A few years ago, Saginaw, Michigan, was deemed the most dangerous city in America for women to live, according to FBI data. The former manufacturing outpost suffers from widespread unemployment and ...

September 25 – In a private interview with Maria Eitel, President of the Nike Foundation, and Peter Buffett, co-chair with his wife Jennifer of the NoVo Foundation, I learned how Maria and Peter first ...

Remember the “Girl Effect,” the Nike Foundation’s two-year-old initiative to encourage philanthropic and government investments in girls? Thanks largely to a catchy video (below), the effort has ...

In many parts of the world, girlhood is a blip, a brief period in one’s life that gives way quickly to more serious matters such as marriage and childbearing. Millions of girls undergo these rites of ...

The programme via digital media content aims to empower adolescent girls in India and also equip girls with the right skills and confidence. The foundation has launched three digital media properties ...

The 2023 Girls & Mobile report documents continued digital divides, but also offers new solutions. Credit: RaShawn Dixon / Mashable Despite what may feel like an endless wave of technological ...

At Stellar we believe that increasing access to financial services worldwide hinges on reaching women. Recently I discovered The Girl Effect, a nonprofit dedicated to helping young girls break the ...