings practical support to this vision with trust-based funds that our partners can spend as they see fit, tailored organizational-strengthening support for their unique needs and interests, a learning lab for exchanging ideas and knowledge, and connections to additional resources and opportunities.

Evidence suggests organizations with unrestricted funds are more resilient and better able to cater to the needs of their communities (Buteau et al., 2022; Karim, 2022; Wiepking and De Wit, 2024).

A JUST AND INCLUSIVE WORLD

– WomenStrong Partner

– WomenStrong Partner

"From the very beginning we felt [WomenStrong's] approach was different, in terms of... trust [and] relying that us are the experts on our field in our community. That is very important, because in other experiences we've had the opposite.”

“...My organization [is] in the right space, being part of a network with which it shares fundamental points in its work philosophy”

Imagine how radically the world would be altered if women and girls were free to prosper and live their lives in dignity and peace! This is the vision that animates WomenStrong, and our partners, as they work in communities, and farther afield, to improve women's and girls' lives.

– GEE partner

– WomenStrong Partner

WomenStrong brings practical support to this vision with trust-based funds that our partners can spend as they see fit, tailored organizational-strengthening support for their unique needs and interests, a learning lab for exchanging ideas and knowledge, and connections to additional resources and opportunities.

Evidence suggests organizations with unrestricted funds are more resilient and better able to cater to the needs of their communities (Buteau et al., 2022; Karim, 2022; Wiepking and De Wit, 2024).

A JUST AND INCLUSIVE WORLD

Learn more about the evidence behind our approach

– WomenStrong Partner

– WomenStrong Partner