What happens when you invest in women and girls?
You lift entire communities. Fenton believes so-called women’s issues are everyone’s issues. That’s why we work to promote gender equality and women and girls’ leadership and health to make the world a better place.
“It’s No Joke”
The Challenge: During the 2010 healthcare reform debates, the Center for Reproductive Rights wanted to rally opposition to proposed bans on the abortion coverage millions of American women already have by underscoring the dangerous, real-life consequences.
Helping Nonprofits Leverage Half the Sky for their Cause
The Challenge: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn wanted their book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, to be much more than a bestseller. They wanted to leverage the attention the book received to garner more public support for the important work nonprofit groups are doing in the developing world to improve women’s lives.
Closing the Pundit Gender Gap
The Challenge: On the Sunday morning political talk shows, women represent only 14% of guest appearances. Ask journalists why they don’t quote and feature women experts more and they’ll tell you they don’t know any.
Creating a Global Online Strategy for UNIFEM’s “Say NO-UNiTE to End Violence Against Women” Campaign
The Challenge: The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) wanted to create a platform for people around the world to show and share their support for ending violence against women. The goal of the “Say NO-UNiTE to End Violence Against Women” campaign was to reach 100,000 actions by International Women’s Day.
Positioning Women for Women International as a Policy Leader
The Challenge: The exposure on “Oprah” was phenomenal. But Executive Director Zainab Salbi wanted more. To truly make a difference in the lives of women in conflict regions, she knew her organization needed to be taken seriously in the policy arena.
