December 2023
Tuesday, December 12 – Together Women Rise Advocacy Group With RESULTS: Monthly Webinar
Time: 8:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm PT
We will have a special guest speaker, Colin Puzo Smith, Director of Global Policy with RESULTS. During this webinar, we will recap our advocacy campaigns from this year, celebrating our successes and learning the ways that we may close out the year strong and move important legislation such as the READ and End TB Now Acts forward. In addition, get a preview of our 2024 campaigns, particularly Equity and Impact and how we can influence how the U.S. government and the World Bank spend money and design programs to achieve equity and end poverty.
How to Join: Sign up here for the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS. Once you have signed up for the chapter, we will email you the meeting links directly.
January 2024
Thursday, January 4, 2024 – Monthly Webinar
Time: 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
Guest Speakers: TBD
Our Featured Grantee this month is Shared Interest.
This event is free, but registration is required. All are welcome!
REGISTER HERE
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 – Together Women Rise Advocacy Group With RESULTS: Monthly Webinar + Orientation
Time: 8:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm PT
Learn more about RESULTS at this orientation meeting where they will explain their approach to advocacy, upcoming campaigns, why the choice of actions we take is timely and essential, hear shares from advocates, and take an advocacy action together!
How to Join: Sign up here for the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS. Once you have signed up for the chapter, we will email you the meeting links directly.
Thursday, January 18, 2024 – Book Club
Book: Nervous Conditions
Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga
Summary: A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of women’s rights. An extraordinarily well-crafted work, this book is a work of vision. Through its deft negotiation of race, class, gender and cultural change, it dramatizes the ‘nervousness’ of the ‘postcolonial’ conditions that bedevil us still. In Tambu and the women of her family, we African women see ourselves, whether at home or displaced, doing daily battle with our changing world with a mixture of tenacity, bewilderment and grace.
Time: 8 pm ET
February 2024
Thursday, February 1, 2024 – Monthly Webinar
Time: 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
Guest Speakers: TBD
Our Featured Grantee this month is Equality Now.
This event is free, but registration is required. All are welcome!
REGISTER HERE
March 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024 – Monthly Webinar
Time: 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
Featured Grantee: TBD
Guest Speakers: TBD
This event is free, but registration is required. All are welcome!
REGISTER HERE
April 2024
Thursday, April 4, 2024 – Monthly Webinar
Time: 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
Featured Grantee: TBD
Guest Speakers: TBD
This event is free, but registration is required. All are welcome!
REGISTER HERE
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 – Book Club
Book: Guardians of the Trees
Author: Kinari Webb. Kinari is also the founder of Rise past grantee Health in Harmony!
Summary: Full of hope and optimism, Kinari Webb takes us on an exhilarating, galvanizing journey across the world, sharing her passion for the natural world and for humanity. In our current moment of crisis, Guardians of the Trees is an essential roadmap for moving forward and the inspiring story of one woman’s quest to heal the world.
When Webb first traveled to Indonesian Borneo at 21 to study orangutans, she was both awestruck by the beauty of her surroundings and heartbroken by the rainforest destruction she witnessed. As she got to know the local communities, she realized that their need to pay for expensive healthcare led directly to the rampant logging, which in turn imperiled their health and safety even further. Webb realized her true calling was at the intersection of medicine and conservation.
After graduating with honors from the Yale School of Medicine, Webb returned to Borneo, listening to local communities about their solutions for how to both protect the rainforests and improve their lives.
Time: 8 pm ET