The Women's Affordable Housing Network (WAHN) is the only national nonprofit organization that focuses on promoting women’s empowerment and workplace equity for all individuals in the affordable housing industry. The mission of the WAHN chapters is to empower and develop women working in the affordable housing sector through partnership, networking, allyship, advocacy, mentorship, and community engagement. Join us at the HousingIowa Conference in Des Moines next week to learn about the newly formed Iowa WAHN Chapter and discover how you and your organization can get involved in a state-wide network that unites women from all sectors of the affordable housing industry! https://bit.ly/45HAaHv #HIC24
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🌟 Celebrating Juneteenth! 🌟 Today, we honor Juneteenth, a day of freedom, resilience, and reflection. At C.A. Mayer Consulting, a certified Minority & Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) and Small Business Enterprise (SBE), we are dedicated to empowering nonprofits and small businesses. Our passion for social impact drives us to help our clients access vital grants and funding, fostering economic equity and social justice. Let's work together to create opportunities and drive positive change in our communities. #Juneteenth #FreedomDay #EconomicEquity #SocialJustice #NonProfitSupport #SmallBusinessGrowth #GrantAccess #CommunityEmpowerment #DiversityAndInclusion #Equity #Resilience #Innovation #MWBE #SBE #SocialImpact #GrantWriting #Empowerment #InclusiveGrowth #Equality #CommunityDevelopment #Sustainability #Leadership #FutureOfWork #Advocacy #Collaboration #OpportunityForAll
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Bringing you all some Friday Joy 🌟 Today we launch Blog 2 and is time for some Joy! We would love you to read and share but, more importantly, comment to celebrate the amazing Joy Gillespie 👏👏 #womenwholead #thirdsectorstories
We are beyond delighted to present the second in our series of blog posts - Women who lead: Stories from the third sector. Today is a day of Joy! 🌟 In this blog we take a short journey across the pond to bring you our interview with Joy Gillespie CEO of Survivors of Human Trafficking in Scotland. During our wide ranging interview we covered a range of themes. Joy describes how her roots in social justice were planted early in her traditional North Lanarkshire upbringing, we talk about her experiences not only leading the sector but of being a service user and much much more! We hope you enjoy our blog and would love you to share all of these wonderful stories far and wide. #womenwholead #thirdsectorstories Joy Gillespie SOHTIS CO3 Chief Officers 3rd Sector NICVA (Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action) Women in Business NI Business Eye Magazine Northern Ireland Belfast Telegraph SCVO (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations) https://lnkd.in/etyGU5v4
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📢 What does it really mean to “shift power” in nonprofits? At the recent 13th Annual Nonprofit Symposium, a powerful discussion explored how we can elevate the voices of those with lived expertise—those who have firsthand experience with the systems we aim to change. This isn’t just about inclusion, but truly shifting power to individuals who’ve lived through homelessness, child welfare, or other life-altering challenges. The paper “Shifting and Sharing Power to Persons with Lived Expertise,” co-authored by leaders from A Way Home America, emphasizes how centering lived expertise creates deeper trust, more authentic advocacy, and ultimately, more effective policies. At Family Rights Advocates, Inc., we stand by this approach. We know that the best way to drive meaningful change is to let the voices of experience lead the way. It’s time to move beyond tokenism and towards true leadership opportunities for those with lived expertise. 💪 How can your organization ensure that lived experience drives real change? Let’s keep the conversation going! #NonprofitLeadership #LivedExpertise #PowerShift #FamilyRightsAdvocates #SystemsChange
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A Moment of Grace is a weekly group and safe space that is held for our participants at Grace Institute. The women enjoy icebreakers, discussing relevant topics, community building, and forming a sisterhood to last beyond their training. This week's topic is all about Advocacy. Questions to reflect on for the week: - What is self-advocacy to you? - What questions do you ask in order to self-advocate?
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This afternoon we awarded the second 2024 Women of Impact Boone County grant of $12,140 to Boone County Mentoring Partnership - the group's 2024 second quarter grantee! 🌸 The Boone County Mentoring Partnership pairs adult mentors with kids from all backgrounds, including referrals from schools, community partners, and caring parents who want what’s best for their kids. Ladies, are you interested in joining WOI before our September meeting? 💛 Learn more about how you can make an impact here in Boone County: https://buff.ly/3VUods7 #BooneImpact #RealPeopleLovingRealPeople #womenofimpact See less
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Q: How does CoSA help the community? A: "CoSA helps a core member realize their inherent value and the good that comes with reinvesting ourselves to community accountability. Core members care when communities don't systematically abandon them." - Fabian, CoSA Volunteer #CoSA #virtualCoSA #nomorevictims #nooneisdisposable #preventrecidivism #volunteer
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On #internationalwomensday2024 I can't do better than share this post from the brilliant Caroline Teti #Cash #Women #EconomicEmpowerment #InvestInWomen
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#InvestinWomen #AccelerateProgress Sharing my firsthand experience of how GiveDirectly donations impact women in living in poverty this #internationalwomensday. As a woman born in the rural villages of western Kenya, I watched mothers toiling to make life livable for their children, forgoing the basics to give us access to the little they could. It was not uncommon for women to go hungry or lack decent clothing to give their children a chance to eat and dress. Charities that showed up would often reinforce this desperation rather than relieve it. I saw mothers with babies strapped on their backs scrambling for food handouts when a charity arrived unannounced and disorganized, with a limited supply. Others endured doing hard labor when a program promised a paltry payment for those strong enough to work. After university, I worked on water and sanitation projects, but it wasn’t until 2016 when I took a job implementing GiveDirectly’s basic income study that I understood the unique power of direct cash. Money sent directly to women living in poverty is a promise of courage, control, and choice. Evidence shows women can use cash to improve their health and that of their children, increase savings, start businesses, and attend school. With cash, domestic violence decreases and joint decision-making between wives and husbands increases. That said, unconditional cash is not a silver bullet. Some studies find the positive impacts are more pronounced for men than for women, and in some families, an influx of cash may exacerbate, not reduce, conflict. This is why GiveDirectly continues conducting rigorous research – the more we know about how cash helps, the better we can design our programs. Our goal is to be a valuable partner in the decisions recipients make about their lives. Recently, I visited Mozambique to see how your donations deliver hope to women living in these remote rural communities. Effie explained her decision to send her daughters away for school with pride: they will not get married off at 14 years, bear children when young, and experience gender-based violence as other women in their village have. Rita could not hide her joy! Receiving $40 a month allowed her to resume her HIV antiretroviral treatment. She’d defaulted because she lacked bus fare for the hospital 12 miles away. Now she has hope in living longer and caring for herself and her family. This International Women’s Day, I feel proud to have given dignity and choice to women living in poverty. #InspireInclusion #iwd2024 To learn more, listen to my recent appearance on @Charlie Bressler’s @the Life You can Save podcast:
Episode 16: Musings with Caroline Teti - The Life You Can Save
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What We Do? WCOD Focus Areas are: Empowering women through awareness rising, literacy training and Skill Based Literacy, leadership training, Job placement, Cash donations, Advocacy for women's rights, supporting women's participation, standing against Gender Based Violence, Providing Psycho Social Support and Economic empowerment. #WCOD_NGO
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You're doing great. Let's take a moment to celebrate our wins, big and small. TAG SOMEONE you want to celebrate. As women and nonbinary leaders, we're paving the way for change while prioritizing our well-being. Whether you nailed that presentation, took time for self-care, supported a friend/love one, or simply made it through the week, every achievement counts. And in those moments when things got tough, I celebrate you for leaning into your trusted community, community care, and mutual aid. We're not meant to do life in isolation. 🙌🏾 #YoureDoingGreat #CelebrateWins #BIPOCLeaders #WomenLeaders #SelfCare #ThriveTogether ❤️ ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️ 📢 Speaking of #MutualAid, help me fund a mini-grant for Mutual Aid Distribution of Richmond, MADRVA. https://lnkd.in/e6wRaCbf MADRVA provides mutual aid services in Richmond through a free community market and a mini-grants program, prioritizing marginalized and vulnerable groups. You can help me fund a mini-grant by purchasing my affirmation coloring pages. 25% of the proceeds will go towards funding a MADRVA mini-grant. Let's sell 100 affirmation pages and get this mini-grant funded! 20 sold, 80 to go. Let's get to 40 by the end of this week.
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Many of you asked for it! So I'm delivering it! ❤️ Click on the link below to access your free Guide in Creating a Community-Centered Pitch! This guide, created by 4 Da Hood, was distributed to Social Venture Partners Tucson's 2024 Fast Pitch finalists in January before they began crafting their pitches. On March 26, 2024 at The Fox Theatre, the finalists representing BorderLinks, Inc., The Haven, Casa de los Niños, Parent Aid Child Abuse Prevention Center, TMM Family Services, Interfaith Community Services, Tucson, Children's Clinics, and Special Needs Solutions, pitched their pitches! To say the guide made a difference would be an understatement! ❤️ Each pitch used asset-based language. Each pitch focused on mission/vision even when highlighting a program in many cases. And each pitch ditched the levels of ask, which often come off sounding transactional, and instead made transformative donor asks! These subtle changes made a monumental difference, and made each pitch a community-centered pitch! 🎊 The pitches were uplifting to the folks highlighted in the stories, such as Carolina, Olivia and Jorge Hernandez. The pitches were uplifting to the finalists, I'm convinced because they honored the individuals, families, and communities they spoke about. And the pitches were uplifting to the 1,200 peeps in the audience for, I believe, one of two reasons! Some recognized the shift immediately because I am certain they may have personally been described in deficit-framed ways at some point in their lives. And the others who noticed something different but couldn't put their finger on it, now they know! Communities were honored and uplifted! 🙌🏼 And if you didn't attend, I strongly encourage you to watch the recording! I've tagged SVP Tucson above so you can find your way to it! And if you’re ever looking for a keynote speaker to talk on this subject or on building racial and gender equity in our sector, reach out to me at frank@4dahood.com. Would love to talk! ❤️❤️ #MovingRacialEquityForward #AssetBasedLanguage
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2moVery exciting! I can’t wait to learn more!