A 2023 Grant from Together Women Rise

Speak Up for the Poor is delighted and honored to have been awarded a grant of $50,000 from Together Women Rise (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, with 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 their 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 grateful for their partnership with us to improve the lives of girls and women in our working area in Bangladesh.