As the President and CEO of the Women’s Funding Network I am delighted to welcome you to the Good Deed community.
Your purchase makes you part of a trail-blazing movement using consumer power to shape a more just and equitable world.
Sixty-six percent of Good Deed proceeds will fund programs to eradicate women’s poverty. This is vital work because seventy percent of those who live in poverty worldwide are women and children.
The Women’s Funding Network is a network of 120 women’s foundations, in the US and across the globe, all funding programs to transform the lives of women and girls. This network will target your Good Deed dollars wherever they can have the most impact on women living in poverty.
Good Deed will support remarkable work – from creating better jobs for women here in the US to empowering female entrepreneurs in Vietnam. As I travel across this country and around the world to visit projects like these I see over and over again that women have the ideas, partnerships and potential to build lives free from poverty – all they need is the support to make it happen. Your Good Deed purchase helps provide that support.
By investing in a woman living in poverty, you invest in her leadership, solutions and creative energy. And that investment has extraordinary power to create lasting change not only for her, but for her family and her entire community.
As the Good Deed project takes off I look forward to kick-starting a conversation about women and poverty – and what we all of us can do to unleash the potential of women and girls here and across the globe.
I’ll be sharing the stories and results of the programs funded by your Good Deed, as well as exploring the issues that lie behind women’s poverty – from the impact of wage inequity to connections between poverty and low educational attainment, violence and disease. I’ll show how Good Deed funds are not only making a difference to women’s immediate situations, but also supporting work to influence the policies and systems that shape their opportunities in society.
Step by step we’ll explore the facts and the solutions. And we’ll discuss how you can make a real difference, both through the power of your purchase as well as by taking active steps in your own community.
Thank you for your Good Deed for women. Join us to create a force for lasting change.
Chris Grumm
President and CEO of the Women's Funding Network.
