Add your voice: Which nonprofits are best at helping women?
GreatNonprofits develops “tools that allow people to find, review, and share information about great – and perhaps not yet great – nonprofits.” They have launched a campaign to highlight nonprofits that help women. Instead of generating their own list of winners, though, they are asking you to get involved and review organizations or post your organization to be reviewed.
The Women’s Empowerment Campaign 2010 is a collaborative of many led by GreatNonprofits and GuideStar in partnership with Kiva, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, MADRE, Wider Opportunities for Women, Dress for Success, Women’s Media Center, Women News Network, and Women’s Philanthropy — Women’s Issues.
Voting, reviewing, and other open-source competitions and collaborations online allow organizations like GreatNonprofits to learn about their audience, learn from their audience, and collect awareness on issues with a much wider net than they could alone. It builds upon the golden rule of relationship-building: listening.
The Stanford Social Innovation Review highlighted two organizations — Jeannette Rankin Women’s Scholarship Fund in Athens, GA and Be The Star You Are! in Moraga, California — and responses to them.
Time remains for you to add your voice to the conversation, though!
Which organizations will you review? Support? Critique? Vote now through May 31.
About this blog
Lisa Chen and Lisa Witter
are the authors of The She Spot: Why Women are the Market for Changing the World and How to
Reach Them. They are also both
senior strategists at Fenton Communications, the nation’s largest public
interest communications firm. [