Today is International Women's Day, a global celebration for the appreciation of women and for their social, economic and political achievements. There are many online and off-line events planned for today so I hope you will be able to take part, even if it is sending a tweet to a woman you respect and appreciate.
We are doing our part by highlighting the work of three women in philanthropy today:
Seena Aras is the Director of Online & Annual Giving at Grameen Foundation. She is promoting the Ingenuity Fund Challenge, a marketing challenge that allows participants to raise awareness of Grameen Foundation's work. The participant with the most creative, ingenious web page and outreach effort will win the grand prize of an overseas field visit. To learn more about the Challenge, please check out the participant pages and see if you can outdo the current participants - or even support one of them!
Archana Sridhar blogs at the South Asian Philanthropy Project. She is promoting The Philanthropist Journal, a Canadian publication that is undergoing a transformation to become an electronic location for debate and thoughtful deliberation about issues affecting the nonprofit world. The quarterly review is for practioners, academics, and supporters in the well-being and the reimagining of the sector. Archana sits on the editorial board of the Journal.
Kalsang Tashi, Associate Program Officer at Give2Asia, has a blog piece featuring three organizations she works with. She writes: In many parts of the world, women take a back seat due to limited access to education, restricted participation in government and few opportunities for increased social status. The groups she is promoting include: Women Against Violence Everywhere (WAVE), a group in Cambodia working to improve the status of women in Kampong Cham who work tirelessly at rubber plantations; Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities, a group in Thailand trying to prevent the trafficking of women and children into the commercial sex industry and other exploitative labor situations; and Integrated Rural Development Centre, a group working in Pudukottai District in the state of Tamil Nadu, India supporting women living in poverty with self-help tools to improve their situation. The area is drought-prone and 65% of the villagers are illiterate and live on less than US$1 a day.
Photo courtesy of Adam Jones, Ph.D.
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