This story is excruciating not only because of the story that it tells, but in the underlying and—it would appear, unconscious—narrative that it contains. Mergers can have monetary benefits, but having a shared vision is far more important.
How social media amplifies the gaps in justice for indigenous women, and what nonprofits can learn from it.
When a community organizes itself and builds a commons together, there’s incredible richness available. As nonprofits, one of the most powerful things we can do is create self-reinforcing systems where people understand that their future is tied to the future of others.
Despite the Violence Against Women Act and the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010, there is currently no system in place to collect comprehensive data on the number of missing and murdered Native women, which by itself makes Native American women more vulnerable to extreme violence.
Will Savanna’s Act be enough? Or is more outrage needed to address the abuse of Native American women and girls?
While the UK has declined to stop taxing feminine hygiene products, it did promise to pass some of the tax proceeds along to women’s groups. But its first round of grants includes a big one to an anti-abortion organization.
Amber Heard’s multimillion-dollar divorce settlement goes to two targeted charities, making a serious personal statement.
Sexual assault and comedy have no place being in the same sentence together, but in light of recent rape allegations involving popular male comedians, female comics are coming together online to raise awareness about sexual assault and harassment in the industry.
Defending the Department of Education, 85 organizations, mostly nonprofits, speak out on behalf of victims of sexual assault, women and minorities.
The high profile “honor killing” of controversial Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch brought to the spotlight again violence toward women in the country and the advocates fighting to change that culture.
