If real change is going to happen for women and girls across the country and globe, we need worldwide participation — from businesses as well as leading philanthropic organizations. With the Clinton Global Initiative leading the way and Hillary Clinton looking to be the first female President of the United States, connections and partnerships have never looked stronger. Check out this update from Inside Philanthropy for more on CGI’s No Ceilings: the Full Participation Project and the Women’s Funding Network. The network is working with CGI and others in efforts ranging from economic empowerment and following where donations go to using data and storytelling to enhance our efforts — and how executive branch agencies and philanthropists are working together to build a better world for women and girls.
insidephilanthropy.com – With just weeks to go before the first presidential election in U.S. history where a woman is in the final running, a big new collaboration was announced last month: the Clinton Global Initiative, in conjunction with the Women’s Funding Network and over 30 other organizations, has mapped out a new commitment to improve women’s economic security across the world.
This is just the beginning of what will likely be a long series of cross-sector collaborations that will aim to accelerate social change for women and girls. But that’s especially true if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency.
As we noted in an earlier post, Clinton has been engaging in gender and family focused philanthropy for roughly 45 years, with her formative experiences as Chair of the Board for the Children’s Defense Fund from 1986 to 1992, and also as Chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women, which aimed to address to gender bias in the legal profession. In 1995, Clinton made her landmark speech at the U.N. Women’s Conference in Beijing, where she famously extolled that “women’s rights are human rights.” During her years as secretary of state, she was engaged in a range of activities to boost women worldwide.
