Catapult Launches New Crowdfunding Campaigns For Gender Equality at the Annual Women’s Forum Global Meeting
Catapult crowdfunded projects have already benefitted millions of girls and women worldwide.
Catapult crowdfunded projects have already benefitted millions of girls and women worldwide.
Catapult, which is now an independent 501(c)3, continues to build on its innovative model of public/private partnerships.
“You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.” -- Mahatma Gandhi
SOS Children’s Villages announced today the successful completion of a crowdfunding project with Catapult that is fighting inequality for girls in Nigeria.
This year, 14 million girls – some as young as eight years old – will be married against their will, often to men decades older than themselves.
This report is from KIND (The Kudirat Initiative for Democracy), who is a beneficiary of the Support Girls’ Education project. Their team travelled to Maiduguri, Borno State, from May 13-18, 2014, to assess what the communities in the region need following the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls.
It’s not often you find a person who feels so passionately about a cause they go well beyond talking about it, volunteering or even making donations.
A person who sees an injustice and makes it her life mission to resolve it is obviously a person who is the epitome of productive feminism- the ideal woman taking over.
Girls and women are disproportionately more affected than men by armed conflict, sexual violence, injury, death, intimidation, and human trafficking. Yet less than 7.5 percent of private foundation funding goes towards girls and women's rights, and two years ago one in four of women's organizations were in danger of closing.
Girls and women are disproportionately impacted by lack of clean water and sanitation—of the 2.5 billion people without toilets, 1.25 billion are women.
Crowd Sourcing is a concept that appealed to us at Roots of Health from the start. It’s a good way to give groups of our friends and supporters a chance to work together to support specific parts of our work.
I recently saw the word “philanthroteen,” referring to our next generation of global philanthropists in a United Nations Foundation article. As the mother of two teenagers, the concept of teens as change-agents to improve the lives of others is intriguing.