Partners

NEW GRANT AWARD IN 2023, FROM TOGETHER WOMEN RISE:

Speak Up for the Poor is honored and delighted to have been awarded a grant of $50,000 from Together Women Rise toward our Girls Health and Safety Program. Speak Up will be Together Women Rise’s Featured Grantee in December, 2023, and the grant award will fund our Girls Health and Safety Program throughout 2024.

“Together Women Rise is a powerful community of women and allies dedicated to global gender equality. We have hundreds of local chapters across the US. Members come together to learn about and advocate for gender equality issues, give grants to organizations that empower women and girls in low-income countries, and build community to forge meaningful connections that increase our strength and collective impact.”

This is Speak Up’s second grant award from Together Women Rise. We also received a grant of $26,000 in 2021, when Together Women Rise was known as Dining for Women. The 2021 grant funded our Girls Health and Safety Program during the Covid pandemic, and benefitted every girl in Speak Up’s Girls Education Program (GEP). We have built a solid relationship with Together Women Rise, and are delighted to have been awarded a second grant from them.

To view Speak Up for the Poor’s Featured Grantee profile on the Together Women Rise website, please click here.

OTHER GRANT AWARDS AND PARTNERSHIPS:

Speak Up is grateful to partner with Relevation Beauty, a makeup line built on a women empowerment platform. Relevation raises funds towards the Speak Up Girls Education Program through the partnership page on their website as well as through product sales.

Speak Up is also honored to have been awarded a grant from Soroptimist International of Lakewood / Long Beach. Soroptimist is a global volunteer network of women working to help women and girls reach their dreams.

Speak Up is also honored to have been awarded a grant from the BNI Foundation. This grant funded the construction of a Learning Center in Kashipur village, which will facilitate the education of more than 150 GEP girls every year.

Speak Up is also honored to have been awarded a grant from the ASEA Advancing Life Foundation. This grant will help to fund the expansion of Speak Up’s College women’s dormitory from 2022 to 2024. The ASEA Advancing Life Foundation focuses on breaking cycles of poverty, abuse and suffering. The Foundation partners with charities and organizations around the world that are providing sustainable solutions to these issues, and support children and families in need. When ASEA established the Advancing Life foundation in 2015, it set out to tackle the chronic world ills that perpetuate suffering. Partnering with experienced global organizations for long-term impact, the Foundation’s generous donors and volunteer expeditions carry out its ambitious yet simple mission in countries and communities hungry to advance.

Speak Up is also honored to have been awarded a grant from the Catherine Bertini Trust Fund for Girls’ Education. This grant funded educational community meetings in 2021 for parents of girls who are eligible to join our GEP, and also helped us bring an additional 110 girls into our GEP in 2021. To view the press release announcing Speak Up for the Poor as the recipient of this grant, please click here.

Speak Up is also grateful and honored to receive annual funding toward our Girls Education Program from the Bangladeshi American Charitable Organization (BACHAO), and also from the Huq Foundation.

We are thankful to each of our partners for their kind and generous support!