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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the world marks the fourth International Day of the Girl Child, Girl Effect and Gavi today announced a ground-breaking partnership to protect girls from contracting cervical cancer in developing ...

In the U.S., girls and boys are both big smartphone users. That's not necessarily the case in the developing world, says a new report released this month by the nonprofit organization Girl Effect. The ...