Why NoVo is Funding Young Women’s Freedom in California
Release Date:
05/11/2017
One of the Novo Foundation's first big grants will go to help young women and girls of color involved in the juvenile justice system.
NY PhilanthroPost: Women & Girls
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PNY Annual Meeting Headliner Radhika Jones Interviews Feminist Icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Release Date:
05/08/2017
New York Times Editor of Books Radhika Jones will be the moderator for the headline panel of PNY's 38th Annual Meeting "The Power of Participation." Check her out interviewing feminist icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Alarming Number of Young Girls in Mexico Are Forced to Marry, Ford-Funded Report Finds
Release Date:
05/04/2017
Nearly 25,000 girls aged between 12 and 14 are living in "early unions." Hundreds of thousands of young girls in Mexico are being forced into marriages with older men, a new report reveals.
Novo Foundation, Carnegie and Ford Support Women for Afghan Women
Release Date:
05/04/2017
Women for Afghan Women (WAW), which describes itself as a “grassroots, civil society organization dedicated to securing and protecting the rights of disenfranchised Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and New York,” has backing from NY foundations...
Arabella Advisors Publishes Report on Women's Mental Health
Release Date:
05/02/2017
Women’s mental health and well-being have traditionally received insufficient attention from the health care field, from government, and from philanthropy.
With Support from the Arcus Foundation, Study of Transgender Preschoolers Assesses Preferences and Identity
Release Date:
04/25/2017
In one of the first examinations of early gender development among transgender preschoolers, a new study has found that these children were just as likely as nontransgender children to have preferences associated with their gender, and to have as...
The Uphill Battle Of United Way NYC’s First Female President
Release Date:
04/19/2017
When Sheena Wright stepped into the role of president of the United Way of New York City (UWNYC) nearly five years ago, she was the first woman to hold the position in the organization’s 80-year history.
PIMCO Foundation Supports Skating to Success in Harlem
Release Date:
04/18/2017
One of the PIMCO Foundation’s philanthropic focus areas is gender equality, which coincides with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 to “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.”
Janet Mock, Trustee at Arcus Foundation and Author of 'Redefining Realness,' Talks About Gender Identity
Release Date:
05/07/2014
In this PhilTalk at Philanthropy New York's 35th annual meeting, Janet Mock, Trustee at Arcus Foundation and author of "Redefining Realness," tells the story of her upbringing in Hawaii, where she and her family struggled with homelessness and...
Anu Bhagwati of Service Women's Action Network Joined the Marines and Faced Daily Harassment
Release Date:
05/07/2014
In this PhilTalk at Philanthropy New York's 35th annual meeting, Anu Bhagwati saw so much harassment during her service that she filed an independent investigation, which led to her work with Women's Action Network, a collective effort to heal from...
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