Posts Tagged ‘Washington Women’s Employment and Education’
FBB celebrates six years of work toward equality
March is Women's History Month and March 8 is International Women's Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievement of women, and a day to serve as a call to action for acceleration toward gender parity. Foundation Beyond Belief believes everyone has a right to live a full and equal life of dignity regardless…
Read MoreDeserving organizations benefit from strong Q3 2014 giving results
The grants we provide to our featured beneficiaries each quarter are funded by our monthly giving members. Each quarter we see a steady increase in total member giving, and therefore an increase in the support we can give to our beneficiaries. This quarter, our Natural World beneficiary was Rainforest Foundation US. Their techniques are to…
Read MoreClosing the Book on Our 3rd Quarter Beneficiaries
As the 3rd quarter of 2014 comes to a close, we'd like to take a look back at the many ways that our beneficiaries this quarter put your contributions to good use in putting humanism into action. Poverty and Health: Sustaining Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL). SOIL is doing important work in Haiti building ecological sanitation…
Read MoreWWEE: a barrier at the brink of poverty
One in three million women in the US lives in, or on the brink of, poverty. This amounts to 42 million women who stand to lose their paychecks, jobs, or even housing on the basis of an injury, a broken water heater, or a broken-down car. According to the Shriver Report’s A Woman’s Nation Pushes…
Read MoreTransforming Lives From the Inside Out: Washington Women’s Employment and Education
For many women, the cycle of poverty and unemployment is nearly impossible to break out of. Barriers such as a lack of skills, limited availability due to family responsibilities, and lack of support can keep people in a constant struggle for survival. Foundation Beyond Belief’s Q3 Education beneficiary, Washington Women’s Employment and Education, transforms lives…
Read MoreMeet our third-quarter beneficiaries
It’s time for a new quarter and a new slate of featured beneficiaries! Get to know our new charities for the third quarter of 2014: Human Rights: Footsteps Footsteps is a New York-based organization that helps people from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community leave this insular way of life. Most leave with a limited knowledge…
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