MacKenzie Scott’s donation “paves the way for transformational change” — accelerating progress toward gender equity

For Immediate ReleaseJune 15, 2021 Contact: Kaitlin Chandler Brooks, Manager of Development, Partnerships & CommunicationsPhone: +1 (510) 285-5724 Email: kchandler@riseuptogether.org OAKLAND – Rise Up, a global non-profit advancing gender equity, is honored to be among the 286 nonprofits that received a total of $2.7 billion from philanthropists MacKenzie Scott and her husband Dan Jewett. As Scott shared, these gifts are … Read More

Cummins Powers Women Celebrates International Day of the Girl with Rise Up

By Mary T. Chandler – Chief Executive Officer of the Cummins Foundation and Vice President of Corporate Responsibility for Cummins, Inc. Originally posted on Cummins.com on October 11, 2018.  Women and girls are half the world’s population. When women and girls advance, we all move forward. The Masai ethnic group in central and southern Kenya are pastoralists, moving to and from areas raising … Read More

Press Release: Rise Up Launches New Collective Impact Partnership to Advance Economic Power and Justice for Girls and Women in India

OAKLAND, CA: Some of the world’s most effective and engaged gender equality organizations will harness their individual expertise into an innovative collective impact project that aims to increase the economic power of women and girls in India. The three-year project, “Collective Impact Partners: Women’s and Girl’s Economic Empowerment Advocacy in India,” will be led by the Global Fund for Women, … Read More