Seventy percent of people living in poverty are women and children. Your Good Deed makes a lasting impact funding programs in your local community to eradicate women’s poverty.
Through our partnership with the Women’s Funding Network we will invest two-thirds of Good Deed revenues in programs that build women’s financial assets, job opportunities, skills and entrepreneurship. The other third of Good Deed revenues goes towards lasting solutions for climate change.
Take a look at some of the facts your Good Deed will help change for the better:
- Across the United States, families on average need an income of about $40,000, twice the official poverty level, for a family of four, to meet basic needs such as food, child care, health insurance, transportation, rent, utilities and other necessities. (National Center for Children in Poverty).
- In 2005, 35.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households, 22.7 million adults and 12.4 million children (USDA)
- More than 13 million children living in poverty in the United States. These children represent a disproportionate share of the poor in the United States; they are 25 percent of the total population, but 35 percent of the poor population. (Census Bureau, 2004)
- Women are among the poorest of the world’s poor, representing 70% of all the 1.1 billion people worldwide who live in extreme poverty (defined as living on less than $1 a day). (Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; UNIFEM)
- In the US, 28.4 percent of households headed by single women are poor, compared to 13.5 percent of households headed by single men.
- Poor women and their children in the US and overseas are less likely to have educational opportunities and more likely to experience disease, violence and homelessness.
- In the United States, approximately 3.5 million people experience homelessness each year (Urban Institute).
- Significant income gaps persist between women and men. For example, in the US, women's median annual earnings are $.77 for every $1.00 earned by men. For women of color the gap is even worse – only $.71 for African American women and $.58 for Latinas.
The Women’s Funding Network is at the forefront of tackling these problems by investing in the talent, leadership and potential of women in the US and across the globe. The organization’s membership of women’s foundations aim to achieve lasting change by supporting direct services and programs, as well as by work to transform the systems and policies that impact women’s lives. Find out more about their vital work and the issues that impact women's poverty.
Click here to read a message from Chris Grumm, CEO and President of the Women's Funding Network.
See our letter of support from the WFN here.
