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How The Fuller Project is catalyzing gender equality through storytelling

By Claire O’Donnell, Together Women Rise Transformation Partnerships Writer

Women make up half of the world and yet, only 0.02% of global news coverage focuses on issues that disproportionately affect women. If the world’s news were a year, these issues would get less than eighteen hours of it. If it were a globe, the coverage of issues disproportionately affecting women would fit entirely on Fiji.

This is not an accidental oversight. It is a portrait of whose stories our society has decided matter. The stories a culture tells are not merely a reflection of its values, they are also the mechanisms by which those values are shaped, generation after generation. When half of humanity is condensed to a footnote, that absence is reflected in legislation, healthcare, policy, courtrooms and the daily realities of women everywhere. Details

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Reimagining Manhood for a More Gender-Equal World

By Claire O’Donnell, Together Women Rise Volunteer

The gender equality movement has spent decades expanding what is possible for women and girls, rewriting the rules of who they can be, how they can live, and what they can demand from the world. But there’s a quieter, unresolved gap at the heart of that progress.

Anyone who works in this space has experienced it: rooms filled with commitment and urgency, yet conspicuously missing men. While women and girls have been offered new scripts for who they can be, men and boys, largely, have not. Despite our changing world, the traditional “provider” identity is still the thing men most commonly name when asked what manhood means to them. Details

Sep 27, 2023

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Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice

Together Women Rise (Rise) and Equimundo share a core belief: that men and boys are essential partners and allies in achieving global gender equality. That is why Rise selected Equimundo to receive a Transformation Partnership Grant in the amount of $200,000, over two years, in order to further Equimundo’s critical work around the globe. Details

Dec 20, 2022

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Our $600,000 Investment in New Transformation Partnerships

Together Women Rise is making a historic investment to create systemic change for women and girls around the world. In December, our board of directors approved three new Transformation Partnerships. Each partner will be given an Implementation Grant in the amount of $100,000 per year for two years (2022 and 2023). Thanks to your generosity, this amounts to a total investment of $600,000 in changing the world for women and girls! This is in addition to our Transformation Partnership with Shared Interest, which we announced earlier this year, and our Featured Grant Program.

Our three new Transformation Partnerships are:

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Announcing Our First Transformation Partnership!

Last year, we announced our plans to launch new Transformation Partnerships that will allow us to better address the root causes of gender inequality. We must take a systems change approach in order to reach our goal of global gender equality. This includes addressing the social and cultural norms, beliefs, practices, and laws that prevent women from having equal access to resources, decision-making power, and opportunity. We are now thrilled to announce our first-ever Transformation Partnership! Details

Aug 30, 2022

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Transformation Partnerships Coming Up!

By Scott Osborne and Sue Malick, Co-Chairs of the Transformation Partnerships Committee

You have probably heard about Transformation Partnerships at your local chapter meeting, at one of our national webinars, or here in The Dish. (See below for links to previous blogs.) Transformation Partnerships are our newest grants, dedicated to funding the root causes of gender inequality. Details

Jan 27, 2022

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Transformation Partnerships and Participatory Grant-Making

This is the third in a series of blogs by Scott Osborne, long-time member of Together Women Rise’s Grant Selection Committe

In my last blog, I talked about systems change and why this focus is so important for Together Women Rise’s Transformation Partnerships. You may recall that a systems change approach means taking a fresh look at what we fund; it means channeling more resources toward the root causes of gender inequality.

There is another way we can have a greater impact on gender equality, however, and this focuses not on what we fund, but on how. We will fund our Transformation Partnerships through “participatory grant-making”. Details

Nov 29, 2021

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New Transformation Partnerships:

Addressing the Root Causes of Global Gender Equality

Over the past two years, Together Women Rise has taken steps to put our commitment to global gender equality front and center – in our new mission and vision statements, gender equality beliefs, and our powerful new name and logo. We have always been about empowering women and girls around the world … our new messaging ensures that our purpose and our impact – global gender equality – are clear to everyone! Details