Jack Dorsey’s StartSmall Initiative Grants A Transformational $3 Million To Girls’ Education
, joined the growing number of nonprofits who have benefited from a philanthropic movement coined, “trust-based philanthropy.” With partnership and collaboration at the forefront, the organizations proposed and have now secured a $3,000,000 grant, $750,000 per organization, from Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey’s #StartSmall Initiative to fund their joint efforts to educate girls in remote villages across Africa.
This concept is not new, but has proliferated over the past year in part from giving announcements made by billionaires like Dorsey and , and in tandem with the Covid-19 pandemic and discussions around racial inequity in philanthropy.
When Harriet Spears, WGEP’s Strategic Partnerships & Communications Manager, read Dorsey’s announcement, she knew it was the opportunity that WGEP had been waiting for to scale their program’s impact. “Before the pandemic, there were 132 million girls around the world out of school— a number that’s predicted to increase by 20 million by the time the crisis ends.
“We partnered with three other like-minded organizations in the Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance, Mrs. Obama’s girls’ education initiative, to jointly apply for the #StartSmall opportunity.
, just 1.6% of U.S. philanthropic funding goes to organizations focused on women and girls, and less than 0.5% benefits women and girls of color.
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