The Global Fund for Women makes grants to seed, strengthen and link grassroots women's groups around the world that are addressing these social issues:
  •  Ending Gender-Based Violence & Building Peace
  •  Ensuring Economic & Environmental Justice
  •  Advancing Health & Sexual & Reproductive Rights
  •  Expanding Civic & Political Participation
  •  Increasing Access to Education
  •  Fostering Social Change Philanthropy
CEO: Kavita Ramdas

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity is the nation's premier summer internship program for talented students of color. Since its inception, SEO's Career Program has placed over 4,000 Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, and Native American students in internships that lead to rewarding careers in the most competitive industries worldwide. For 44 years, SEO has also been recruiting motivated students of color in New York public high schools into the SEO Scholars Program.
President: William Goodloe

FoundationThe Climb High Foundation is dedicated to teaching women in developing nations the skills that will enable them to benefit from climbing and trekking-related tourism. Climb High's programs enable these women to work as trekking guides and porters in their local mountains and national parks so they can maintain an adequate, sustainable living wage.
CEO & Founder: Alison Levine

The North Jersey Affiliate was founded in 1997 on a promise "to make a difference" to a ten-year-old girl who lost her mother to breast cancer. AffiliateBoard of Trustees, Medical Advisory Council, staffand over 700survivors and activistsfulfill that promise every day by delivering the life-saving message of early detection.

Through fundraising events like the Pink Tie Ball, the Affiliate supports community-based breast health education, and screening and treatment programs focusing on underserved and uninsured women.Seventy-five percent of net funds raised by the Affiliate stays within itsservice area* and the remainingtwenty-five percent is directed to the Susan G. Komenfor the Cure Award and Research Grant Program.
Founder & Executive Director: Deb Belfatto

ComedyCures® is an award-winning national, 501(C)3 non-profit organization that brings joy, hope, laughter and therapeutic comedy programs to kids and grown-ups living with illness, trauma, depression and disabilities.
Founder: Saranne Rothberg

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Ayala Foundation USA creates opportunities to help the Philippines by facilitating meaningful contributions to social development initiatives. With over 100 projects supported in partnership with Philippine non-profits, AF-USA is able to address the country's greatest needs. Ayala Foundation works to nurture the Filipino's mind, body, and spirit through social development projects, environmental programs, information technology, schools, and initiatives in art and culture.

GILAS is a movement and a coalition of companies and people dedicated to advancing public education in the Philippines by providing PCs, internet connectivity, and hardware/software training to teachers and students in Philippine public high schools. Today, less than 10% of Philippine public high schools are connected to the Internet. In contrast, virtually 100% of public schools in Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong are wired to the Internet. To become part of a global society, Filipino youth need to be connected to information, as well as be empowered to create information. GILAS aims to wire all 6,500 Philippine public high schools to the Internet within 5 years. To date, GILAS has wired 20% of all Philippine public high schools.
Executive Director: Vicky Garchitorena

ART provides curriculum and training programs to engage both children and adults in refugee communities in visual, performing and creative arts drawn from their own cultures. These activities provide local and international relief institutions with tools to help refugee communities recover from the trauma, terror and displacement of war.
Executive Director & Founder: Sara M. Green

CEO Women creates economic opportunities for low-income immigrant and refugee women through teaching English, communications and entrepreneurship skills, so they can establish successful livelihoods.
Executive Director & Founder: Farhana Huq