Through our partnership with Cummins Powers Women, Rise Up conducted a second successful Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator workshop in Nigeria for 20 more visionary leaders, who learned to use advocacy and innovation to create large-scale social change. Leaders participated in hands-on training based on Rise Up’s award-winning curriculum and shared their expertise with each other to develop strategies to improve … Read More
Beyond What Words Can Express: My Women Deliver Takeaways
By Fong Wang, Rise Up Leadership Council member and Head of Compliance and Risk for Opendoor Rise Up Leadership Council member Fong Wang shares her experience as part of Rise Up’s delegation at the 2019 Women Deliver Conference. Since becoming a member of Rise Up’s Leadership Council earlier this year, the tireless passion and dedication of the other Leadership Council … Read More
Rise Up Together Guatemala – Veronica’s Story
In 2009, Veronica Buch was selected to join Rise Up Together’s first cohort in Guatemala. In the last decade, Veronica has mobilized girls, women, and their allies to create a more just and equitable country for girls and women – including successfully advocating to ban child marriage in Guatemala. Now Veronica’s daughter Melody follows in her mother’s footsteps – organizing … Read More
Rise Up Together Malawi – Faith and Memory
Rise Up Leaders Faith Phiri and Memory Banda work to mobilize women and girls to enact change in their communities surrounding child marriage and harmful sexual practices. In partnership with Rise Up Together, Faith and Memory continue to empower girls to raise their voices to end child marriage and harmful traditions so that all Malawian girls can achieve their full potential.
GEI California 2019
Rise Up Together is investing in California leaders through the Gender Equity Initiative to improve the lives of girls and women, in partnership with Cummins Inc.
Malawi Leaders Reflect on Women Deliver 2019
In June, Rise Up sent a delegation of leaders from across the globe to Women Deliver 2019 in Vancouver, Canada to share their work on a global platform. Read below for reflections from two of Rise Up’s Malawi leaders on how the experience impacted them and inspired their work in new ways. Patricia Chimzinga Nyirenda, Rise Up ENGAGE Project Coordinator, … Read More
Rise Up Announces New India Grantees
In February 2019, Rise Up hosted a successful Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator workshop for 23 visionary leaders in Maharashtra, India as part of our Gender Equity Initiative, launched in partnership with Cummins Powers Women and with support from Echidna Giving. These new Rise Up Leaders applied their new knowledge from the Accelerator to develop their own strategies to improve the … Read More
Amhi Amchya Arogyasathi
Fellow: Nasreen Ansari Grant Year: 2019 Location: Nagpur District, Maharashtra, India Organization: Amhi Amchya Arogyasathi Project title: Nayee Disha – A New Direction (Awareness and Advocacy Program on Menstruation, Sanitation, and Hygiene Among Adolescent Girls) Project summary: Amhi Amchya Arogyasathi will advocate with the Nagpur City Municipal Deputy Commissioner and Education Officer to issue an order, including budget allocation, to … Read More
Work for Equality
Fellow: Prabha Vilas Jadhav Grant Year: 2019 Location: Pune District, Maharashtra, India Organization: Work for Equality Project title: Adequate Sanitation Facilities in Schools to a Decrease Girls’ Drop-Out Rate Project summary: Work for Equality aims to improve sanitation in schools in order to reduce school dropout rates among girls. They will advocate with school management and education officials in Pune … Read More
Swadhikar – National Dalit Movement for Justice
Fellow: Panchshila Rajesh Kumbharkar Grant Year: 2019 Location: Maharashtra, India Organization: Swadhikar – National Dalit Movement for Justice Project title: Promoting and Strengthening Dalit and Adivasi (Women and Men) Human Rights Defenders Towards Gender Justice and Equality in the State of Maharashtra Project summary: Swadhikar – National Dalit Movement for Justice aims to improve the criminal justice system to effectively … Read More
