Frequently Asked Questions
About WomenStrong International
We center the work of local feminist leaders and amplify their capacity to drive meaningful change in their communities. Together, we’re building a world where all women and girls can thrive.
We work in solidarity with our partners around the world, all of which are devoted to enabling girls and women to live healthy, fulfilled, and empowered lives. Currently, WomenStrong works with 19 partners in 17 countries.
Dr. Susan M. Blaustein founded and directs WomenStrong International. Learn more about WomenStrong’s leadership and team:
About Our Work
WomenStrong believes that knowledge and peer learning should have no boundaries. Therefore, we have no geographical limits to where we fund. Explore our global network of partners.
WomenStrong works with women-led organizations focused on women and girls’ health, girls’ education, preventing violence against women and girls, and economic opportunity and security for women and girls. We believe these issues address some of the most essential needs facing women and girls today.
WomenStrong offers its partners tailored capacity strengthening support as per each partner’s expressed needs and goals. We also welcome our partners into a community of practice, our WomenStrong Learning Lab, and help to expand their networks, their visibility, and their sources of funding.
We believe that women and girls are best served by programs in their own communities. Yet community-based women-led organizations often lack the resources, technical support, networks, and visibility needed to achieve their full potential. Our Theory of Change asserts that if we help address these challenges, women-led organizations and the communities they serve will thrive.
We use our Theory of Change to examine our activities regularly, to learn whether or not they are contributing to our desired long-term outcomes and to adjust our activities, outcomes, and pathways based on what we learn. We assess how WomenStrong is perceived by our partners, how well we are supporting them in meeting their goals, and to what extent our activities may be contributing to improvements in their potential to support gender-sensitive and -transformative change in the lives of the women and girls they serve. We use various methods and tools to assess our work, including an anonymous feedback mechanism, external evaluations, activity feedback surveys, and through informal conversations with partner staff.
Getting Involved
Thank you for your interest in supporting WomenStrong! There are many ways you can support our work:
- Subscribe to our newsletter to stay informed about WomenStrong and the work of our partners;
- Follow us on social media; amplify our stories and resources on social media and to your networks; and/or
- Recommend speaking and/or publishing opportunities.
In addition, we welcome donations to support and extend our work.
Please sign up for our email updates, and/or follow us on social media, to learn if/when job or internship opportunities become available.
Donations and Financial Information
At WomenStrong, we support local women-led organizations across the globe in fulfilling and expanding their service to the women and girls in their communities. By supporting WomenStrong, you help us not only provide unrestricted grants to our partners, but also enable us to deliver crucial capacity strengthening support to our partners, and membership in our Learning Lab.
WomenStrong takes direction from our partner organizations. They tell us what they need to strengthen their evidence-based, gender-transformative programming, and we facilitate the assistance our partners request. Our grantee-led approach differentiates WomenStrong from other funders and intermediaries, and our evaluations show that this approach is having a significant positive impact on the work of our partners.
WomenStrong International is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization, and your donation is tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law. Our tax ID (EIN#) is #47-1707504. To claim a donation as a deduction on your U.S. taxes, you will need the email donation receipt that we will send upon successful completion of your donation. Make a donation, and/or request your donation receipt here!
Your donation directly supports the grassroots work of women-led organizations around the world and helps WomenStrong provide our partners with capacity strengthening and opportunities for peer-to-peer learning and collaborations. Learn more about all the dimensions of our work here.
Absolutely! WomenStrong welcomes recurring donations. Please go to our donate page, and select the “Recurring Donation” option.
WomenStrong’s most recent financial reports can be found here.
Partnerships and Collaborations
From time to time, WomenStrong invites women-led organizations working in the areas important to us to send us information about themselves. If those organizations meet our criteria, we reach out to hold exploratory conversations, including about whether the organization would be interested in participating in our Learning Lab. We do not require proposals; rather, we discover through dialogue whether prospective partners seem to be a good fit for our programs.
When WomenStrong issues a request for information from potential new grantees, it will be announced on all our social media channels. WomenStrong does not require applications, but a short form will be posted on our website to be completed by all interested organizations.
WomenStrong is always looking for ways to collaborate with like-minded organizations, including co-hosting events and convenings, sharing content, speaking opportunities, etc. Please contact us [email protected] to explore ideas.
Please see our grantmaking page on our website for our funding criteria. WomenStrong funding is unrestricted.
WomenStrong grants are unrestricted, and we have minimal application and reporting requirements. Besides the unrestricted grants, we also offer partner support funds to each of our grantees, to help advance their progress toward their capacity strengthening goals.
Media and Resources
Check out our News & Resources section, to learn about what’s happening with WomenStrong and our partners. Also, please consider signing up to receive our periodic emails and newsletters.
If you are interested in arranging an interview or speaking engagement with a member of WomenStrong’s staff, please reach out to our Director of Strategic Communications.
If you are a member of the media looking for information, quotes, or other resources, please reach out to our Director of Strategic Communications here.
Yes! WomenStrong is a learning organization, and we are eager to share our learnings and resources with peers for educational purposes. We would love to know what you are using – and please credit and/or link to WomenStrong.
